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That ol\u2019 groundhog didn\u2019t see his shadow, which is supposed to mean an early spring, and we sure hope that\u2019s true after the snows of February. Whatever the Texas weather does, we can count on March delivering great Texas books. We\u2019ve got much-anticipated literary fiction, war and peace, con men, artists, cowgirl poetry, the evergreen cowboys of romance, a celebration of the 19^{th<\/sup> Amendment in quilts, the DAWGs of Dalhart and Hank the Cowdog, graphic novels, Joe Holley, the Sermon on the Mount, and rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. Your Lone Star Lit is as eclectic as your Lone Star weather!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n}

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Valentine: A Novel <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Wetmore  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town\u2019s men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine\u2019s Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ram\u00edrez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead\u2019s ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field\u2014an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Valentine<\/span><\/em> is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader\u2019s heart, this fierce, unflinching, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women\u2019s strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Georgia O’Keeffe’s Wartime Texas Letters<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span> <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Amy Von Lintel (Author), Bonney MacDonald (Foreword)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In 1912, at age twenty-four, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of the Texas Panhandle, to take a position as art teacher for the newly organized Amarillo Public Schools. Subsequently she would join the faculty at what was then West Texas State Normal College (now West Texas A&M University). Already a thoroughly independent-minded woman, she maintained an active correspondence with her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and other friends back east during the years she lived in Texas.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Amy Von Lintel brings to readers the collected O\u2019Keeffe correspondence and added commentary and analysis, shining fresh light on a period of the artist\u2019s life she characterizes as \u201csome of the least appreciated in the vast O\u2019Keeffe scholarship,\u201d but also as \u201ca time when she discovered her own voice as a young, successful, and independent woman . . . a dedicated faculty member at a brand-new college . . . a vibrant social butterfly . . . a progressive woman who spoke her mind and fought for her beliefs to be heard.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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[Ghost Notes]: Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Corcoran (Author), Tim Kerr (Illustrator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cGhost notes\u201d is a musical term for sounds barely audible, a wisp lingering around the beat, yet somehow driving the groove. The Texas musicians profiled here, ranging from 1920s gospel performers to the first psychedelic band, are generally not well known, but the impact of their early contributions on popular music is unmistakable. This beautiful Tim Kerr-illustrated collection provides more background on the Texas from which these artists sprang, fully formed. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Readers will learn about the black gay couple from Houston who inspired the creation of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, as well as the true story of the origin of Western Swing. They will learn about \u201cthe first family of Texas music\u201d and the birth of boogie-woogie, the dirt-poor singers and the ballad collectors who saved folk songs during the Depression, and the accordeonista whose musical legacy was never contained on recordings but was passed on by his prot\u00e9g\u00e9. The pioneers of modern times include the Dallas rapper who became the wordsmith of gangsta rap, the sheriff\u2019s son from Dumas who produced the signature tunes of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and the blind lounge singer Kenny Rogers called the greatest musician he\u2019s ever known. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bluffing Texas Style: The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Vinson  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her \u201ccatch\u201d was the corpse of Johnny Jenkins, shot in the head. His death was as dramatic as the rare book dealer\u2019s life, which read, as the Austin American-Statesman<\/em> declared, \u201clike a bestseller.\u201d In 1975 Jenkins had staged the largest rare book coup of the twentieth century\u2014the purchase, for more than two million dollars, of the legendary Eberstadt inventory of rare Americana, a feat noted in the New York Times<\/em> and the Wall Street Journal<\/em>. His undercover work for the FBI, recovering rare books stolen by mafia figures, had also earned him headlines coast to coast, as had his exploits as \u201cAustin Squatty,\u201d playing high stakes poker in Las Vegas. But beneath such public triumphs lay darker secrets. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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At the time of his death, Jenkins was about to be indicted by the ATF for the arson of his rare books, warehouse, and offices. Another investigation implicated Jenkins in forgeries of historical documents, including the Texas Declaration of Independence.