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Bird Burden

Description: Bird book sketchbook created by UNT student Amy Cole, also titled The Beast. The sketchbook contains illustrated drawings and handwriting descriptions by Cole. The sketchbook also contains printed images of plant and animal life.
Date: January 15, 2020
Creator: Cole, Amy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Allison Ketchersid - Recursive Sketchbook]

Description: Recursive sketchbook created by UNT student Allison Ketchersid. The sketchbook contains medieval manuscript images and handwriting descriptions by Ketchersid.
Date: January 15, 2020
Creator: Ketchersid, Allison
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Texas Ranger Lee Hall: From the Red River to the Rio Grande

Description: Book is a biography of Texas Ranger Lee Hall, born in North Carolina in 1849 and died in Texas in 1911. His career ranged all over Texas but mainly in South Texas and the Panhandle.
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Date: February 2020
Creator: Parson, Chuck
Partner: UNT Press

Bob Bilyeu Camblin: An Iconoclast in Houston's Emerging Art Scene

Description: Born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, Bob Camblin (1928-2010) was an artist, first and foremost. He earned his BFA and MFA degrees from the Kansas City Art Institute. His studies were followed by a Fulbright Fellowship that allowed him a year’s stay in Italy. Returning to the USA, he held teaching positions at the Ringling Museum, the University of Illinois, Detroit Mercy, and the University of Utah before moving to Houston in 1967 to teach at Rice’s new art department. He was active in Houston during … more
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Date: April 2020
Creator: Rowland, Sandra Jensen
Partner: UNT Press

The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 7

Description: This anthology collects the winners of the 2019 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Eli Saslow, “It Was My Job, and I Didn’t Find Him” (The Washington Post), narrates the life of a former officer at the Parkland high school shooting. Second place: Elizabeth Bruenig, “What Do We Owe Her Now?” (The Washington Post), is the story of a high school rape victim who received no justice. Third place: Hannah Dreier, “The … more
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Date: June 2020
Creator: Reaves, Gayle
Partner: UNT Press

Hope for Justice and Power: Broad-based Community Organizing in the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation

Description: Book is a history of the Industrial Areas Foundation branch in Texas. The Industrial Areas Foundation was founded by Saul Alinsky in Chicago in 1940 and is currently an international advocacy group. The Texas branch has many affiliates throughout the state. This book describes the evolution of those affiliates and their cooperative activities with other advocacy groups.
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Date: March 2020
Creator: Staudt, Kathleen
Partner: UNT Press

Living in the Shadow of a Hell Ship: The Survival Story of U.S. Marine George Burlage, a WWII Prisoner-of-War of the Japanese

Description: U.S. Marine George Burlage was part of the largest surrender in American history at Bataan and Corregidor in the spring of 1942, where the Japanese captured more than 85,000 troops. More than forty percent would not survive World War II. His prisoner-of-war ordeal began at Cabanatuan near Manila, where the death rate in the early months of World War II was fifty men a day. Sensing that Cabanatuan was a death trap, he managed to get transferred to the isolated island of Palawan to help build an … more
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Date: September 15, 2020
Creator: Burlage, Georgianne
Partner: UNT Press

Scouting with the Buffalo Soldiers: Lieutenant Powhatan Clarke, Frederic Remington, and the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in the Southwest

Description: On a hot summer’s day in Montana, a daring frontier cavalry officer, Powhatan Henry Clarke, died at the height of his promising career. A member of the U.S. Military Academy’s Class of 1884, Clarke graduated dead last, and while short on academic application, he was long on charm and bravado. Clarke obtained a commission with the black troops of the Tenth Cavalry, earning his spurs with these “Buffalo Soldiers.” He evolved into a fearless field commander at the troop level, gaining glory and f… more
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Date: October 15, 2020
Creator: Langellier, John P. (John Phillip)
Partner: UNT Press

Some People Let You Down

Description: The nine stories in Mike Alberti’s debut collection shine a sharp light on small-town American life —not the Arcadian small towns of yesteryear, but the old mill towns hanging on after the mill has stopped running, the deserted agricultural communities in the middle of vast industrial farms, places where bad luck has become part of the weather. But even in these blighted, neglected landscapes, the possibility of renewal always presents itself: there is hope for these places and the characters w… more
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Date: November 15, 2020
Creator: Alberti, Mike, 1987-
Partner: UNT Press
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The Flow System: The Evolution of Agile and Lean Thinking in an Age of Complexity

Description: The Flow System provides descriptions and characteristics of the different methods, techniques, and tools. It shows how to generate and nurture self-organizing teams that mobilize the full talents of those doing the work to cope with dizzying change and complexity, while also drawing on the contributions of those for whom the work is being done–the customers. The book is a compilation of years of research from the fields of complexity, leadership, organization theory, psychology, and team scien… more
Date: 2020
Creator: Turner, John R.; Thurlow, Nigel & Rivera, Brian
Partner: UNT Libraries

Instructions for Seeing a Ghost

Description: Book is a collection of poems that won our annual Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. Themes include exile from one's native country and sexual identity
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Date: April 2020
Creator: Bellin-Oka, Steve
Partner: UNT Press

Country Cop: True Tales from a Texas Deputy Sheriff

Description: Book is author's memoir about his years as a Deputy Sheriff in Parker County, Texas. He served as a patrol officer, public relations officer, and as a member of the Crimes Against Children division, among other duties.
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Date: May 2020
Creator: Goodson, Barry
Partner: UNT Press

Obstinate Heroism: The Confederate Surrenders After Appomattox

Description: Book describes the three surrenders by Confederate armies that occurred after Robert E. Lee surrendered to U.S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. They included Joseph Johnston's to William Tecumseh Sherman; Richard Taylor's to Edward Canby; and the dissolution of the Trans-Mississippi Department under Edmund Kirby-Smith.
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Date: March 2020
Creator: Ramold, Steven J.
Partner: UNT Press
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