Texas Literature

TEXAS FLAG BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by unknown artist. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - just email us with the name. 3.5" wide x 2.5" high. Content: Texas Flag in red, white and blue with the Lone Star of Texas. Any questions or to request a sample, click here to email us.
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ARTISTS WHO PAINTED TEXAS (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by Marjorie von Rosenberg. B&W and Color Photos. Condition: Gently pre-read 1997 Eakin Press hardcover (pictorial boards - no DJ issued), first edition, second printing. Content: Brief biographies of Texas artists (and those who painted about Texas) with color and/or black & white reproductions of their work and their own pictures. Intended for Young Adult audience, but adults will appreciate, as well. Artists in this book: EAgle Feather, Theodore Gentilz, Seth EAstman, Richard Petri, Hermann Lungkwitz, Carl von Iwonski, Eugene Lavender, William Samuel, William Huddle, Ida Hadra, Julius Stockfleth, Louise Wueste, Henry McArdle, Robert Onderdonk, and Frank Reaugh. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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BETWEEN THE CRACKS OF HISTORY: Essays on Teaching and Illustrating Folklore (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society LV)
edited by Francis E. Abernethy. B&W photos and drawings illustrate. Condition: Pre-read 1997 University of North Texas Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Problem: Read with notes and underlining to page 15 and then abandoned leaving the rest of the book clean & tight. Content: Essays on teching folklore: Classroom Definition of Folklore, How I Define Folklore for my Students, Toward a Definition of Folklore, Beginning Within: Teaching Folklore the Easy Way, Folklore Fieldword on the Internet, and Folklore and Cinema. Essays illustrating folklore: The Honored Dead: The Ritual of Police Burial; Meaner than Hell!; Gang Graffiti; Gideon Lincecum, Killie Krankie, and Fiddling in Early Texas; The Bluebird Mare from Sterling City; the Night the Stars Fell; Rail Tales: Some are True; Dance Halls of East Texas; The Oil Field Camp; Noises in the Attic: Adventures of Some Texas Ghosts; Repo Man; Tex-Mex Dialect or Gidget Goes to Acuna (who could resist this one); Punching Sticks, Flannel Wrapped Bricks, and Pink Powder Purgatives: Spring Rituals; When Harley Sadler's Tent Show Came to Town; and Eating Over the Sink and Other Marital Strategies. [1 copy available]
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CONWAY HOUSE (Signed copy)
by M. E. Conway. Condition: UNREAD 1995 Cigar Box Press (Somerville, TX) paperback, no edition given. Problems: hinge crease created when author signed book. Small edgewear and rubbings along front hinge. Interior perfect. Content: Historical mystery set in central Texas (although the real house is in east Texas). The Conway House had beauty, strength, mystique, and nine cats on the yard. Did it also have ghosts? Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO OUTDOOR SCULPTURE IN TEXAS
by Carol Morris Little. B&W photos of sculptures. Condition: NEW 1996 UT Press soft cover, third edition. Beautiful paper & production. Content: Travel anywhere in Texas, and you're sure to see sculpture in public settings. From the Confederate soldiers that stand sentinel on many courthouse lawns to the works of internationally renowned modern artists such as Alexander Calder, Texas' outdoor sculpture encompasses an amazing range of subjects, styles, and artists. In this irresistibly browsable book, Carol Morris Little offers thumbnail descriptions of over 800 pieces of outdoor sculpture. The entries are grouped by city and, within city, by artist. A typical entry includes the artist's name, birth date, and nationality; the sculpture's date, type, size, material, location, and source of funding; and a comments section that gives interesting facts about the work. Many of the sculptures are also illustrated by black-and-white photographs. Carol Little's introduction offers a concise, reliable history of outdoor sculpture in Texas, from early memorial pieces to current whimsies such as Stanley Marsh's Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo. Along the way, she discusses the contributions of Texas sculptors such as Elisabet Ney, Charles Umlauf, and Glenna Goodacre, as well as non-Texans such as Barbara Hepworth, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Auguste Rodin, and many others. With this comprehensive guide in hand, all Texas residents and visitors will discover the wealth of sculpture that enlivens our public spaces. Perfect for trips around the state, the book will be equally valuable for art historians, landscape designers, teachers, librarians, and local historical associations--indeed, everyone seeking information on Texas' sculptural heritage. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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CORN WOMAN (MUJER MAIZ) (SIGNED Bilingual copy)
by Sue Littleton. Wonderful color and B&W photos illustrate. Condition: SIGNED by Author. NEW 1999 Catalogos (Buenos Aires) Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. Bilingual edition - Spanish on the left; English on the right. Content: An enthralling epic poem that honors the importance of a small seed to countries around the world, with ironic twists of plot as a vengeful captive in foreign land. Historically correct adventures in the Ancient Americas. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE DEVIL IN TEXAS (Western States Book Award for Fiction)
