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In Amado Muro and Me, ten-year-old Robert Seltzer discovers that his father, Chester, actually leads two lives - one as a newspaperman and father who somehow always knows what his son is thinking; the other as Amado Muro, a passionate and gifted writer whose pseudonym is adapted from the name of his Mexican immigrant wife.

Stroll around the idyllic campus, cheer on Horned Frog sports teams, celebrate graduation, and embark on more TCU journeys with these illustrations waiting to be brought to life with colour.

Presents a rare collection of interwoven essays chronicling the fascinating history of the Cigarroa family and their influence on the Texas-Mexico border landscape. In presenting richly detailed vignettes with keen observation and grace, Barbara González Cigarroa offers captivating and original insights not only into her family's remarkable story, but also into the enduring spirit of the people of the Texas borderlands.

Filled with images depicting people, places, and events in state history, Coloring Texas is a treat for all ages. Artist Deran Wright's carefully researched drawings depict such familiar characters as Santa Anna and Sam Houston; lesser-known personalities such as Corrine Williams and Davey O'Brien; and unnamed Native Americans, Buffalo Soldiers, ranchers, oilmen, and others who inhabit the story of Texas. Educational captions written by Gregg Cantrell and translated by Arturo Flores accompany Wright's work. Coloring Texas will be an entertaining historical refresher and stress reliever for any adult, but teachers will find that it highlights many topics covered in TEKS, while the bilingual descriptions make it especially useful in ESL classes.

Many Catholic families blessed their children before they left home. After the Blessing tells the stories of many young Mexican Americans who left home to fight for their country. During the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), many families fled Mexico to prevent their underage sons from being forced to fight. Ironically, the offspring of these immigrants often ended up across the ocean in a much larger war. Despite the bias and mistreatment most Mexican Americans faced in the US, some 500,000 fought bravely for their country during World War II. Their stories range from hair-raising accounts of the Battle of the Bulge to gut-wrenching testimony about cannibalism in the Pacific. In After the Blessing Mexican Americans reveal their experiences in combat during WWII-stories that have rarely been told.

"A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality brings together the works of writers in Texas. The title is taken, with permission, from Naomi Shihab Nye's introduction to Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, where she states the role of poetry serves as "a fire to light our tongues." This view describes the role that creative writers, encountering the challenges of this past decade, face as they grapple with shifting views of spirituality. While the project started before COVID-19, given the current worldwide pandemic, a book of creative work responding to writers' spirituality could not be more timely. This anthology offers readers creative works by Texas writers as they wrestle with evolving systems of belief or nonbelief"--

Thousands of American Marines stationed in the Pacific will engage in some of the costliest battles of World War II. John Reynolds is one of them. Wounded on Guadalcanal, he recuperates in a navy hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, before rejoining his battalion at the sprawling Marine encampment just north of Wellington. Visiting the city on a weekend pass, he meets Grace Lucas, a local girl, and they begin a love affair that culminates in the couple's secret engagement just weeks before the Marines set sail on a mission from which many will not return. What neither of them know is that Grace is pregnant and will soon be banished to a remote farm by her disapproving parents."Always Faithful" is both a love story and a nail-biting narrative that details the first American offensive in the central Pacific region. It was the first landing to meet Japanese resistance and one of the bloodiest battles of the war: the amphibious assault on Tarawa. Paddling frail rubber boats under heavy fire from the island, the Marines must land on beaches protected by nearly impregnable pillboxes and thousands of Japanese soldiers who will fight to the death. In the midst of fascinating details about American military operations in the Pacific and pulse-pounding battle scenes, "Always Faithful" delivers a heartwarming story of faithfulness and redemption.

Come join Shelley and her grandfather, Pop, on a fun spring break adventure to Shiner, Texas. You never know who you might meet.... Shelley and her new furry friend could possibly teach you a trick or two to help pronounce that sometimes 'sheepish' SH sound.

Who knew a street mutt could win the hearts of a whole town? Happy, a scruffy stray dog, becomes a beloved hero when a fire threatens his new home. In this true story, neighbours work together to find a creative way to put out the fire, and Happy discovers that having a friend is the best reward.

From Hell's Half Acre to Quality Grove, We're for Smoke tells the wild and woolly story of turn-of-the-century Fort Worth, a cow town on the cusp of becoming a modern industrial city.

Arizona Governor Fife Symington was an early pioneer in successfully navigating what is now an existential threat for moderates in the Republican Party: how to govern with conservative-leaning values without kowtowing to the worst instincts of the radicalized, nativist right.

