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  • av Richard B. McCaslin
    622,-

    William L. Wright (1868-1942) was born to be a Texas Ranger, and hard work made him a great one. Wright tried working as a cowboy and farmer, but it did not suit him. Instead, he became a deputy sheriff and then a Ranger, battling a mob in the Laredo Smallpox Riot, policing both sides in the Reese-Townsend Feud, and winning a gunfight at Cotulla.

  • - African American Combat Units in World War II
    av Alexander M Bielakowski
    549,-

    Makes the case that the wartime experiences of combat units such as the Tank Battalions and the Tuskegee Airmen ultimately convinced President Truman to desegregate the military, without which the progress of the Civil Rights Movement might also have been delayed.

  • - The Bigger-Than-Life Story of the Fighting Parson and Texas Ranger
    av Mike Cochran
    549,-

    Denton County and the City of Denton are named for preacher, lawyer, and Indian fighter John B. Denton, but little has been known about him. This biography separates the truth from the myth, which also contains a detailed discussion of the controversy surrounding his burial and offers some alternative scenarios for what happened to his body.

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    253,-

    Collects the ten winners of the 2020 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Christopher Goffard,'Detective Trapp' (Los Angeles Times) is about a complicated murder investigation and its human impact.

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    428,-

    Helen Corbitt is to American cuisine what Julia Child is to French. In The Best from Helen Corbitt's Kitchens, Patty MacDonald serves up more than 500 favourite recipes from Helen Corbitt's Cookbook and her four later cookbooks, as well as many never before published recipes from her cooking schools.

  • av Steve Bellin-Oka
    199,-

    This poetry collection is the record of an American's return home after a decade abroad, an exile imposed solely because he loved another man. In a virtuoso display of lyric and formal inventiveness, Bellin-Oka's poems meditate on the myriad losses engendered by diaspora: of home, family and sexual identity, and spiritual certainty.

  • av James Najarian
    250,-

    The poems in James Najarian's debut collection are by turns tragic and mischievous, always with an exuberant attention to form. Najarian turns his caprine eye to the landscapes and history of Berks Country, Pennsylvania, and to the middle east of his extended Armenian family. These poems examine our bonds to the earth, to animals, to art and to desire.

  • - The 1972 Easter Invasion and the Battle That Saved South Viet Nam
    av lam Quang Thi
    439,-

    In 1972 a North Vietnamese offensive of more than 30,000 men raced to capture Saigon. All that stood in their way was a small band of 6,800 South Vietnamese (ARVN) soldiers and militiamen, and a handful of American advisors with U.S. air support, guarding An Loc. Thi believes that it is time to set the record straight and here tells the South Vietnamese side of the story.

  • av Alison Stine
    250,-

    In the fields, in the woods, in the dark water of Ohio, something is happening. Girls disappear, turn on each other. Men watch from the rear view as the narrator hedges, changes her mind.

  • - The Life and Music of Lenny Breau
    av Ron Forbes-Roberts
    469,-

    Chet Atkins called Lenny Breau (1941-1984) ""the greatest guitarist who ever walked the face of the earth."" Breau's virtuosity influenced countless performers, but unfortunately it came at the expense of his personal relationships. This book analyzes Breau and his recordings to reveal an enormously gifted man and the inner workings of his music.

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