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Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival, Houston, November 3-13 Annual Celebration of Reading in Dallas/Ft Worth, Dallas, November 6 International Literature Festival, Houston, November 6-8 Dallas Institute presents 2018 Hiett Prize in the Humanities Award Luncheon, Dallas, November 7 WITS Gala | The Illuminated Forest, Houston, November 7 Barbara Bush Houston Literacy…

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 11.11.2018  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).…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive New titles from popular Texas women novelists Several of Texas’s popular women novelists have new titles on the market this fall. Let’s start with Sarah Bird’s intriguing novel, Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen (St. Martin’s, $27.99 hardcover), a fictional treatment of…

Photographer sees Texas from a mile above This has been quite a year for elegant coffee-table books about Texas. I’ve mentioned four of them in previous columns, but here are two more that have come to my attention. A Mile Above Texas by Jay B. Sauceda is a spectacular collection of color aerial photographs of…

2018 Lone Star Lit Holiday Gift Guide • BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS HISTORICAL FICTION / FOR YOUNG READERS Casandra Firmin One Christmas in Old Tascosa Texas Tech University Press Hardcover ISBN 978-0896725881, 104 pages, $21.95 Tascosa, once a booming Wild West town complete with outlaws, cowboys, and gamblers, was all but deserted. Its only resident…

2018 Lone Star Lit Holiday Gift Guide • FICTION AND NONFICTION FICTION / MYSTERY Bill Briscoe Perplexity Publisher: Bill Briscoe Paperback ISBN 9780998642536 (also available as an ebook), 288 pages, $12.99 What happens when a mistake from the past threatens to derail the future? Jim Pepperman is about to lose everything to the secret he’s…

2018 Lone Star Lit Holiday Gift Guide • BOOKS OF FAITH CHILDREN’S BOOKS J.L. Novinsky Heart of the Oak Christian Faith Publishing Paperback, 978-1635758177, 36 pages, $12.95 He’s old and weathered, his skin is rough and knotty. But, oh, he has memories. Of joy. Of love. Of tragedy. He has endured many years and felt…

McAllen Library hosts 5th South Texas Book Festival November 10 McALLEN — The South Texas Book Festival, formerly the McAllen Book Festival, is designed expressly for children and teens. It will be held at the McAllen Main Library and is a free event open to the public featuring a diverse group of national, regional, and…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Cecile Richards is a nationally respected leader in the field of women’s health, reproductive rights, and social change. She began her career helping garment workers, hotel workers, and nursing home aides fight for better wages and working conditions. After years in the labor movement, she moved back home to Texas to help…