The Raven's Bride (Southwest Life and Letters)
 A delightful, interesting view of Sam Houston.: A very good historical novel Author: Elizabeth Crook Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780870743481 Edition: 1st Southern Methodist University Press Ed ISBN: 0870743481 Number Of Pages: [... more]
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Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of New ...
Origins and History of New Thought: This 1963 book provides an invaluable glimpse into the mid-nineteenth century origins, beginning with Phineas P. Quimby, of the New Thought movement in the United States. It describes the careers of the most [... more]
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Flood Summer
A Five-Star First: Unable to put Trenton Lee Stewart's feast of a debut novel down, I devoured it in three sittings. Rather than summarize Flood Summer's menu of events, I'd like to rave about the book impressionistically. During its initial chapters, in [... more]
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The Night Hank Williams Died: A Play in Two Acts, With ...
West Texas Truth: This play touches close to home with its accurate portrayals of west Texas life. The characters are true to life and are possessing of that little bit of west Texas that some writers seem to miss when writing in this area. However, the [... more]
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The Divine Good: Modern Moral Theory & the Necessity of God
Author: Franklin I. Gamwell Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 171 EAN: 9780870743917 Edition: 1st Southern Methodist University Press Ed ISBN: 0870743910 Number Of Pages: 223 Publication Date: 1996-07 [... more]
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Red Wolf Red Wolf
Not just baseball stories: Who's a funny fella? WP Kinsella. Although he's not so funny in Red wolf, red wolf. The blurb on the back of Red wolf, red wolf promises a collection of Kinsella stories that shift from the baseball diamond (as in Shoeless Joe [... more]
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North Of The Port
Regional and Universal: Recently Northern Lights Books and Gifts of Duluth, MN threw a launch party for Anthony Bukoski's North of the Port, his fifth collection of short stories. With these books, lovingly depicting the joys and heartaches of the Polish [... more]
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Hard Scrabble: Observations on a Patch of Land
Back to the land, Texas-style: In 1960, at the age of 40 and after many years wondering the globe, Texas-born writer John Graves bought a worn-out patch of land in the hills south of Fort Worth. It began as something of a retreat and became a life-long [... more]
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Invisible Mending
Being Jewish would probably help: Being Jewish may help readers connect with Zimmer, the protagonist grappling with a crisis of faith and identity as a man born Jewish but living as he was raised, with no attachment to the Jewish culture or history. [... more]
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Presidio, Mission, and Pueblo: Spanish Architecture and ...
AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE: James Early, a professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University is an acknowledged expert in the field of architecture who has penned several works in that area. For this reader "Presidio, Mission, and Pueblo" is his [... more]
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The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas: Stories
Inspiring: The sensitivity and creativity with which the characters within these short stories grace the pages is a gift for us as readers, and an even more gracious gift of insight into our vast humanness. Go Reggie! Reading McKnight is an experience [... more]
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The Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of America
A fairly detailed and comprehensive book: A good read to get the key facts on the struggle between the conquistadores and the Indians. Hanke focuses mainly on the abuses of the conquistadores, the encomienda system and the long battle of Fray Bartolome [... more]
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