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Andy Bowman
West Texas Power Plant That Saved the World

What if the harbinger of our greener future was a small power plant set in the middle of nowhere in West Texas? Longtime alternative energy executive Andy Bowman's book makes exactly this case, outlining …

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Alan Burton, Chuck Lanehart
Fatal Exam

On Monday, December 4, 1967, a body was discovered in the science building of the largest university in West Texas. The next day, citizens of Lubbock gathered for the Carol of Lights, and event typically …

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Edward W Constant
The Oil Fraternity in Texas

A new analysis of the development of the Texas oil industry, suggesting that the oil fraternity's internal cooperation, self-regulation, and moral economy coevolved with petroleum engineering science and …

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Jerry Craft
Our White Boy

At the outset of summer break in 1959, Texas Tech senior Jerry Craft had no more enticing options than to stay home and help on the family ranch--so the telephoned offer to play for a semipro baseball clu…

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John R Erickson
Bad Smoke, Good Smoke

From his home on the Texas Panhandle, John R. Erickson, rancher and author of the bestselling Hank the Cowdog series, saw firsthand the raw power of two megafires that swept across the high plains in 2006…

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Timothy E Green
Edge Rover

The Edge Rover chronicles the expansive life of Isaac Slover, a fur trapper who was born in Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War and who ranged throughout the early American West. The variety and ext…

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Quan Manh Ha
Longings

While mainstream Vietnamese history chronicles a few woman warriors of the past and some contemporary female activists, Vietnamese women always have performed their roles in the quiet shadows of men. To i…

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Carol A Lipscomb
Lady Makes Boots

In the summer of 1925, Enid Justin--daughter of H. J. Justin, founder of legendary Justin Boots--announced to her family that she was going to start her own boot company in her hometown of Nocona, Texas. …

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Lance Lunsford
Inside the Well

On October 14, 1987, eighteen-month-old Jessica McClure fell into a well, igniting a 56-hour sprint to free her. The oil boomtown of Midland, Texas, supplied a ragtag crew of rescuers. Firemen, policemen,…

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Rosalee Martin
Their Stories, Our Stories

"An institutional history of Huston-Tillotson University, shown through portraits of four past presidents who shaped its trajectory"--

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Juana Moriel-Payne
Drama Under the Skin

"Uses Catholic ritual to examine race and identity formation of both free and enslaved people of African descent and Indigenous groups in northern New Spain"--

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Kate J Neville
Going to Seed

"The inaugural winner of the Sowell Emerging Writers Prize, essays exploring humans' relationship to the natural world"--

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Bao Ninh
Hanoi at Midnight

Breaking a thirty-year silence, B o Ninh has permitted at last the publication of a new work in English. Ninh is perhaps Vietnam's foremost chronicler of the war, which he joined at age 17. Bringing to li…

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Howard Norman
Wound Is the Place the Light Enters

The warmth of this book is sustained by friendship. More specifically, the novelist Howard Norman documents what he didn't know would be the final evening and morning he spent with his dear friend Jake Be…

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Claudia Prado,
The Belly of the Whale

"A novel in verse, presented in Spanish and English, that creates a poetics of rural Patagonia"--

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Robert Michael Pyle
The Last Man in Willapa

"A collection of poems that explore the nature, large and small, of the physical world and the stories of its varied inhabitants"--

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Gary Reger
Wild, Weird, West

Ever since the Long Expedition labeled the plains west of the Mississippi the "Great American Desert," Americans have grappled with the radical differences between the humid East and the arid West. Wild, …

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Bart Reid
Shrimping West Texas

When you think of a marine environment, what do you picture? Wetlands, possibly; coastal shores, perhaps. When you think of a shrimp farm, what do you picture? Some folks who know a thing or two about aqu…

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Leesa Ross
At Close Range

Leesa Ross did not expect to write a book. Neither did she expect the tragedy that her family endured, a horrific and sudden death that led her to write At Close Range. Her debut memoir is the story of wh…

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Broadus Spivey, Jesse Sublett
Broke, Not Broken

Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire, and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the post-World War II boom, he filled the West Texas horizon with new apartment complexes, government buil…

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