<\/em> Rumors of million-dollar gambling debts at mob-connected casinos circulated, along with the rumblings of irate mafia figures he\u2019d fingered and eccentric Texas collectors he\u2019d cheated. Had he been murdered? Or was his death a suicide, staged to look like a murder? How Jenkins, a onetime president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, came to such an unseemly end is one of the mysteries Michael Vinson pursues in this spirited account of a tragic American life. Entrepreneur, con man, connoisseur, forger, and self-made hero, Jenkins was a Texan who knew how to bluff but not when to fold.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Donald Judd Spaces: Judd Foundation New York & Texas <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Donald Judd (Author), Flavin Judd (Editor), Rainer Judd (Editor), Judd Foundation (Editor)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This book presents an unprecedented visual survey of the living and working spaces of the artist Donald Judd in New York and Texas. Filled with newly commissioned and previously unpublished archival photographs alongside five essays by the artist, this book provides an opportunity to explore Judd’s personal spaces, which are a crucial part of this revered artist’s oeuvre. From a nineteenth-century cast-iron building in Manhattan to an extensive ranch in the mountains of western Texas, this book details the interiors, exteriors, and lands surrounding the buildings that comprise Judd’s extant living and working spaces. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Readers will discover how Judd developed the concept of permanent installation at Spring Street in New York City, with artworks, furniture, and decorative objects striking a balance between the building’s historic qualities and his own architectural innovations. His buildings in Marfa, Texas, demonstrate how Judd reiterated his concept of integrative living on a larger scale, extending to the reaches of the Chinati Mountains at Ayala de Chinati, his 33,000-acre ranch south of the town. Each of the spaces was thoroughly considered by Judd with resolute attention to function and design. From furniture to utilitarian structures that Judd designed himself, these residences reflect Judd’s consistent aesthetic. His spaces underscore his deep interest in the preservation of buildings and his deliberate interventions within existing architecture.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sabotaged: Dreams of Utopia in Texas <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

James Pratt <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Alongside the various people moving into and through the nineteenth-century Texas frontier was a group of European intellectuals bent on establishing a socialist utopia near the hamlet of Dallas. Their inspiration, French philosopher Charles Fourier, envisioned a society in which basic human ambitions would be expressed and cultivated, tied together by the bonds of emotion. Fourier\u2019s self-appointed disciple Victor Considerant led the establishment of La R\u00e9union in 1855, organized under a Paris stock company. James Pratt weaves together the dramatic story of this utopia: the complex tale of a diverse group of Europeans who sought a new society but were forced to face the realities of life in nineteenth-century Texas. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Considerant\u2019s followers endured a long ocean voyage with Spanish gunboats following in their Caribbean wake. They brushed blooming magnolias through Buffalo Bayou between Galveston Bay and Houston\u2014so narrow a channel that two ships could not pass simultaneously. They walked for three weeks across barren country, came into conflict with the Texas legislature over land, and had to buy their stolen horses back from Chief Ned, a famous Delaware Indian living in Texas. They were buffeted in the rising political winds of abolition, and droughts ruined their crops. In the end, however, it was their flamboyant leader Victor Considerant who sabotaged their dream.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sutherland Springs: God, Guns, and Hope in a Texas Town <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Joe Holley  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sutherland Springs was the last place anyone would have expected to be victimized by our modern-day scourge of mass shootings. Founded in the 1850s along historic Cibolo Creek, the tiny community, named for the designated physician during the siege of the Alamo, was once a vibrant destination for wealthy tourists looking to soak up the “cures” of its namesake mineral springs. By November 5, 2017, however, the day a former Air Force enlistee opened fire in the town’s First Baptist Church, Sutherland Springs was a shadow of its former self. Twenty-six people died that Sunday morning, in the worst mass shooting in a place of worship in American history.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Holley, who roams the Lone Star State as the “Native Texan” columnist for the Houston Chronicle<\/em> and earned a Pulitzer- Prize nomination for his editorials about guns, spent more than a year embedded in the community. Long after most journalists had left, he stayed with his fellow Texans, getting to know a close-knit group of people\u2014 victims, heroes, and survivors. Holley shows how they work to come to terms with their loss and to rebuild shattered lives, marked by their deep faith in God and in guns. He also uses Sutherland Springs’ unique history and its decades-long decline as a prism for understanding how an act of unspeakable violence reflects the complicated realities of Texas and America in the twenty-first century.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Out of the Embers (Mesquite Springs)<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Amanda Cabot  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ten years after her parents were killed, Evelyn Radcliffe is once more homeless. The orphanage that was her refuge and later her workplace has burned to the ground, and only she and a young orphan girl have escaped. Convinced this must be related to her parents’ murders, Evelyn flees with the girl to Mesquite Springs in the Texas Hill Country and finds refuge in the home of Wyatt Clark, a talented horse rancher whose plans don’t include a family of his own. