Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir, Paperback - Domingo Martinez

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Lyrical and gritty, this authentic coming-of-age story about a border-town family in Bro...

Beginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Heimskringla recounts the history of the kings of Norway through the ...

Reducere. Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS ""Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written,...

Reducere. Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS ````Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply writte...

Reducere. The pioneering surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley performed his first human heart transplant in 1968 and astounded the world in 1969 by conducting the first...

Doony, Ryder, Wyatt, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh's sons are the only ones included in her new memoir, Seeing Sideways. As the book unfolds an...

Reducere. DescriptionWhere do you get SOUL? From watching your parents sell the house you grew up in? From discovering the family secret about your crazy cou...

Reducere. A rollicking, sexy memoir of a young poet making his way in 1960s New York CityWhen he graduated from Columbia in 1958, John Giorno was handsome, c...

Reducere. Rooted in tradicion mexicana and infused with Texas food culture, tacos are some of Texans all-time favorite foods. In The Tacos of Texas, the taco...

Reducere. When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child.But when ...

THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R....

Reducere. Nothing beats a natural swimming hole for cooling off on a scorching summer day in Texas. Cold, clear spring water, big old shade trees, and a quie...

Reducere. Jeremy Ivester is a transgender man. Thirty years ago, his parents welcomed him into the world as what they thought was their daughter. As a child,...

Reducere. During the 1980s war in El Salvador, Radio Venceremos was the main news outlet for the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), t...

Reducere. Born on a farm near Anahuac, Texas, in 1875 and possessed of only a fourth-grade education, Ross Sterling was one of the most successful Texans of ...

Reducere. "A Texas Cowboy" subtitled as "Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony" is one of the few books which offers a true look into the lif...

Reducere. A story of a young man's queer coming of age amidst displacement, violence, and alienation Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia's societal...

Reducere. DescriptionThe most complete, up-to-date portrait of Texas's Native peoples since W. W. Newcomb's 1961 book The Indians of Texas.

In September 1930, the New York Times published a list of the clergy whom Rabbi Stephen Wise considered "the ten foremost religious leaders in this...

Reducere. Thanks to its size and geographic position, Texas is home to nearly 30, 000 species of insects, likely making its insect population the most divers...

DescriptionIn 1830 census takers trudged door to door in San Antonio de Bexar and Nacogdoches gathering census data on the residents. Either they g...

Reducere. When it comes to Texas honky-tonk, nobody knows the music or the scene better than Johnny Bush. Author of Willie Nelson's classic concert anthem "W...

Reducere. Texas has one of the largest Jewish populations in the South and West, comprising an often-overlooked vestige of the Diaspora. The Chosen Folks bri...

A candid, vivid, powerfully resonant memoir about growing up Mormon in Texas from an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and leading spokesperson fo...

Reducere. When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the ``Great American Desert.`` A ``sea of grass, `` the llano appeared ...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, ...

The second volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. GAME OF THRONES is now a major TV series from HBO, featur...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brandon HaleIllustrator: Jason Zimdars * Full-Color Art Paperback Edition *Prince Martin returns with his brotherly band to...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: T. J. ParsellWhen seventeen-year-old T. J. Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun, he was sentenced to four and...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Texas, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Texas: A Captivat...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Texas, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Texas: A Captivat...

Reducere. Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007)In a memoir that is gripping, funny, and ultimately unforgettable, New York Times bestselling author Walter ...

Reducere. The profoundly moving memoir of a young boy's odyssey through the Holocaust. In a new edition of his bestselling memoir, Thomas Buergenthal tells o...

Pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms stake their claims through tempest, turmoil and war. As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky ...

Reducere. In many ways, Mary Odgers was living the American dream. Her husband was a commercial pilot for Delta Airlines, she was an acute-care nurse, and th...

Reducere. A classic work on the indigenous peoples of Texas.

Reducere. When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the "Great American Desert." A "sea of grass, " the llano appeared empt...

Reducere. A classic since its first publication in 1947, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist distills a lifetime of patient observations of the natural world....

Reducere. A comprehensive and compact field guide, Trees of Central Texas introduces 186 species of tree life in Central Texas, an area roughly the region of...