Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by David Drummond $39.99
Few people realize that the Comanche Indians were the greatest warring tribe in American history. Their forty-year battle with settlers held up the development of the new nation. Empire of the Summer Moon tells of the rise and fall of this fierce, powerful, and proud tribe, and begins in 1836 with the kidnapping of a lovely nine-year-old girl with cornflower blue eyes named Cynthia Ann Parker....
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Vintage $15.95
National BestsellerSeptember 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and...
Friday Night Lights Mass Market TV Tie-in by Da Capo Press $7.99
Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil...
HELENA, TEXAS "The Toughest Town on Earth" by Comanche Press $9.99
“IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR POLITICALLY CORRECT … THIS IS NOT THE BOOK FOR YOU” * How Spain and Texas Hispanics Saved the American Revolution. * The Bloodiest Battle Ever Fought On Texas Soil... And It's Virtually Unknown. * The Daileyville Massacre... 5 Dead in Two Minutes (3 Lawmen and 2 Civilians). * The Lady Outlaw That Terrorized South Texas and Helena. * The Truth about the Helena Duel...
The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days by $2.99
"I was but a boy in my nineteenth year, and in for adventure when I started out from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, with all my worldly possessions, consisting of a few dollars in money, a change of clothes, and a gun, of course, to seek my fortune in this lazy man's paradise." Noah Smithwick was an old man, blind and near his ninetieth year, when his daughter recorded these words. He had stayed on in...
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by St. Martin's Griffin $16.99
On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott...
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Penguin Press HC, The $29.95
In The Big Rich, bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough chronicles the rise and fall of one of the great economic and political powerhouses of the twentieth century—Texas oil. By weaving together the epic sagas of the industry’s four greatest fortunes, Burrough has produced an enthralling tale of money, family, and power in the American century. Known in their...
Life Is So Good by Random House $23.00
What makes a happy person, a happy life? In this remarkable book, George Dawson, a 101-year-old man who learned to read when he was 98, reflects on the philosophy he learned from his father—a belief that "life is so good"—as he offers valuable lessons in living and a fresh, firsthand view of America during the twentieth century.Born in 1898 in Marshall, Texas, the grandson of slaves, George...
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Doubleday $26.95
Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea—a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA—past security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with cipher security codes, and camera-lined...
Boys Will Be Boys by HarperCollins e-books $13.99
They were America's Team—the high-priced, high-glamour, high-flying Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s, who won three Super Bowls and made as many headlines off the field as on it. Led by Emmitt Smith, the charismatic Deion "Prime Time" Sanders, and Hall of Famers Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin, the Cowboys rank among the greatest of all NFL dynasties.In similar fashion to his New York Times bestseller...