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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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Granddaughter tells George and Barbara\u2019s love story<\/h1>\n

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Ellie LeBlond Sosa (teaming up with writer\/editor Kelly Anne Chase) <\/span>focuses on her grandparents\u2019 great love for each other and their extended family in George and Barbara Bush: A Great American Love Story<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Down East Books, $24.95 hardcover).<\/p>\n

\u201cMy grandmother passed away just a week after conducting a final interview for the book,\u201d Sosa writes, \u201cand she was still bright and candid \u2014 and in love with my grandfather.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked for marital advice, Barbara Bush<\/span> said, \u201cYou have to go 75 percent of the way. Be thoughtful and make things nice for your husband or wife. It\u2019s a two-way street.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if she would change anything, Mrs. Bush replied, \u201cNo, I wouldn\u2019t have changed anything. You\u2019re not going to talk to anyone any happier.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the foreword, George W. Bush<\/span> recalls that on his father\u2019s ninetieth birthday, he was asked what the happiest moment in his life had been. \u201cDad said that it was the day that he married my mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book has received glowing online reviews from readers who admire George and Barbara, and it is a delightful, inspiring read with dozens of photographs.<\/p>\n

I did notice one small flaw on page 95: the authors mention that George, in a neck brace and accompanied by Barbara, threw out the first pitch in the third game of the World Series in 2015 in Houston. Actually, it was the third game of the American League Division Series. The Astros didn\u2019t make it to the World Series that year, but of course won it in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Mysterious Western character: <\/span>Texas author Chuck Parsons<\/span> has teamed up again with Jack DeMattos<\/span> to produce a well-researched account of the life of a western gunfighter.<\/p>\n

They co-authored The Notorious Luke Short <\/span>in 2015, published by the University of North Texas Press, and now they are back with They Called Him Buckskin Frank: The Life and Adventures of Nashville Frank Leslie<\/span><\/a><\/span> (UNT Press, $29.95 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Frank Leslie was born in Texas in 1842 and lived briefly in Fort Worth in 1897\u201398, but he made his reputation as a gunfighter and Indian scout in Arizona in the 1880s.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile he never achieved the national fame as did Wyatt Earp,\u201d the authors write, both<\/p>\n

\u201cwere equals as far as notoriety was concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leslie served six years of a life sentence in territorial prison for murdering a lady friend on his ranch in 1889. He was pardoned in 1896 by the territorial governor and released.<\/p>\n

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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> Twig\u2019s Top Ten Bestsellers<\/h1>\n

June 2018<\/h1>\n

What are Texans reading these days, you ask? <\/span>Lone Star Lit\u2019s newest regular feature is a monthly list of trending titles at the <\/span>Twig Book Shop,<\/span><\/a><\/span> a leading independent bookseller in San Antonio. Click on any title for the Buy link. And we’ll also include a hotlink to related content in Lone Star Literary Life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lawrence Wright,<\/span> God Save Texas, <\/span>978-0-525520108<\/span><\/p>\n

Shari Lapena,<\/span>The Couple Next Door, <\/span>978-0-735221109<\/span><\/p>\n

Neil Gaiman<\/span>Norse Mythology\u00a0 <\/span> 978-0-393356182<\/span><\/p>\n

Andrew Sean Greer,<\/span>Less,<\/span> 978-0316316132<\/span><\/p>\n

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness,<\/span> 978-1633694361<\/span><\/p>\n

Margaret Atwood,<\/span>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale , <\/span>978-0385490818<\/span><\/p>\n

Jen Sincero<\/span>You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life <\/span> 978-0762490547<\/span><\/p>\n

George Saunders,<\/span>Lincoln in the Bardo,<\/span> 978-0-812985405<\/span><\/p>\n

Rupi Kaur,<\/span>The Sun and Her Flowers,<\/span> 978-1449486792<\/span><\/p>\n

HBR\u2019s 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (Hbr’s 10 Must Reads)\u00a0 <\/span>9781633690196<\/span><\/p>\n

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6.3.18<\/span>\u00a0 The 2018 Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize<\/span><\/p>\n

A prize of $750.00 and publication in The Ocotillo Review<\/span> Winter 2019 will be awarded for a poem of up to 65 lines. Carrie Fountain<\/span> will judge. Revenue generated will be donated to cancer research. Details: www.kallistogaiapress.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

6.3.18\u00a0 The 2018 Chester B. Himes Memorial Short Fiction Prize<\/span><\/p>\n

A prize of $750.00 and publication in The Ocotillo Review<\/span> Winter 2019 will be awarded for a short story up to 4,200 words. Antonio Ruiz-Camacho<\/span> will judge. Revenue generated will be donated to Parkinson\u2019s research. Details: www.kallistogaiapress.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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2018 Kids’ Summer Reading\u00a0 <\/span>NEW BOOKS ADDED!<\/span><\/h1>\n

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From read-to-me books to early readers,<\/span> chapter books to middle readers to YA, you\u2019ll find these terrific new titles at your neighborhood bookshop or online. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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7.29.2018\u00a0 Poet \u2014 and now novelist \u2014 Carrie Fountain on missing New Mexico but loving her Texas writing life<\/h1>\n

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I\u2019m Not Missing: A Novel<\/span><\/p>\n

Flatiron Books<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-1-2501-3251-2, (also available as an e-book, an audio-book, and on\u00a0 Audible), 336 pgs., $18.99<\/p>\n

July 10, 2018<\/p>\n

SYNPOSIS:<\/span> It\u2019s senior year, and Miranda Black\u2019s best friend, Syd, has run away \u2015 suddenly and inexplicably, leaving behind nothing but a pink leopard-print cell phone with a text message from the mysterious HIM. Everyone wants to know why Syd left, but the truth is, Miranda has no idea. When Miranda\u2019s mother abandoned her as a child, Miranda had found shelter in her friendship with Syd, who wore her own motherlessness like a badge of honor. Now Miranda\u2019s been left behind again, left to untangle the questions of why Syd left, where she is \u2015 and if she\u2019s even a friend worth saving \u2014 all while stumbling into first love with the most unlikely boy in school. How do you take on the future when it feels like so much of your past wasn\u2019t even real?<\/span><\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: <\/span>Carrie, how did growing up in the Land of Enchantment shape you? How does New Mexico impact your writing?<\/span><\/p>\n

CARRIE FOUNTAIN: <\/span>I realized how much my New Mexican roots and childhood shaped me only after I moved away. My family has been in southern New Mexico forever, and I feel that connection most strongly when I\u2019m there. It\u2019s my home, no matter where I live. Someone recently asked me why I set my YA novel in New Mexico rather than Austin, where I\u2019ve lived for seventeen years. It was a totally valid question: I know Austin very well, and it\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve lived full-time in New Mexico. But it completely confounded me. I\u2019d never even considered setting my novel elsewhere. It was a given to me.<\/p>\n

New Mexico is in my bones and blood. Austin\u2014the entire rest of the world, in fact\u2014is still working its way through my muscles. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/a><\/span>Bookish Texas <\/span>event highlights\u00a0 7.29.2018<\/span>>> GO this week<\/span><\/a><\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n

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