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Austin Narratives

• Alamo House: Women Without Men, Men Without Brains. Bird, Sarah. FIC Bir
• Austin Originals: Chats with Colorful Characters. Turner, Robyn. 976.4310922 Tu
• Deathwalk. Braun, Matthew. A 813.54 Br
• East of the Freeway: Reflections de Mi Pueblo: Poems. Salinas, Raul. 811.54 Ra
• The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic: A “Walk” in Austin. Friedman, Kinky. 917.6431046 Fr
• Growing Up Simple: An Irreverent Look at Kids in the 1950s. Arnold, George. A 976.4063083 Ar
• Life On Waller Creek: A Palaver about History as Pure and Applied Education. Jones, Joseph Jay. 976.431 Jo
• My Austin: Remembering the Teens and Twenties. Shelton, Emmett Sr. A 976.431 Sh AA
• Never the Same Again. Sublett, Jesse. 782.4216609 S9415s
• Surrender (But Don‘t Give Yourself Away): Old Cars, Found Hope, and Other Cheap Tricks. Gillespie, Spike. 814.6 GI
• Then Add Cream: or the 1920‘s in Retrospect. Shearer, Gladys McCarty. A 976.431 Sh
• Volma—My Journey: One Man‘s Impact on the Civil Rights Movement in Austin. Jones, Carolyn L. 323.0976431 Ov25j
• Wartime America: An Anthology of Personal Memoirs of World Wars I And II. A 810.809764 Wa
• The Wit and Wisdom of Willie Kocurek. Kocurek, Willie. A 976.4310609 K8158k

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