{"id":1273,"date":"2018-12-31T16:31:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2018-12-31T16:31:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:31:45","slug":"lone-star-reviewsmichelle-newby-nbcc-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MUSIC BIOGRAPHY<\/p>\n

Roy Orbison Jr., Wesley Orbison, and Alex Orbison, with Jeff Slate<\/span><\/p>\n

The Authorized Roy Orbison<\/span><\/p>\n

Center Street<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-1-4789-7655-4 (ebook and audio versions also available), 264 pages, $15.99<\/p>\n

October 2017<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Si Dunn<\/p>\n

Texas native Roy Orbison remains a major name in popular music<\/span> nearly thirty years after his untimely death at age 52 in 1988. His hit songs such as \u201cOnly the Lonely,\u201d \u201cRunning Scared,\u201d \u201cBlue Bayou,\u201d and \u201cOh, Pretty Woman\u201d and his distinctive, wide-ranging voice continue to be heard around the world in recordings and movies.<\/p>\n

This new book, written by Orbison\u2019s sons (all in the music business), plus songwriter and veteran music journalist Jeff Slate, presents an \u201cauthorized\u201d account of Orbison\u2019s life, career, sudden death from a heart attack, and continued impact on the music world.<\/p>\n

Orbison, a singer-songwriter-musician who was born in Vernon, Texas, and achieved his earliest stardom in the West Texas oil town of Wink, tried hard to keep much of his private life, including his marriages, divorces, and children, out of the limelight. But this entertaining, enlightening biography is rich with background details and many previously unpublished photographs from his home life, as well musical concerts and tours with other stars, including Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and the Eagles, to name just a few.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Texas wildflower guide updated, revised<\/h1>\n

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Joe Marcus of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center<\/span> headed up the reorganization of the popular book Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide<\/span><\/a><\/span> reissued in a new edition by the University of Texas Press ($19.95 flexbound).<\/p>\n

UT Press says the book, first published in 1984 and updated in 2006, has sold more than 175,000 copies. Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller<\/span>, authors (now deceased) of the first edition with a foreword by Lady Bird Johnson<\/span>, are still listed as the authors, and Lady Bird\u2019s foreword is included in the new volume.<\/p>\n

Marcus explains the biggest change in the organization of the new edition: \u201cThe first two editions were organized by family, then by genus and species \u2014 the way most botanists would want a book organized. This edition is organized first by flower color, then by flowering time, and finally by genus and species. Our hope is that this new organizational scheme will make the book more useful to novice wildflower enthusiasts by making the identity of their mystery flower easier to find.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet experts needn\u2019t fret. \u201cFor those who prefer to search for plants by family name, a family name index is provided in the back of the book.\u201d<\/p>\n

However you choose to use it, the new flexbound edition is certainly a welcome, proven, and sturdy guide to the beautiful Texas landscape throughout the year.<\/p>\n

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Counting colors: <\/span>Texas children\u2019s author Susan Holt Kralovansky<\/span> has written a simple and delightful board book that teaches colors and numbers to young children \u2014 Spanish as well, since it\u2019s a bilingual book.<\/p>\n

Counting Colors in Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span>(Pelican Publishing, $9.95, photographs by Robert Crane) starts with one black horse, two orange butterflies, and so on, all the way through nine blue snow cones, and ten purple flowers.<\/p>\n

Children will get a kick out of five brown boots upside down on fence posts and three red long johns on a clothesline (Momma, what\u2019s a clothesline?).<\/p>\n

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Young Adult:<\/span> Fort Worth best-selling author Rachel Caine<\/span> has teamed up with Ann Aguirre<\/span> to write a 465-page young adult science fiction novel, Honor Among Thieves<\/span><\/a><\/span> (HarperCollins, $17.99 hardcover), announced as the first of a series.<\/p>\n

In the story, Zara Cole doesn\u2019t move with her family to Mars and gets recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected to explore the outer reaches of the universe. The subtitle hints at the plot: \u201c100 were chosen. One will resist.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> has been writing his Texas Reads column since 2002, focusing on Texas books and authors. 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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<\/span><\/span>2018 TEXAS BOOKISH DESTINATIONS<\/h1>\n