by Aristeo Brito. Condition: UNREAD 1997 Anchor Trade paperback, first printing. Moderate tanning to page edges. Winner Western States Book Award for Fiction in 1990. Content: From the cover: "Skillfully combining mysticism and history, [this book] brings to life the plight of the residents of Presidio, a village on the border between Texas and Mexico that neither side truly wants to claim as its own. Beginning in 1883 and continuing through 1970, the lost souls of Presidio - both living and dead - tell their own stories, revealing the history of their town to be one of desolation and poverty, where the Devil is the only visitor, and the original occupants and their ancestors have lost their land and consequently the right to rule their own lives. narrated by the villagers' voices - including a lawyer, a renegade, and even an unborn child - the residents of the town strongly evoke through their own words the troubled life of the displaced Mexican. Brito's powerful imagery and passionate writing bring us to a clearer undersanding of these people and their lives than is likely to be found anywehre else." Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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DIRTY POLITICS IS FUN
by H. B. Fox. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1982 Madrona Publishers Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. Although the interior is perfect, the front cover has diagona crease top front corner & the back cover has a vertical crease. Content: Follow the adventures of Harold Smith, Editor of the Oat Hill (Texas) Gazette as he goes after crooked, overstuffed, overpaid politicians running the country by becoming one of them in Washington. Hilarious and accurate. [1 copy available]
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DOG BARK (INSCRIBED COPY)
by Gene Mullins. Condition: NEW 1994 Northwest Publishing Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. Inscribed on title page. Content: Stuart Morgan is part Comanche, half Mexican, and all lawman. A former Army scout and interpreter, Morgan ventures to hell's own Dog Bark as an undercover marhsall to investigate the mysterious disappearance of one U.S. Marshall and the shocking murder of two local deputies. On his path, he encounters every rutler, bushwhacker, and murderer in West Texas. With gunslingers around every corner and an elusive renegade Kiowa warrior on his backtrail, Morgan is forced to test both friend and foe. [Note: Mullins lives & writes in Marlin.] Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE GOOD OLD BOYS (TV Miniseries)
by Elmer Kelton. Darrell Sweet cover art. Condition: NEW 1999 TOR paperback edition, first printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his West Texas home of 1906, the land and they way of life that he loves are changing too quickly. Land is being parceled out and barbed-wire fences are springing up all over. Cars and other machines are invading - stinking up the air and threatening to replace horse travel. As Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of progress, he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is gone, that a man can't live a life whose time has passed and that every choice he makes - even those that lead to happiness - requires sacrifice. The 1995 TV miniseries, true to the book, was directed by and starred Tommy Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek, Matt Damon, Sam Shepherd, the great Bruce McGill, Frances McDormand, and Wilfred Brimley. A cameo performance by Larry Mahan, one of the greatest rodeo cowboys ever, adds some wonderful spice and authenticity. If you can find a copy, grab it. [1 copy available]
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HALEY, TEXAS 1959 (Two Novellas)
by Donley Watt. Condition: NEW 1999 Cinco Puntos Press (El Paso) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. beautifully produced book. Content: The two atmospherically rich novellas combined here have the feel of literary time capsules. As Watt explains in a prefatory note, they draw on his experiences growing up in East Texas. Both explore the kind of watershed experiences that change perceptions of the past while shaping the protagonists' futures; the narratives, he says, are "faithful to the emotional ground of my remembered truth." In "Seven Days Working," set in 1954, 14-year-old Donnie is given a seemingly impossible task: his father orders him to clear out 70 acres of mesquite trees in just one week. Armed with little more than an ax and a lot of peanut butter, the boy obediently spends long days in the pasture, methodically chopping and thinking back on his life so far. The mix of love, hatred and pride inherent to farming is neatly depicted, and Donnie's stamina is mirrored in the quiet strength of the prose. In the title novella, Watt attacks the weightier theme of racial prejudice. Tired of being branded "the preacher's boy," 12-year-old Damon Wilson goes on a "nigger knockin'" joyride with three older friends, and watches helplesslyAand mutelyAas events take a murderous turn. In the nightmarish aftermath, he must decide whether to tell the truth about his redneck companions' actions, or to lie and avoid becoming a social outcast. The consequences of Damon's moral dilemma weigh heavily on his preacher father's conflicted existence and failing career. Watt resists facile conclusions, and the justice meted out at the end is both surprising and redemptive. The author's clear-eyed vision of his native state makes this slim volume a satisfying followup to his short story collection, Can You Get Here from There?, and novel, The Journey of Hector Rabinal. [Mr. Watt is from Athens.] [1 copy available]