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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At first, Evelyn is a distraction. But when it becomes clear that trouble has followed her to Mesquite Springs, she becomes a full-blown disruption. Can Wyatt keep her safe from the man who wants her dead? And will his own plans become collateral damage?<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Barn 8: A Novel <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deb Olin Unferth  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Two auditors for the US egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night\u2015an entire egg farm\u2019s worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland\u2015a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audits\u2015assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Deb Olin Unferth\u2019s wildly inventive novel is a heist story of a very unusual sort. Swirling with a rich array of voices, Barn 8<\/em> takes readers into the minds of these renegades: a farmer\u2019s daughter, a former director of undercover investigations, hundreds of activists, a forest ranger who suddenly comes upon forty thousand hens, and a security guard who is left on an empty farm for years. There are glimpses twenty thousand years into the future to see what chickens might evolve into on our contaminated planet. We hear what hens think happens when they die. In the end the cracked hearts of these indelible characters, their earnest efforts to heal themselves, and their radical actions will lead them to ruin or revelation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Trust Me <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Richard Z. Santos <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Charles O’Connell is riding an epic losing streak. Having worked in politics since college, he is used to losing races, but he never imagined that his most recent candidate would end up in jail and that he would also need an attorney. His euphoria at not joining his boss in prison is short-lived no one will hire him now, his credit cards are maxed out and his marriage is on the rocks. An unexpected offer to work in Santa Fe, New Mexico, doing public relations for a firm building the city’s new airport feels like an opportunity to start fresh and make connections with powerful people out west. But when the construction crew unearths a skeleton, Charles’ fresh start turns into another disaster. Soon, a group of Apache claims the site holds Geronimo’s secret grave.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Soon Charles realizes everyone has an agenda and numerous dark secrets threaten to erupt. Gabriel Luna, one of the laborers present when the skeleton is unearthed, is willing to do just about anything to reconnect with his teenage son. Cody Branch, an ambitious, powerful millionaire, plans to leverage the deal to enrich himself. And there’s his wife, Olivia Branch, who has a surprising connection to Charles’ past and desperately needs his help. Surrounded by deception on all fronts, including his own lies to himself and his wife, Charles falls into a whirlwind of fraud, betrayal and double crosses. This riveting novel barrels through the New Mexican landscape in an exploration of innocence and guilt, power and wealth, and the search for love and happiness.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Blue Skies <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Anne Bustard <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Glory Bea Bennett knows that miracles happen in Gladiola, Texas, population 3,421. After all, her grandmother\u2014the best matchmaker in the whole county\u2014is responsible for thirty-nine of them. Now, Glory Bea needs a miracle of her own. The war ended three years ago, but Glory Bea\u2019s father never returned home from the front in France. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Glory Bea understands what Mama and Grams and Grandpa say\u2014that Daddy died a hero on Omaha Beach\u2014yet deep down in her heart, she believes Daddy is still out there. When the Gladiola Gazette <\/em>reports that one of the boxcars from the Merci Train (the \u201cthank you\u201d train)\u2014a train filled with gifts of gratitude from the people of France\u2014will be stopping in Gladiola, she just knows daddy will be its surprise cargo.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Maps of Injury <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Chera Hammons <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Maps of Injury <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span>tracks territory from the body to heredity, Southwestern country roads to horse-mottled pastures, and the kitchen sink to the well outside the house from which it is fed as these poems contemplate a woman’s autonomy within her landscape. Here is a wife, daughter, and horsewoman coming to terms with chronic illness and the lingering effects of a previous abusive marriage. The injury mapped across this narrative inspires endearment for creatures bridled, companioned, or left by the roadside to die. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hammons shows <\/em>us how love looks with every poetic line she worries into a body’s history even after it’s gone. A suffering horse is coaxed into its grave and there breathes its last before earth covers it. An unidentified body is found in a field where people come to examine and perhaps claim it as the speaker considers her own worth. It is a worth seemingly altered by an ill body which has been coarsely examined by doctors, by loved ones, by strangers, and in relation to the women in the speaker’s past who dealt with terminal diseases. She wonders: who will remember her after she dies? How will her attachments be memorialized? Will future generations, at seeing how a body lies in a grave and what sickness still eats at the bones, know that she was wanted? Animals both wild and domestic alight and fade into these questions and the landscapes that consume them. Here the body’s sovereignty is considered within the relationships that interpret it from the outside\u2014relationships that the woman understands, in all of their imposition and dismissal, are also evidence that she has been loved.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Frozen Rodeo (Hank the Cowdog) <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

