Jim Harris

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...

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...

A southwestern adaptation of "The Three Little Pigs."

Many of the animals that live in the southwestern desert witness the race between slow but steady Tortoise and the quick, overconfident Jackrabbit.

A collection of poetry about pirates and their way of life.

In this Cajun version of "Jack and the Beanstalk," a handful of magic beans takes Jacques up through the clouds to the castle of a hungry giant.

When hungry Coyote, instead of Santa Claus, visits their desert home on Christmas Eve, the three javelinas must figure out how to save Christmas.

Rhyming verses describe the antics of ten different dinosaurs, including pachycephalosaurus, archaeopteryx, supersaurus, and triceratops. Two wiggling eyeballs show through die cut holes on pages featuring each dinosaur.