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sponsored by Blue Wilow Bookshop
About Blue Willow Books: We opened our doors in October 1996 as a neighborhood bookshop with outreach throughout the Houston area. We are located in the West Memorial area on Memorial Drive, and we welcome you to come browse our shelves for books, games, puzzles, stationery, and more. We sell new books, downloadable audio books…
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6.3.18 News Briefs
Storybook capital plans colorful Children’s Art & Literacy Festival for 2018 Seventh annual event celebrates “The Day the Crayons Quit” illustrator June 7–9; early bird discount tickets available through May 15 ABILENE — The official Storybook Capital of Texas is celebrating all things Oliver Jeffers at the seventh annual Children’s Art & Literacy Festival (CALF),…
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Special Events
Elena Gallego Rare Books Pop-up Shop, San Antonio, May 19-June 3 Comicpalooza, Houston, May 25-27 Ongoing Exhibits Routine Fables, Houston, May 25-July 29 Sunday, May 27 Austin Malvern Books, Readings from Donna M. Johnson’s Personal Narrative Workshop, 4PM Dallas Half Price Books – The Mother Ship, local author Leonard Critcher will sell and sign his…
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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole
Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 6.3.2018 Two Texas books gain national attention Two best-selling Austin authors have penned new books about Texas that garnered glowing reviews this spring in national publications such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Lawrence Wright, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda…
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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,
Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor TEXAS COOKING Paula Forbes, with photography by Robert Strickland The Austin Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from Deep in the Heart of Texas Harry N. Abrams Hardcover, 978-1419728938, 240 pages, $29.99 March 20, 2018 Reviewed by Angelina LaRue Good food and Austin are synonymous. We often think of little…
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Lone Star ListensAuthor interviews by Kay Ellington, LSLL Publisher
Lonn Taylor is a historian and writer who retired to Fort Davis, Texas, with his wife after twenty years as a historian at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. He received a BA in history and government from Texas Christian University in 1961 and did graduate work at New…
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5.20.18 News Briefs
Storybook capital plans colorful Children’s Art & Literacy Festival for 2018 Seventh annual event celebrates “The Day the Crayons Quit” illustrator June 7–9; early bird discount tickets available through May 15 ABILENE — The official Storybook Capital of Texas is celebrating all things Oliver Jeffers at the seventh annual Children’s Art & Literacy Festival (CALF),…
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Lone Star Book Reviews
Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR Barbara Taylor Sissel writes issue-driven women’s fiction threaded with elements of suspense, which particularly explores how families respond to the tragedy of crime. She is the author of eight previous novels: The Last Innocent Hour, The Ninth Step, The Volunteer, Evidence…
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Special Events
Houston Book Show, May 19-20 New Ideas 2: A Festival of New Plays, Dallas, May 18-26 Elena Gallego Rare Books Pop-up Shop, San Antonio, May 19-June 3 Boldface Conference, Houston, May 21-25 Comicpalooza, Houston, May 25-27 Ongoing Exhibits Routine Fables, Houston, May 25-July 29 Sunday, May 20 Austin BookPeople, CATE BERRY speaking & signing Penguin…