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<\/span><\/span>Lone Star Reviews<\/span>Michelle Newby, NBCC,<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/span><\/span>BIOGRAPHY \/ POLITICS & GOVERNMENT<\/p>\n

Homer Ross Tomlin<\/span><\/p>\n

Homer Thornberry: Congressman, Judge, and Advocate for Equal Rights<\/span><\/p>\n

TCU Press<\/p>\n

Hardcover (ebook also available), 978-0-87565-637-0, 224 pages<\/p>\n

August 12, 2016<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy, these days, to be cynical about politicians<\/span> and about a biography written by the grandson of a Texas politician who entered public service at the same time as Lyndon Baines Johnson.<\/p>\n

Push those thoughts aside when considering Homer Thornberry: Congressman, Judge, and Advocate for Equal Rights.<\/span><\/a><\/span> This book from TCU Press is well written, solidly researched, and an important addition to twentieth-century Texas and American political history. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT<\/p>\n

Robert Brescia<\/span><\/p>\n

with foreword by Jeanine Pirro<\/span><\/p>\n

Destination Greatness: Creating a New Americanism<\/span><\/p>\n

Infinity Publishing<\/p>\n

Politics and Social Sciences\/Civics and Citizenship<\/p>\n

978-1495812385 paperback, $15.95; also available as Kindle ebook, 248 pages; October 11, 2016<\/p>\n

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

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Dallas Cowboy legends profiled in new books<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Veteran sportswriter Jim Reeves,<\/span> who covered both the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Rangers during his forty-year career with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram,<\/span> has written Dallas Cowboys: The Legends of America\u2019s Team<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Berkeley Place Books, $9.95 paperback, 192 pages). Reeves recalls the team\u2019s glory years by focusing on the personalities who owned, managed, coached, and played for the Cowboys. He profiles the star players position by position, beginning with quarterback, then running back, wide receiver, tight end, and the linemen and defense.<\/p>\n

In the second part of the book, he replays the various championship games involving the Cowboys\u2014wins and losses. Longtime Cowboy fans will find much here to savor.<\/p>\n

Dallas Cowboy Hall of Famer Charles Haley<\/span> has written his autobiography, Fear No Evil: Tackling Quarterbacks and Demons on My Way to the Hall of Fame<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Triumph Books, $26.96 hardcover). Written with Dallas Cowboys historian Jeff Sullivan,<\/span> Haley tells his story from childhood to his retirement from football as the only player to earn five Super Bowl rings\u2014two with San Francisco, then three with Dallas. Besides the football stories and locker-room antics, Haley also tells about his struggles to overcome bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones,<\/span> in a foreword, gives Haley much of the credit for Dallas winning three Super Bowls in the 1990s. Jones said Haley was \u201cone of the premier pass rushers in the NFL. \u201cWe weren\u2019t complete until he arrived,\u201d Jones writes. \u201cWe went from a pretty good football team to one of the greatest dynasties the game has ever witnessed, and really the only difference between the two was Charles.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Chicken Soup:<\/span> The \u201cChicken Soup for the Soul\u201d series continues to thrive, with about 250 titles now published. I suspect nearly every one of them includes a few stories by Texas writers. Certainly that\u2019s the case with two new volumes which came across my desk recently: The Power of Gratitude<\/span><\/a><\/span> and The Spirit of America.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In the Gratitude<\/span> book, at least three Texas writers have stories, including Trisha Faye<\/span> with her \u201cEvery Day Is a Good Day\u201d piece on how she taught herself to have a more thankful attitude at work.<\/p>\n

In the Spirit of America<\/span> volume, Dallas writer Eva Carter,<\/span> who was born in Czechoslovakia, has two stories \u2014 one about when she was a young immigrant girl in the third grade and one reflecting on the freedoms not shared by other women in the world. If you would like to submit a story for consideration by the Chicken Soup editors, go to chickensoup.com and click on \u201cSubmit Your Story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/a><\/span>erary Life<\/span><\/h1>\n
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LONE STAR LISTENS interviews\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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

10.23.2016\u00a0 Joyce Gibson Roach: Living and writing in the \u201cLand of Rain Shadow”<\/h1>\n

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Fort Worth author Joyce Gibson Roach<\/span> is still blazing trails at eighty. The fifth-generation Texan and Texas storyteller will be inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame in a special ceremony by the Friends of the Fort Worth Library at the Fort Worth Arboretum November 4. She has spun a lifetime of stories about West Texas, horses, cowgirls, and talking horned toads. She took time from her upcoming writing projects to participate in an interview with us by email.<\/span><\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: <\/span>Joyce, Your most recent book, <\/span>The Land of Rain Shadow: Horned Toad, Texas,<\/span> came out last year, when you were 79. This collection of short stories about West Texas has been widely praised for its craft. What does the phrase \u201cThe Land of Rain Shadow\u201d mean, and could you describe this book in your own words?<\/span><\/p>\n

JOYCE GIBSON ROACH: <\/span>Rain Shadow is a meteorology term describing how dry and desert places are formed. Moisture moves up the east side of mountain ranges but is blocked on the west leaving the west side in the shade of moisture. West Texas and other arid places in the Southwest remain dry and always in need of rain. (\u201cThe litany of brown places is always supplication for rain, and the colloquy of praise is ever for it.\u201d) The description identifies West Texas and Horned Toad, Texas, in Caballo County, an imaginary place in rural West Texas with a small population whose icon is a water tower and the people who have lived and endured there\u2014still do. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Texas’s only statewide, weekly calendar of book events<\/h1>\n

