{"id":1350,"date":"2018-12-31T16:49:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2018-12-31T16:49:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:49:17","slug":"lone-star-reviewsmichelle-newby-nbcc-113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TRUE CRIME<\/p>\n

Kermit Schweidel<\/span><\/p>\n

Folly Cove: A Smuggler’s Tale of the Pot Rebellion<\/span><\/p>\n

Cinco Puntos Press<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-1-941026-82-3 (also available as ebook), 266 pages, $16.95<\/p>\n

February 2018<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Si Dunn<\/p>\n

It’s tempting to describe Folly Cove as \u201cReefer Madness\u201d<\/span> toked up on steroids.<\/p>\n

This well-written book offers much more information and entertainment than that 1936 anti-marijuana film.<\/p>\n

Folly Cove<\/span> takes the reader inside the methods and cash-only economics of marijuana smuggling during the early 1970s. It describes how border patrols and federal drug agents were evaded and how a smuggler, if arrested, could slow or even stop the wheels of justice with some well-placed money and a high-dollar attorney. But in those days, conviction for possessing even small amounts could bring a long prison sentence.<\/p>\n

Written from an insider\u2019s perspective, Kermit Schweidel\u2019s<\/span> book recounts how a small group of young men in El Paso, including some military veterans, became enamored of getting high on marijuana in the early 1970s. At first they bought small amounts for their own consumption. Later, they began sharing it with friends and getting bigger amounts to divide and sell. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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F<\/span><\/span>ICTION<\/p>\n

Barbara Taylor Sissel<\/span><\/p>\n

What Lies Below<\/p>\n

Lake Union Publishing<\/p>\n

Paperback, 978-1-503-95011-5 (also available in e-book and audiobook formats), 334 pages, $14.95<\/p>\n

May 15, 2018<\/p>\n

Texas writer Barbara Taylor Sissel\u2019s new novel, <\/span>her ninth, is a tense, engrossing tale of abduction. It\u2019s also a story in which secrets are held close by key characters as they help search for a missing child.<\/p>\n

In a small Central Texas town named Wyatt, Zoe Halstead, not quite four, suddenly has disappeared from her daycare facility, and the local police and numerous townspeople have rallied to try to help Jake, a single father, find Zoe and bring her home.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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6.10.2018\u00a0 6.10.2018\u00a0 Astros helped revive Houston\u2019s spirits after Harvey<\/h1>\n

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Houston Chronicle editorial writer and columnist Joe Holley<\/span> relives the Houston Astros\u2019 2017 World Series championship and the city of Houston\u2019s rebound from Hurricane Harvey in an\u00a0 uplifting account, Hurricane Season: The Unforgettable Story of the 2017 Houston Astros and the Resilience of a City<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Hachette Books, $27 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Holley retraces the seven games of the World Series in play-by-play, inning-by-inning drama, weaving it into the larger story of how the Astros lifted the spirits of a devastated city, and how city residents returned the favor by taking the team into their hearts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Astros\u2019 first-ever World Series victory,\u201d Holley writes, \u201cis a baseball story to be sure, but it\u2019s so much more than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the story of a major American city\u2026 winning Americans\u2019 hearts because of its grace and goodwill in response to pain and hardship.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the story of a team of likeable, refreshingly good-natured guys who each wore a \u2018Houston Strong\u2019 patch on their jerseys and meant it. When Houston was down, they picked the city up and carried it. They brought hope during a dark time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Houston Astros \u2014 and the Houston people \u2014 gained a lot of fans last year through trial and triumph as residents literally fought for their lives and then cheered their team to unprecedented success.<\/p>\n

\u201cHoustonians young and old, native and new, learned they were strong and more resilient than they might have expected,\u201d Holley writes. \u201cThey discovered wells of compassion and kindness in themselves they might not have known about. At a moment of crisis, they did themselves proud.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holley is also the author of a biography of Sammy Baugh \u2014 Slingin\u2019 Sam: The Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback Ever to Play the Game.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Biography:<\/span> John Chisum: Frontier Cattle King<\/span> by Texas State Historian Bill O\u2019Neal<\/span> offers a concise biography (140 pages) of the colorful and influential cattle baron who at one time, O\u2019Neal writes, owned more cattle than any person in America (Eakin Press, $19.95 paperback).<\/p>\n

Chisum (not to be confused with Jesse Chisholm, for whom the Chisholm Trail was named) moved his herds west from Texas to New Mexico and, by the time he died at age 60 in 1884, he was known as the \u201cCattle King of the Pecos\u201d and even the \u201cCattle King of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Wayne played the cattleman in the 1970 movie Chisum<\/span> about the Lincoln County War of 1878.<\/p>\n

Historical fiction:<\/span> Lamar\u2019s Folly<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Jeffrey Stuart Kerr<\/span> is a historical novel based on the life and actions of the second president of the Republic of Texas, Mirabeau B. Lamar, a political and personal enemy of Sam Houston and considered the \u201cFather of Education\u201d in Texas (Texas Tech University Press, $24.95 paperback).<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> writes about Texas books and authors. Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/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> All year long we promote 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 2018\u2019s #1 Top Bookish Destination. Where in this city celebrating its tricentennial this year would you find a colorful reading corner inside one of its hometown retailers?<\/p>\n

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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>) went wanting for a winner. We\u2019ll reveal the place now \u2014 it\u2019s the Poet Tree, in Houston (yeah, that would\u2019ve been easy, for anyone who zoomed in).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contributing Editor TRUE CRIME Kermit Schweidel Folly Cove: A Smuggler’s Tale of the Pot Rebellion Cinco Puntos Press Hardcover, 978-1-941026-82-3 (also available as ebook), 266 pages, $16.95 February 2018 Reviewed by Si Dunn It’s tempting to describe Folly Cove as \u201cReefer Madness\u201d toked up on steroids. This well-written book offers much more information and entertainment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}