Tag: LoneStarLiterary.com
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Texas Book Festival Announces 2019 Library Grant Recipients
The Texas Book Festival (TBF) announced the winners of its 2019 Texas Library Grants at the Texas Library Association conference in Austin today. Forty-one public libraries across thirty-six Texas counties received grants totaling $100,500.
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BOOKISH TEXAS FOR THE WEEK OF 04.14.2019
The most comprehensive listing of book and author events, festivals, readings, lectures, and signings in the Lone Star State for the week of April 14, 2019.
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Lone Star Review: HOUSE OF STONE by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
House of Stone is quickly and evenly paced until it begins coursing toward the denouement, flinging jaw-dropping twists amidst the factional, fractional, bloody birth of Zimbabwe, with mordant wit and keen characterization.
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Nine Students Win Texas Letters About Literature Contest
Nine students have won the state round of the 2019 Letters About Literature competition, sponsored in part by the Texas Center for the Book (TCFB).
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Texas Indie Authors Contest
Bexar County’s BiblioTech is launching a contest designed to reward the best independently published authors in Texas.
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The 11 Most Challenged Books of 2018
The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has compiled its annual list of the most frequently challenged books in the U.S. in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools.
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BOOKISH TEXAS FOR THE WEEK OF 04.07.2019
The most comprehensive listing of book and author events, festivals, readings, lectures, and signings in the Lone Star State
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Lone Star Review: A Wise Collection Honoring a Brave Journalist
Natalia Trevin᷃o reviews San Antonio poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s newest poetry collection, The Tiny Journalist.
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Lone Star Review: Turning the Pages of Texas with a Master Storyteller
Si Dunn reviews historian and writer Lonn Taylor’s newest book, Turning the Pages of Texas.