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The newspaper industry, and books coverage in Texas, took another hit Monday, January 7, as The Dallas Morning News underwent major job cuts.

Texas author Michael Lee Lanning’s 25th book is Dear Allyanna, An Old Soldier’s Last Letter to His Granddaughter (John M. Hardy Publishing, $18.95 paperback).

A recommended reading list for children in grades K –– 5, the 2019 Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List encourages recreational reading through a variety of current titles.

The sixth annual Bookworm Festival begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, February 2, 2019, in a new location at Jersey Village High School in Jersey Village, Texas, part of the Houston metropolitan area.

Over the course of the year, I receive probably 200 or more books to consider for Texas Reads, and I try to get around to as many as possible. So far I’ve been able to write about, or at least mention, 110 titles by Texas authors or about Texas subjects, covering a wide range of…

The Swick and the Dead is book two in Maggie Foster’s clever and imaginative Loch Lonach Mysteries series, and the odd word in the title, “swick,” has a double meaning. In recent slang, swick mashes together “sweet” and “sick” to refer to something “cool” or “excellent” or “pleasant.” In old Scottish, however, swik (and similar…