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Architecture
  • "San Antonio Uncovered" by Mark Louis Rybczyk
  • "Dugout to Deco: Building in West Texas, 1880 - 1930" by Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser
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    Ghosts
  • "Ghosts in the Graveyard, Texas Cemetery Tales" by Olyve Hallmark Abbott
  • "The History and Mystery of the Menger Hotel" by Docia Schultz Williams
  • "Best Tales of Texas Ghosts" by Docia Schultz Williams
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    History & War
  • The Devil’s Triangle by Bob Bowman 9-17-07
    “The Devil’s Triangle,” a new book by James M. Smallwood, Kenneth W. Howell and Carol C. Taylor, provides a fascinating look at the turbulent era after the Civil War
  • 491 Days by Archie P. McDonald
    William Williston Heartsill's Fourteen Hundred And Ninety-One Days In The Confederate Army
  • Jane McManus Storm Cazneau by Archie P. McDonald
    Mistress of Manifest Destiny: A Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau by Linda Hudson
  • "Texas Women in World War II" by Cindy Weigand
    NURSES, WACS, WAVES, and SPARS, Uniformed Women of "The Greatest Generation"
  • "Soldiers of Misfortune" by Sam W. Haynes
  • "The Reluctant Warrior, Former German POW Finds Peace in Texas" by Heino R. Erichsen
  • "Wings Over the Mexican Border: Pioneer Military Aviation in the Big Bend" by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
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    Law & Disorder
  • "They Rode for the Lone Star" by Thomas W. Knowles
    Texas Rangers and the Battle of Plum Creek by Murray Montgomery
  • "My Life with Bonnie & Clyde" by Blanche Caldwell Barrow
    Reviewed by Robin Jett
  • "Elmer McCurdy: The Misadventure in Life and Afterlife of an American Outlaw" by Mark Svenvold
  • "Over the Wall, The Men Behind the 1934 Death House Escape" by Patrick M. McConal
  • "Tales of Bad Men, Bad Women, and Bad Places : Four Centuries of Texas Outlawry" by C.F. Eckhardt
  • "The Texas Sheriff : Lord of the County Line" by Thad Sitton
  • "Running with Bonnie and Clyde: The 10 Fast Years of Ralph Fults" by John Neal Phillips
    • Life and Observations
  • The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding
    The True Meaning of Auld Lang Syne by Gael Montana 6-4-07
  • "A Long Way from the Cotton Patch." by Jean Adele Cox
    Cotton Picking by Mike Cox 1-11-07
  • "Cottonseed Kid Childhood Memories of a Texas Life" by Hariett Dublin
  • "CHINQUA WHERE? The Spirit of Rural America, 1947-1955" by Fred B. McKinley
  • "The Lonesome Plains: Death and Revival on an American Frontier" by Louis Fairchild
  • "Blow by Blow, A Collection of Steve Blow's Award-Winning Columns from The Dallas Morning News" by Steve Blow
  • "Tom Dodge Talks about Texas : Radio Vignettes and Other Observations 1989-1999" by Tom Dodge
  • "I was a Teen in the 1930s ..." by Harold Bell
  • "Tall Town Tales by a Country Editor" by R. E. Bailey.
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  • "A Texan In England" by James Frank Dobie
    J. Frank Dobie and Colonel Jack Jenkins by Mel Brown 1-1-08
    Two Texans become friends in War-torn England
    • People
  • Remembering the Bastrop Chronicler by Murray Montgomery 5-19-07
    This particular story originally came from a book titled "Recollections of Early Texas" written by a man know as the "Bastrop chronicler." His real name was John Holmes Jenkins...
  • Kingsbury Hall: The Genealogy of a Family by Kenneth Kingsbury 4-10-07
  • “Sam B. Hall, Jr.: Whatever is Right,” by Jerry Summers
    “Go straight to hell.” by Bob Bowman
    Sam B. Hall, Jr., the son of an East Texas lawyer and judge who rose to a leadership role in Congress and finished his career as a federal judge, was one of East Texas’ most interesting contemporary politicians.
    Hall’s life is profiled in a new book, “Sam B. Hall, Jr.: Whatever is Right,” by Jerry Summers, who serves as the Sam B. Hall, Jr. Professor of History at East Texas Baptist University in Marshall.
  • Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy: Pictures of Governor W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series) by Bill Crawford
    Pass the Biscuits, Pappy by Bob Bowman
  • "From My Mother's Hands" by Susie Kelly Flatau
  • "Swedish Texans" by Dr. Larry Scott 
  • Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip:
    The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
    Reviewed by Mel Brown 7-1-07
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    Places / Travel
  • "The Book Lover's Tour of Texas" by Jessie Gunn Stephens
    Reviewed by Jamie Engle
  • "Splash Across Texas!" by Chandra Moira Beal
  • "Taking the Waters in Texas" by Janet Mace Valenza
  • "San Antonio Uncovered" by Mark Louis Rybczyk
  • "A Field Guide to Cows" by John Pukie
  • "Hill Country" by Richard Zelade
  • "Counter Culture Texas" by Susie Kelly Flatau and Mark Dean
  • "The Eight Corners of Texas: A Guide to Visiting Some of Texas' Least Frequented and Known-about Areas - The Exact Corners" by Paul McBurnett
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    Texas Towns
  • “The Missing Book” by Elmer D. Landreth
    Dumont by Mike Cox
  • "Salado: Frontier College Town" by Charles Turnbo by Clay Coppedge
  • "Last Ride on the Ferry" by Angelica Reyna
    A Novel set in Los Ebanos
  • "Waxahachie: Where Cotton Reigned King" by Kelly McMichael Stott
    Photographs Courtesy of the Ellis County Historical Museum
    Arcadia Publishing's The Making of America Series
  • "Muleshoe & More" by Bill & Clare Bradfield
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