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Rhetorical Transformations: Complex Conversations

Description: Textbook exploring rhetoric with a focus on conducting original research, synthesizing multiple sources into a coherent position, adapting ideas for different audiences and media, and presenting thoughts with clarity and confidence. This book is the second volume in a two part series, and it picks up where the previous book, Rhetorical Transformations: Making Meaning, leaves off.
Date: 2026
Creator: Vastine, Stephanie
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Rhetorical Transformations: Making Meaning

Description: Textbook on rhetorical reading and writing to help the reader develop their skills as a reader, writer, and communicator.
Date: 2026
Creator: Hensch, Laura; Kraemer, Jenny & Raign, Kathryn
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Dreams and Ideas: The Artistry of Costume Designer Winn Morton

Description: Dreams and Ideas celebrates the legacy of American theatrical designer John Winniford “Winn” Morton (1928–2022), a Texan who made his way to New York to begin a stellar career that lasted from when he was 20 until he finally retired at 90. More than 150 photographs and original color illustrations demonstrate how Morton paid careful attention to the look of every single performer, consciously conveying character through clothing. Morton started in the early years of live television and then … more
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Date: April 2026
Creator: Walker, Myra, 1954-
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Progress Denied: Quakertown, White Supremacy, and the Illusion of Democracy in Denton, Texas, 1850–1925

Description: Sometimes, history isn’t what it appears to be. For instance, in the early 1920s, a thriving Southern Black community was literally voted out of existence by local white citizens. The North Texas city of Denton, which was sometimes described as a “Ku Klux Box,” was also home to the Quakertown neighborhood. There, Black Texans worked hard to overcome the legacy of slavery, build financial success and family stability, educate their children, and worship God as they saw fit. And they did it all r… more
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Date: February 2026
Creator: Teague, Hollie A., 1976-
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Other Edens

Description: Other Edens captures the heartache that arises from hope’s repeated failures. While the book’s poems have occasional formal leanings, they serve as attempts to bring structure to the chaos of the world, but even those attempts prove to be ragged and imperfect, as if nothing—not even poetry—can escape the contemporary world’s ruinous touch. The poems explore how grief (re)shapes belief and how death (re)shapes memory. Readers of Frank Stanford’s poetry might find a kinship between his and Bowen’… more
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Date: April 2026
Creator: Bowen, Ash
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Under the Shadow of Napoleon: The US Army’s Doctrine, Education, and Theory of Victory from 1814 to 1941

Description: The way an army understands warfare and how to achieve victory on the battlefield has a tremendous impact on its organization, equipment, training, and doctrine. The central ideas of that understanding form an army’s Theory of Victory, which informs how that army fights. From the disasters of the War of 1812, Winfield Scott ensured that America adopted a series of ideas formed in the crucible of the French Revolution and perfected by Napoleon Bonaparte as the United States Army’s Theory of Vict… more
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Date: March 2026
Creator: Bonura, Michael A., 1974-
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I’m Alive: A Young Fighter Pilot’s Diary of the US Navy Air War in Vietnam, 1964–1965

Description: I’m Alive is the compelling diary of Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTJG) Errol F. Reilly, a 26-year-old Navy fighter pilot, written aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea during his first Vietnam combat cruise. In writing that is colorful, perceptive, and, at times, both humorous and heartbreaking, Reilly chronicles his daily experiences “living, playing, and fighting” within the context of the Navy’s fledgling air war. Covering the period from December 1964 to October 1965, I’m Alive details an … more
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Date: April 2026
Creator: Reilly, Errol F., 1938-2006
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A Chickasaw Lady, a Governor’s Wife: Alice Hearrell Murray in the Era of the New Woman

Description: Mary Alice Hearrell Murray was the wife of Oklahoma’s most colorful politician in the early twentieth century, William H. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray. Alice was the niece of Chickasaw governor Douglas Johnston, who was her guardian, and she was a graduate of the prominent Chickasaw girls’ school, Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females. Alice graduated as the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in a more progressive society and the world of the new woman. Alice, however, was not a new woman of the… more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: Schrems, Suzanne H.
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Bastion by the Bay: The Presidio of San Francisco, from Outpost of Empire to Magnificent Park

