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  • Over at College

    A Texas A&M Campus Kid in the 1930s

    by James Knox Walker Jr., Debbie Spies ...
    Series Book 124 - Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
    In 1926 James Knox Walker, staff civil engineer in charge of building at A&M, and his new bride moved onto the campus of what was then known as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. The greater community, of which this small on-campus neighborhood was a part, was known simply as “College.” There was no such place as College Station, and the city of Bryan stood six miles away.James Knox ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    In 1938, Hazel Frome, the wife of a powerful executive at Atlas Powder Company, a San Francisco explosives manufacturer, set out on a cross-country motor trip with her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Nancy. When their car broke down in El Paso, Texas, they made the most of being stranded by staying at a posh hotel and crossing the border to Juarez for shopping, dining, and drinking. A week later, ... Read more

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  • How the Canyon Became Grand

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  • In the Sun's House

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    by Kurt Caswell, Rex Lee Jim ...
    In the year he spent teaching at Borrego Pass, a remote Navajo community in northwest New Mexico, Kurt Caswell found himself shunned as persona non grata. His cultural missteps, status as an interloper, and white skin earned him no respect in the classroom or the community-those on the reservation assumed he would come and go like so many teachers had before. But as Caswell attempts to bridge the ... Read more

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  • Oveta Culp Hobby

    Colonel, Cabinet Member, Philanthropist

    by Debra L. Winegarten ...
    Series series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
    This young adult biography introduces middle school readers to a remarkable woman who founded the Women’s Army Corps, served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and ran a media empire that included the Houston Post newspaper and radio and TV stations.Winner, Gold Medal for Biography, Military Writers Society of America, 2015Oveta Culp Hobby (1905–1995) had a lifetime of stellar ... Read more

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  • The University of Oklahoma

    A History, Volume I: 1890–1917

    by David W. Levy ...
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  • The Trials of Eroy Brown

    The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System

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    "Berryhill's account of this infamous 30-year-old murder case . . . Provides a jarring portrait of a once-medieval state prison." — Publishers WeeklyIn April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis prison farm near Huntsville. Warden Wallace Pack and farm manager Billy Moore were the highest-ranking Texas prison officials ever to die in the line of ... Read more

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  • Richard E. Wainerdi and the Texas Medical Center

    by William Henry Kellar, Barbara Bush ...
    Series Book 25 - Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History
    In 2012, Richard E. Wainerdi retired as president and chief executive officer of the Texas Medical Center after almost three decades at the helm. During his tenure, Wainerdi oversaw the expansion of the center into the world’s largest medical complex, hosting more than fifty separate institutions. “I wasn’t playing any of the instruments, but it’s been a privilege being the conductor,” he once ... Read more

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  • Sanctioning Matrimony

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    by Sal Acosta ...
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  • Mugamore

    Succeeding without Labels - Lessons for Educators

    by Dr. Jonathan T. Jefferson ...
    This book was developed to compare the real life educational experiences of an average child during the last generation in which the United States led the world in education to a real child’s experiences today (when the United States is no longer in the top 20). The practice of labeling students with a disability has reached the status of a dangerous standard practice. Increasing demands for ... Read more

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  • Arizona Politicians

    The Noble and the Notorious

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    Do you know these famous Arizona politicians?—A congresswoman who was bridesmaid to Eleanor Roosevelt—A car dealer who propelled himself to the governor's mansion with the help of public recognition of his TV commercials—An Arizonan who served not only as governor and chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, but also as the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate and chief sponsor of the GI Bill—A ... Read more

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