{"id":450,"date":"2018-12-31T12:20:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2018-12-31T12:20:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:20:43","slug":"lone-star-reviewsmichelle-newby-nbcc-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>CHRISTIAN FICTION \/ WOMEN’S FICTION<\/a><\/p>\n

Vannetta Chapman<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Joshua’s Mission: A Novel<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Harvest House Publishers<\/p>\n

978-0736956055, paper, 352 pages, $14.99 (ebook also available)<\/p>\n

February 2016<\/p>\n

In the fictional Amish farming town<\/span> of Cody\u2019s Creek, Oklahoma, twenty-year-old Becca Troyer ponders whether she\u2019s the kind of woman a good man will ever love, when others her age have married and started families. Sarah Yoder struggles with troubles few suspect exist in the Plain community. Tall, twenty-seven-year-old Joshua Kline works hard to help his father bring in the crops\u2014and to keep his younger bruder<\/span> in line.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seven hundred miles away that same autumn, a hurricane is rapidly increasing strength and bearing down on Corpus Christi, Texas.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>CONTEMPORARY WESTERN ROMANCE<\/p>\n

Jodi Thomas<\/span><\/p>\n

Rustler’s Moon<\/span><\/p>\n

HQN Books<\/p>\n

Mass market paperback, 978-0373788620, 368 pages, $7.99<\/p>\n

A rustler’s moon, explains tall, good-looking, and heartbroken<\/span> Wilkes Wagner of the Devil’s Fork Ranch, provides “enough light for rustlers to slip onto a ranch and steal cattle, but not so much that anyone on guard would see them clearly.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And when Ransom Canyon newcomer and museum curator saucily inquires what Wilkes himself would do under such a moon, Wilkes’s answer surprises them both. Does either of them believe it when he says he might just steal her heart? After all, she’s hardly his type. And she’s obviously hiding a secret.<\/p>\n

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

>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Cookbook features variety of Texas favorites<\/span><\/h1>\n

Home cooking, says fourth-generation Texas author Jessica Dupuy,<\/span> \u201cis the language of our family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery weekend gathering or holiday get-together,\u201d she recalls, \u201crevolved around one conversation: What are we eating, and who is bringing what?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dupuy is the author of a wonderful new full-color and reasonably-priced Texas cookbook, United Tastes of Texas: Authentic Recipes from All Corners of the Lone Star State<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Oxmoor House, $24.95 hardcover, under the auspices of Southern Living).<\/p>\n

In the book\u2019s 272 pages, Dupuy includes about 140 Texas recipes, grouped by five major sections of the state \u2014 Central Texas, East Texas, Coastal Texas, South Texas, and West Texas \u2014 with a section also devoted to what she calls \u201cTexas shindigs\u201d or parties or special occasions.<\/p>\n

The author also includes two-page profiles of ten noted Texas chefs \u2014 Tim Byers<\/span> (Dallas), Jack Gilmore <\/span>(Austin), Jesse Griffiths<\/span> (Austin), Melissa Guerra<\/span> (San Antonio), Johnny Hernandez<\/span> (San Antonio), Lou Lambert<\/span> (Austin and Fort Worth), Tom Perini<\/span> (Buffalo Gap), Stephan Pyles<\/span> (Dallas), Chris Shepherd<\/span> (Houston), and Andrew Wiseheart<\/span> (Austin, originally from San Angelo).<\/p>\n

The book focuses on the rich variety of Texas flavors prominent in the different parts of Texas,\u00a0 with short sidebars on Texas food trivia and lists of a half dozen or so recommended restaurants or \u201cpit stops\u201d in each region.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of the recipes offered from the different regions:<\/p>\n