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ED SYERS' HARDPRESSED, TX (The Luckenbach Showdown)
by Ed Syers. B&W illustrations by Pat Boyette. Dedicated to Congressman Jake Pickle. Condition: Gently pre-read, if at all, 1986 OBT Books (Waco) haradcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no edition given. Pale tag mark bottom front DJ. Content: The antics of some of the funniest Texas characters you'll ever meet in a suburb of Luckenbach as they struggle to keep from being absorbed by their "giant" neighbor. It's Luckenbach Texas minus Willie and Waylon. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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THE HEIRS OF FRANKLIN WOODSTOCK
by Benjamin Capps. Condition: NEW 1991 TCU Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket). No edition given. Content: When 91-year-old rancher Franklin Woodstock sneaks out of a West Texas nursing home and disappears, he sets into motion a darkly comic novel unlike any other Benjamin Capps has written. Not even sure whether Woodstock is dead of alive, his sparring relatives begin planning the conservation of his estate into their own individual images. [1 copy available]
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HILL COUNTRY STORIES
by Ramsey Yelvington. (Fiction by Texas' First Playwright) Intro by Robert Flynn (North To Yesterday) Condition: UNREAD 1974 Hill Country Press booklet (stapled wraps), limited edition of 1000, # 524. Light tag removal mark top front cover corner. Content: Although primarily known as a playwright, Ramsey was also a writer of fiction. In both plays and stories he dealt with the stuff of Texas - the rugged land, the inhospitable weather, the stubborn, indomitable people. Hill Country Stories is made of such stuff. They are simple stories dealing with the unique qualities of individuals who unfortunately are disappearing from the Texas scene. [1 copy available]
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KEEPERS OF THE EARTH (Signed copy)
by Laverne Harrell Clark. Jamie Suddeth cover art; B&W photos by author. . Condition: NEW 1998 Cinco Puntos Press (Hell Yes! Texas Women Series) Trade Paperback, first edition. Tiny edgewear. Signed by author. Content: This is the story of a Texas community, its local black conjurer and land-owning white family brought to confusion by oil-money greed, resurgent familial feelings and jealousy. The author leads readers throught the rituals of Uncle Cefus' "great hand" in reuniting the murdered coachwhip snakes with their rightful homeland, and in the process leads us to believe that doing right by others may do more for luck and success than any amount of hard work. Not only is the novel poetic, but passionate, clearly exhibiting the author's love of folklore. The ficticious account is equally instructive in the lost art of conjuring (which slipped away in the 1960's). An enjoyable and fun book to read. This book received the Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award for Best First Novel from The Western Writers of America, 1998. [1 copy available]
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LOOK TO THE RIVER (Texas Tradition Series #8
by William A. Owens. Afterword by Tom Pilkington. Condition: UNREAD 1987 Texas Christian Univ. Press Trade Paperback, no edition given. Content: This is a story based on the author's childhood experience with a Texas chain gang working on roads near his home in Northeast Texas c. 1920. A terrible, but interesting, snapshot of Texas "justice." Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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PAISANOS: A Folklore Miscellany
edited by Francis Edward Abernethy. Line drawings by Linda Miller Roach. Condition: Gently pre-read 1978 Encino Press (& Texas Folklore Society) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), stated first edition. DJ is price-clipped. No problems, just pre-read. Content: This is Texas Folklore Society publication # XLI. This is a collection of essays on folklore generally, but mainly on Texas folklore. The miscellany has long been the natural form for publications of the Texas Folklore Society. The paisanos, or fellow countrymen of the Society, are a miscellaneous group themselves. Their interests are as miscellaneous as they are, and the annuals are a means of exchanging information and sharing it with an interested public. Paisanos begins, rightly enough, with J.Frank Dobie's well-known article on paisanos which the Society first published in 1954. The rest of the book is divided into four sections: folk tales, folklore in journalism, reflections on the lore of the past, and some analyses of folklore generally. It concludes with a listing and discussion of publishers of Texas folklore. The roadrunner motif is carried out by Linda Miller Roach, whose sketches are used throughout the book. The four different folklore sections in the book are separated by photographic studies of the Anasazi Indian pueblos, a small town printing press, a country store, and cock fighting. Paisanos covers a wide field of folklore, from the academic to the popular, from the scientific to the mystical, and from studies of uses of the past to practices in folklore that are still very much a part of our lives. [1 copy available]
