{"id":693,"date":"2018-12-31T13:28:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2018-12-31T13:28:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:28:19","slug":"lone-star-reviewsmichelle-newby-nbcc-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Lone Star Reviews<\/span>Michelle Newby, NBCC,<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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SUSPENSE FICTION<\/p>\n

Greg Lynch<\/span><\/p>\n

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Black Rose Writing<\/p>\n

Paperback, 978-1-61296-697-7 (also available as an ebook), 350 pgs., $19.95; May 2016<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Billy Clayton, Dallas city councilman possessed of state senate aspirations,<\/span> has a problem. The Cotton Bowl is scheduled for demolition to make room for a new sports complex, part of a bid to bring the Olympics to the Metroplex. Carino Sporting Venues, a company belonging to one of the mob families of New York City, wants the contract. The family has sent James Garelli, sadistic mob muscle, to Dallas to persuade the vote in favor of Carino. As it turns out, Billy Clayton is so very blackmail-able. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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A quick look at some new Texas books<\/h1>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Lauro F. Cavazos, who served as U.S. Secretary of Education and president of Texas Tech,<\/span> tells his story in A Kine\u00f1o\u2019s Journey: On Family, Learning, and Public Service<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas Tech University Press, $29.95 hardcover). Cavazos was born on the King Ranch, where his father instilled in him the importance of education, service to country, and upholding the family name.<\/p>\n

West Texas Middleweight: The Story of LaVern Roach<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Frank Sikes<\/span> (Texas Tech University Press, $24.95 hardcover) tells how a skinny kid from Plainview would rise from obscurity to fame as a boxer until his life tragically ended in the ring in 1950. The sport of boxing would never be the same after his death.<\/p>\n

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An Abilene reader highly recommends Ask Me Nothing<\/span><\/a><\/span> a novel by Carol Fox<\/span> ($14.99 paperback), noting the story \u201cis a very cleverly written multiple murder mystery with numerous twists, turns, surprises and cast of characters.\u201d The novel, set in central Texas, deals with how ordinary people change when a brutal murder severs the ties of kinship, love, and loyalty.<\/p>\n

In Who Killed These Girls?<\/span> <\/a>(Knopf, $27.95 hardcover), author Beverly Lowry<\/span> revisits a high-profile Austin murder case of four teenage girls who were raped and murdered at a yogurt shop twenty-five years ago \u2014 December 6, 1991.<\/p>\n

Texas Monthly<\/span> executive editor Skip Hollandsworth<\/span> takes a fresh look at a very old case in The Midnight Assassin<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Henry Holt, $30 hardcover) about a serial killer who terrorized Austin in 1884-85.<\/p>\n

For college students away from home for the first time and facing temptations that could have serious consequences, attorney and rugby coach Scot Courtney<\/span> offers some practical legal advice in Legal Street Smarts<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas Edition), a $9.95 paperback from Berkeley Place Books.<\/p>\n

Comanche Marker Trees of Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas A&M University Press, $35 flexbound) is a well-researched look at the Native American practice of designating and using marker trees. Arborist Steve Houser,<\/span> anthropologist Linda Pelon,<\/span> and Comanche Nation preservation officer Jimmy W. Arterberry<\/span> are the authors.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech University Press is publishing Janet M. Neugebauer\u2019s<\/span> 500-plus-page biography of longtime West Texas congressman George Mahon. A Witness to History<\/span><\/a><\/span> ($45 hardcover) is scheduled for December release.<\/p>\n

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Abilene novelist Lynn Vadney<\/span> has written a love story about a second chance at happiness, Beautiful but Treacherous<\/span><\/a><\/span> ($17.95 paperback). While traveling, a widow runs into an old college friend; they reflect on their lives and explore whether there is a future for them together.<\/p>\n

