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Carol Coffee Reposa - New And Selected Poems

by Carol Coffee Reposa

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 The poetry of Carol Coffee Reposa reflects the wide diversity of her life experience as a wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, traveller, musician, gardener, swimmer, and lover of the arts. Although born in California, she comes from an unabashedly Texan family, and her work draws heavily on the history, climate, and culture of the Lone Star State.
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Flight Surgeon - A War Diary, 1941-1945

by Thurman Shuller

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 Colonel Thurman Shuller's war diary traces his story from Las Vegas Army Airfield in the summer of 1941 to the desperate days of the air war in Europe. Shuller's diary brings his wartime experience back to life, and his accounts of life among the British during the war bring a fresh look at the air war.
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First Ladies And The Fourth Estate - Press Framing Of Presidential Wives

by Lisa Burns

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 Analyzes the coverage of presidents' wives in five newspapers and magazines - "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "Ladies' Home Journal", "Good Housekeeping", and "McCall's" - to prove that the press has helped shape the first lady institution, as well as influence the changing social and political roles of American women.
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The New Woman Of Color - The Collected Writings Of Fannie Barrier Williams, 1893â€“1918

by Fannie Barrier Williams

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 The collected writings of lifelong African-American activist, Fannie Barrier Williams. She frankly denounces white men's sexual and economic victimization of black women and condemns the complicity of religious and political leaders in the immorality of segregation.
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Religion And Culture In Early Modern Russia And Ukraine

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 Focusing on the lived experience of individuals in Russia and Ukraine, these essays explore continuity and change comparatively and in the context of larger interpretative issues, such as popular culture, mentality, and religious belief.
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The Revolution Of Moral Consciousness - Nietzsche In Russian Literature, 1890â€“1914

by Edith Clowes

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 No other thinker so engaged the Russian cultural imagination of the early twentieth century as did Friedrich Nietzche. The Revolution of Moral Consciousness shows how Nietzschean thought influenced the brilliant resurgence of literary life that started in the 1890s and continued for four decades. Through an analysis of the Russian encounter...
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On The Farm Front - The Women'S Land Army In World War Ii

by Stephanie A. Carpenter

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 Rosie the Riveter is an icon for women's industrial contribution to World War II, but history has largely overlooked the three million women who served on America's agricultural front. The Women's Land Army sent volunteers to farms, canneries, and dairies across the country, accounting for the majority of wartime agricultural labor. On the Farm...
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On The Periphery Of Europe, 1762â€“1825 - The Self-Invention Of The Russian Elite

by Andreas Schonle e Andrei Zorin

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 Throughout the eighteenth century, the Russian elite assimilated the ideas, emotions, and practices of the aristocracy in Western countries to various degrees, while retaining a strong sense of their distinctive identity. In On the Periphery of Europe, 1762â€"1825, Andreas SchÃ¶nle and Andrei Zorin examine the principal manifestations of...
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Soldiers On The Steppe - Army Reform And Social Change In Early Modern Russia

by Carol Belkin Stevens

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Russian Society And The Greek Revolution

by Theophilus Prousis

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The Great Reforms - Autocracy, Bureaucracy, And The Politics Of Change In Imperial Russia

by W. Bruce Lincoln

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Hannah And Ariela

by Johnnie Bernhard

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Ophelia And The Freedmen'S School

by Flora Beach Burlingame

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 A novel based on an actual school established in 1867 in Lavaca, Texas. The protagonist is one of two white war refugee girls at the Lavaca school who were real students.
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Coloring Texas - A Texas History Coloring Book

by Center For Texas Studies At Tcu

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 Filled with images of people, places, and events in state history, Coloring Texas is a treat for all ages. Deran Wright's drawings depict such familiar characters as Santa Anna and Sam Houston; lesser-known personalities such as Corrine Williams; and unnamed Native Americans, Buffalo Soldiers, and others who inhabit the story of Texas.
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A Fire To Light Our Tongues - Texas Writers On Spirituality

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 Brings together the works of writers in Texas. The title is taken, with permission, from Naomi Shihab Nye's introduction to Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, where she states the role of poetry serves as 'a fire to light our tongues'.
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After The Blessing - Mexican American Veterans Of Wwii Tell Their Own Stories

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 Tells the stories of young Mexican Americans who left home to fight for their country. Their stories range from hair-raising accounts of the Battle of the Bulge to gut-wrenching testimony about cannibalism in the Pacific.
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Always Faithful

by John C. Kerr

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 Amid the horrors of combat, Always Faithful delivers a heartwarming story of faithfulness and redemption.
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Oaxaca, 1998

by Donley Watt

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 Maggie O'Neill's life in Houston has become a story of loss. Maggie, always in a contentious relationship with her mother, becomes caretaker when the difficult woman is dying of cancer. Maggie's marriage of almost twenty-five years ends in divorce, and her only child has left Houston to find his independence.
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Mem'Ries Sweet, Comrades True - Favorite Recipes From Members Of The Tcu Retirees' Association

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 The TCU Retirees' Association cookbook is a compilation of a variety of delicious recipes from the association's members. Some of the recipes have been passed from one family generation to the next. Other recipes show more current trends, such as an emphasis on nutrition and healthy eating.
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Talk Talk - Interviews With Writers

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 Covers thirty-five years of interviews with writers including Richard Powers, Max Apple, Emily St John Mandel, Jamaica Kincaid, Ron Hansen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jennifer Egan, Neal Stephenson, Elizabeth Crook, Robert Stone, and many others.
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The Reunion At Herb'S Cafe

by Dan Jenkins

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 And what a reunion it is! Dan Jenkins reunites many of the most memorable and irascible characters from his most memorable and hilarious novels - starting with Semi-Tough.
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Back To The World - A Life After Jonestown

by Eugene Smith

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 Tells the story of a double survival: first of the destruction of the idealistic but tragically flawed Peoples Temple community, then of its aftermath. Having survived, Eugene Smith has hard questions for today's America.
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The Vatican Chronicles - A Roman A Clef

by Joseph W. Harned

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 A tongue-in-cheek novel about the most dangerous act of nuclear terrorism in the twenty-first century, a romp of international intrigue and espionage by a man who spent thirty-three years in the field.
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Metro Music - Celebrating A Century Of The Trinity River Groove

by William Williams

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 Explores the musical history of Dallas, Fort Worth, and the surrounding area from the nineteenth century to the 1960s, and the continuing echoes of that transformative decade. With nearly five hundred images, the book moves through a host of genres and eras.
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