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1) The unseen
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When San Antonio becomes a dumping ground for the bodies of young women, Logan Raintree must use his powerful ability to commune with the dead to lead a group of elite paranormal investigators to solve this disturbing case.
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Jamie Ian MacCallister, having lived with the Shawnee as a prisoner for four years, discovers he no longer fits into the white society from which he was abducted, but he finally finds a place that feels like home when he joins Texans like Jim Bowie and Sam Houston in their fight against Santa Ana's Mexican army.
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March 1836: The story of the Alamo is familiar to most: more than two hundred Texians trapped in an adobe mission, and massacred. Though the rallying cry of "Remember the Alamo" rang across the country, Houston knew it was poor strategy to aggressively retaliate immediately. One month after the massacre, he and his army of underdog Texians soundly defeated Santa Anna's troops in under eighteen minutes at the Battle of San Jacinto, and in doing so...
4) The Alamo
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John Wayne produces, and directs and stars in this chronicle of one the most remarkable events in American History. At the Alamo - a crumblinf adobe mission- 185 exceptional men joined together in a sacred pact: they would stand firm against an army of 7,000 and willingly give their lives for freedom. Filmed entirely in Texas, only a few miles from the site of the actual battle.
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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
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Petra Luna is in America, having escaped the Mexican Revolution and the terror of the Federales. Now that they are safe, Petra and her family can begin again, in this country that promises so much. Still, twelve-year-old Petra knows that her abuelita, little sister, and baby brother depend on her to survive. She leads her family from a smallpox-stricken refugee camp on the Texas border to the buzzing city of San Antonio, where they work hard to build...
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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the tribes written by whites and tribesmen *Includes a bibliography for further reading From the “Trail of Tears” to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the...
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