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ROCKSPRING (Southwest Life & Letters Series) (Historical Fiction)
by R. G. Vliet. Condition: New 1992 SMU Press Trade PB with afterword by Tom Pilkington. Content: In Rockspring (Vliet's first novel), he weaves a compelling narrative of brutality and beauty in his intensely lyrical style. This taut, dramatic tale of the abduction by Mexican outlaws of a 14-year-old pioneer girl in the Nueces River Valley of Texas in the 1930s is rendered in language that exalts even as it depicts the anguish of the girl's plight. Accurate historical detail. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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SOMEWHERE IN THE WEST: Texas Women Who Left a Legacy (Inscribed by the Author)
Poems & Legends by Linda Kirkpatrick. B&W era photos and drawings illustrate. Cover art by the Author. Condition: Inscribed by the Author: "Happy Trails, Linda Kirkpatrick." NEW 2002 Cowboy Miner Trade Paperback, no printing given. Tiny "repaired" nic bottom cover bottom edge. Interior perfect. Content: Linda Kirkpatrick's funny-sad poems and stories reflect West Texas life past and present, reminding us that we are products of all our forbears, that our history lives with us day by day, helping shape who we are and the lives we live. Whether is be a hand at the pen (writing implement) or In the pen (working stock), Linda's experience has allowed her to capture the life and heritage of the West. This collection of her poems and stories will, most certainly, rank highly in the minds of out future generations when they explore the lifestyle of the cowboy, our American heritage and roots. Linda's book is a great volume for everyone who appreciates western heritage and cowboy culture. An Academy of Western Artists Top 5 Cowboy Poetry Books Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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T FOR TEXAS (Texas Folklore Society # XLIV)
edited by Francis Edward Abernethy. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1982 E-Heart Press/Texas Folklore Society hardcover (pictorial boards - no DJ), no printing given. Page 11 has been viewed on the shelf - no damage, just "handled." Other pages perfect. Content: Folklore and history of Texas with complete bibliography of the Society publications. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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TALES OF THE SABINE BORDERLANDS: Early Louisiana and Texas Fiction by Theodore Pavie (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No 79)
by Theodore Pavie. Eidted & Intro by Betje Black Klier. Translations by Klier, Anne Marsh, Philip Stewart & Alexandra Wettlaufer. Condition: NEW 1998 Texas A&M Press Trade Paperback, no printing given. B&W era illustrations & decorations. Content: [Pavie] might be called the 'Balzac of the Borderlands' today. Pavie's settings and plots, like Balzac's, are full of historical detail and cultural truths, although many of the characters are fictional. In 1830, eighteen-year-old Theodore Pavie traveled west on the Camino Real from Natchitoches, in the new state of Louisiana, to Nacogdoches, Texas, which remained under Mexican rule. After he returned to France, he wrote these four stories that are rich in the details of life he observed in the Louisiana-Texas border region. "Le Negravegre" depicts the internal dynamics of a Louisiana slave community in an elemental tale of good versus evil. Pavie contrasts the nobility of the tragic hero, once a tribal chief in Africa, with the inhumanity of his white overseer. "Le Lazo" is one of the first pieces of Texas or Western literature. It is an enigmatic blend of reportage and imagination reflecting the effects of the Fredonian Rebellion of 1827, the Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1829, and the passage of the Law of 6 April 1830. The fear inspired by Texas' unstable political situation in the 1820s drives the action of "The Bearskin," set in Lousiana's planter society. "El Capuchin" tells of a full-blooded Spaniard and his Creole wife who flee increasing political hostilities in Mexican Texas. Once east of the Sabine, a lonely planter (probably a remnant of the pirate Laffite's band) and his concubine take the couple in and alter their fate. After Pavie's death in 1896, his works slipped into quiet oblivion until Betje Black Klier discovered his travel journal and letters.These treasures of ethnographic fiction and historical detail should interest folklorists, historians, anthropologists, and anyone else curious about early life and literature in the region. Questions welcome. [2 copies available]
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TEXAS
by James A. Michener. B&W maps. Condition: UNREAD 1987 Fawcett Crest paperback edition, 17th printing. Light edgewear to top cover edge & and light rubbings along hinge. Interior clean & tight. Content: The story of Texas as seen through the eyes of a master researcher and writer. (1322 pages) [1 copy available]
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TEXAS FOLKLORE SOCIETY: 1943 - 1971, Volume II
by Francis Edward Abernethy. Asst. Editors: Carolyn Satterwhite, B&W era photos and B&W drawings. Condition: NEW 1994 Univ. North Texas Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition. Content: This volume covers from the McCarthy era to the end of the wild and wooly sixties. [1 copy available]
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The TRIAL OF DAVY CROCKETT (Novella) Inscribed by author.
