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  NEW IN SPRING 2010
 

Changó,
the Biggest Badass

Manuel Zapata Olivella
Fiction / The Americas
February 2010

The long-awaited English-language translation of an Afro-Latino masterpiece

Breathing,
In Dust

Tim Z. Hernandez
Fiction / The Americas
March 2010

A coming-of-age novel like no other . . . a purely original and courageous book penned by a writer of uncanny wisdom and heart." Alex Espinoza

Our White Boy
Jerry Craft, with Kathleen Sullivan
Texas / Baseball
February 2010

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
February 2010

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

To Everything on Earth
Kurt Caswell, Sue Tomlimson, and Diane Hueter Warner, eds.
Environment
NOW AVAILABLE

A journey through many landscapes, ending by addressing perhaps the central question of our time: how best do we make a home on earth?

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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.
         

 



 
 

announcing

SAVE THE DATE
Art of West Texas Women
Book launch and artist gallery at the Lubbock Arts Festival
April 15-18, 2010

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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