• 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

• Humanities Texas Special Exhibition: Shakespeare, Longview, May 15 – July 25

Sunday, July 12

Austin

• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Cosmic Casino,” 3PM

Dallas

• Lucky Dog Books – Oak Cliff, Grand Opening Celebration!, all day

Houston

• University of Houston – Cullen Performance Hall, author Rob Bell presents The Everything Is Spiritual Tour, 8:30PM

Monday, July 13

Amarillo

• B&N, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Arlington

• B&N – The Parks Mall, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon. 9AM

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, To Kill A Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N – Lakeline, To Kill A Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N – Sunset Valley, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• BookPeople, Bestselling Author & Golden Globe-Winning Actor CHRIS COLFER speaking & signing The Land of Stories Book 4: Beyond the Kingdoms, 7PM

Bee Cave

• B&N, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Cedar Hill

• B&N – Hillside Village, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

College Station

• B&N, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Corpus Christi

• B&N, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N – Preston/Royal, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Denton

• B&N – Golden Triangle Mall, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

El Paso

• B&N – Fountains at Farah, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N – Sunland Park, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Fort Worth

• B&N – Hulen Center, To Kill A Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar Mall, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Harker Heights

• B&N, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N, Alicia Michaels signs The Bionics, 1PM

Houston

• B&N – Champions, To Kill A Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N – Copperfield, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N – River Oaks, Get Pop-Cultured: To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N – Vanderbilt Square, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-thon, 9AM
• B&N – West Oaks, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N – Westheimer, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• Murder By the Book, Roger Hobbs will sign and discuss Vanishing Games and M.J. Arlidge will sign and discuss Eeny Meeny, 6:30PM

Humble

• B&N, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Hurst

• B&N – NE Mall, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Lewisville

• B&N – Vista Ridge, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Lubbock

• B&N, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

McAllen

• B&N – Palms Crossing, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• Midland
• B&N, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Pasadena

• B&N – Fairway Market, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Pearland

• B&N, To Kill A Mockingbird – Read-A-Thon, 9AM

Plano

• B&N – Creekwalk Village, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N – Preston/Park, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Round Rock

• B&N – La Frontera, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

San Antonio

• B&N – Bandera Pointe, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N – Ingram, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N – La Cantera, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N – Northwoods, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• B&N – San Pedro, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Ingrid Bencosme reads and signs Teeth Fairies, 5PM

Southlake

• B&N – Towne Square, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Sugar Land

• B&N – First Colony Mall, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Tyler

• B&N, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

• B&N, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-thon, 9AM

Webster

• B&N, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-thon, 9AM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon, 9AM

Tuesday, July 14   BASTILLE DAY

Angleton

• Brazoria County Historical Museum, Jesse Cancelmo discusses and signs Texas Coral Reefs, 6:30PM

Austin

• BookPeople, Austin Author JASON NEULANDER performing & signing The Intergalactic Nemesis: Twin Infinity, 7PM
• BookWoman, Fierce Visionaries featuring award-winning poets Susan Wood, Robin Davidson, Sasha West, and Carol Denson, 7PM
• Home Slice, Austin Bat Cave presents Story Department: Abandon Ship with filmmaker Hanly Banks Callahan, writer Ben Reed, literary director of the Texas Book Festival Steph Opitz, and Syed Ali Haider, 7:30PM
• Spider House Cafe & Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, M.E. Parker signs Jonesbridge, 7PM
• Hall of State at Fair Park, author and historian Rose-Mary Rumbley presents People Who Changed Dallas, Theatrically Speaking, 12PM
• The Wild Detectives, Celebrating Bastille Day with a selection of books by French authors, 6:30PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam, 8PM

Houston

• B&N – Vanderbilt Square, Harper Lee Celebration – Go Set a Watchman, 7AM
• Katy Budget Books, Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Release Party, 6:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Vicki Pettersson will sign and discuss Swerve, the third book in the Celestial Blues Series, and Taylor Stevens will sign and discuss her new novel, The Mask, 6:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Phillip Bryant discusses and signs They Met at Shiloh, 5PM
• Warehouse Live, Houston Moth StorySLAM: Balance, 7:30PM

Irving

• Irving Public Library – East Branch, Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra Kids Notes Program, 11AM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Voices de la Luna presents a poetry reading with Rosebud Ben-Oni, David Hale and Octavio Quintanilla, 6PM

Southlake

• B&N – Towne Square, Brandi Cook signing Princess Abigail and the Rose, 9AM

Wednesday, July 15

Austin

• BookPeople, Austin Author LOUISA HALL speaking & signing her new novel, Speak, 7PM
• Brave New Books, Biohack Austin! Immunology of DMT: A talk with author Attila Szabo, 7PM