Bookish Texas<\/span> event highlights\u00a0 10.23.2016
<\/span>>><\/span><\/a><\/span> GO this week\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n
FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS IN TEXAS THIS WEEK: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Mon., Oct. 23\u00a0 The Writing Barn, Workshop: Page-Turning, Stomach-Churning: Building Suspense in Your Thriller with Amy Gentry, 1PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON\u00a0\u00a0 Mon., Oct. 24\u00a0 Brazos Bookstore, Jonathan Rabb reads and signs AMONG THE LIVING, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN Tues., Oct. 25, Austin History Center, A UT Tower shooting survivor, historians, and producers from “Texas Standard” will discuss the impact of the Out of the Blue oral history project commemorating the 50th anniversary of the UT Tower shooting, 6:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>RICHARDSON\u00a0 Tues., Oct. 25\u00a0 Richardson Public Library, Brown Bag Book Series: Rusty Williams discusses and signs Red River Bridge War: Texas-Oklahoma Boarder Battle, 11:30AM<\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS\u00a0 Wed., Oct. 26, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, An Evening with Author Willard Spiegelman, author of Senior Moments, 6PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Wed., Oct. 26, Witte Museum, Wagner Series: author Mary O. Parker and photographer Jeff Parker discuss and sign Explore Texas: A Nature Travel Guide, 6:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Thurs., Oct. 27\u00a0 Malvern Books, Bryce Milligan reads from and signs his new poetry collection, Take to the Highway: Arabesques for Travelers, with W. Joe Hoppe, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN MARCOS\u00a0 Thurs., Oct. 27, Texas State University\u2019s Alkek Library, Wittliff Collections reading and signing with Mary Ruefle, 3:30PM<\/span>ALSO READING & SIGNING in Kyle, Fri., Oct. 28, Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center, KAP Literary Center, 7:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS\u00a0 Sat., Oct. 30, Deep Vellum Books, The SMU Russian Studies Department Presents A Panel Discussion: Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Russia: Translation, History, and Literature featuring distinguished guest Rosamund Bartlett, English writer, scholar and translator, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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News Briefs 10.23.16<\/h1>\n

Full schedule now posted for 2016 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Nov. 5\u20136<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span>Start mapping out your 2016 Texas Book Festival Weekend<\/h1>\n

More than 290 authors will present at dozens of venues<\/span> in and around the state capitol the weekend of Nov. 5 and 6, 2016.\u00a0 Readers are encouraged to come see authors they have always loved and discover new favorites, and buy their books. New venues, including the Omni Hotel, the First Baptist Church, and a YA HQ Tent, have been added.<\/p>\n

Check out the schedule grid at www.texasbookfestival.org\/festival-schedule<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Lone Star Lit editor’s favorite bookish destinations featured in Texas Highways November issue<\/h1>\n

Follow LSLL editor and publisher Kay Ellington’s literary journey<\/span> across Texas, with images by Texas Highways photographers: read the article at texashighways.com\/travel\/item\/8316-texas-bookish-destinations<\/span><\/a><\/span>. And then email us at info@LoneStarLiterary.com<\/span><\/a><\/span> to tell us about your best picks and hidden treasures!<\/p>\n

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San Antonio mayor Ivy R. Taylor announces fall 2016 book club selection, Ward’s The Fire This Time<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 In an effort to promote literacy across San Antonio,<\/span> Mayor Ivy R. Taylor has announced her Mayor\u2019s Book Club fall selection.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited to have chosen The Fire This Time<\/span> by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward<\/span>,\u201d said Taylor. \u201cI understand the book is a powerful collection of essays and poems about race in the United States and it\u2019s so timely. I can\u2019t wait to read it and hear from San Antonians about their thoughts on the book.\u201d >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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COMING UP ON TOUR: NONFICTION<\/h1>\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

10\/24 Page Preview1 Hall Ways Blog<\/p>\n

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

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

10\/27 Page Preview 2 Kara The Redhead<\/p>\n

10\/28 Review It’s a Jenn World<\/p>\n

10\/29 Guest Post 2 StoreyBook Reviews<\/p>\n

10\/30 Promo Blogging for the Love of Authors and Their Books<\/p>\n

10\/31 Review Margie’s Must Reads<\/p>\n

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11\/2 Review Reading By Moonlight<\/p>\n

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

Visit with the authors October 22\u201331<\/p>\n

10\/23 Guest Post 1 StoreyBook Reviews<\/p>\n

10\/24 Illustration Preview It’s a Jenn World<\/p>\n

10\/25 Review Margie’s Must Reads<\/p>\n

10\/26 Excerpt Country Girl Bookaholic<\/p>\n

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10\/28 Author Interview Forgotten Winds<\/p>\n

10\/29 Coloring Download The Page Unbound<\/p>\n

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10\/31 Guest Post 2, Chapter Break Book Blog<\/p>\n

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10\/23 Books and Broomsticks<\/p>\n

10\/24 A Novel Reality<\/p>\n

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Twelve Tantalizingly Twisted Tales<\/h1>\n

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Gathering Courage by T. A. McMullin<\/h1>\n

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