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The Dallas Public Library announced the Dallas Virtual Book Festival this week. The library is sharing the work of great north Texas authors on its <\/span><\/span><\/span>website<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Since all of our beloved spring festivals in Texas have been canceled, the Dallas library hopes everyone can get a taste of the joy of a book festival, discovering a title you haven\u2019t read after hearing the enthusiasm and delight from the writer reading from their own work. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Children\u2019s Books<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Jen Betton reads her book, Hedgehog Needs A Hug<\/em>; Jennifer Drez reads from her children\u2019s book, Goodnight Dallas<\/em>; Rosie J. Pova reads her picture book, If I Weren\u2019t With You<\/em>; Kena Sosa reads her newest book, The Unhuggables<\/em>; and J Tillman reads from her children\u2019s book, Just Like Me.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Middle Grade Books<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Rebecca Balc\u00e1rcel reads from her award-winning novel, <\/span><\/span><\/span>The Other Half of Happy<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span>; <\/span><\/span><\/span>Michael Merschel<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span> reads from his first novel, Revenge of the Star Survivors<\/em>; Julie Murphy reads from her middle-grade novel, Dear Sweet Pea<\/em>; and Katie Proctor reads from her upcoming middle-grade novel, My Storied Year<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Young Adult Books<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Draegon Grey reads from his book Lorenz Traveling Diaries<\/em>; Lyn I. Kelly reads from his YA book, Dark Lands Requiem<\/em>; C. Michael Morrison reads from his YA sci-fi novel, Hannah Goodheart and the Guardian of Time<\/em>; Melanie Sumrow reads her newest novel, The Inside Battle<\/em>; and Alex Temblador reads from her debut novel, Secrets of the Casa Rosada<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Adult Books<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Carole Fowkes reads from the first book in her Terrified Detective series, Plateful of Murder<\/em>; Professor A\u2019Mera Frieman reads from her novel, Victoria\u2019s Beginning<\/em>; Brantley Hargrove reads from his non-fiction book <\/span><\/span><\/span>The Man Who Caught the Storm<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span>; Sarah Hepola reads from her memoir, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget<\/em>; A. Lee Martinez reads from Constance Verity Saves the World<\/em>; Monica Shaw reads from her historical-fiction book, <\/span><\/span><\/span>The Rainwater Secret<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span>; Pamela Skjolsvik reads from her memoir, Death Becomes Us<\/em>; and <\/span><\/span><\/span>Tui Snider<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span> reads from her upcoming book Grave Goods<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Please click on the following links, grouped by recommended age, to watch your new favorite author read from your next favorite book.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Children\u2019s Books<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span> \u2022 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>Middle Grades Books<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span> \u2022 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>Young Adult Fiction<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span> \u2022 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>Adult Books<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dallas Public Library launches Dallas Virtual Book Fest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,9,8,22],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookfestival","tag-lonestarliterarylife","tag-lonestarliterarycom","tag-newsbrief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","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=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}