by Fletcher Rhoden. Condition: NEW 2001 Trafford Publishing (Canada) Trade Paperback. First edition, second printing. Content: INSCRIBED by Rhoden to Texas historian, Stephen Hardin. "For Stephen L. (?) Hardin - Thanks for the invaluable contributions of your book to mine. I hope you enjoy it. Regards, Fletcher Rhoden 7/01" Reviewer: An extremely well-written and carefully-crafted piece, and the author obviously took great pains with his research. The author questions whether Davy Crockett was truly killed during the battle for the Alamo - or whether he was captured and executed by the Mexicans. The Trial of Davy Crockett presents a hypothetical dialogue between Crockett and Generalissimo Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, which collide in an articulate, wry, thought-provoking, and no-holds-barred verbal conflict regarding the Texian Revolution and America's unrestrained expansionism. Neither Crockett or Santa Anna is stereotyped in the roles of hero or villain; their opposing points of view are given a clear and fair hearing, for all to see and judge for themselves. Based entirely on the facts of the revolution." [1 copy available]
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UP IN FLAMES (A John and Mary Bolt Mystery) (INSCRIBED COPY)
by Linda S. Bingham. Bob Currie cover art. Condition: UNREAD 1998 Double SS Press (Wimberley) Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny "roughness" from poor binding front cover fore edge. Everything else perfect. Inscribed bottom of half-title page. Content: Houston arson investigator John Bolt is hot on the trail of a serial firebug when Mary, an actress in deaf theatre, walks into his life. Together they solve a case that begins with matches and ends in murder. And in the process, sets their hearts ablaze. First in the John & Mary Bolt mystery series. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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WHAT OUGHT TO BE CAN BE! (SIGNED COPY)
by John Barclay. B&W photos (2). Condition: Very good+ 1966 privately printed (by Bethany Press) hardcover (red boards, gilt lettering) but no DJ. Interior clean & tight. Gently pre-read first edition. INSCRIBED in 1970 on loose endpage. Content: Privately printed by Bethany Press. Collection of sermons delivered while pastor of the Central Christian Church in Austin, Texas. B&W photo of Barclay and President Kennedy as Barclay offered a prayer at the President's inaguration. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE WILD COLONIAL BOY: A Novel (Austin, Texas Author)
by James Hymes. Condition: UNREAD 2001 Picador Trade Paperback, first printing. Slight "lift" to front cover fore edge. Content: Factional strife within the Irish Republican Army is the subject of this chilling thriller. Brian Donovan, a young American from an IRA-sympathizing family in Detroit, gets caught up in the ruthless internal struggle when he agrees to transport money across the Atlantic to the IRA. Once in Ireland, his terrorist cousins, who are plotting to overthrow the IRA leadership, prevail upon him to undertake a dangerous mission across the Irish border. Brian gets romantically involved with Clare, an American student, but the affair turns tragic when the full horror of what he has been drawn into becomes known. Hynes brings the brutal world of modern terrorism, with its contempt of life and its strange code of honor, vividly to life. The hard realism is frequently terrifying, the plot is believable, and the narrative drive never slackens. [1 copy available]
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THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN: A Novel of Galveston's Great Storm of 1900
by Ron Rozelle. Unfortunately, no photos but for the vintage Galveston photos on the wrap-around cover art. Condition: NEW 2000 Texas Review Press (part of Texas A & M Press) Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. Content: Reviewer: "Galveston, Texas is the sight of our nation's worst natural disaster in our history. Rozelle summered in Galveston as a child and that began his fascination with the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. He was driven to tell the story in a manner that was true to history and striking enough to recreate the terror of those in the path of this storm. This book is a fictionalized account of the Galveston Hurricane of September 1900. While the weather events are factual, the people he portrays are a mixture of real people and those that Mr. Rozelle created to add depth and heart to his story. His research into the facts of the hurricane's ferocious assault of Galveston and the utter destruction of life and property is vividly portrayed. The characters bring a rawness of emotion, making the reality of the vast loss achingly real. This is a realistic and intense tale of Mother Nature in full fury." [1 copy available]
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