John R. Erickson  (Author), Gerald L. Holmes (Illustrator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s early January on Hank\u2019s ranch when Slim and Loper receive word that an ice storm is headed their way. However, just as they\u2019re about to prepare the cattle and stock tanks at the ranch to safely weather the storm, Deputy Kile calls with some bad news. It seems that one of their electric fences has short-circuited, and some of their wheat pasture steers have strayed into town and onto the Twitchell golf course! Slim saddles up his horse and heads off to retrieve the steers\u2014with Hank\u2019s help of course\u2014but a few mishaps delay his cowboying just long enough to coat Twitchell in ice and turn his steer-roping adventure into a rip-roaring frozen rodeo!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830\u20131880 (Volume 1)<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span> <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Miguel \u00c1ngel Gonz\u00e1lez-Quiroga Ph.D. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The historical record of the Rio Grande valley through much of the nineteenth century reveals well-documented violence fueled by racial hatred, national rivalries, lack of governmental authority, competition for resources, and an international border that offered refuge to lawless men. Less noted is the region\u2019s other everyday reality, one based on coexistence and cooperation among Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and the Native Americans, African Americans, and Europeans who also inhabited the borderlands. War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830\u20131880<\/em> is a history of these parallel worlds focusing on a border that gave rise not only to violent conflict but also cooperation and economic and social advancement. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Meeting here are the Anglo-Americans who came to the border region to trade, spread Christianity, and settle; Mexicans seeking opportunity in el norte<\/em>; Native Americans who raided American and Mexican settlements alike for plunder and captives; and Europeans who crisscrossed the borderlands seeking new futures in a fluid frontier space. Historian Miguel \u00c1ngel Gonz\u00e1lez-Quiroga draws on national archives, letters, consular records, periodicals, and a host of other sources to give voice to borderlanders\u2019 perspectives as he weaves their many, varied stories into one sweeping narrative. The tale he tells is one of economic connections and territorial disputes, of refugees and bounty hunters, speculation and stakeholding, smuggling and theft and other activities in which economic considerations often carried more weight than racial prejudice.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A Wish in the Dark <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Christina Soontornvat  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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All light in Chattana is created by one man\u2014the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. But when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the world outside is no fairer than the one behind bars. The wealthy dine and dance under bright orb light, while the poor toil away in darkness. Worst of all, Pong\u2019s prison tattoo marks him as a fugitive who can never be truly free. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Nok, the prison warden\u2019s perfect daughter, is bent on tracking Pong down and restoring her family\u2019s good name. But as Nok hunts Pong through the alleys and canals of Chattana, she uncovers secrets that make her question the truths she has always held dear. Set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world, Christina Soontornvat\u2019s twist on Victor Hugo\u2019s Les Mis\u00e9rables <\/em>is a dazzling, fast-paced adventure that explores the difference between law and justice\u2014and asks whether one child can shine a light in the dark.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Our Good Crisis: Overcoming Moral Chaos with the Beatitudes <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jonathan K. Dodson  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We live in an age of crisis.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span>Financial crisis, political crisis, environmental crisis\u2015the list goes on. We’re confronted with calamity every time we read the headlines. But behind each of these lurks another kind of crisis, one we find harder to define: a moral crisis\u2015a crisis of goodness. Behind financial crisis is unrestrained greed; behind political crisis is the lust for power. To properly address the crises that plague our world, we must be formed as people of moral goodness. We must cultivate virtue. But the cultural headwinds are strong: outrage and fragility, persecution and affluence, injustice and impurity. