Jim Harris
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It's Christmas Eve and Dad is up late, testing a game for his son. A sudden ruckus outside brings him to his feet, and when he looks into the sky, he can hardly believe his eyes. Eight gigantic dinosaurs are pulling a strange UFO across the sky!
It isn't long before this night before Christmas turns into a nightmare. The ferocious dinosaurs-Smasher, Splinter, Crusher, Fang, Biter, Slang, Stomper and a mean, mighty T-Rex dressed like an evil St....
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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...
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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.
4) 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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Santa Claus spreads holiday cheer to a hard-working librarian on Christmas Eve in this humorous take on the children's classic.
Due to low staffing, a librarian must spend her Christmas Eve stacking the shelves at a library in desperate need of renovations. After the strain of a long night that has left her feeling "like Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol," she is pleasantly surprised to see Santa and his six elves coming to her rescue in a red bookmobile....
16) Silicon Cowboys
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Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM for PC supremacy. Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know.
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[2021]
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Sin City: Welcome to Sin City, the town that beckons to the tough, the corrupt, and the brokenhearted. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still try to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care. See Frank Miller's graphic novels come to life. Contains both the theatrical release and the unrated extended cut version.
No country for old men: When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million...