Description: The Presidio of San Francisco, founded in 1776, stood guard over a major port that evolved into the storied city by the Golden Gate. The Spanish first erected a less-than-imposing fort and a pair of tiny artillery emplacements armed with antiquated cannons. In the early 1820s, the Mexican government inherited the presidio but lost it to the manifest destiny of the United States. By the 1840s the US Army constructed major defense bulwarks on both sides of the “harbor of harbors.” Early earthen a… more
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Date: April 2026
Creator: Langellier, John P. (John Phillip)
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Gather 'Round: Gatherings in Texas and the Southwest

Description: Compiled by members of the Texas Folklore Society, this collection of pieces that focus on gatherings of all kinds ranges from personal reflections to scholarly analyses. Some authors discuss the place that gatherings have in marking all stages of life, from birth to death, while others consider gatherings based on special interests, such as crafting and music. A variety of food-related traditions are spotlighted, including canning, tamaladas, and gatherings at local diners. Special attentio… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Downs, Kristina
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From Slave to Statesman: the Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston

Description: From Slave to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston is the story of the “other” Houston, Joshua, the slave of Margaret Lea until she married Sam Houston and moved to Texas in 1840. Joshua was unique among slaves: he was taught to read and write, and was allowed to keep money he earned. The story is set in a background of historical details about southern social history before, during, and after the Civil War.
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Date: 1995
Creator: Prather, Patricia Smith, 1943- & Monday, Jane Clements, 1941-
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Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973

Description: In Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State, Martin J. Murray uses his own personal engagement in the antiwar movement in Austin, Texas, to make sense of the entanglements between cycles of protest against the Vietnam War and the efforts of security agencies intent on suppressing dissent. Murray used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain FBI documents related to the Austin antiwar movement. He also examined the papers of three prominent Austin and University of Texas officials, enabling him… more
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Date: August 2025
Creator: Murray, Martin J.
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Fort Worth from World War II to 1960

Description: Harold Rich reviews Fort Worth’s history during the challenging times of World War II, the postwar adjustment period, and the first full decade of the Cold War, with special focus on local crime and criminals, vice, the police, race relations, and economic development. What emerges is a portrait of a growing city developing major urban accoutrements such as industrialization, freeways, and an art infrastructure while also struggling with an active and sizable criminal underworld and the emergin… more
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Date: September 2025
Creator: Rich, Harold, 1948-
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Yo Soy: From a Migrant Field Worker to a University Professor

Description: Yo Soy is a memoir of Roberto E. Villarreal’s life struggle for social justice and equality, a reclamation of his ancestry, language, and culture forbidden by the Texas state school policies during his childhood in the 1930s. Racism, bigotry, violence, and subordination formed a shell difficult to overcome. The “Mexican” problem, as it was known, was deeply ingrained in the life of the Anglo community, creating a perpetual labor class. As a result, Mexican Americans were poverty-stricken sharec… more
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Date: November 2025
Creator: Villarreal, Roberto E.
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Outer Stars

Description: In these seven short stories, both realist and speculative, Sundberg Lunstrum considers life in the Anthropocene, an era marked by individual isolation, environmental degradation, and the erosion of our relationships with one another and our land. As they encounter heartbreak and new love, the aches and joys of parenthood, and the grief of bodies in decline, her characters seek connection, identity, and purpose. They ask the questions we all ask: Can we hold on to each other across the fracture… more
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Date: November 2025
Creator: Lunstrum, Kirsten Sundberg, 1979-
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Have Horn, Will Travel: The Life and Music of Herman “Junior” Cook

Description: Have Horn, Will Travel is the first full-length biography of tenor saxophone virtuoso and in-demand sideman Herman “Junior” Cook, chronicling his life and impact from his Pensacola, Florida, origins to his New York City–based career. Best known for his association with pianist Horace Silver’s iconic quintet from 1958 to 1964, Cook continued as a mainstay in some of jazz’s hardest-driving ensembles—with trumpeters Blue Mitchell, Freddie Hubbard, and Bill Hardman; drummers Louis Hayes and Elvin J… more
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Date: October 2025
Creator: Nero, Courtney M., 1972-
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The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 12