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, Mark Haskell Smith will be presenting and signing his new book Naked at Lunch, 7:30PM

Garland

• Nicholson Memorial Library System – South Branch, Garland Symphony Orchestra Kids Notes Program, 11AM

Houston

• Asia Society Texas Center, author and curator Sushobhan Adhikary presents The Life-Sketch of Tagore and his Paintings, 12PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Mary Pearson will discuss and sign her new book, THE HEART OF BETRAYAL, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Michelle Gable will sign and discuss the paperback release of A Paris Apartment, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, ReShonda Tate Billingsley reads and signs Mama’s Boy, 6PM

Thursday, July 16

Austin

• BookPeople, Austin Novelist STINA LEICHT speaking & signing Cold Iron, 7PM

Edinburg

• Sekula Memorial Library, Dr. Lino García Jr. discusses and signs Colonial Spanish Texas and Other Essays, 6PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Kent Wascom reads and signs SECESSIA, 7PM
• The Heritage Society, Jerry and Marvy Finger Lecture Series: author Dr. Kenneth Hafertepe presents Fredericksburg’s Family Ties: Tracking Architectural and Cultural Change through the Generations, 12PM
• Murder By the Book, Jeff Lindsay will sign and discuss Dexter is Dead, 6:30PM

Irving

• Irving Public Library – South Branch, Unmask Young Adult Author Panel: Jennifer Armentrout, Jenny Martin, Meredith Moore, Mary Pearson and Becky Wallace, 7PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Elizabeth Rodriguez discusses and signs Put on the Blindfold and Jump, 6PM

Friday, July 17

Austin

• BookPeople, Bestselling Author MARY PEARSON speaking & signing The Heart of Betrayal (The Remnant Chronicles Book 2), 7PM
• Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, CantoMundo Reading with Rodrigo Toscano + poetry, 8:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Henry L. Roubicek discusses and signs SO, WHAT’S YOUR STORY?, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Scott Sigler will sign and discuss Alive, the first book in his Generations Trilogy, 6:30PM

Lubbock

• B&N, Book signing: Wilder and Sunny – The Adventures of Wilder Good #3 by S.J. Dahlstrom, 1PM

San Antonio

• Carver Community Cultural Center, Mat Johnson reading Loving Day, 7PM

Saturday, July 18

Arlington

• Half Price Books – Lincoln Square, local author Alondra Poindexter will sell and sign her biography/memoir In Their Shadows, 1PM

Austin

• Bullock Museum, Book It, Texas! Join the discussion of City on Fire: The Explosion that Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle by Bill Minutaglio, 10:30AM
• Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, CantoMundo Reading with Sandra María Esteves + poetry, 8:30PM
• Half Price Books – South Lamar, local author Leatrice Taylor will sell and sign her children’s book Thank God for Daddy!, 1PM
• University of Texas – Gordon-White Building, Barrio Writers reading!, 2PM

Bedford

• Half Price Books, local author Kimberly Carlstrom will sell and sign her children’s book Scrambled Letters, 1PM

Burleson

• Dwell Coffeehouse, Jana Grissom reads and signs One Prince, Two Kingdoms, 9AM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, George Arnold will sign his award winning biography, Growing Up Simple, as well as his series of multilingual children’s books and Enigma mystery books, 9:30AM

Fort Davis

• Jeff Davis County Library, TEXAS WRITES with the Writers’ League of Texas featuring Donna M. Johnson and Charlotte Gulllick, 10AM

Fort Worth

• W.E. Scott Theatre, Acclaimed author David McCullough will discuss his book The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, 6PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Ernie Deats will sign Kidnapped on the Bayou, 2PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, Astronaut Ron Garan signs The Orbital Perspective: Lesssons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles, 2PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Kim O’Brien will discuss and sign her new YA novel, BONE DEEP, 2PM
• Murder By the Book, Kay Kendall will sign and discuss Rainy Day Women, 4:30PM
• West Ave. (at River Oaks), Rodrigue: The Sanders Collection book signing with co-authors Jacques Rodrigue and Don Sanders, 10AM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Laurie Olerich reads and signs Darkness Calling, 11AM

• B&N, David A. Smith signs The Price of Valor: The Life of Audie Murphy, America’s Most Decorated Hero of World War II, 3PM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Lonnie Rex signs My Amazing Adventures with God, 2PM

Sunday, July 19

Austin

• BookPeople, Award-Winning Austin Author BABETTE HUGHES speaking & signing The Kate Brady Series, 2PM
• BookWoman, Poetry Reading: Meg Day and Gloria Amescua, 6:30PM

Dallas

• InterContinental Hotel, Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar, translator and author Nehemia Gordon presents The Hebrew Blessing of God’s Holy Name, 6PM

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