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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

>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Cookbook features Texas restaurant recipes<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Texas Back Road Restaurant Recipes: A Cookbook & Restaurant Guide<\/span> by Anita Musgrove<\/span> (Great American Publishers, $18.95 paperback) offers up favorite recipes from about 125 Texas cafes, diners, and eateries. Most of them are, as the book\u2019s title suggest, off the beaten path, although the state\u2019s metropolitan areas are represented as well.<\/p>\n

Musgrove, who has produced similar restaurant recipe books about Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee, divides the state into three regions, certainly a departure from most Texas guidebooks or cookbooks. Her regions are northwestern, eastern and southern, but \u201cnorthwestern\u201d stretches all the way from El Paso to Texarkana! Maybe she means north\/western.<\/p>\n

Restaurants are listed alphabetically by town in each region, so the very first one in the book is Bogie\u2019s Downtown Deli in Abilene, taking note of four of its specialty sandwiches.<\/p>\n

Other West Texas dining choices include Owl Drug Store in Coleman, Circle M Barbecue in Eastland, Star Beau\u2019s in Comanche, the Butcher\u2019s Block in Snyder, River Smith\u2019s and Tommy\u2019s Famous Burgers in Lubbock, Silo House and Zentner\u2019s Daughter in San Angelo, and Sugar Creek Grill in Big Lake.<\/p>\n

This book may make you want to head out on your own gastronomic tour of Texas. And what a far-ranging tour it could be, from Peggy\u2019s on the Bayou Cajun Caf\u00e9 in Orange to Ted\u2019s Restaurant on South Padre Island to Baby Butt\u2019s BBQ in Perryton, and dozens in between.<\/p>\n

Or you could just stay home and try out the recipes yourself.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Mystery series: <\/span> Since retiring as longtime director of TCU Press, Fort Worth author Judy Alter<\/span> has turned her talent toward writing murder mysteries.<\/p>\n

Murder at Peacock Mansion,<\/span> the third book in her Blue Plate Caf\u00e9 mystery series, again features small town Texas caf\u00e9 owner Kate Chambers, who gets caught up in trying to solve a thirty-year-old murder case and finds herself perhaps the killer\u2019s latest target (Alter Ego Publishing, $13.99 paperback).The rousing tale also includes recipes served at the caf\u00e9, such as enchilada casserole, sticky buns, American lasagna and cheeseburger soup. The mystery series blends two of the author\u2019s passions \u2014 writing and cooking.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is More Civility, Please. <\/span>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

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Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is More Civility, Please.<\/span> Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n
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VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE TEXAS BOOKSTORES: FINALISTS WEEK<\/h1>\n

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Texas has nearly 300 bookstores, <\/span>and we’ve listed most of them on our ballot.<\/p>\n

Last week, readers statewide cast ballots (with a couple of write-ins), narrowing this list to 43 finalists. *In some cases, voters wrote in their favorite chain bookstore in a particular city, but didn’t indicate which branch, so we included them all in the list of finalists.)<\/p>\n

This week, vote for your one top favorite from the list below. And feel free to email and tell us what makes them special. We’ll count down the results JUNE 12 and 19!. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bookish Texas<\/span> event highlights\u00a0 5.15.2016
<\/span>>><\/span><\/a><\/span> GO this week\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n

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DALLAS\u00a0 Mon. May 16, Half Price Books Flagship, New York Times Bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe will discuss and sign copies of her new novel, A Lowcountry Wedding, 7PM [numbered pass required]<\/span>Also reading Tues., May 17, Houston<\/span><\/span><\/span>MAY 18-22, VARIOUS CITIES:\u00a0 Governor Greg Abbott signs Broken But Unbowed: The Fight to Fix a Broken America<\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON\u00a0 Tues., May 17, Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, Laura Bush and Jenna Bush Hager will discuss Our Great Big Backyard, 4PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS\u00a0 Wed., May 18, The Wild Detectives, Skip Hollandsworth reads and signs The Midnight Assassin, 7:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS\u00a0 Thurs., May 19, B&N – Arboretum, Boar Island book signing with Nevada Barr, 7PM<\/span><\/span>Also signing Sat., May 21, Houston: Murder By the Book, Nevada Barr will sign and discuss her latest Anna Pigeon novel, Boar Island, 6:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Thurs., May 19, B&N – San Pedro, Book Talk with Leila Meacham, author of Titans, 10:30AM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>ALPINE\u00a0 Fri., May 20, The Granada Theater, Front Street Books presents Skip Hollandsworth discussing and signing The Midnight Assassin, 6:30PM [RSVP required]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Sat., May 21, BookPeople, MysteryPeople and Sisters in Crime Workshop workshop featuring Crime Authors JAMES DENNIS and BRENT DOUGLAS of Miles Arceneaux, and GEORGE WIER, 9:15AM<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Sat., May 21, Malvern Books, celebrate the launch of two new books: Tony Burnett\u2019s The Reckless Hope of Scoundrels \u2013 selected poems 1985-2015 and Carlotta Stankiewicz\u2019s Haiku Austin (love song to Austin \/ in 17 syllables \/ wonderful and weird), 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS\u00a0 Sun., May 22, Highland Park United Methodist Church, Authors Live!: Dr. Buzz Aldrin presents No Dream is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon, 7:30PM2<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Mannoscript <\/span>by Chris Manno<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Chris Manno has been an airline pilot<\/span> at American Airlines since 1985 and a captain since 1991, based at DFW Airport. His cartoons have been popular worldwide in aviation trade publications as well as in crew training materials for United, American, British Airways, and Lufthansa flight crews. He has also taught composition and rhetoric at Texas Wesleyan University and English and composition at Texas Christian University. He has a book of cartoons, Flight Crew Like You<\/span><\/a><\/span> (CreateSpace, 2014) and a new novel out, East Jesus<\/span><\/a><\/span> (White Bird Publications, March 2016). We welcome him to the pages of Lone Star Literary Life.<\/p>\n

Texas bookstore FINALISTS<\/h1>\n

May 2016<\/h1>\n