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Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.19.15   Wilder Good, Hank books aimed at boys Two Texas authors have found a special niche — adventure books for boys in grades four to eight. Wilder and Sunny is the third novel in Lubbock author S. J. Dahlstrom’s Adventures of Wilder Good series (Paul Dry Books, $7.95). The series features…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor History Paul, Richard, and Steven Moss We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program University of Texas Press, 978-0-292-77249-6, hardcover, May 1, 2015 Reviewed by Amy Foster, PhD President Eisenhower signed the executive order creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958.…

Mockingbird and Watchman: Texas bookstores celebrate Harper Lee novels with myriad events To celebrate the July 14, 2015, release of Mississippi novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner Harper Lee’s long-awaited novel Go Set a Watchman, Texas chain and independent bookstores have scheduled special events throughout the week. HPB.com, the blog of Texas-based chain Half Price Books,…

Amy Foster is an associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida and holds the PhD in history from Auburn University.. A historian of technology and gender, she is the author of Integrating Women into the Astronaut Corps: Politics and Logistics at NASA, 1972–2004 ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). Her research interests…

San Antonio Indie Book Fest, July 12 David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum Exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Exhibition, Austin, February 10–July 6, 2015 Humanities Texas Special Exhibition: Shakespeare, Longview, May 15 – July 25 Sunday, July 5 Houston Murder By the Book, Daniel Silva…

Sarah McCoy is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of The Mapmaker’s Children; The Baker’s Daughter, a 2012 Goodreads Choice Award Best Historical Fiction nominee; the novella “The Branch of Hazel” in Grand Central; and The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico. Her work has been featured in Real Simple, The…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.12.15   Author of Arkansas mysteries now writes in Texas Although her books are still set in Arkansas, popular novelist Joan Hess has called Austin, Texas, home for about five years. When her daughter became pregnant with twins, Hess moved from Fayetteville to Austin and has stayed. Pride v. Prejudice (Minotaur Books,…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Memoir Brickhouse, Jamie Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir St. Martin’s, 978-1-4668-3730-0, hardcover, April 2015 Reviewed by Thomas H. McNeely To readers of recovery narratives, the trajectory of Dangerous When Wet is by now familiar: Escape from family; substance-assisted transformation of self; crash, burn, new authentic self; peace /…

Librarian Tabatha Pope of Houston is a fifth-generation Texan and self-described promoter, wife, mommy, music lover, book nerd, and closet Goth. When her nose isn’t in a book, or she’s not chasing her kids around, you’ll find her working on her own writing. She loves romance, suspense, supernatural/paranormal, zombies, faeries, history, and baseball, and is…