And what a reunion it is! Dan Jenkins reunites many of the most memorable and irascible characters from his most memorable and hilarious novels-starting with Semi-Tough. This is a special commemorative edition of Dan Jenkins's last novel, including a foreword by Tom Brokaw and an afterword by Sally Jenkins.

Haid Shelton is his small-town church's song leader as a teen and dreams of becoming a rock singer. His enduring gifts are in his tenor voice and success as a Golden Gloves boxer. This tale embraces themes of race relations, friendship, and the American culture of violence.

A tongue-in-cheek novel about the most dangerous act of nuclear terrorism in the twenty-first century, a romp of international intrigue and espionage by a man who spent thirty-three years in the field.

A book to be read for pleasure and to build confidence in children and students who are not alone in facing difficulties with speech and language impairments. It comes with 'secret tips' to tackle speech and language disorders, and most importantly, bring smiles along the way!

First published in 1966, Hannah Jackson chronicles the turbulence of the '60s and remains a highly relevant novel depicting the oppression of social conventions during times of change.

Follows the characters introduced in Plum Creek as they meet the challenges that life presents them. Billy McCulloch faces some tough moral choices as he embarks upon the practice of law. Ada Adams and Everett Hardeman become engulfed in a crisis arising from her marriage to a cruel husband. And Lily Poe is forced to deal with tragedy.

The hilarious autobiography of James Hampton, who for over fifty years has been one of the most familiar faces in American television and film. A wonderful slice of life in Hollywood told through the personal stories of one of its most prolific actors, this book will appeal to nostalgia buffs, classic film and television aficionados.

Tells the story of the development of the Fort Worth Youth Orchestra (FWSO) and the Cliburn competition as the internationally renowned conductor John Giordano knew them. These enlightening and often humorous chronicles give readers insight into the expansion of the FWSO and the Cliburn during Giordano's tenure.

Imagine sharing your name with a devastating hurricane. Seeing and hearing your name over and over in a scary, negative light.... The constant commentary is enough to make a kid wonder if he is bad too. This is the story of a boy on a mission to find out if his mischievous ways may be to blame for sharing his name with a hurricane.

Presents a remarkable new collection of essays by one of America's best-known and best-loved sportswriters. Served up with the acerbic wit that is Dan Jenkins's hallmark, the essays range over the whole world of sports, taking aim at owners, players, fans, and franchises alike - with results that will make you laugh out loud.

This collection of Guerrero's new and selected work documents the struggle to both honour and disrupt cultural, social, and familial traditions and histories. Hers is an honest and fearless examination of racism, sexism, domestic abuse, illness, and loss.

This engaging account reveals the complexity of the Mexican Revolution, with a cast of characters that includes officers and officials of the Porfirian regime, revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries, US investors, crackpots, German spies, Japanese schemers, Chinese workers, and purveyors of every sort of vice.

Traces ten years of a child's life in baseball, from his first struggles on the sandlot to his final high school game. The book is illustrated with period memorabilia and twelve pages of handwritten letters from Ty Cobb, plus others from Hall of Fame players like Eddie Walsh and Frankie Frisch.

This novel is both a traditional Western - tense, authentic, fast-paced - and an anti-Western that tells the story of what was perhaps the bloodiest range war in US history, Arizona's 1880s Pleasant Valley War.

Explores the exceptional architectural legacy of Waxahachie, Texas. Beginning with the landmark Ellis County Courthouse designed by James Riely Gordon, the guidebook documents residential, commercial, and institutional buildings - both large and small - as well as the individuals who designed, built, and owned them.

Spencer Hays grew up in a small town in a family of very little means to become a business leader and a wealthy philanthropist by way of sheer grit and hard work. Beloved by friends and employees alike for his self-effacement and generosity, Spencer Hays wanted the principles that his corporations operate by to be the primary focus of this book.

Traces the history and impact of Honors at TCU from its beginning as a small program in the early 1960s to the present day, highlighting how its courses and cocurricular activities not only enrich student learning but also campus culture.

Presents a collection of sixty essays about Texas books, authors, book collectors, libraries, and bookstores. It is a book for booklovers and bookish readers. Lonn Taylor writes from the point of view of a historian who has been reading books about Texas for seventy years, and who has known many of the authors he writes about.

Takes a look back at some of the most interesting and engaging drawings by Harold Maples, the long-time political cartoonist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Political cartoons are excellent teachers of history, and readers will be amazed at how succinctly Maples boiled down complex ideas into simple and amusing drawings.