Jim Harris
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There's more than one kind of Texas native-we share our magnificent state with numerous other species some with four legs or more and some with no legs at all. Naturalist Jim Harris has studied most of them, and in Lone Star Menagerie he shares some little-known facts, fascinating tales, and amusing personal experiences with these creatures that we live alongside.
2) Ruby Dallas
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While moving through public schools in Dallas and into Texas colleges, the young narrator of Ruby Dallas encounters a cavalcade of violent and gentle souls, from shady nightclub owners and bright prostitutes, to godly preachers and saintly teachers; from dangerous drug dealers and hungry paper carriers to armed robbers and race car drivers; and from girls in their summer dresses to women in nothing at all.
Life in post-World War II Dallas was no...
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A tale of the journey to discover the proper way to live one's life. Drawn from the work of Leo Strauss, it centres on the choice between obedient love and free inquiry as the guiding star one sets their path by. What is unique about this yarn is the contention that the meek referred to in the sermon on the mount might be, apart from whatever else may be said of them, graced with an enlightenment.
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Jim Harris, musician and professor of philosophy, first meets Gene Wagner, Buddhist priest, Rolfer, and unrelenting challenger of assumptions, at a Thanksgiving dinner in 1983. The two immediately launch a decades-long friendship andtogether explore Buddhist philosophy, healing, self-discovery, and wisdom. In this memoir, Harris describes his awakening to self-realization and self-acceptance as the two wrestle with the challenges of living and with...
12) The grifters
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Three con artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to get out, and wants her son out, too. But Roy has fallen for sleek Myra, who wants him for her partner.