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In this wise and practical book, Pastor Jonathan Dodson takes us back to the Beatitudes, the centerpiece of Jesus’s famous Sermon on the Mount. Dodson examines each of the Beatitudes in the context of the new morality that buffets our society today, presenting a compelling portrait of the truly good life, both personal and social. Jesus’s vision of the good is stunning: heaven meets earth, mercy triumphs over judgment, peace transcends outrage, grace upends self-righteousness. Here is an account, not of dos and don’ts, but of genuine moral flourishing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book One <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sidney Thompson  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span> is an origin story in the true American tradition. Before Bass Reeves could stake his claim as the most successful nineteenth-century American lawman, arresting more outlaws than any other deputy during his thirty-two-year career as a deputy US marshal in some of the most dangerous regions of the Wild West, he was a slave. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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After a childhood picking cotton, he became an expert marksman under his master\u2019s tutelage, winning shooting contests throughout the region. His skill had serious implications, however, as the Civil War broke out. Reeves was given to his master\u2019s mercurial, sadistic, Moby-Dick<\/em>-quoting son in the hopes that Reeves would keep him safe in battle. The ensuing humiliation, love, heroics, war, mind games, and fear solidified Reeves\u2019s determination to gain his freedom and drew him one step further on his fated path to an illustrious career.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Jetsetters: A Novel <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Amanda Eyre Ward  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the \u201cBecome a Jetsetter\u201d contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can\u2019t seem to find a partner; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns for the years when her children were young, when she was a single mother who meant everything to them. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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When she wins the contest, the family packs their baggage\u2014both literal and figurative\u2014and spends ten days traveling from sun-drenched Athens through glorious Rome to tapas-laden Barcelona on an over-the-top cruise ship, the Splendido Marveloso<\/em>. As lovers new and old join the adventure, long-buried secrets are revealed and old wounds are reopened, forcing the Perkins family to confront the forces that drove them apart and the defining choices of their lives.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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All I Ever Wanted: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Kathy Valentine  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go\u2019s\u2014and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go\u2019s became the first multi-platinum-selling, all-female band to play instruments themselves, write their own songs, and have a number one album. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat<\/em>, spent six weeks at the top of the Billboard 200<\/em> and featured the hit songs \u201cWe Got the Beat\u201d and \u201cOur Lips Are Sealed.\u201d The record’s success brought the pressures of a relentless workload and schedule culminating in a wild, hazy, substance-fueled tour that took the band from the club circuit to arenas, where fans, promoters, and crew were more than ready to keep the party going.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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For Valentine, the band’s success was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream\u2014but it\u2019s only part of her story. All I Ever Wanted<\/em> traces the path that took her from her childhood in Texas\u2014where she all but raised herself\u2014to the height of rock n\u2019 roll stardom, devastation after the collapse of the band that had come to define her, and the quest to regain her sense of self after its end. Valentine also speaks candidly about the lasting effects of parental betrayal, abortion, rape, and her struggles with drugs and alcohol\u2014and the music that saved her every step of the way. Populated with vivid portraits of Valentine\u2019s interactions during the 1980s with musicians and actors from the Police and Rod Stewart to John Belushi and Rob Lowe, All I Ever Wanted<\/em> is a deeply personal reflection on a life spent in music.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Cat in the Agraharam and Other Stories <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dilip Kumar (Author), Martha Ann Selby (Translator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This collection of stories from celebrated author Dilip Kumar offers a distinct perspective on everyday life in the South Indian cities of Coimbatore and Chennai. The stories set in the Sowcarpet neighborhood of Chennai give readers a glimpse into the orthodox world of Gujarati Vaishnavas, transplants from the northwestern region of Kutch, who find themselves living usually at odds\u2014and occasionally in harmony\u2014with the Tamil-speaking community.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe volume is introduced by its award-winning translator, Martha Ann Selby, who worked closely with the author. The universal appeal of these stories is rooted in their utterly truthful local specificity as they explore complex themes of abduction and restoration, humiliation and despair, and related issues of identity and wholeness. Known by Tamil readers for his description and detail, Dilip Kumar also writes with humor and a deep compassion for his characters, highlighting their strengths in the face of degradation and strife. His perspective and insight build on his own status as a northerner in this southern setting for whom Tamil is a second language\u2014much like his characters.