Bound to Texas II<\/span> by Sam Yocum Harper<\/span> of Austin ($9.95 paperback) is the second historical novel about the author\u2019s Texas pioneer family. This one focuses on the colorful life of Milam Andrew Harper, born in Texas on February 10, 1836; a couple of months later his father would fight at San Jacinto.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole <\/span>is co-author of 101 Essential Texas Books.<\/span><\/a><\/span> Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/a><\/span>erary Life<\/h1>\n

Texas Book Festival lists full 2016 lineup<\/h1>\n

AUSTIN \u2014 The Texas Book Festival is excited to host a lineup filled with nationally renowned presend of prominent artists\u2014actors, comedians, d longest-running book festivals in the country, the Festival continues to be free and open to the public thanks to sponsors and volunteers. Additionally, the Festival brings more than 40,000 attendees, live music, kids\u2019 activities, food trucks, book signings and sales, and 100 exhibitors all in and around the State Capitol over two full days. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Kay Ellington, Editor and Publisher<\/span><\/h1>\n

10.16.2016\u00a0 Novelist Carol Dawson’s foray into history takes her down the highways and byways of her home state<\/h1>\n

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Roads as metaphor have attracted a pretty wide variety of authors<\/span> through the ages\u2014from the Apostle Paul to Chaucer to Kerouac to McMurtry. The newest Texas tome to recognize the appeal of roads is<\/span>Miles and Miles of Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span>by Austin author <\/span>Carol Dawson<\/span> (with Roger Polson)<\/span>, with a foreword by none other than <\/span>Willie Nelson.<\/span> Dawson has been a force on the Texas literary and arts scene for three decades \u2014 from being a fine visual artist to writing widely respected literary fiction and nonfiction to teaching classes for the Writers\u2019 League of Texas. She took a detour from promoting her latest book to be interviewed by email.<\/span><\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE:<\/span> So, Carol, what an interesting life you have experienced! I understand that you lived in New Zealand, England, Washington state, and Taos, New Mexico, to name a few places. But you grew up in Texas and returned to the Lone Star State a few years back. What brought you home?<\/span><\/p>\n

When I finally came back to Texas from New Zealand (and living abroad elsewhere), I returned for a host of reasons: my publishers were in the U.S., my family was here, my parents were growing old, my children needed Texas centering. There were things I\u2019d tremendously missed about living here, and other things I missed less. But ultimately, you can probably guess the core of truth: you can get the girl out of Texas, but you can\u2019t get Texas out of her bones and blood cells. My travels and other life experiences had broadened me and widened my perspective, so that I found myself more ready to embrace my roots than ever before, for the best of reasons: it was purely a choice, rather than an accident of birth. There\u2019s nothing quite like truly coming home. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bookish Texas<\/span> event highlights\u00a0 10.16.2016
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FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS IN TEXAS THIS WEEK: Houston, Dallas, Southlake, Richardson<\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON\u00a0 Mon., Oct. 17\u00a0 Alley Theatre, Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown reading series presents Lauren Groff and Ann Patchett, 7:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON\u00a0\u00a0 Mon., Oct. 17\u00a0 Lone Star College – N Harris, Gulf Coast Reads event: Jan Jarboe Russell discusses The Train to Crystal City, 12:30PM<\/span>ALSO SIGNING in Spring, Tues., Oct. 18, Community Center Forum, Gulf Coast Reads author talk, 6:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON Tues., Oct. 11, Murder By the Book, Charlaine Harris will sign and discuss All the Little Liars, her first Aurora Teagarden mystery in 13 years, 6:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Tues., Oct. 18\u00a0 BookWoman, author and sex educator Allison Moon reads from her award-winning book Girl Sex 101 and critically-acclaimed memoir Bad Dyke, followed by Q&A and book signing, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>HUNTSVILLE\u00a0 Tues., Oct. 18, Sam Houston State University, Bright Sky Press publisher Lucy Chambers discusses writing and book publishing, 2PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS\u00a0 Wed., Oct. 19, SMU – Hughes Trigg Theater, Bryan Cranston will read and discuss A Life in Parts, 1PM<\/span>ALSO SIGNING in Dripping Springs, Thurs., Oct. 20: Treaty Oak Distilling Ranch, Bryan Cranston reads and signs A Life in Parts, with Q&A and special screening, 6PM [ticket required]<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Thurs., Oct. 20 Central Presbyterian Church, Bestselling Author JODI PICOULT speaking & signing Small Great Things, 7PM [ticket required]<\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON\u00a0 Thurs., Oct. 20, Brazos Bookstore, Carol Dawson & Roger Allen Polson discuss and sign MILES AND MILES OF TEXAS, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>LUBBOCK\u00a0 Fri., Oct. 21, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts Graffiti Building, Nighthawks reading and signing with Ad Hoc Writers Barbara Brannon, Melissa Brewer, Sheila Delony, Richard Jespers, Marilyn Westfall, and Janice Whittington, 7 pm<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Lone Star Literary’s Tour of Texas, Fall 2016<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Walking the sidewalks of a world-class city and coming upon the treasure-house <\/span>of a literary bookstore like Paris’s Shakespeare & Company, San Francisco\u2019s City Lights, or Denver\u2019s Tattered Cover stirs a particular thrill of discovery. That\u2019s how it was when we pulled up to the curb around the corner from Deep Vellum Books,<\/span><\/a><\/span> the bookseller-cum-publisher situated on the main drag of Dallas\u2019s storied Deep Ellum quarter. (We weren\u2019t the only journalists stopping by, either\u2014the Dallas Morning News<\/span> was just departing from their visit as we were arriving for ours.<\/p>\n

