The Rebel and the Rose
Wesley Millett and Gerald White ’66
Cumberland House

For generations, speculators have searched for the legendary lost gold of the Confederacy, coins and bullion from the defeated nation’s treasury that went missing in the final days of the Civil War. Now White, a retired Air Force colonel, has teamed up with Wesley Millett to pen a novel about the fate of about $86,000 in Confederatate gold, worth roughly $2 million today, in a rollicking tale that teams a fugitive Rebel soldier with former First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler, known as the Rose of Long Island.
To purchase: www.rebelandtherose.com

The Heroes Have Gone: Personal Essays on Sport, Popular Culture and the American West
Jim W. Corder ’54
Moon City Press

Corder, a beloved TCU English professor, once told his students there was no such thing as a boring subject. They reacted by challenging him to write at essay about the dullest thing they could imagine – a single Cheerio. The resulting essay, which begins the number of Cheerios in a box, about 2,600 by his count, and ends up celebrating the heroes of his youth – including Dizzy Dean and Tom Mix – is just one of the gems in this new collection of his work.
Available at major booksellers.

Texas Small Book series
various authors

Priced to be easy on your pocketbook and also fit inside it, the new Texas Small Book series enlightens readers on all things Texas, from country singers to movie gunslingers. The hardback series, priced and sized more like paperbacks at $8.95 each, includes the titles Extraordinary Texas Women, Texas Country Singers, and State Fare: An Irreverent Guide to Texas Movies. Coming in the fall will be two more titles: Great Texas Chefs and Texas Football Greats: Legends of the Game.
To purchase: 1.800.826.8911.