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Huda Fahmy  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Chaperones, suitors, and arranged marriages aren’t only reserved for the heroines of a Jane Austen novel. They’re just another walk in the park for this leading lady, who is on a mission to find her leading lad. From the brilliant comics Yes, I’m Hot in This<\/em>, Huda Fahmy tells the hilarious story of how she met and married her husband. Navigating mismatched suitors, gossiping aunties, and societal expectations for Muslim women, That Can Be Arranged<\/em> deftly and hilariously reveals to readers what it can be like to find a husband as an observant Muslim woman in the twenty-first century. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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So relevant in today’s evolving cultural climate, Fahmy’s story offers a perceptive and personal glimpse into the sometimes sticky but ultimately rewarding balance of independent choice and tradition.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Inside Battle <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Melanie Sumrow  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Thirteen-year-old Rebel Mercer lives in West Texas with his dad, Nathan, and his aunt Birdie. His dad is finally home after serving in the military, and Rebel longs for his approval. But something isn’t right. His dad has PTSD, and lately he has been spending his time communicating with a racist, anti-government militia group called the Flag Bearers. Rebel doesn’t agree with his dad’s newfound ideas, but he turns a blind eye to them. So when his best friend Ajeet beats Rebel at a robotics tournament by using one of Rebel’s pieces, Rebel begins to wonder if there’s some truth to what his dad has been saying, and he lashes out at Ajeet. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Expelled from school, Rebel’s dad takes him to the mountains of Oklahoma, where they meet up with the Flag Bearers. Soon his dad is engulfed in the group and its activities, and they’re becoming more and more dangerous. When Rebel gets wind of a planned attack on an African American church, he knows that this group has gone too far and innocent people could get hurt. Can Rebel find his voice and stop the Flag Bearers from carrying out their plans before it’s too late?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sandra Sider, Pamela Weeks<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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An unusually creative honoring of the 19th Amendment’s centennial\u2014it was ratified August 18, 1920. Twenty-nine award-winning textile artists from across the United States each crafted a quilt celebrating women\u2019s suffrage. These dazzlingly varied, sometimes troubling, always inspiring artworks reflect the long and continuing fight for equal rights for all. Introductions summarize the history of women\u2019s suffrage, an even more complicated subject than you might think, then dozens of art quilts continue the learning. Male artists are included to acknowledge the support of many men for women\u2019s suffrage, and African American artists and suffragists are recognized as well. Although the 19th Amendment made a huge stride forward for women\u2019s rights, in many voting situations that right extended to white women only because of prejudicial practices. All royalties will be shared equally between the New England Quilt Museum and Texas Quilt Museum.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Thank You, Garden <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Liz Garton Scanlon (Author), Simone Shin (Illustrator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A community garden unites children and neighbors in this celebration of all the things that grow there, from flowers and fruits to friendships. In the spirit of her Caldecott Honor\u00ad\u2013winning picture book All the World<\/em>, this ode to friendship, community, and working together for a better world will have young readers gathering their friends young and old to plant something together.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Diane Trull, Meredith Wargo <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Elementary-school teacher Diane Trull\u2019s life-defining moment happened when her fourth-grade reading class saw a photo of a cardboard box overflowing with homeless puppies. Her young students were determined to save these lost pups and others like them. In that moment, the Dalhart Animal Wellness Group and Sanctuary\u2014known as DAWGS\u2014was born.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nHow Trull and her fourth graders started their own animal shelter is a story of dedication, commitment, and perseverance. Trull shares inspiring stories about animals and animal lovers of all ages in this moving story of hope and compassion. DAWGS <\/em>is a testament to how love and a strong measure of determination can offer second chances\u2014one animal, one child, and one day at a time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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There are so many Texas books publishing in March that we couldn\u2019t feature all of them. The following books also publish in March:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Biography & Memoir<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>by Peniel E. Joseph<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

