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Unheard Witness
The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477327647
Pub Date: October 17th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
Unheard Witness foregrounds a young woman’s experience of domestic abuse, resistance, and survival before the mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966.
Duchess of Palms
A Memoir
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477327760
Pub Date: September 5th, 2023
Format: Paperback
176 Pages
A “fifties girl” tells the fascinating story of her marriages to novelist Billy Lee Brammer and Congressman Bob Eckhardt, and how these relationships propelled her into the multifaceted life she has led on her own terms.
Pastures of the Empty Page
Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477327876
Pub Date: September 5th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life
Armadillos to Ziziphus
A Naturalist in the Texas Hill Country
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477326732
Pub Date: April 11th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
A collection of essays on the ecology, biodiversity, and restoration of the Texas Hill Country.
The Thirty-first of March
An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781477327470
Pub Date: April 11th, 2023
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
An intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson’s politics and pre.sidency by one of his closest advisors.
Last Gangster in Austin
Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781477323984
Pub Date: June 7th, 2022
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
A true-crime showdown that takes readers back to the grittier and weirder Austin of the 1970s.
Barbara Jordan
Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781477325049
Pub Date: January 4th, 2022
Format: Paperback
128 Pages
A collection of stirring speeches by former U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan that speaks to issues—ethics in government, civil liberties, and democratic values—still under intense debate in the twenty-first century.
No Color Is My Kind
Eldrewey Stearns and the Desegregation of Houston
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477323731
Pub Date: October 19th, 2021
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
A new edition of this important book that places its uncommon chronicle of two men—one African American and one Jewish—within the context of America’s current struggles with race.
A Good Long Drive
Fifty Years of Texas Country Reporter
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477324011
Pub Date: September 7th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
The true story of how a Dallas TV reporter accidentally spent his life sharing the stories of people no one has ever heard of on Texas Country Reporter, told by the show’s creator and host, Bob Phillips.
Voice Lessons
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780999731864
Pub Date: August 17th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
300 Pages
A lifelong activist for social justice tells how history was made in Texas.

Unheard Witness
The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477327647
Pub Date: October 17th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
Duchess of Palms
A Memoir
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477327760
Pub Date: September 5th, 2023
Format: Paperback
176 Pages
Pastures of the Empty Page
Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477327876
Pub Date: September 5th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Armadillos to Ziziphus
A Naturalist in the Texas Hill Country
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477326732
Pub Date: April 11th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
The Thirty-first of March
An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781477327470
Pub Date: April 11th, 2023
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Last Gangster in Austin
Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781477323984
Pub Date: June 7th, 2022
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Barbara Jordan
Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781477325049
Pub Date: January 4th, 2022
Format: Paperback
128 Pages
No Color Is My Kind
Eldrewey Stearns and the Desegregation of Houston
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477323731
Pub Date: October 19th, 2021
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
A Good Long Drive
Fifty Years of Texas Country Reporter
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477324011
Pub Date: September 7th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Voice Lessons
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780999731864
Pub Date: August 17th, 2021
Format: Hardcover
300 Pages