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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 11.25.2018  Book touts treasured small to medium U.S. cities Treasured Places: Celebrating the Richness of America’s Cities & Towns by former Abilene Mayor Gary McCaleb and former executive director of the National League of Cities Don Borut focuses on more than five dozen cities that represent something unique about the quality…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Author explores women’s roles in Texas history Women in Texas History by Angela Boswell (Texas A&M University Press, $37 hardcover) traces the impact women have had on the state’s history from prehistoric times to the present. “This book is a narrative of Texas…

Letters About Literature 2018 open for submissions from young readers AUSTIN — Has a book brought you to laughter or tears, or changed your life? Write a letter to the author. Letters About Literature is a reading/writing contest for fourth through twelfth graders under the direction of the Library of Congress. Texas submissions for the…

Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival, Houston, November 3-13 Readers & ‘ritas Weekend Getaway, Allen, November 9-11 Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival, Houston, Nov 3-13 A Passion for Gardens: A Writer’s Garden Literary Symposium and Luncheon, Dallas, Nov 14 Zine Fest Houston, Nov 17 Storytelling with Mark Yaconelli,…

Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers. Kay Ellington has worked in management for a variety of media companies, including Gannett, Cox Communications, Knight-Ridder, and the New York Times Regional Group, from Texas to New York to California to the Southeast and back again to…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 11.18.2018  Author explores women’s roles in Texas history Women in Texas History by Angela Boswell (Texas A&M University Press, $37 hardcover) traces the impact women have had on the state’s history from prehistoric times to the present. “This book is a narrative of Texas women’s history,” Boswell writes. “It is based…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Texas soldiers helped liberate concentration camps More than 300 Texans were among the troops who helped liberate the Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II, and they’re listed in a remarkable book, The Texas Liberators: Veteran Narratives from World War II (Texas Tech University Press, $29.95 hardcover).…

Prepare for wrestling at Zine Fest Houston 2018 HOUSTON — Zine Fest Houston (ZFH) 2018 will take place Sat., Nov. 17, 2018, from 12-6pm at Lawndale Art Center. The theme of this year’s festival is wrestling and programming includes a screening of Lady Wrestler: The Amazing, Untold Story of African-American Women in the Ring by…

11.11.2018 FICTION Sofia Grant The Daisy Children: A Novel William Morrow Trade paperback, 978-0-0626-9344-1 (also available as an e-book and an audio-book), 432 pgs., $15.99 August 2018 Katie Garret is having a bad week — she’s been fired from her marketing design position; she’s failed to get pregnant this month, too; and she just accepted…