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F13-St-Martins-Press.Pdf THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS AUGUST 2013 LEAD The Kids Got It Right How the Texas All-Stars Kicked Down Racial Walls Jim Dent Jim Dent, New York Times bestselling author of The Junction Boys, pens the story of Texas high school football integration, and the three men who put together a championship team Jim Dent takes readers to the heart of the Texas gridiron with the incredible story of the state's high school football intergration. In the summer of 1964, a high school all-star team lost the most significant football game in Texas’ proud history to the Pennsylvania Big 33 squad. Three months later, Coach Bobby Layne met SPORTS & RECREATION / with the governor, determined to prevent another loss. His important request: FOOTBALL authorization to recruit black all-stars for his new squad. Thomas Dunne Books | 8/20/2013 9781250007858 | $25.99 / $29.99 Can. Hardback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 20 It was an ambitious plan: Texas high school football, launched in 1910, was 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H dominated by white players, even though the state was flush with great black Plus one 8-page black-and-white photograph insert stars, some of whom would become the most notable players in the history of the NFL. And Layne’s scheme never would have worked without two very special Subrights: young men —happy-go-lucky quarterback Bill Bradley, and his Big 33 roommate, Jerry “the Jet” Le Vias, a speedy receiver who was also the first black athlete to UK Rights: Jim Dent sign to a letter-of-intent with a Southwest Conference school, SMU. Bradley Translation Rights: Jim Dent looked out for Le Vias—one of only three black players chosen for the team— uniting the integrated team. Together—and with Layne’s indomitable will to Other Available Formats: win—the two led their team to triumphant victory in Hershey park. 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MARTIN'S PRESS SEPTEMBER 2013 Styxx Sherrilyn Kenyon The most highly-anticipated novel in the Dark-Hunter series since Acheron —the unforgettable story of Styxx, Acheron's twin brother and one of the most powerful beings on earth Just when you thought doomsday was over . Centuries ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute destruction. Now that evil has been unleashed and it is out for revenge. As the twin to Acheron, Styxx hasn’t always been on his brother’s side. They’ve spent more centuries going at each other’s throats than protecting their backs. FICTION / ROMANCE Now Styxx has a chance to prove his loyalty to his brother, but only if he’s willing St. Martin's Press | 9/3/2013 9781250029881 | $27.99 / $29.99 Can. to trade his life and future for Acheron’s. Hardback | 736 pages | Carton Qty: 12 6.250 in W | 9.250 in H The Atlantean goddess of Wrath and Misery, Bethany was born to right wrongs. 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