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COMING JULY 2009
Lone Star Wildflowers
A Guide to Texas Flowering Plants
The botany, ecology, and rich lore of Texas wildflowers, in easy-to-locate color groupings

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Leap   Poems
"The poems in Leap. . . rage and sing, and tell stories with brilliant sass. . . they leave you feeling more alive."—Rick Barot

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In My Father's House
A Memoir of Polygamy
A searching story of life in a plural-marriage family

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Journey to Goliad


Book Four in the award-winning time-travel series for middle readers
 

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Court-Martial of Apache Kid, Renegade of Renegades
A"The legal odyssey of the Indian scout who became a Western legend

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Cowboy Park
Steer-Roping Contests on the Border
The recovered story of rodeo's Mexican proving ground, and the legendary ropers who competed there

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From Guns to Gavels
How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West
The evolution of justice in a "land beyond the law," from the award-winning author of Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier

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A Place to Be Someone Growing Up with Charles Gordone
An enlightening memoir of one multiethnic family's struggles and triumphs

A N N O U N C I N G
The Lou Halsell Rodenberger Prize in Texas History and Literature
Awarded biennially by Texas Tech University Press for the best manuscript on or by a woman whose writing illuminates Texas history, culture, and letters, especially in West Texas and the Texas Border Region. The Prize awards $1,000 and publication.
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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]