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Award Winning Author to Speak on UNT Campus

Author Aimee LaBrie, winner of the 2007 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction will speak at the Denton campus of the University of North Texas on February 12. LaBrie will read from Wonderful Girl in the Golden Eagle Suite in the Union at 8:00 PM. Admission is free. Reception and booksigning to follow. Read about the book at:
http://web3.unt.edu/untpress/catalog/detail.cfm?ID=276

Purchase a copy of Wonderful Girl at:
http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2007/labrie.htm

UNT Press publishes Texas Rangers titles

New in paperback!
Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger
by Paul N. Spellman
John Harris Rogers (1863-1930) served in Texas law enforcement for more than four decades, as a Texas Ranger, Deputy and U.S. Marshal, city police chief, and in the private sector as a security agent. He is recognized in history as one of the legendary “Four Captains” of the Ranger force that helped make the transition from the Frontier Battalion days into the twentieth century. Rogers participated in the Brown County fence-cutting wars, the East Texas Conner Fight, the El Paso/Langtry Prizefight, the riots during
the Laredo Quarantine, and the hunts for Hill Loftis and Gregorio Cortez. For details see:
http://web3.unt.edu/untpress/catalog/detail.cfm?ID=203

Spellman is also the author of Captain J. A. Brooks, Texas Ranger. See:
http://web3.unt.edu/untpress/catalog/detail.cfm?ID=273

William & Rosalie: A Holocaust Testimony is getting much attention

In case you missed it, two excerpts from this moving book recently ran in the Dallas Morning News:
see:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/dmn/stories/081907dnentholocaust_part2.9ae0ce.html
AND
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/longterm/stories/081207dnentholocaust_part1.e509f5.html

For more information about the book, see the University of North Texas web site:

http://web3.unt.edu/news/story.cfm?story=9901

There is also a terrific multi-media web site:
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/spe/2007/schiffs/

"William & Rosalie" (hardcover $19.95) is available at bookstores or by calling (800) 826-8911 or visiting http://www.tamu.edu/upress/.

The book has generated much interest in the Schiffs. If you have the opportunity, catch them at one of their upcoming appearances in the Dallas area.

Craig Hanley and William and Rosalie Schiff are set to be interviewed from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, September 25 on KERA-90.1. They will be interviewed by host Kris Boyd on KERA's radio talk show "Think."

Borders Books & Music, 10720 Preston Rd., Dallas, Texas
Wednesday, September 26, 2007. 7 - 9 PM

Holocaust Survivors story told in new book

William and Rosalie Schiff survived six different German slave and concentration camps and managed to reunite after their individual odysseys. Now both in their eighties, they live in Dallas, Texas, and devote themselves full time to teaching children the dangers of prejudice and hate.

Their story is told in a new book, William & Rosalie: A Holocaust Testimony, published by the University of North Texas Press. Craig Hanley powerfully narrates the struggle of the couple to stay alive and find each other at war’s end.

Hanley’s manuscript was the winner at the annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest. See this link for information about the Mayborn Institute:
http://www.mayborninstitute.unt.edu/conf06_winners.htm

For more information about the book, see the University of North Texas web site:
http://web3.unt.edu/news/story.cfm?story=9901

There is also a terrific multi-media web site:
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/spe/2007/schiffs/

"William & Rosalie" (hardcover $19.95) is available at bookstores or by calling (800) 826-8911 or visiting http://www.tamu.edu/upress/.

Check back for more information about Dallas area appearances by William and Rosalie Schiff and Craig Hanley.

Lifelong mission continues for Holocaust survivors

William & Rosalie: A Holocaust Testimony
William and Rosalie Schiff and Craig Hanley

“William and Rosalie, having experienced the depth of evil and depravity, nonetheless remain committed to the task of seeking to educate against hatred. They model what is best about the human spirit. Their story deserves to be told, and passed from generation to generation.”–Alan L. Berger, Raddock Chair in Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University

Read more about their moving and inspirational story here.