Description: This anthology collects the eight winners of the 2024 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Bridget Grumet for “The Butterfly Effect,” a series examining both the problem of teen dating violence and the operation of the Texas prison system through the lens of three people whose lives were changed by the 2003 murder of a 15-year-old (Austin American-Statesman). Second place: Keri Blakinger for “The Dungeons & Dragon… more
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Date: September 2025
Creator: Reaves, Gayle, 1952-
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The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr: From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again

Description: In 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas. Cynics who knew the real Starr were not surprised. Before becoming a matinee idol, Starr had been the greatest bank robber of the horseback bandit era. Born in 1872, Cherokee outlaw Henry Starr had survived shootouts and death sentences and lived long enough to witness the invention of moving pictures. In 1919, after Starr… more
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Date: July 2025
Creator: Archuleta, Mark
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Frontera Freeways: Highway Building and Displacement in El Paso, Texas

Description: The history of how the freeways of El Paso, Texas, were constructed, who lobbied for them to be built, who was displaced, and who opposed them, is largely unknown. Regional studies of highway building have been overlooked in most studies of Mexican American history. As in other Mexican American cities like San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and Los Angeles, Mexican Americans who were displaced by highway building were not at the table. From 1915 to the 1960s, numerous road projects displaced people … more
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Date: October 2025
Creator: Juárez, Miguel, 1958-
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Right Back Where I Started: A Memoir in Music

Description: Right Back Where I Started is a musical odyssey of the heart, mind, and spirit, a journey from the innocent Pacific Northwest of the 1960s to China, Slovenia, Italy, Romania, the Middle East, and countless locations in America, crossing paths with the likes of Renee Fleming, Bill Clinton, James Earl Jones, Maya Angelou, and William Shatner. In Maestro Itkin’s world, thrilling performances, memorable collaborations, and exotic travel occur in tandem with professional stumbles, difficult choices,… more
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Date: June 2025
Creator: Itkin, David
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On the Way to the Sky: Remembering Bob Brookmeyer

Description: In On the Way to the Sky: Remembering Bob Brookmeyer, author Michael Stephans has created a rich, multifaceted paean to jazz icon Bob Brookmeyer, the much-beloved musical genius who passed away in 2011, four days short of his 82nd birthday. On the Way to the Sky is a hybrid book in that it’s part memoir, part biography, with over a dozen essays by such luminaries as Maria Schneider, Jim McNeely, John Mosca, Darcy James Argue, Dave Rivello, John Hollenbeck, and the late Terry Teachout, as well a… more
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Date: June 2025
Creator: Stephans, Michael
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Barbs, Bullets, and Blood: The 1880s Texas Barbed Wire Wars

Description: In 1874 Joseph Glidden patented and manufactured the nation’s first barbed wire, and the next year Henry Sanborn came to Texas selling Glidden’s wire to cattlemen. Sales increased each year, and in 1883 Sanborn sold Texas ranchers one million dollars’ worth of barbed wire, but free-range cattle advocates and homesteaders revolted against the barbed wire fences; more than half of Texas’s counties experienced fence cutting. In the eyes of some Texans, barbed-wire fences stopped cattle drives, int… more
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Date: June 2025
Creator: Jobes, Harold D.
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The Fifty-Year Texas Road Trip: On Assignment from Earth to Uncertain

Description: Ride shotgun with writer-photographer Randy Mallory on his fifty-year road trip exploring the endlessly fascinating people and places of Texas. The fourth-generation Texan spent a five-decade career traveling every part of the Lone Star State on assignments for statewide magazines and tourism agencies. In more than two hundred photos and four reflective essays, his first photo retrospective offers what he found. At the turn of every page—just like the rounding of every bend—there are delightful… more
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Date: April 2025
Creator: Mallory, Randy
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In the Days of Billy the Kid: The Lives and Times of José Chávez y Chávez, Juan Patrón, Martín Chávez, and Yginio Salazar

Description: The legend of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War remains prominent in the annals of American frontier history, but for men like José Chávez y Chávez, Juan Patrón, Martín Chávez, and Yginio Salazar, it was merely one famous epoch in a much broader struggle. The Hispanos of frontier New Mexico spent decades engaging in various forms of resistance against the corruption, exploitation, and violent oppression that frequently plagued their homeland following the conclusion of the Mexican-Americ… more
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Date: May 2025
Creator: Mills, James B.
Partner: UNT Press
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