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THE DARKNESS THAT COULD BE FELT
by C. Wayne Dawson
Visit with Wayne June 13–22, 2016
6/13 Hall Ways Blog
6/14 Forgotten Winds
6/15 Blogging for the Love of Authors and Their Books
6/16 Byers Editing Reviews & Blog
6/17 The Page Unbound
6/18 Country Girl Bookaholic
6/19 The Crazy Booksellers
6/20 It’s a Jenn World
6/21 My Book Fix Blog
6/22 A Novel Reality
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THE DO-RIGHT
by Lisa Sandlin
Visit with Lisa through June 15, 2016
6/11 Missus Gonzo — Excerpt #2
6/12 Texas Book Lover — Author Interview #2
6/13 Margie’s Must Reads — Review
6/14 The Crazy Booksellers — Promo
6/15 Book Chase — Review
RECENTLY ON TOUR: NONFICTION
FINDING DOROTHY SCOTT
by Sarah Byrn Rickman
RECENTLY ON TOUR: FICTION
No Other Will Do
by Karen Witemeyer
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DEATH UNDER A FULL MOON
by Dianne Smithwick-Braden
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2016 Texas Readers’ Favorite Bookstores #10–#6
Texas readers have spoken! More than 1,000 of Lone Star Literary Life’s readers have cast ballots in our statewide contest to recognize Texas’s favorite bookstores. Their selections are as diverse as the state itself, and honorees include big indies, small indies, chain stores, used bookstores, and new bookstores in every far-flung corner of the state.
From the shadows of Houston’s skyscrapers to the winds whistling down the plains, from the Piney Woods of East Texas to the beachside burbs on the coast, Texas bookshops are connecting with their communities, and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase Texas’s Top Ten Favorite Bookstores. Today, we count down from ten to six. (Stay tuned next week for the state’s Top Five—and a few Honorable Mentions!) >>READ MORE
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6.12.16 Nathan Hale, Bookish All-Star
The multitalented Nathan Hale divides his time among picture books, natural history and educational illustration, and graphic novels — and his Texas tale Alamo All-Stars appeared last week on Lone Star Lit’s Kids’ Summer Reading list. He’s not a Texan, but we like his stuff so much we’d be happy to make him an honorary one. >>READ MORE
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT LAST WEEK
2016 Kids’ Summer Reading: Check it out!
sponsored by Blue Wilow Bookshop
From read-to-me books to early readers, chapter books to middle readers to young adult, you’ll find these terrific new titles at your neighborhood bookstore. >>READ MORE
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Bookish Texas event highlights 6.12.2016
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News Briefs 6.12.16
Texas Teen Book Festival announces October 2016 lineup
Young Adult Book Festival Will Feature Award-Winning Authors Sabaa Tahir, Ally Carter, Jeffery Self, and More
AUSTIN— The Texas Teen Book Festival announced today the 2016 lineup, featuring Sabaa Tahir, Ally Carter, Jeffery Self, Traci Chee, John Corey Whaley, and more. TTBF takes place on Saturday, October 1 at St. Edward’s University.
“Your TTBF Programming Committee has been chomping at the bit to let you in on the outstanding list of bestselling YA authors who will be attending the festival this year, but we were sworn to secrecy,” said Shawn Mauser, TTBF Festival Director. “Well, now the secret-keeping is over, and we are beyond excited to announce our full lineup, right here and right now. Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 1 and start reading. TTBF 2016 is coming.” >>READ MORE
Continuing through June 10-12, 2016, hundreds of authors will appear at Barnes & Noble stores nationwide for B-Fest™, a three-day event celebrating the best books for teens. This will be the biggest weekend of author events in B&N history, plus trivia, sweepstakes, giveaways (while supplies last), and more. Participants will the first to sample upcoming teen novels, take part in games, and discover great new reads.
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Check out Lone Star Literary Life’s GO pag for B-Fest events around Texas.