Can you name this literary place in the Lone Star State?<\/h1>\n

Admit it: bookfans love traveling almost as much as they love reading itself.<\/span> Beginning March 4, 2018, Lone Star Literary Life will roll out #10 through #6 in our annual list of Top Texas Bookish Destinations, for readers who want to visit the settings of their favorite books, the birthplaces and haunts of favorite authors, and hot spots for book buying, readings, and other literary activity.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But throughout Texas\u2019s 268,597 square miles, there are also lots of out-of-the-way points of interest that we don\u2019t always have space to cover in our Top Ten pages.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Watch this space each week for a new bookish place that you\u2019ll want to add to your own travel list. Be the first to email us with the correct identification, and win a prize!<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This week, we continue with a bookish place that\u2019s located in 2017\u2019s #2 Top Bookish Destination. There\u2019s plenty of poetry in this literary-rich city, but there\u2019s a Poet Tree, too. Can you name the city? And extra credit for telling our readers the neighborhood or street where they can find it, too.<\/p>\n

Email us at<\/span> info@LoneStarLiterary.com<\/span><\/a><\/span> with the specific right answer,<\/span> and we’ll send you a free copy of Literary Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n

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LAST MONTH\u2019S PHOTO<\/span> (below<\/span>) was correctly identified as the Capitol Gift Shop, inside the state capitol building in Austin. Congratulations \u2014 your prize is on the way!<\/p>\n

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Philomel Books<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-1-5247-4167-9 (also available as an e-book and on Audible), 304 pgs., $18.99<\/p>\n

February 27, 2018<\/p>\n

\u201cTo know a person\u2019s story is inevitably to understand their humanity and feel a loving kinship with them, no matter how different the two of you may seem at first. This \u2026 is what gives me hope.\u201d\u2014David Levithan,<\/span> \u201cWe\u201d<\/p>\n

Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration<\/span> is a new collection of essays edited by Dr. Rose Brock,<\/span> a Texas librarian and educator, cofounder of the phenomenally successful North Texas Teen Book Festival and recipient of the Siddie Joe Johnson Award, bestowed by the Texas Library Association upon a librarian who \u201cdemonstrates outstanding library service to children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brock chose tales of \u201cresilience, resistance, hardship, loss, love, tenacity, and acceptance\u201d from some of her favorite Young Adult authors because, as Mister Rogers famously advised, \u201cduring a crisis, it\u2019s vital to look for the helpers.\u201d Brock considers these authors and their stories to be helpers.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Polis Books<\/p>\n

Paperback, 978-1-9438-1864-8, (also available as an e-book), 320 pgs., $15.95; October 10, 2017<\/p>\n

reckon:<\/span> 1. to settle accounts; 2. to make a calculation 3. a. judge, b. chiefly dialectal: suppose, think; 4. to accept something as certain: place reliance\u2014Merriam-Webster Online<\/p>\n

Jack Jordan (aka Grant, Keith, Hux, Andrew, ?) and Summer Ashton (aka Jasmine, Stormy, Christy, Autumn, Katrina, ?)<\/span> are on the run from South Carolina to East Texas with a stolen kilo of cocaine hidden in a hollowed-out King James Bible. Lifelong grifters, they wash up in Lufkin, Texas, with new identities and old habits. Jack and Summer soon establish their trade, picking up product in Houston and selling it to university students in Nacogdoches. All is well (more or less) until Jack falls for a co-ed, declaring that he\u2019s going straight (and he means it this time), leaving Summer to her abandonment issues and psychedelic therapy.<\/p>\n

Rules of the road: \u201cNever contact anyone from the past. Let sleeping dogs lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Summer, in desperation and an altered state, wakes a South Carolina pit bull, and someone is gonna die, someone is gonna have a near-death experience, someone is gonna check into a sober camp, and someone is gonna rise from the dead, all \u201cdue to [an] avalanche of psychological hoodoo.\u201d\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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