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Average rating: 4.55 · 22 ratings · 5 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Turned Wrong at Ding Dong: Texas, Travels and Opinions on Everything 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kindertransport 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grizzlies, Tigers, and Combat Boot Wearing Mamas it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Adrian Jackson's Blog: Covers to Cover

Let’s face it. University press books can be dry. Limited budgets and staff restraints limit the ability of small presses to compete with large non-fiction operations and their stylized book covers. Not that all covers from multi-million dollar companies are works of art.

Cruising through the University of Texas Press book catalog, I came upon two gems. The first, Cooking Texas Style by Candy Wagne Read more of this blog post »

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Published on March 24, 2013 06:37 • Tags: agave, cooking, cover, design, hutson, tequila, texas, wagner

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The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters

by Juliette Kayyem

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By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

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