Mannoscript by Chris Manno
Chris Manno has been an airline pilot at American Airlines since 1985 and a captain since 1991, based at DFW Airport. His cartoons have been popular worldwide in aviation trade publications as well as in crew training materials for United, American, British Airways, and Lufthansa flight crews. He has also taught composition and rhetoric at Texas Wesleyan University and English and composition at Texas Christian University. He has a book of cartoons, Flight Crew Like You (CreateSpace, 2014) and a new novel out, East Jesus (White Bird Publications, March 2016). We welcome him to the pages of Lone Star Literary Life.
Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole
>> archiveTexas books make good gifts for dear old dad
Father’s Day is just around the corner, so I have gone back and pulled together some Texas books that I’ve written about in the last year or so that might make good gifts for dear old dad.
One of the best Texas books of the year so far is The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858–1861 by Glen Sample Ely, a lavish, oversized (8 x 10) volume tracing the Butterfield stage line through Texas ($34.95 hardcover).
If dad likes country music, he would probably enjoy reading The Grand Tour: The Life and Music of George Jones by Rich Kienzle ($27.99 hardcover).
I recently wrote about the action-packed new biography of Frank Hamer — Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde ($29.99 hardcover).
Another good Texas Ranger title is Mike Cox’s Gunfights & Sites in Texas Ranger History ($21.99 paperback). Also new: Whiskey River Ranger: The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw by Bob Alexander ($34.95 hardcover).
Bill O’Neal of Carthage, the official Texas State Historian for the past four years, takes a fresh look at Sam Houston: A Study in Leadership ($19.95 paperback).
Two selections for Texas Aggie dads: The Fightin’ Texas Aggie Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor by John A. Adams Jr. ($30 hardcover) and 12 Texas Aggie War Heroes: From World War I to Vietnam by James R. Woodall ($29.95 hardcover).
Big and Bright: Deep in the Heart of Texas High School Football by Gray Levy ($27.95 hardcover) profiles successful football programs from different size schools in different parts of the state, including Abilene High.
If dad likes good western historical novels, here are several compelling new ones to choose from: Phantom Hilland Comanche Trail, both by Carlton Stowers under the pen name of Ralph Compton ($6.99 paperback); Buffalo Trail: A Novel of the American West by Jeff Guinn ($27 hardcover); Paradise Sky by Joe R. Lansdale ($26 hardcover); House of the Rising Sun by James Lee Burke ($27.99 hardcover). All four are real page-turners, but the Lansdale and Burke novels are a bit more R-rated.
You might introduce dad to the writing of Miles Arceneaux if he isn’t already a fan. The three-writer team has produced four entertaining murder mysteries set on the Texas Gulf Coast, the latest being North Beach ($11.99 paperback).
Finally, if dad likes to cook, he can find more than 140 Texas recipes in Jessica Dupuy’s United Tastes of Texas: Authentic Recipes from All Corners of the Lone Star State ($24.95 hardcover).
There are more, of course, but these give you a place to start. Happy Father’s Day.
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Glenn Dromgoole’s latest book is More Civility, Please. Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.
>> Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit
Amazon adds Lubbock to its list of Texas locations,
focusing on college campuses
Amazon.com is continuing to expand its network of physical pickup points at colleges and universities across the U.S.
In Texas that includes locations at Texas Tech University and The University of Texas at Austin.
Amazon just opened in Austin this month a 2,509-sq.-ft. space at the University of Texas in Gregory Gymnasium. Additionally, Amazon Student and Prime members will receive free one-day pickup for orders placed by 10 p.m. on more than two million items.
Texas Tech University in Lubbock is the next campus where Amazon.com plans to open one of its new package pickup centers. The 2,700-square-foot location opens in the fall at 2407 Ninth St., but it’s not just for the 32,000 students. Anyone in Lubbock will be able to use the depot to pick up Amazon purchases and drop off returns.
Since 2015, Amazon has opened staffed pickup locations at the following universities: Purdue University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and University of California, Berkeley, as well as in the college communities of University of California, Santa Barbara, and University of Cincinnati. Amazon also has confirmed agreements to open two more locations in 2016 with the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, Davis.
Combined with Amazon’s recent opening of an actual brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle, this continually growing college pick-up program demonstrates a clear intent by Amazon to transform from a pure-play e-commerce platform to a cross-platform retail player.
(Compiled from Amazon press releases, book trade media coverage)
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