George T. Ruby: Champion of Equal Rights in Reconstruction Texas<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Dr. Carl H. Moneyhon Ph.D. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ride the Devil’s Herd: Wyatt Earp’s Epic Battle Against the West’s Biggest Outlaw Gang<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by John Boessenecker <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Boneheads and Brainiacs: Heroes and Scoundrels of the Nobel Prize in Medicine<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Moira Dolan MD <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Business<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cutting Onions: Leadership Lessons Learned From the Restaurant Industry<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Bobby Shaw<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Taking the Reins as CIO: A Blueprint for Leadership Transitions<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Tony Gerth and Joe Peppard <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Children\u2019s \/ Young Readers<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Edison Jones and the Anti-Grav Elevator<\/em> by Michael Clifton<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tigers, Not Daughters <\/em>by Samantha Mabry<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Fire Truck vs. Dragon<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Chris Barton (Author), Shanda McCloskey (Illustrator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A Tiger Without Stripes<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Jaimie Whitbread  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Studio: A Place for Art to Start<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Emily Arrow (Author), James Buchanan (Illustrator), Melissa Buchanan (Illustrator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I Can Build It!: An Acorn Book (Princess Truly)<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Kelly Greenawalt (Author), Amariah Rauscher (Illustrator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Grow Kind<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Jon Lasser PhD and Sage Foster-Lasser<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Didi Dodo, Future Spy: Double-O Dodo<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Tom Angleberger (Author), Jared Chapman (Illustrator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Birdie’s Beauty Parlor<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Lee Byrd (Author), Francisco Delgado (Illustrator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Littlest Voyageur<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Margi Preus (Author), Cheryl Pilgrim (Illustrator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cuphead in Carnival Chaos: A Cuphead Novel<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Ron Bates  (Author), <\/span><\/span><\/span>Studio MDHR<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (Illustrator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Fetch (Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s: Fazbear Frights #2)<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by <\/span><\/span><\/span>Scott Cawthon<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, Carly Anne West, and Andrea Waggener<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Louis Sachar  (Author), Tim Heitz (Illustrator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ellen DeGeneres (People of Pride) <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>by Little Bee Books (Author), Victoria Grace Elliott (Illustrator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

How Fire Ants Got Their Fire <\/em>by Susan Holt Kralovansky<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Culture, Criticism, Communications<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Persuasive Acts: Women’s Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Shari Stenberg and Charlotte Hogg <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Radio’s Second Century: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by John Allen Hendricks (Editor, Contributor), Michael Brown (Foreword)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Defiant Geographies: Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Lorraine Leu <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Zeng Fanzhi: Untitled 2018<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Zeng Fanzhi, Richard Shiff, Michael Govan, and Christina Yu Yu <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Essay<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pain Studies<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Lisa Olstein  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Faith & Inspiration<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Made to Move Mountains: How God Uses Our Dreams and Disasters to Accomplish the Impossible<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Kristen Welch (Author), Ann Voskamp (Foreword)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Leadership Formula: Develop the Next Generation of Leaders in the Church<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Juan Sanchez  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

New Life in Christ: What Really Happens When You’re Born Again and Why It Matters<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Steven J. Lawson (Author), Sinclair Ferguson (Foreword)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t Miss the Moment: How God Uses the Insignificant to Create the Extraordinary<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Sheryl Brady  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Shift: Courageously Moving from Season to Season<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Keion Henderson  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Fiction<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Act of Murder <\/em>by John Bishop, M.D.