The Last Reader
David Toscana
Fiction
October 2009
Toscana displays brilliant mastery of the novel--in all its elements--as Lucio keeps every last reader guessing. |
Hellie Jondoe
Randall Platt
Young Adult / Fiction
October 2009
A streetwise thirteen-year-old heads west on a 1918 orphan train—and meets her match in unexpected ways |
Victorian Wedding Dress
Norma Lu Meehan and Mei Campbell
Costume history August 2009
This exquisitely illustrated work situates the white wedding dress and current perceptions of tradition within a surprisingly varied and colorful history. |
Wild Flight
Christine Rhein
Poetry
October 2009
"A poetry of the highest imagination, and the most energetic intelligence, written by a poet with a keen eye and a large spirit....” —Laura Kasischke |
To Everything on Earth
Kurt Caswell, Sue Tomlimson, and Diane Hueter Warner, eds.
Environment December 2009
A journey through many landscapes, ending by addressing perhaps the central question of our time: how best do we make a home on earth? |
| 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. |