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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 11.12.2017   Book addresses unsolved 1902 West Texas murder case Since his retirement as a West Texas lawyer, Bill Neal has forged a second career writing about famous and infamous murder cases on the Texas frontier. Neal spent forty years in West Texas courtrooms, twenty as a prosecutor and twenty as a…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Photographer recorded ’70s music scene Albany cattleman/photographer Watt Casey Jr. relives the eclectic Austin music scene in the 1970s in his impressive new book, My Guitar Is a Camera (Texas A&M University Press, $35 hardcover). In photographs and accompanying text, Casey displays his…

Above: authors Melissa Lenhardt, Don Graham, Vanetta Chapman Burnet Library expands; kicks off Coffee Talks Series VII for 2017–18 BURNET— The Herman Brown Free Library in Burnet will be hosting the Grand Opening of their new Library Expansion Project — Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 10:30 a.m. with a new genealogy research room and a quiet,…

45th Annual Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival, Houston, October 28-Novovember 12 26th Annual San Antonio Express-News Book & Author Luncheon, October 30 ReadFest Houston 2017, November 2-4 World Fantasy 2017, San Antonio, November 2-5 7th annual Dobie Dichos: Campfires, Chili con Carne, and the Words of J. Frank Dobie, Oakville, November…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Two books celebrate Texas sports every day Two new books offer sports fans a Texas sports story a day chronologically throughout the year. Both books, similar in their approach but offering different stories for most days, came out within weeks of each other.…

2017 Lone Star Lit Holiday Gift Guide • BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED BOOKS Sharon Putegnat; edited by Judy Coyne and illustrated by Don Breeden Nani’s Wish…A True Pig Tale CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Paperback, 978-1545318300; 40 pages, $9.95 September 19, 2017 Nani’s Wish…A True Pig Tale is a story of a young girl…

2017 Lone Star Lit Holiday Gift Guide • LITERATURE, FICTION, AND TEXAS TITLES WESTERN FICTION Preston Lewis Bluster’s Last Stand: The Memoirs of H. H. Lomax Wild Horse Press Paperback, 978-1-68179-096-1, $19.95 Events on the Little Bighorn might have turned out better for George Armstrong Custer had he listened to H.H. Lomax rather than trying…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 11.5.2017   Photographer recorded ’70s music scene Albany cattleman/photographer Watt Casey Jr. relives the eclectic Austin music scene in the 1970s in his impressive new book, My Guitar Is a Camera (Texas A&M University Press, $35 hardcover). In photographs and accompanying text, Casey displays his up-close and personal acquaintance with some of…

2017 Lone Star Lit Holiday Gift Guide • BOOKS OF FAITH NEW FOR CHILDREN / JEWISH INTEREST Lori S. Kline, with illustrations by Susan Simon Almost a Minyan Sociosights Press Hardcover, 978-0991632749 (also available as ebook), 40 pages; $17.99 Grade Level: 1–2 Almost a Minyan was just awarded the 2017 Literary Classics Seal of Approval.…