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Author | : A. C. Greene |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781574410433 |
An annotated listing of over fifty books judged by the author to be the best examples of Texas literature; arranged alphabetically by title.
Author | : Stacey Swann |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2022-05-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1984897403 |
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A bighearted novel with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets explode, all with a clever wink toward classical mythology. For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe: "The Iliad meets Friday Night Lights in this muscular, captivating debut" (Oprah Daily). The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms. Her husband's own past affairs have made her tired of being the long-suffering spouse. Is it, perhaps, time for a change? Within days of March's arrival, someone is dead, marriages are upended, and even the strongest of alliances are shattered. In the end, the ties that hold them together might be exactly what drag them all down. An expansive tour de force, Olympus, Texas cleverly weaves elements of classical mythology into a thoroughly modern family saga, rich in drama and psychological complexity. After all, at some point, don't we all wonder: What good is this destructive force we call love?
Author | : Julia Heaberlin |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525621679 |
A new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans.
Author | : A. C. Greene |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781574410532 |
Describes growing up in small town West Texas in the early twentieth century focusing on fishing, festivals, and friendships. Also discusses the difficult struggles which many people experienced as well as portraying unusual people in humorous anecdotes.
Author | : John Joseph Linn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Texas |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gregory Curtis |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2021-04-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0525657622 |
In this moving, tender memoir of losing a beloved spouse, the longtime editor of Texas Monthly, newly widowed, returns alone to a city whose enchantment he's only ever shared with his wife, in search of solace, memories, and the courage to find a way forward. At the age of sixty-six, after thirty-five years of marriage, Gregory Curtis finds himself a widower. Tracy--with whom he fell in love the first time he saw her--has succumbed to a long battle with cancer. Paralyzed by grief, agonized by social interaction, Curtis turns to watching magic lessons on DVD--"a pathetic, almost comical substitute" for his evenings with Tracy. To break the spell, he returns to the place he had the "best and happiest times" of his life. As he navigates the storied city and contemplates his new future, Curtis relives his days in Paris with Tracy, piecing together the portrait of a woman, a marriage, parenthood, and his life's great love through the memories of six unforgettable trips to the City of Lights. Alone in Paris, Curtis becomes a tireless wanderer, exploring the city's grand boulevards and forgotten corners as he confronts the bewildering emotional state that ensues after losing a life partner. Paris Without Her is a work of tremendous courage and insight--an ode to the lovely woman who was his wife, to a magnificent city, and to the self we might invent, and reinvent, there.
Author | : Bryan Burrough |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2010-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0143116827 |
“Full of schadenfreude and speculation—and solid, timely history too.” —Kirkus Reviews “This is a portrait of capitalism as white-knuckle risk taking, yielding fruitful discoveries for the fathers, but only sterile speculation for the sons—a story that resonates with today's economic upheaval.” —Publishers Weekly “What's not to enjoy about a book full of monstrous egos, unimaginable sums of money, and the punishment of greed and shortsightedness?” —The Economist Phenomenal reviews and sales greeted the hardcover publication of The Big Rich, New York Times bestselling author Bryan Burrough's spellbinding chronicle of Texas oil. Weaving together the multigenerational sagas of the industry's four wealthiest families, Burrough brings to life the men known in their day as the Big Four: Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson, all swaggering Texas oil tycoons who owned sprawling ranches and mingled with presidents and Hollywood stars. Seamlessly charting their collective rise and fall, The Big Rich is a hugely entertaining account that only a writer with Burrough's abilities-and Texas upbringing-could have written.
Author | : Bob Phillips |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Nonfiction television programs |
ISBN | : 9781477324028 |
Author | : James K. Greer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"Centennial series of the Association Former Students, Texas A & M Univ. ; no. 50." Hay's colorful reputation and a host of nicknames earned during battles.
Author | : Lawrence Wright |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0525520112 |
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.