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Little Big Bend
Common, Uncommon, and Rare Plants of Big Bend National Park

In a landscape so immense, overlooked small plants and inconspicuous tiny flowers may be right before our eyes but seldom seen.

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Texas Quilts and Quilters
A Lone Star Legacy

"On these pages you will meet unknown quilters, unexpected quilters, and prize-winning Texas quilters. . . . Each story shines in its own way.” —Marian Ann J. Montgomery, from the Foreword

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Cacti of Texas
A Field Guide

The definitive field guide to Texas's 132 kinds of cacti, for use by naturalista and hobbyists as well as serious students

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Texas Dance Halls
A Two-Step Circuit

For a century and a half, Texans have been kicking up dust in dance halls across the state.
"Truly captures the spirit of a culture less known." —Tommy X Hancock

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Friday, May 2, 2008
TTU's Merket Alumni Center
A Lubbock Centennial Event

April Is National Poetry Month
Wild Flight Christine Rhein

“Christine Rhein makes a stunning debut in Wild Flight, distinguishing herself immediately with poems of grace and intelligence. . . . Turning her eye toward science, technology, human relationships, love and war, she never merely describes a thing, but persuades us to a point of view that is subtle and sophisticated, sympathetic but challenging, funny and almost warm to the touch with each living moment.” —Molly Peacock

Nov. 9, 2007 TTUP brings home "Best Book," three finalists, in New Mexico Book Awards

Melodie Cuate, author of the Mr. Barrington's Mysterious Trunk Series, including Journey to the Alamo and Journey to San Jacinto, is awarded the 2006-2007 Linden Heck Howell Outstanding Teaching of Texas History Award by Humanities Texas.

Bill Neal's Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier is named Book of the Year 2007 by the National Association for Outlaw and Lawman History.

ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards present the Gold Award for Mystery to Quarry, by Susan Cummins Miller; the Silver Award for Essays to Twilight Innings, by Robert A. Fink; and the Silver Award for Juvenile Fiction to Our House on Hueco, by Carlos Nicolás Flores.

Texas Tech University Press authors give advice on pursuing a career in writing.

Browse and download our catalog of Books on Texas and the West

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; and all aspects of the Great Plains and the American West, especially biography, history, memoir, and travel. In addition, the Press publishes five journals, one invited poetry manuscript annually, and occasionally a regional novel with national appeal. Please contact us for a current Press catalog, or download our catalog of books in print (155K). [more about the press]