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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,
Contributing Editor MYSTERY J J Rusz The Window Trail: A Big Bend Country Mystery CreateSpace Paperback, 978-1-7224-2487-9, (also available as an e-book), 284 pgs., $12.99; July 4, 2018 In Big Bend National Park, the Window Trail is a 5.5-mile, out-and-back pathway that draws hikers, birders, and others to its rugged beauty. In J J Rusz’s…
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9.2.18 News Briefs
Texas Book Festival announces 2018 author lineup AUSTIN— The Texas Book Festival (TBF) announced the 2018 author lineup filled with plenty of Texas talent and nationally renowned authors, including Susan Orlean, John Scalzi, Phoebe Robinson, Scott Kelly, Julián Castro, Jose Antonio Vargas, Dessa, Ben Fountain, Carol Anderson, Mimi Swartz, and more. The 2018 TBF weekend…
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Special Events
Friends of the Dallas Public Library Annual Book Sale, August 24-26 Explore Other Worlds with Smith County Libraries, Tyler, September 1 Lone Star Zine Fest, Austin, September 2 Ongoing Exhibits Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, Abilene, June 7-September 30 Sunday, August 26 Austin Malvern Books, celebrate the launch of Austin: A Poem by…
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Lone Star ListensAuthor interview by Michelle Newby Lancaster
Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers. Michelle Newby Lancaster is a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and Foreword Reviews, writer, blogger at TexasBookLover.com, and a moderator for the Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, Concho River Review, Mosaic Literary Magazine,…
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Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 9.2.2018 Case Keenum explains his priorities in life After former Vikings quarterback Case Keenum threw the pass that will forever be known as the “Minneapolis Miracle” to win the divisional playoff game on Jan. 14, 2018, a sideline reporter asked him on national TV if that was the best moment of…
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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,
Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor TEXAS SPORTS book), 256 pgs., $19.99; September 4, 2018 If you’re new to Texas, it won’t take you long to understand that high school football games are a statewide religion, as well as a billion-dollar-plus industry. TEXAS SPORTS Jeff Fisher High School Football in Texas: Amazing Football Stories…
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8.26.18 News Briefs
Shame the Stars by Guadalupe García McCall chosen for 2018 Texas’ Great Read The Texas Center for the Book at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission has chosen Shame the Stars by Guadalupe García McCall as Texas’ Great Read for 2018. Every year, the Library of Congress asks each state to select a book…
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Lone Star Review: THE WINDOW TRAIL
In Big Bend National Park, the Window Trail is a 5.5-mile, out-and-back pathway that draws hikers, birders, and others to its rugged beauty. In J J Rusz’s engrossing, well-crafted new novel, “the Window” is other things, as well. It becomes the scene of an infamous suicide that is spotlighted in a best-selling book,…
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Bird, Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen_082618
HISTORICAL FICTION Sarah Bird Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen St. Martin’s Press Hardcover, 978-1-2501-9316-2 (also available as an e-book and an audiobook), 416 pgs., $27.99 September 4, 2018 “Girls want marvelous adventures just as much as boys do.” —L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz “Here’s the first thing…
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Special Events
Book Drive for Houston Area Unaccompanied Minors presents Book Drive Benefit & Celebration, August 22 Friends of the Dallas Public Library Annual Book Sale, August 24-26 5th Annual Study Social benefiting Literacy First, Austin, August 24 Ongoing Exhibits Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, Abilene, June 7-September 30 Sunday, August 19 Austin Half Price…