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  • Hurricane Season

    The Unforgettable Story of the 2017 Houston Astros and the Resilience of a City

    by Joe Holley ...
    An inside look at the 2017 Houston Astros championship season, focusing on the epic seven-game World Series, the front office decisions that built a winning team, and the resilience of the city in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.On November 1, 2017, the Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in an epic seven game battle to become 2017 World Series champs. For the Astros, the combination of a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Native Texan

    Stories from Deep in the Heart

    by Joe Holley ...
    Native Texan: Stories from Deep in the Heart is a lively and personal tour of small town and big city Texas in search of what makes the state unique. Nationally acclaimed columnist Joe Holley is widely loved for his popular “Native Texan” column, which appears in the Houston Chronicle. In thirty stories curated from column archives, Holley introduces readers to his favorite people and places ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $10.79 USD

  • More Finish Lines to Cross

    Notes on Race, Redemption, and Hope

    by Cary Clack ...
    Cary Clack has captured the hearts and minds of Texans since the mid-1990s, gaining a national reputation as an incisive and sensitive journalist and developing a significant following as a columnist. Originally from San Antonio, he worked with the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta (writing CNN commentaries for Coretta Scott King) to hone his communication ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Power

    How the Electric Co-op Movement Energized the Lone Star State

    by Joe Holley ...
    Series series The Texas Experience, Books made possible by Sarah '84 and Mark '77 Philpy
    According to author Joe Holley, the story of the Texas Electric Cooperatives, a collective of some 76 member-owned electric providers throughout the state, is a story of neighborliness and community, grit and determination, and persuasion and political savvy. It’s the story of a grassroots movement that not only energized rural Texas but also showed residents the power they have when they band ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • At Home on the Great Plains of Texas

    The Paintings of Laura Lewis

    by Laura Lynn Lewis, Christina Mulkey ...
    With a laugh, Laura Lewis says of her art, “I am uncomfortable painting mountains, because they get in the way of the view.” The challenge for this High Plains realist is to create strong compositions out of the extreme horizontals that predominate her chosen artistic geography. As the works in this book will attest, Lewis excels in capturing the views discovered in her ramblings across the length ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Conversations with Texas Writers

    Edited by Frances Leonard, Ramona Cearley ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    Larry McMurtry declares, "Texas itself doesn't have anything to do with why I write. It never did." Horton Foote, on the other hand, says, "I've just never had a desire to write about any place else." In between those figurative bookends are hundreds of other writers—some internationally recognized, others just becoming known—who draw inspiration and often subject matter from the unique places and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Sutherland Springs

    God, Guns, and Hope in a Texas Town

    by Joe Holley ...
    **Winner of the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins’ Award for Best Book of Nonfiction**One part Columbine, one part God Save Texas, Joe Holley's riveting, compassionate book examines the 2017 mass shooting at a church in a small Texas town, revealing the struggles and triumphs of these fellow Texans long after the satellite news trucks have gone.Sutherland Springs was the last place ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Slingin' Sam

    The Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback Ever to Play the Game

    by Joe Holley ...
    Dan Jenkins calls him “the greatest quarterback who ever lived, college or pro.” Slingin’ Sammy Baugh, who played for TCU and the Washington Redskins, single-handedly revolutionized the game of football. While the pros still wore leather helmets and played the game more like rugby, Baugh’s ability to throw the ball with rifle-like accuracy made the forward pass a strategic weapon, not a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Hometown Texas

    by Joe Holley ...
    Brown and Holley are interested in place and what makes people who they are. With particular interest in how people take the hand they’ve been dealt—fate, family, circumstance, luck—and craft a life for themselves, the authors celebrate the grit and gumption of these Texas originals. Introducing quirky characters and tenacious spirits, Holley’s stories seek out the personality of the small town ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Pickers and Poets

    The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas

    by Joe Nick Patoski, Robert Earl Hardy, Bob Livingston, Tamara Saviano, Peter Cooper, Joe Holley, John T. Davis, Andy Wilkinson, Kathryn Jones, Jeff Prince, Jason Mellard, Jan Reid, Diana Finlay Hendricks, Brian T. Atkinson, Grady Smith, Jenni Finlay ...
    Series series John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
    Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an essential thread in this tapestry: the Texas singer-songwriters to whom the contributors refer as ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Texas Hill Country

    A Photographic Adventure

    by Michael H. Marvins, Joe Holley, Roy Flukinger ...
    Series Book 11 - Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Texas Photography Series
    Like many Texans, Michael H. Marvins has been making regular pilgrimages to the Hill Country for much of his life. Traveling the back roads of the Texas Hill Country, cameras always poised for action, Marvins has captured the excitement of small-town rodeos, savored the mesquite-smoked atmosphere of local eateries, observed the daily lives of people on the land, and admired the scenic beauty of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Sutherland Springs

    God, Guns, and Hope in a Texas Town

    by Joe Holley ...
    Narrated by Joe Holley ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 38 min

    One part Columbine, one part God Save Texas, Joe Holley's riveting, compassionate book examines the 2017 mass shooting at a church in a small Texas town, revealing the struggles and triumphs of these fellow Texans long after the satellite news trucks have gone.Sutherland Springs was the last place anyone would have expected to be victimized by our modern-day scourge of mass shootings. Founded in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook