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TO THE REPUBLIC

The Republic Series, Book One

BY BRUCE CLAVEY

Publication Date: October 26th, 2020

Pages: 394 pages

Categories: Hispanic American Fiction / Political Fiction

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A novel for our times. A saga for the ages.

On the eve of passing landmark immigration legislation, the entire Texas Senate and its native Tejano leader, Diego Reyes, vanish suddenly from Austin. When news of the disappearance hits West Texas, cowboy Del Woodward isn't shocked. He knows exactly where the lawmakers are, but he's not telling. Woody's been down on his luck, and a shady bargain he's made puts him tight in the squeeze of Marcos Cepeda, north Mexico's ruthless drug lord. And Cepeda's furious with this new stall in the bill. It's got a loophole he can exploit to add another quarter million square miles of exclusive turf to his cartel—but that territory goes back up for grabs if leader Reyes can't pass the bill before the Senate session expires in mere days. The brutal kingpin wants what he's bought and compels Woody to step up. How the cowboy swings the vote isn't important to Cepeda, but this sure is: if Woody breathes so much as a word of reluctance, it'll be his last. The prize is Texas, nothing less. It's real, and it's on.

The Republic Series launches from true pages of the Lone Star frontera story into a hauntingly modern arena of trade, trafficking, and tradition on the Rio Grande in To the Republic: BOOK ONE.

An Amazon #1 New Release in History of U.S. Immigration

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Author Bruce Clavey shares the music that inspired (and inspires)

protagonist Delbert Woodward of To the Republic

If Del Woodward doesn't cop to any rhyme or reason in the music he loves, it's because he doesn't see it. Not so for diner patrons who gaze across the table as he flips through jukebox cards and plunks quarters into the box; they just marvel at how his selections thread the cardinal points of the Lone Star musical map. Friends find Woody's Texas in that wide open yonder between Asleep at the Wheel and ZZ Top, LaGrange and Luckenbach, Waylon and Willie.

Woody won't turn off a good country song, but he can tell you the western artists that inspired any of the Billboard greats. If he had to grab one CD on a mad dive from a burning car, it'd be the gunslinging, desert-wandering, bronc-busting ballads of Marty Robbins. Saturday nights now and then, he'll cross into Ojinaga to visit the little taqueria that's roamed by mariachi who serve up melancholic melodies of señoritas refusing to be won. They put Woody in the mind of his Aracely, the Austin woman who stole his heart some years back, only to toss it out the car window. Woody can't say as he's still got her or she's got away; that's a song in itself. But it's the kind of troubles the good Lord and his humble servant, Don Julio, made añejo tequila to help folks sort out. Woody will sip a little in the wee hours when the norteño and sierreño airwaves trickle up from the deep south and into the hiss of his ranch house radio.

So, here's a little lineup of tunes Del Woodward has come by every which a way. Shuffle if you like, but if you leave the deck stacked how it comes, you'll hear what he calls his Dawn-to-Dusk, Day-in-the-Life-Of. Some are gems he first heard in the glory days of K-tel vinyl; others are classics from a handful of artists he's actually been pleased to meet. A few of them he just always seemed to know. Just don't let that classical Rossini composition in slot #2 cross your eyes too bad; over the years, many a dude has unwound his cayuse to the 200-year-old barnbuster.

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	Song	Performer	Album
1	Our Last Days As Children – From “Friday Night Lights” Soundtrack	Explosions in the Sky	Friday Night Lights (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2	The Lone Ranger Theme (William Tell Overture)	John Morgan Orquestra (Gioachino Rossini, 1832)	El Cine Del Oeste
3	Tumblin’ Tumbleweed / Cool Water	Rex Allen Jr. & Rex Allen Sr.	The Singing Cowboys
4	You’re from Texas (Live)	Asleep at the Wheel	Asleep at the Wheel (Live)
5	(Ghost) Riders in the Sky	Johnny Cash	Silver
6	Big Bad John	Jimmy Dean	Jimmy Dean’s Greatest Hits
7	Tu Enamorado	Jose Alfredo Jimenez	Las 100 Clasicas Vol. 1
8	On the Road Again - Live	Willie Nelson	The Essential Willie Nelson
9	Route 66	The Time Jumpers	Jumpin’ Time
10	Whip Out A Yodel	Wylie & The Wild West	Bucking Horse Moon
11	Every Which-a-Way	The Quebe Sisters Band	Every Which-a-Way
12	El Paso	Marty Robbins	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
13	Ride Cowboy Ride	Rex Allen Jr. & Rex Allen Sr.	The Singing Cowboys
14	Narco Cholo	Lupillo Rivera	Tu Esclavo y Amo
15	Highwayman – Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY – March 1990	The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson	Live – American Outlaws
16	La Grange	ZZ Top	Hi Five: ZZ Top
17	North to Alaska	Johnny Horton	Johnny Horton’s Greatest Hits
18	Trail Drive - Live	Sons of the San Joaquin	Live at the Western Jubilee Warehouse
19	Honeysuckle Rose	The Time Jumpers	Jumpin’ Time
20	Cattle Call	Don Walser, The Pure Texas Band	Texas Legend
21	Las Gaviotas	Antonio Aguilar	Antonio Aguilar Con Tambora
22	Don’t Fence Me In	Gene Autry	Columbia Historic Edition
23	Goin’ Away Party	The Quebe Sisters Band	Every Which-a-Way
24	Cool Water	Marty Robbins	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
25	Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)	Waylon Jennings	Ol’ Waylon
26	Places in Texas	Shake Russell	What This Heart Holds
27	Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain	Willie Nelson	Red Headed Stranger
28	So Long to the Red River Valley	Sons of the Pioneers	Symphonies of Sage
29	Yo Quiero Ser	Vicente Fernandez	Historia de Un Idolo
30	Cowboy Night Herd Song	Roy Rogers	An Old Cowhand
31	Santa Fe Lights	Sons Of The San Joaquin	Way Out Yonder
32	Prairie Echoes	Foy Willing, Riders of the Purple Sage	Tumbling Tumbleweeds (10 Timeless Western Songs)

Bruce Clavey of Round Rock, Texas writes with a passion for exploring the Latin heritage tucked in cultural corners throughout Texas, Mexico, and Central America. In 2017, Clavey's research into perspectives on state history led to his onsite rediscovery of the Mexico City dungeon where the colonial "Father of Texas" was imprisoned, documented in his book "The Inquisition of Stephen F. Austin." His interest to illuminate compelling historic junctures brought the creation of several feature dramatizations for state museum in-exhibit performance. Clavey's release of Book One of The Republic Series in 2020 begins the journey of Texas and Mexican characters who confront the pressure points at today's vibrant river border, a land that has functioned for centuries as both international gateway and barrier.

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THREE WINNERS each receive a prize pack including: Autographed paperback copy of To the Republic; unisex tee with the "Texas Forever" design; baseball cap stitched with the "Texas Forever" design; ceramic lapel pin with the "Mano de Tejas" design; vinyl 5” decal with the "Mano deTejas" design.

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