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Banana Republic<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Eric Rawson  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Moonglow Sisters: A Novel<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Lori Wilde  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Traitor’s Pawn<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Lisa Harris  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Like Flames in the Night<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Connilyn Cossette  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Gillette Park<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Gerri Hill <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Texas Outlaw (Rory Yates (2))<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by James Patterson  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Chasing the White Lion<\/em> by James Hannibal<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Execution in E <\/em>by Alexia Gordon<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Food & Gardening<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Grow Great Vegetables in Texas<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Trisha Shirey  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Traditional Meals for the Frugal Family: Delicious, Nourishing Recipes for Less<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Shannon Stonger <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

7 Day Keto: The Starter Guide for Ketogenic Diet Beginners<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Mary Alexander  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pressure Cooker Cookbook for Beginners: Make the Most of Your Appliance and Enjoy Super Easy Meals<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Ramona Cruz-Peters  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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History<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hope for Justice and Power: Broad-based Community Organizing in the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Kathleen Staudt <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Robert Bryce  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hidden History of Plano<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Mary Jacobs (Author), Jeff Campbell (Author), Cheryl Smith (Author), The Plano Conservancy for Historic Preservation (Contributor)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A History Lover’s Guide to Houston<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Tristan Smith <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Poetry<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Beside the Bard: Scottish Lowland Poetry in the Age of Burns<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by George S. Christian <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Politics & Government<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn’t Work<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Donald F. Kettl <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Peter Zeihan  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Romance<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Billionaire in Boots (The Princes of Texas)<\/em> by Julia London<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cowboy Firefighter Heat (Smokin’ Hot Cowboys)<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Kim Redford  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A Resolute Man (Seven Brides)<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Leigh Greenwood <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jace (Kings of Country)<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Sasha Summers  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

White Pines Summer<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Sherryl Woods  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Fearless <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>by Fern Michaels  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cowboy Come Home: Includes a bonus novella (Once Upon a Time in Texas (2))<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Carly Bloom  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Earl Takes a Fancy: A Sins for All Seasons Novel<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Lorraine Heath  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

My One True Cowboy: A River Ranch Novel<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Soraya Lane  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Home with You (A Silverlake Ranch Novel)<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Liza Kendall  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To the Moon and Back<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Melissa Brayden  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An Amish Picnic: Four Stories<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Amy Clipston, Kelly Irvin, Kathleen Fuller, and Vannetta Chapman  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Self-Help<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Get Out of Your Own Way: A Skeptic\u2019s Guide to Growth and Fulfillment<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Dave Hollis  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Essential Oils for Soothing Anxiety: Remedies and Rituals to Feel Calm and Refreshed<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Christina Anthis  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

4 Minutes to Happy: Be Happier, Healthier, and Live the Life of Your Dreams<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Shemane Nugent  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Short Stories & Anthologies<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Maria Reva <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Translation<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Love Story of the Century<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by M\u00e4rta Tikkanen (Author), Stina Katchadourian (Translator)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Western<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Last Chance in Laredo (Black Horse Western)<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span>by Frank Callan <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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