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Anne Hollander<\/span> (above left; co-founder with Will Evans, <\/span>who was out of town) and Tanya Wardell <\/span>(right) gave us the lowdown: Deep Vellum Bookstore’s carefully curated shelves are arranged by publisher, not author or genre, allowing readers to follow the lists of the dedicated houses that specialize in literary translations, as well as get to know newcomers. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Austin Book Arts Center celebrates one-year milestone with successful fund-raiser<\/h1>\n

The Austin Book Arts Center board of directors<\/span> has announced that their First Birthday Bash at the North Door on September 28 raised almost $4,000 in funding. ABAC celebrated its first year of operation with letterpress printing, tiny books, music by Ruby and the Reckless, cupcakes, champagne, and a silent auction. Greg Ciotti of KOOP Radio was the Master of Ceremonies.<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>The event was to celebrate the accomplishments made by the Austin Book Arts Center in the first year of operation, including the expansion of the ABAC studio into a larger space at the Flatbed Building. Since September 2015, 57 workshops have been offered to engage people in creative, interpretive, and educational experiences related to the arts of the book.<\/p>\n

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Paragraphs on Padre Island hosts San Antonio Romance authors Oct. 22 during group’s fall retreat<\/h1>\n

Paragraphs on Padre Island Meet the Author Series<\/span> presents “An Afternoon of Romance at the Bookstore” Sat., Oct. 22, 2\u20135 pm, with San Antonio Romance Authors members Roe Valentine, J. D. Favor, Jolene Navarro, Jaye Garland, Terri Wilson, Karen Kinna,<\/span> and Susan LeMiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book signings and discussion are being held in conjunction with San Antonio Romance Authors\u2019 Fall Writer\u2019s Retreat, taking place on South Padre Island October 21\u201323.\u00a0 This event will be a casual, relaxed affair with a chance for our guests to meet one on one with the authors.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pigskin Rapture by Mac Engel with photography by Dan Jenkins<\/h1>\n

Visit with Engle and Jenkins Oct. 24\u2013Nov. 23<\/p>\n

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10\/25 Review Country Girl Bookaholic<\/p>\n

10\/26 Guest Post 1 Texas Book Lover<\/p>\n

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Legend of the Forest Beast: Sir Kaye the Boy Knight, Book 3 by Don M. Winn<\/h1>\n

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