{"id":225,"date":"2018-12-31T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:19:43","slug":"texas-reads-archiveglenn-dromgoole-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

7.26.15\u00a0\u00a0 Writer gets creative in Texas alphabet book<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Writer Maria Kernahan and artist Michael Schafbuch<\/span> have teamed up to produce a new, very colorful alphabet book, T is for Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Dry Climate Studios, $19.95 hardcover). The book explores some different topics than most Texas alphabet books.<\/p>\n

For example, B is for Brands, with eighteen brands shown. D is for dancing, which is illustrated by several pair of colorful boots. E is for Enchanted Rock, K for king-sized, illustrated by thirteen other states that fit inside the shape of Texas. The author got pretty creative when it came to X and Z \u2014 with X being for roadrunner tracks in the shape of an X, and Z for the zig-zag of the Rio Grande through Big Bend.<\/p>\n

Children should be attracted to the large, bright illustrations and the rhyming, easy-to-read\u00a0 text.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span>World War II novel:<\/span> Swift<\/span><\/a><\/span> by College Station author Robert A. Shearer<\/span> is a short, fast-paced historical novel set in Texas in the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, $15 paperback).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe attack on Pearl Harbor changed the lives of millions of Americans,\u201d Shearer writes. He was three, living with his parents in Dallas, when the war broke out. Soon they were in a small town, where Shearer\u2019s mother said they couldn\u2019t leave their apartment for three weeks. \u201cThis is a historical account of how murder, mayhem, morbid racism, mental illness, and mobilization for war changed our lives. Some of the details are fictional, and all of the names of original characters have been changed, so the story is historical fiction, a murder mystery, a chronicle of a case of military justice, and a case study in mental disturbance,\u201d Shearer says. Read more at www.tamupress.com.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Series completed: <\/span>Abilene novelist Lynn Vadney<\/span> completes her five-book \u201cThe Compound Series\u201d of post-apocalyptic adventure novels with the publication of The Stone Is Turned<\/span> (Desert Willow Publishing).<\/p>\n

The series began with two novels, Sinking Sand<\/span> and Not the Least Bit Sorry,<\/span> set two and a half years after massive terrorists\u2019 attacks virtually destroy society.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe series has been about our nation in crisis,\u201d writes Vadney. \u201cMay our leaders, in whatever capacity, remain fearless and dedicated.\u201d The Stone Is Turned<\/span> covers the period from May to December, three years after the attacks, Vadney notes, and \u201claw and order is gaining a toehold in one small Texas town.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more on the series, go to desertwillowpublishingonline.com<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> is co-author of 101 Essential Texas Books.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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