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One More Warbler
A Life with Birds
By Victor Emanuel, with S. Kirk Walsh
With stories of sighting rare birds ranging from an Eskimo Curlew to the cranes of Asia, one of America’s foremost birders recalls a lifetime of birding adventures, including friendships with luminaries Roger Tory Peterson, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.
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The Texanist
By David Courtney and Jack Unruh
The first collection of acclaimed illustrator Jack Unruh’s work, this book gathers the best of the illustrations he created for The Texanist, Texas Monthly’s back-page column, along with the serious and not-so-serious questions that inspired them.
Hardcover, $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-4773-1297-1
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Rewrite Man
The Life and Career of Screenwriter Warren Skaaren
By Alison Macor
This lively biography of the screenwriter of 1980s hit movies Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, Beetlejuice, and Batman illuminates issues of film authorship that have become even more contested in the era of blockbuster filmmaking.
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T Bone Burnett
A Life in Pursuit
By Lloyd Sachs
This first critical appreciation of T Bone Burnett reveals how the proponent of Americana music and producer of artists ranging from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to B. B. King and Elvis Costello has profoundly influenced American music and culture.
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The American Idea of Home: Conversations about Architecture and Design
By Bernard Friedman; foreword by Meghan Daum
Wide-ranging interviews with leading architectural thinkers, including Thom Mayne, Richard Meier, Robert Venturi, Paul Goldberger, Robert Ivy, Denise Scott Brown, Kenneth Frampton, and Robert A. M. Stern, spotlight some of the most significant issues in architecture today.
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By Mando Rayo and Jarod Neece
With authentic recipes, behind-the-scenes stories, and recommendations of where the locals eat, this is the indispensable guide to Texas’s appetizingly diverse tacos and taco culture by the authors of Austin Breakfast Tacos.
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Armadillo World Headquarters
A Memoir
By Eddie Wilson, with Jesse Sublett, Foreword by Dave Marsh
The founder of Armadillo World Headquarters recalls the lively history of this legendary music venue and its role in launching cosmic cowboy/redneck rock and making Austin, Texas, the live music capital of the world.
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Project 258: Making Dinner at Fish & Game
By Zakary Pelaccio and Peter Barrett
"Project 258 is a thoughtful celebration of the evolution of ingredients that will make you feel hungry and fulfilled at the same time. It’s more about living as a cook than a mere series of collectible recipes. It’s a way of shopping, cooking, and thriving in joy, love, and life! It is inspiring the way reading Thoreau is inspiring."
—Mario Batali, Chef, author, entrepreneur
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They Came from the Sky
The Spanish Arrive in Texas
By Stephen Harrigan
This signed edition presents a spellbinding preview of the inaugural volume of the Texas Bookshelf—a major new history of Texas by the New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan.
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The Devil's Sinkhole
Two Centuries of American Quilts from the Briscoe Center
By Bill Wittliff; illustrated by Joe Ciardiello
In this engrossing sequel to The Devil’s Backbone, the young man Papa and his cowboy amigo Calley Pearsall confront a legendary killer with a thirst for revenge and a psychopathic boy as the two friends search for the beautiful captive Pela Rosa.
Hardcover, $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-4773-0974-2
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The Republic of Football
Legends of the Texas High School Game
By Chad S. Conine
With interviews and stories of celebrated players, including past and present NFL stars, as well as legendary coaches and dynastic teams from across Texas, The Republic of Football captures the standout moments in Friday night lights.
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Eddie Adams
Bigger than the Frame
By Eddie Adams; foreword by Don Carleton; preface by Alyssa Adams; essay by Anne Wilkes Tucker
This career-spanning collection of both iconic and rarely seen images celebrates the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist Eddie Adams, whose potent visual storytelling ran the gamut from the horrors of war to the lives of the famous and powerful.
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The Swimming Holes of Texas
By Julie Wernersbach and Carolyn Tracy
Photography by Carolyn Tracy
Full of practical information to help plan your visits and enticing color photos of one hundred freshwater swimming holes, here is the first-ever guide to the best places to swim in Texas.
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A Pure Solar World
Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
By Paul Youngquist
Surveying the range of Sun Ra’s extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought “space music” to a planet in need of transformation, supporting the aspirations of black people in an inhospitable white world.
Hardcover, $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-292-72636-9
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Two Prospectors
The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
By Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
Edited by Chad Hammett
A compelling portrait of a complex, decades-long friendship, these deeply honest letters and candid family photographs offer the most intimate glimpse we may ever get into the life, personal philosophy, and creative process of America’s leading dramatist.
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