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Texas Tornado
The Times and Music of Doug Sahm
Av Jan Reid, Shawn Sahm
Häftad, 2010
284 kr
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Doug Sahm was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist of legendary range and reputation. The first American musician to capitalize on the 1960s British invasion, Sahm vaulted to international fame leading a faux-British band called the Sir Douglas Quintet, whose hits included "She's About a Mover," …
Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock
Av Jan Reid
Häftad, 2021
351 kr
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First published in 1974, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock grew out of a magazine article coauthored by Jan Reid. His first book was a sensation in Texas. It portrayed an Austin-based live music explosion variously described as progressive country, cosmic cowboys, and outlaw country. The book has …
Bullet Meant for Me
Av Jan Reid
Häftad, 2005
323 kr
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Jan Reid's powerful, moving account of what being shot during a robbery in Mexico City and the painful road to recovery taught him about manhood, friendship, and marriage.On April 20, 1998, Jan Reid was shot during a robbery in Mexico City, where he had gone to watch his friend, the boxer Jesus …
Splendor in the Short Grass
The Grover Lewis Reader
Av Grover Lewis, Robert Draper m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
363 kr
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Honorable Mention, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction, 2006Grover Lewis was one of the defining voices of the New Journalism of the 1960s and 1970s. His wry, acutely observed, fluently written essays for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice set a standard for other writers of the …
Let the People in
The Life and Times of Ann Richards
Av Jan Reid
Häftad, 2013
260 kr
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Winner, Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2012Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of Women, Texas State Historical Association, 2012When Ann Richards delivered the keynote of the 1988 Democratic National Convention and mocked President George H. W. …
Deep Water Tears
Book 1 The Dreaming Series
Av Jan Reid
E-bok, 2015
57 kr
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Rachel cannot imagine a life away from 'Binda', her home in the bush, where the Macquarie River flows alongside her back door. Her childhood days are spent with her neighbour and biracial best friend, Darel; exploring and learning about the Australian bush and the Wiradjuri (aboriginal) culture, …
Grace
Book 2 The Dreaming Series
Av Jan Reid
E-bok, 2015
48 kr
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Grace Taylor opens the letter she receives with trembling hands. She knows the words she is about to read will either cause her great happiness or heart-wrenching despair. On her tenth birthday she discovered she was not only adopted, but the daughter of a part-aboriginal woman. She has felt lost …
Barons Reach
Book 3 The Dreaming Series
Av Jan Reid
E-bok, 2016
49 kr
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Libby once loved visiting the beautiful country property of Barons Reach, with her grandmother and aunt, tagging along as they conducted historical tours. But, that was when she had been a child. Before Roger appeared, her aunt refused to believe her, and her best friend, Jimba, let her down. Ten …
Weight
Av Jan Reid
E-bok, 2026
57 kr
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In the city of Westmark, order is everything. The Registry promises stability to those who seek employmentwithin its system. Permanent placement. Protection. A householdthat will take responsibility for their future. Elin Fenn believed the promise. Now bound by an iron bandbearing the mark of …
Boy Genius
Karl Rove, the Architect of George W. Bush's Remarkable Political Triumphs
Av Carl M. Cannon, Jan Reid m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
232 kr
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The Washington Post Bestseller - Now Updated with Five New Chapters and a New Epilogue Unlike President George. W. Bush, Karl Rove, his chief political adviser, is rarely "misunderestimated." Many of the president's opponents see Rove's hand in everything the president does. His friends, and the …
Pickers and Poets
The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas
Av Joe Nick Patoski, Robert Earl Hardy m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
369 kr
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Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an …
Rio Grande
Av Jan Reid
Inbunden, 2004
354 kr
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The liquid lifeline of an arid land, the Rio Grande has always been a vital presence in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. A source of human sustenance for at least 15,000 years, the river has also been a site of conflict ever since exploring Spaniards first crossed its channel to colonize …
Comanche Sundown
A Novel
Av Jan Reid
Inbunden, 2010
396 kr
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Comanche Sundown is the story of the great war chief Quanah Parker, a freed slave and cowboy named Bose Ikard, and the women they love. In 1869 Quanah and Bose do their best to kill each other in a brutal fight on horseback in West Texas. But over several years, through the flash and chaos of war …
Sins of the Younger Sons
Av Jan Reid
Inbunden, 2017
429 kr
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Luke Burgoa is an ex-Marine on a solitary covert mission to infiltrate the Basque separatist organization ETA in Spain and help bring down its military commander, Peru Madariaga. Luke hails from a Basque ancestry that came with the Spanish empire to Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, and, seventy-five years …
Sins of the Younger Sons
Av Jan Reid
Häftad, 2018
283 kr
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Luke Burgoa is an ex-Marine on a solitary covert mission to infiltrate the Basque separatist organization ETA in Spain and help bring down its military commander, Peru Madariaga. Luke hails from a Basque ancestry that came with the Spanish empire to Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, and, seventy-five years …
Song Leader
Av Jan Reid
Inbunden, 2021
429 kr
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Haid Shelton is his small-town church's song leader as a teen and dreams of becoming a rock singer. His enduring gifts are in his tenor voice and success as a Golden Gloves boxer. Hoping to evade Vietnam, Haid joins the Marine reserves, gets into serious trouble, and is sentenced to four years in …
Close Calls
Jan Reid's Texas
Av Jan Reid
Inbunden, 2000
366 kr
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For more than three decades of writing about Texas, Jan Reid has reported topics and perspectives that are unsentimental and often unexpected: stories of cops on the beat, Mexican jailbreaks, counterculture country musicians, an oldtime liberal Texas politician, and cows in the corn at J. Frank …
