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  • Miles and Miles of Texas

    100 Years of the Texas Highway Department

    by Carol Dawson, Roger Allen Polson, Geoff Appold ...
    On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created “to get the farmer out of the mud,” it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects every corner of the state.When the Texas Highway Department (now called ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Mother-in-Law Diaries

    A Novel

    by Carol Dawson ...
    Much to the surprise of his mother, Lulu Penfield's first-born son has gotten married. It's not that she minds; she's fairly sure that he's made a good choice. What's really eating at her is the realization that she is about to become--gasp--a mother-in-law. Lulu's been around the block more than a few times. She's had more than the average number of mothers-in-law, and she's found herself more ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Meeting the Minotaur

    by Carol Dawson ...
    An audacious modern-day retelling of an ancient Greek myth. "A sinister, slapstick thriller."--USA Today; "An abundant feat of imagination deftly executed."--The Dallas Morning News; "An exhilarating, self-assured novel with brains, muscle, and an eccentric beauty that keeps catching us by surprise."--The Boston Globe; "Scenes that are as taut, gritty, and violent as those in the best noir ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Body of Knowledge

    by Carol Dawson ...
    Carol Dawson's outrageous second novel chronicles the decline and fall of a strange dynasty--from post-frontier Texas to the present day. It's the story of a secret war, of obsession, fear, loathing, and betrayal. But most of all, BODY OF KNOWLEDGE is the story of Victoria Grace Ransom, the story's 600-pound narrator, whose engrossing secret gradually reveals itself in a novel as big as all Texas. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Waking Spell

    A Novel

    by Carol Dawson ...
    When Sarah Grissom is seven years old, her brother adn her cousins--the Northgates--play a trick on her. They pretend there's a ghost in the attic of their grandmother's big, rambling East Texas house, and they take Sarah up to meet it. It's just a game for the others, but Sarah senses a frightening thing there, a presence. Is it a ghost? Without a doubt there is something--something cold, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • House of Plenty

    The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Luby's Cafeterias

    by Carol Dawson, Carol Johnston ...
    The epic story of the rise, fall, and redemption of an iconic American restaurant, one of only five in the Fortune 500.Scarred by the deaths of his mother and sisters and the failure of his father's business, a young man dreamed of making enough money to retire early and retreat into the secure world that his childhood tragedies had torn from him. But Harry Luby refused to be a robber baron. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Executive Function Skills in the Classroom

    Overcoming Barriers, Building Strategies

    by Laurie Faith, PhD, Carol-Anne Bush, MA, Peg Dawson, EdD ...
    Series series The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series
    With insight and humor, this motivating guide shows how to bring executive functions (EF) to the forefront in K–8 classrooms--without adopting a new curriculum or scripted program. Ideal for professional development, the book includes flexible, practical, research-based ideas for implementation in a variety of classroom contexts. It shares stories from dozens of expert teachers who are integrating ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Rare Daws Butler

    Comedy from the Voice of Yogi Bear!

    by Joe Bevilacqua, Charles Dawson Butler ...
    Narrated by Stan Freberg, a full cast, Herschel Bernardi, Shep Menken, Carol Hemmingway, Charles Dawson Butler ...

    Unabridged

    48 min

    Daws Butler was the voice magician behind such classic cartoon characters as Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and Quick Draw McGraw. Daws also cowrote and voiced many of Stan Freberg's greatest comedy records, including Saint George and the Dragonet. Here is a hilarious collection of rare, never-before-released Daws Butler comedy recordings featuring the voices of Stan Freberg, Shep Menken, Herschel ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • When We Get There

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