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  • The Dama Gazelles

    Last Members of a Critically Endangered Species

    by Dr. Elizabeth Cary Mungall, Teresa Abáigar, Lisa Banfield, Hessa Al Qahtani, Frans van den Brink, Mark Craig, Adam Eyres, Tania Gilbert, Gerardo Espeso Pajares, Abdelkader Jebali, Andrew Kitchener, John Newby, Tim Wacher, Thomas Rabeil, Helen Senn ...
    Series Book 58 - W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series
    Finalist, 2019 Outstanding Publications Award, sponsored by the Texas Chapter of the Wildlife SocietyDama gazelles, the largest of the gazelles, were once a common sight in Northern Africa, with a habitat ranging from the Atlantic Ocean east almost to the Nile River. Today, these animals are critically endangered as their populations have dropped precipitously due to the effects of expanding ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Oklahoma City

    What the Investigation Missed—and Why It Still Matters

    by Andrew Gumbel, Roger G. Charles ...
    In the early morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh drove into downtown Oklahoma City in a rented Ryder truck containing a deadly fertilizer bomb that he and his army buddy Terry Nichols had made the previous day. He parked in a handicapped-parking zone, hopped out of the truck, and walked away into a series of alleys and streets. Shortly after 9:00 A.M., the bomb obliterated one-third of the ... Read more

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  • A Sudden Shot

    The Phoenix Serial Shooter

    by Camille Kimball ...
    Arizona never experienced a summer like this, as snipers Dale Hausner and Sam Dieteman took aim at anything?and everything?in their path. Phoenix was a city in terror as the deadly spree ultimately claimed 37 vicitims, people and pets? until one detective began to put the pieces together to nail the murderous duo. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Kings of Texas

    The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire

    by Don Graham ...
    Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS"Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience."-Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove"This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gone at 3:17

    by David M. Brown; Michael Wereschagin ...
    At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a lethal mixture of gas and oxygen in the schools basement. The odorless, colorless gas went undetected until the flip of an electrical switch triggered a colossal blast. The two-story school, one of the nations most modern, disintegrated, burying ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • Route 66 in New Mexico

    by Joe Sonderman ...
    Series series Images of America
    New Mexico is �The Land of Enchantment,� offering a fascinating blend of Native American, Spanish Colonial, and Western American cultures. The travelers from the East knew they had arrived in the great Southwest when they entered New Mexico�the towns along Route 66 were ablaze in neon, and the motels lured travelers with Western themes, Pueblo Revival architecture, and Native American trading ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frank Little and the IWW

    The Blood That Stained an American Family

    by Jane Little Botkin ...
    Franklin Henry Little (1878–1917), an organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought in some of the early twentieth century’s most contentious labor and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching in Butte, Montana, his life and legacy became shrouded in tragedy and family secrets. In Frank Little and the IWW, author Jane Little Botkin ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Uprooting Community

    Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    by Selfa A. Chew ...
    Joining the U.S.’ war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel Ávila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and approved the creation of internment camps and zones of confinement. Under this relocation program, a new pro-American nationalism developed in Mexico that scripted Japanese Mexicans as an internal racial enemy. In spite of the broad resistance presented by the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Royal Air Force in Texas

    Training British Pilots in Terrell during World War II

    by Tom Killebrew ...
    With the outbreak of World War II, British Royal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and poor weather. In the United States six civilian flight schools dedicated themselves to instructing RAF pilots; the first, No. 1 British Flying Training School (BFTS), was located in Terrell, Texas, east of Dallas. Tom Killebrew explores the history of ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Rotten Boroughs, Political Thickets, and Legislative Donnybrooks

    Redistricting in Texas

    Edited by Gary A. Keith ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    Every ten years, the Texas legislature redistricts itself and the state’s congressional districts in an attempt to ensure equality in representation. With a richly textured cultural fabric, Texas often experiences redistricting battles that are heated enough to gain national attention. Collecting a variety of voices, including legislators themselves, in addition to lawyers, community organizers, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Great Texas Stamp Collection

    How Some Stubborn Texas Confederate Postmasters, a Handful of Determined Texas Stamp Collectors, and a Few of the World's Greatest Philatelists Created, Discovered, and Preserved Some of the World's Most Valuable Postage Stamps

    by Charles W. Deaton ...
    Series series Charles N. Prothro Texana Series
    Among the many difficulties the newly formed Confederate States of America endured in the summer of 1861 was the failure of its post office department to provide sufficient numbers of that item most crucial to its service: the postage stamp. Faced with the resulting din of customer complaints, a handful of industrious Texas postmasters solved the problem by simply making their own homemade stamps ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The State Library and Archives of Texas

    A History, 1835-1962

    by David B. Gracy ...
    The Texas State Library and Archives Commission celebrated its centennial in 2009. To honor that milestone, former State Archivist David Gracy has taken a retrospective look at the agency's colorful and sometimes contentious history as Texas's official information provider and record keeper. In this book, he chronicles more than a century of efforts by dedicated librarians and archivists to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD