{"id":1070,"date":"2018-12-31T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2018-12-31T15:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:30:25","slug":"lone-star-reviewsmichelle-newby-nbcc-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Lone Star Reviews<\/span>Michelle Newby, NBCC,<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Book pays tribute to 2016 Dallas Cowboys<\/h1>\n

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Triumph Books has published a 128-page full-color book<\/span> recapping the Dallas Cowboys\u2019 2016 season, The Boys Are Back: Dak, Zeke, and a New Cowboys Era in Big D<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Jean-Jacques Taylor<\/span> ($15.95 paperback).<\/p>\n

As the title indicates, the tribute book focuses on the dynamic rookie duo of Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott, who led the Cowboys to a remarkable 13-3 record.<\/p>\n

Cowboys fans might want to scoop it up as a souvenir edition. Chapters include \u201cWhy Zeke Made Sense,\u201d \u201cDak\u2019s Faith-Based Journey to QB,\u201d \u201cHow Dak Won Over the Cowboys Locker Room,\u201d and \u201cZeke\u2019s Kettle Jump.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Diane Kelly:<\/span> The sixth book in Diane Kelly\u2019s \u201cPaw Enforcement\u201d series is Enforcing the Paw<\/span><\/a><\/span> (St. Martin\u2019s, $7.99 paperback), again featuring Fort Worth police officer Megan Luz and her K-9 partner, Brigit. Kelly\u2019s stories weave in some mystery, some humor, some romance, and some dogology as Megan and Brigit try to figure out which of two former lovers is stalking the other. They both point the finger at their ex, and it gets harder to sort out truth and lies as hostilities escalate.<\/p>\n

Kelly, who has been favorably compared to novelist Janet Evanovich<\/span>, is one of the featured authors at the West Texas Book Festival (Sept. 21-23). Read more at abilenetx.com\/apl\/bookfest<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

She also is the author of the \u201cDeath and Taxes\u201d series featuring female IRS agent Tara Holloway. The twelfth and final book of that series is due later this fall.<\/p>\n

First novel:<\/span> Sixth-generation Texan W. W. McNeal<\/span> has written his first novel, Plum Creek<\/span><\/a><\/span> (TCU Press, $22.95 paperback), set in Texas during Reconstruction in the late 1860s.<\/p>\n

Billy McCulloch, almost 16, joins a former Texas Ranger captain (\u201cthe baddest white man that ever lived\u201d) and a posse of relatives as they hunt for a notorious half-breed murderer who kidnapped the captain\u2019s 14-year-old niece after slaughtering her family. On his sixteenth birthday, Billy gets a pistol as a present from his late father and soon has to use the business end of it. Billy finds he has a lot to learn about life, and about his mysterious family.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/a><\/span>erary Life<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Author Charlaine Harris to headline Granbury Paranormal Expo, Sept. 30\u2013Oct. 1<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span>GRANBURY \u2014 The Sixth Annual Granbury Paranormal Expo<\/span> will kick off the Halloween season on\u00a0Sept. 30, 2017,\u00a0from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and\u00a0Oct. 1\u00a0from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a street festival in the middle of Granbury\u2019s historic downtown square. This festival is free to the public and will feature ghost hunters, psychics, horror, sci-fi, cosplay, fantasy, and much more.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s celebrity guest will be Charlaine Harris<\/span> (left), author of the novels that inspired HBO\u2019s\u00a0True Blood<\/span>\u00a0and the new hit NBC series,\u00a0Midnight,\u00a0Texas. <\/span> >> READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Texas Library Association announces new executive director<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span>AUSTIN \u2014 After an extensive national search, the Texas Library Association (TLA) has appointed Dana Braccia<\/span> (left) as the new Executive Director starting Oct. 1, 2017. Braccia brings a diverse range of experience and expertise in innovative library and operational management as well as member relations and industry partnerships to the association.<\/p>\n

Braccia has been an active leader in the library community since becoming a librarian in 2005. She is a past president of the Mountain Plains Library Association and mentor for their Leadership Institute, as well as a former American Library Association councilor. She received her MLS from the University of Arizona and will complete her MBA this fall from the W. P. Carey School of Business \/ Arizona State University with an emphasis in analytics and public policy.\u00a0 >> READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Round Ball Media<\/p>\n

Paperback, 978-0-6927-8103-6, (also available as an e-book), 298 pgs., $15.97<\/p>\n

June 1, 2017<\/p>\n

Emmanuel \u201cManny\u201d Hernandez grew up in Brownsville, Texas, loving books<\/span>\u2014his mother dropped him off at the library during summers to avoid running expensive air conditioning\u2014and soccer. Manny longs to escape South Texas but is constrained by his undocumented status\u2014he\u2019s a Dreamer, brought to Texas by his mother when he was a toddler. He refers to the Border Patrol checkpoint at Falfurrias as garrita<\/span> (\u201cclaw\u201d). In eighteen years, Manny hasn\u2019t been further from Brownsville (\u201ca prison and his sentence was ad infinitum\u201d) than that checkpoint. But to follow his soccer dream Manny must brave the checkpoint, and so one day he does, with his sister, Maribel, and his best friend, Hector, and they make it through, all the way to San Antonio and a chance at more.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Roaring Brook Press<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-1-6267-2635-2, (also available as an e-book and on Audible), 336 pgs., $17.99<\/p>\n

September 19, 2017<\/p>\n

\u201cDutiful\u201d Vivian is a junior at East Rockport High.<\/span> She\u2019s a \u201cnice, normal\u201d girl who tries to stay out of the spotlight, enduring another school year \u201clike a long stretch of highway.\u201d Vivian\u2019s mom, Lisa, keeps a shoebox on the top shelf of her closet labeled \u201cMy Misspent Youth,\u201d filled with old zines and photos of her Riot Grrrl days, punked-out in baby-doll dresses with combat boots, half her head shaved, \u201cRiots not diets\u201d inked down one arm. Lisa is a nurse now and wears lavender scrubs covered in butterflies, but when Vivian is upset, Lisa\u2019s mementos of her youth comfort Vivian, even if she doesn\u2019t yet understand why.<\/p>\n

One day a boy interrupts a girl voicing her opinion in class one time too many with \u201cMake me a sandwich\u201d and something in Vivian ignites. She\u2019s had enough of the humiliating dress code checks (while the boys wear T-shirts with \u201cGreat Legs\u2014When Do They Open?\u201d printed on them), the \u201cbump \u2019n\u2019 grab\u201d in the hallways (the girls should take this assault and battery as \u201ca compliment\u201d). >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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LONE STAR LISTENS interviews\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon<\/span><\/h1>\n

9.17.2017\u00a0\u00a0 Spur of the moment<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>It\u2019s true, Lone Star Literary Life was supposed to talk with<\/span> award-winning legal historian Bill Neal<\/span> of Abilene this week. We\u2019ve been looking for the excuse to run an interview with the former lawyer, judge, and newspaperman, and had our chance with his upcoming appearance at the West Texas Book Festival later this month, and the publication of his new book.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>But momentous events sometimes interfere with the best-laid plans. This week, Lone Star Lit completed the anticipated relocation of our headquarters from Lubbock to Spur, Texas, the Tiny House Capital of America. A few complications delayed our regular schedule, however.<\/p>\n

Look forward to hearing from Bill Neal in next week\u2019s issue, and in the meantime, we\u2019ll tell you a bit more about Spur (and our first Paragraph Ranch Writing Weekend in Spur, slated for Dec. 1\u20133, with Tex Thompson!).\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Texas’s only statewide, weekly calendar of book events<\/h1>\n

FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL BOOK EVENTS IN TEXAS THIS WEEK<\/span>\u00a0 Midland, Abilene, Austin, Addison, College Station<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n