Texas Books in Review

Volume XXIX, No. 1 (Spring 2009)

1	Texas Warming	Mark Busby and Dick Heaberlin

2	*Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites*, revised edition by Laurence Parent	Steven L. Davis

3	*Inspiration Texas Style* by Wyman Meinzer	Mark Busby

4	The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town: Thurber, 1886-1933 by Mary Jane Gentry	Jane Manaster

5	It’s a Long Way from Llano: The Journey of a Wildlife Biologist by James G. Teer	Jane Manaster

6	*Pat Green’s Dance Halls and Dreamers* stories by Luke Gilliam, photographs by Guy Rogers III Texas Dance Halls: A Two-Step Circuit by Gail Folkins, photographs by J. Marcus Weekley	Cory Lock

7	Twilight of the Texas Democrats: The 1978 Governor’s Race by Kenneth Bridges	Joseph McDade

9	Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio by Laura Hernández-Ehrisman	Angela McClendon Ossar

10	The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City by Harvey J. Graff	Clay Reynolds

12	*Literary Dallas* edited by Frances Brannen Vick	Steven L. Davis

13	*Renaming the Earth: Personal Essays* by Ray Gonzalez	Ken Hada

14	Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins: A Play by Nick Flynn	James Wright

15	Nine Plays by José Cruz González: Magical Realism and Mature Themes in Theatre for Young Audiences edited by Coleman A. Jennings	Sandra M. Mayo

16	*Confetti Girl* by Diana López	Christine Granados

17	The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans: A Feast of Short Fiction by Carmen Tafolla	Will Padgett

18	*Inherited Sins* by Paula Paul	Courtney Smith

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Editors
Mark Busby
Dick Heaberlin

Assistant Editor
Twister Marquiss

Editorial Associate
Linda Busby

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Tammy Gonzales

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Liz Cross
Jack David
Amber Drown
Val Griffin
Heather Robinson
Janis E. Head Shanks
Laura Wilson
Damon Wright
Laura Young

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Melody Edwards
Ricky Martinez
Cynthia Rodriguez

Editors at Large
Rolando Hinojosa
James Ward Lee
Tom Pilkington

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Terrell Dixon
Environmental Literature

Don Graham
Film

Richard Holland
Music, Museums, and Collections

Al Lowman
Book Collecting/Design

Regional Editors

Marcia Hatfield Daudistel
West Texas/Trans-Pecos

Dave Oliphant
Austin

Emmy Pérez
South Texas

Robert Phillips
Houston

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