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Javier Espinoza manages a hungry young rock band without quite enough money to record their debut album. When the slog of playing their hearts out for tiny crowds in Texas border towns gets to be too...

Crossing Rio Pecos (Chisholm Trail Series)Author: Patrick DearenPublisher: Texas Christian University PressPublication Date: Sep 29, 2021Number of Pages: 196 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Set in Texas during the 1870s and in the 1930s at the height of the Dust Bowl, Dust Covered Lies tells the story of Frances Abbott, or Frannie, an orphaned immigrant who faces a terrible choice that...

Frontera offers a unique look at the communities on both sides of the nearly 2,000-mile border shared by the United States and Mexico. The region has a reputation of being a dangerous place with...

Author: Marj GurasichPublisher: Texas Christian University PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1989Number of Pages: 162 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0875650376ISBN-13: 9780875650371

Set throughout the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the stories in On a NASA Flight to Heaven explore the various ways in which the border fractures traditional narratives. Standing between North American...

Reflections on Wright is a collection of essays on Jim Wright from his early years through his retirement from the House of Representatives. Wright was one of the most influential members of Congress...

Running in Borrowed Shoes journeys with the United States Track and Field Team from the tryouts in Los Angeles to the 1952 Olympics and afterwards, as the Olympians traveled and competed in local...

Tales from the Sunday HouseAuthor: Minetta Altgelt GoynePublisher: Texas Christian University PressPublication Date: Jul 06, 2020Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

While the Spanish are often remembered for bringing smallpox and other diseases to the New World, little attention is paid to their efforts to eradicate one of the greatest killers in human history...

Hank O'Sullivan, a 65-year-old widower, lives a routine life, nursing his loneliness with cocktails at his favorite local bar in Austin, Texas, until a brawl with an acerbic barfly lands him in jail...

The Nurses of Ellis Island: Life and Work inside the Golden Door tells the story of the nurses who offered hope and healing to some of America's most vulnerable patients. In the once-modern hospital...

Dennis Franchione, known as Coach Fran, is one of the winningest coaches in college football history. He successfully turned around football programs at every stop during his head coaching career...

Voices of America: Veterans and Military Families Tell Their Own Stories collects dozens of personal accounts of military life from World War II to the present day. These narratives from Texas...

Wards of the League is a long-lost tale from pro football's buried past. Very few people even know that the 1952 Dallas Texans ever existed and played in the National Football League. Before the...

Whistle Punk (Chaparral Books)Author: Alice Ross, Chapin Ross, Kent RossPublisher: Texas Christian University PressPublication Date: Oct 07, 2021Number of Pages: 142 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In contemporary American politics, where absurdity often overshadows reality, Worse Than You Think emerges as a refreshingly candid and witty account of what happens when ordinary individuals, fueled...