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  NEW IN SPRING 2010
 

Nikkei Farmer on the Nebraska Plains
A Memoir
Reverend Hisanori Kano
Plains Histories
June

One countryman's storyfrom Asia to America's heartland

Embroiderers of Ninhue
Stitching Chilean Rural Life
Carmen Benavente
NOW AVAILABLE

Benavente gives us a privileged look into the personal lives of these remarkable embroiderers as they learned to recognize and appreciate their own creative voices. Michaele Haynes

Our White Boy
Jerry Craft, with Kathleen Sullivan
Texas / Baseball
NOW AVAILABLE

In the Jim Crow South, an inspiring story of "Jackie Robinson in reverse"

An engaging and finally touching book . . . a story of racial harmony in an era of racial distrust.Larry McMurtry

Playing in Shadows
Texas and Negro League Baseball

Rob Fink
Texas / Baseball
NOW AVAILABLE

The untold story of black semiprofessional baseball in the Lone Star State

Horse and Rider
Melissa Range, with introduction by Robert A. Fink
Poetry
NOW AVAILABLE

Walt McDonald First-Book Series

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HELLIE JONDOE


 

  Texas Tech University Press authors give advice on pursuing a career in writing.  
ABOUT THE PRESS Texas Tech University Press, the book publishing office of the university since 1971, publishes nonfiction titles in the areas of natural history and the natural sciences; eighteenth-century and Joseph Conrad studies; studies of modern Southeast Asia, particularly the Vietnam War; costume and textile history; Latin American literature and culture; and all aspects of the Great Plains and the American West, especially biography, history, sports history, memoir, and travel. In addition, the Press publishes five journals, one invited poetry manuscript annually, and occasionally a regional novel with national appeal.
         

 



 
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announcing

August 2010
Watch this space for our new and updated website, featuring online ordering and checkout

THANKS FOR ANOTHER GREAT YEAR
SAVE THE DATE
Thurs., May 5, 2011

 

For gift-giving or your own collections: Books signed by TTUP authors

The Lou Halsell Rodenberger Prize in Texas History and Literature

Announcing a new series: THE AMERICAS

Announcing a new series: AMERICAN LIBERTY AND JUSTICE

events
Randall Platt, author of Hellie Jondoe, book signing and all-day workshop at A Book for All Seasons, Leavenworth, WA, March 3

news
Texas Tech author wins award

 
literary lubbock 2010 SAVE THE DATE
friday, April 30, 2010
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7/7/09: Hear poet Elizabeth Haukaas on NPR's "All Things Considered"


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