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Texas kid lit wins multiple awards
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems (Cinco Puntos Press) by David Bowles was named as an honor book for the Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children’s Literature in the Young Readers category. A Mexican-American author from deep South Texas, Bowles is an assistant professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.…
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Bookish Texas: Events Around the State Week of January 21, 2019
Bookish Texas • Events around the State The most comprehensive listing of book and author events, festivals, readings, lectures, and signings in the Lone Star State Don’t see your book or literary event here? Email at Events@lonestarliterary.com with your complete info two weeks in advance of the issue in which your event is scheduled, and we’ll…
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Review: Hugh Asa Fitzsimons III’s A Rock Between Two Rivers
Many Texas ranchers have a special bond with their land: they grew up on it; inherited it from a parent or other relative; earned their livelihood from its huge acreage; and hope to pass it on, after their demise, as a loving legacy for their children or grandchildren.
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Lone Star Literary Life launches new website
A new year in Texas books brings a new Lone Star Lit website. We appreciate your patience while we get it just right so readers have even more ways to connect with bookish Texas.
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Aransas Evening By Jeff Hampton
Aransas Evening By Jeff Hampton This tour is complete, but go directly to the blog tour stops by clicking the links below. 1/17/19 Author Interview StoreyBook Reviews 1/17/19 BONUS Promo Hall Ways Blog 1/18/19 Review Bibliotica 1/19/19 Excerpt Max Knight 1/20/19 Playlist Chapter Break Book Blog 1/21/19 Review That’s What She’s Reading 1/22/19 Guest Post…
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Dr. Arthur Spohn: Surgeon, Inventor, and Texas Medical Pioneer
DR. ARTHUR SPOHN: SURGEON, INVENTOR, AND MEDICAL PIONEER By @ Jane Clements Monday and @ Frances Brannen Vick TOUR COMPLETE Tour stops shown in bold are direct links (which will go live on post date); others are links to each blog’s home page. 1/15/19 Promo Hall Ways Blog 1/16/19 Review Reading by Moonlight 1/17/19 Scrapbook Page All the…
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The Water Lord By Matt Minor
The Water Lord By Matt Minor TOUR FINISHED This tour is complete, but go directly to the blog tour stops by clicking the links below. 1/8/19 Excerpt All the Ups and Downs 1/8/19 BONUS Promo Hall Ways Blog 1/9/19 Review Reading by Moonlight 1/10/19 Author Interview Texas Book Lover 1/11/19 Review Tangled in Text…
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The many hats worn by Progressive Rising Phoenix Press CEO Amanda Thrasher
Amanda Thrasher describes herself as sometimes hyper, a tad ADD, highly self-motivated, and continually thinking.
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Texas Book Festival raises $675K for literacy, announces 2019 dates
The 24th annual Texas Book Festival (TBF) will return to the Texas State Capitol and surrounds on October 26 and 27, 2019. In a press release, the TBF announced that the 2018 festival was the most successful on record, with 50,000 attendees and 300 authors. The annual First Edition Literary Gala raised more than $675,000…
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Austin Public Library’s Recycled Reads planning citywide expansion
Recycled Reads opened on Burnet Road near North Loop Boulevard in 2009 and accepts books, CDs, and DVDs and recycles them or sells them for around 50 cents to $1 each.