A runaway bestseller at its debut at the 2014 Texas Book Festival in October, this new book by Kim Stanford and Bill Backhaus is both a cookbook with over 200 recipes and a shopping guide for people with gluten-free diets who are tired of missing out on their favorite foods. Each recipe uses brand name products found at your local grocery store. Read more.  

Elizabeth Silverthorne explores ethnic groups that 

settled in Texas, showing what they kept and what they changed to adapt to a new homeland. Recipes throughout add ethnic flavors, from Wendish coffee cake to Yugoslavian Christmas bread, from well-known buttermilk pie to exotic zabaglione. This highly appealing volume is for anyone who wants to learn more about their heritage. Read more. 

East Texas--a distinct cultural and geographical region --has produced a large number of historians and storytellers who draw upon their diverse and unique heritage to chronicle the past. Their accounts serve as glimpses onto life in the Pine Belt that to this point have not been recorded or widely shared. Read more.  

Red Steagall's weekly radio program, "Cowboy Corner," is carried on 175 radio stations across the country. Complied here are conversations capturing the flavor of the Western way of life with the likes of Roy Rogers, Rex Allen, Reba McEntire, Elmer Kelton, Wilford Brimley, and 

more. Read more. 

This is an anthology of the Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest winners from the 2012 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The contest honors exemplary narrative nonfiction work and encourages its use in newspapers across the country. Read more. 

These sharp-witted stories explore the secret lives of people and how they deal with parts of themselves they choose not to share with even the closest confidants. The universe is slightly askew, with its corners peeled back to reveal strange and comic outcomes of acting out self-destructive desires. Read more. 

Over 400 photographs, extensive interviews of descendants, and 

reproductions of rare historical documents, this book became an instant classic when released in 1989. The Texas A&M University Press edition brings back into circulation this treasure trove of information on an often overlooked vein of the Lone Star State story. Read more.

Clyde McQueen catalogues 374  congregations with information gathered from interviews, church bulletins, special church programs, historical markers, and building cornerstones. Enhanced by 64 photographs, this first-of-its-kind work is an contribution to an important field of Texas and African American History. Read more.

Editors Roberto R. Treviño and Richard Francaviglia assembled a variety of scholarly voices to present the fuller context of this religious group largely marginalized or undervalued in traditional historiographic treatments of the region. Read more. 

This hair-raising narrative come from the diary of "B" Company of the 1303rd Engineer General Service Regiment attached to Patton's Third Army during his epic pursuit of German forces across France in August 1944. The 1303rd was supposed to perform its duties outside the zone of armed conflict but found itself acting as the southern flank of Patton's rapid advance. Read more. 

The center of this book is Fortress Monroe, Virginia, where the US Army held Jefferson Davis under lock and key. These letters reveal the Davises' reflections of their

past happiness, the aftermath of the Civil War and their present misery, and the shadowy future. Read more.  

This volume illustrates the history of Texas through color plates of 64 historic Texas maps from the Marty and Yana Davis Map Collection at Sul Ross University, and original essays by noted historians. It is also the companion catalog to the Davis Map Collection exhibition that traveled to 10 museums throughout the Southwest over a period of two years. Read more.