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The following is a list (last updated 8/4/02) of books currently offered for review. Select the titles that interest you, and send your request to  holly.carey@lamar.edu. You may also send your request by phone or fax. Be sure to include your name and shipping address.

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Border Boss: Manuel B. Bravo and Zapata County, J. Gilberto Quezada

Della Raye: A Girl Who Grew Up in Hell and Emerged Whole, Gary Penley

Eagle with a Badge: The True Story of a State Police Pilot, Paul Creech & Jack Lawler

Holocaust Survivor, Mike Jacobs

Intriguing Texans of the Twentieth Century, Dede Weldon Casad

The Life History of a Texas Birdwatcher: Connie Hagar of Rockport, Karen Harden McCracken

Man of Aztlan: Biography of Rudolfo Anaya, Abelardo Baeza

Marty Jurow Seein’ Stars A Show Biz Odyssey, Marty Jurow, Philip Wuntch

Mexican American Odyssey, Felix Tijerina Entrepeneur and Civic Leader, 1905-1965, Thomas H. Kreneck

Painted Pole, Barbara Belding Gibson

Texas Originals: Peons, Plain People, and Presidents, Jack Maguire

From Texas to the World and Back: Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter, Eds. Mark Busby & Dick Heaberlin

Travels with Joe, David G. McComb

If White Kids Die, Dick J. Reavis

Recipes of a Pitchfork Ranch Hostess: The Culinary Legacy of Mamie Burns, Eds. Cathryn Buesseler, L. E. Anderson

The Baron War, Jory Sherman

Beyond Contentment, Glen Onley

Biggie and the Quincy Ghost, Nancy Bell

The Bone Pickers, Al Dewlen

There Came a Stranger, Andrew J. Fenady

Cat in a Leopard Spot, Carole Nelson Douglas

Cat in a Midnight Choir, Carole Nelson Douglas

Chapel Noir, Carole Nelson Douglas

Death Asemblage, Susan Cummins Miller

Endless Honeymoon, Don Webb

Fire Lilies, Cynthia Leal Massey

Fronterizas: Una Novela en Seis Cuentos, Roberta Fernández Galveston, (historical fiction) P.G. Nagle

Ghost Warrior, Lucia St. Clair Robson

For Love or Country, Kerrelyn Sparks

Miss Emily The Yellow Rose of Texas, Ben Durr with Anne Corwin

Moon Medicine, Mike Blakely

Pilgrim, Doug Bowman

Pompeii Man, Paul Ruffin

Under the Rose, Jaqueline Pelham

The Wonderful Country, Tom Lea

Jon McConal’s Texas, Jon McConal

Last Words Dying in the Old West, Gary Radison

Questions and Swords: Folktales of the Zapatista Revolution, Subcomandante Marcos

Tales from Out Yonder, Ross McSwain

A Texas Family Time Capsule, Ruth Pennebaker

Butterflies of West Texas Parks and Preserves, Roland H. Wauer

Corpus Christi and the Texas Coastal Bend, Vivienne Heines & Scott Williams

Quick Escapes Dallas/Fort Worth, June Naylor

The Wines of Texas: A Guide and a History, Sarah Jane English

Adobe Walls: The History and Archeology of the 1874 Trading Post, T. Lindsay Baker, Billy R. Harrison

American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture, Shelley Streeby

Black Unionism in t he Industrial South, Ernest Obadele-Starks

The Dallas Public Library: Celebrating a Century of Service 1901-2001, Michael V. Hazel

Dance Halls and Last Calls: A History of Texas Country Music, Geronimo Trevino III

Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War, John Mason Hart

The Forgotten War: Texas Veterans Remember Korea, Mackey Murdock

Friends: Cowboys, Cattle, Horses, Dogs, Cats, and Coons, John R. Erickson

German Pioneers on the American Frontier: The Wagners in Texas and Illinois, Andreas Reichstein

Keepers of the Spirit The Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M University, 1876-2001, John A. Adams, Jr.

News to Me: Remembrances of a Texas News Woman, Juliet K. Wenger with Audrey Ellzey

Pacific Destiny: The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country, Dale L. Walker

Racial Borders: Black Soldiers Along the Rio Grande, James N. Leiker

Recollections of Western Texas 1852-55, Ed. Robert Wooster

Savage Frontier, Stephen L. Moore

The Stars Were Big and Bright, Vol.2, Thomas E. Alexander

The Story of North Texas, James L. Rogers

The Story of Palo Duro Canyon, Ed. Duane Guy

Texas Bad Boys: Gamblers, Gunfighters, and Grifters, J. Lee Butts

Texas Gulag: The Chain Gang Years 1875-1925, Gary Brown

Texas Smoke: Muzzle-Loaders on the Frontier, C. F. Eckhardt

Top Texas Teachers, Dorothy McConachie

A Tribute to Early Texas Through the Lens of Master Photographer John R. Blocker, Anita Higman and Sylvia B. Thomspon

Cada Niño/Every Child: A Bilingual Songbook for Every Child, Tish Hinojosa

Close to the Heart, Diane Gonzales Bertrand

Dancing Miranda/ Baila, Miranda, baila, Diane de Anda

Dangerous Games, Jacqueline Stem

Hector Visits His Country Cousin, Jane Scoggins Bauld

Jazz Cats, David Davis

Marina’s Muumuu/El muumuu de Marina, Evangelina Vigil-Piñón

State Shapes: Texas, Erik Bruun

The Teachers’ Night Before Christmas, Steven L. Layne

Trino’s Time, Diane Gonzales Bertran

Victor Lopez at the Alamo, James Rice

Airspeed, Altitude, and A Sense of Humor, Ronnie Ridley George

The Austin Music Scene, Burton Wilson

The Courage of Common Men, Stephen Neal Manning

Fort Worth Then and Now, Carol Roark and Rodger Mallison

Growing up Simple...In Texas: An Irreverent Look at Kids in the 1950s, George Arnold

Have a Seat, Please, Don Reid with John Gurwell

The Praire Dog, Russell Graves

Quick! How Do You Dial 9-1-1, Randy Nickerson

The Recovery of Doctrine in the Contemporary Church, Richard Heyduck

Santa Barraza, Artist of the Borderlands, Santa Barraza, Ed. Mariá Herrera-Sobek

The Sermon on the Mount: A Theological Investigation, Carl G. Vaught

Texas Football Trilogy, Mitchell Krugel

Turfgrasses: Their Management and Use in the Southern Zone, Richard L. Duble

Wordsworth’s Gardens, Carol Buchanan

Amazing Grace, Larry D. Thomas

Elegies in Blue, Benjamin Alire Saenz

In the Country of the Young, Daniel Stern

Literary Fort Worth, Eds. Judy Alter, James Ward Lee

It Takes a Worried Man, Tracy Daugherty

They Ain’t Wanted Here and Other Texas Stories, Joel Kirkpatrick

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