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It\u2019s Back! Vote for your Favorite Texas Bookstore<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Lone Star Lit\u2019s second annual Texas Readers\u2019 Favorite Bookstores<\/span> voting will be held May 1 through May 18, 2017. Readers, vote as often as you wish for your Favorite Texas Bookstore.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll announce the Top 40 finalists on May 7; then, the Top 20 finalists on May 14. Voting is now underway; Round 1 closes midnight May 13, 2017!<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Countdown to Readers\u2019 Favorite Bookstores, June 3 and June 10<\/h1>\n

Like our claim-to-fame feature, Top Ten Bookish Destinations , Texas’s Top Ten Favorite Bookstores counts down Number Ten through Number Six on June 3, and Number Five through Number One on June 10.<\/p>\n

The Texas Readers\u2019 Favorite Bookstores winners will be determined by reader vote via:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Our website<\/p>\n

\u2022 Our e-mail newsletter<\/p>\n

\u2022 Our social media<\/p>\n

\u2022 Direct ballots upon request<\/p>\n

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More than 1,000 readers voted in the 2016 Texas\u2019s Top Ten Favorite Bookstores contest, and last year\u2019s winners were:<\/p>\n

#10\u00a0 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Lubbock<\/h1>\n

South Plains Mall, 6002 Slide Road Lubbock<\/p>\n

Wade Whatley, Manager<\/p>\n

Community relations manager: Terry Handley<\/p>\n

Date store opened: Nov. 4, 2009<\/p>\n

#9\u00a0 Gladewater Books, Gladewater<\/h1>\n

109 E. Pacific, Gladewater<\/p>\n

Owners: Peter Adams and Elizabeth DeRieux<\/p>\n

Date store opened: March 2007<\/p>\n

#8\u00a0 River Oaks Bookstore, Houston<\/h1>\n

3270 Westheimer Rd., Houston<\/p>\n

Owners: Michael and Josie Jones; Michael\u2019s mother Jeanne Jard<\/p>\n

Community relations manager: Whitney Corson<\/p>\n

Date store opened- 1976<\/p>\n

#7\u00a0 Recycled Books, Records, CDs, Denton<\/h1>\n

200 N. Locust, Denton<\/p>\n

Owner: Don Foster<\/p>\n

Community relations managers: Lacey Richins and Miles Foster<\/p>\n

Date store opened: 1983<\/p>\n

#6\u00a0 BookPeople, Austin<\/h1>\n

603 N.Lamar Blvd., Austin<\/p>\n

Owned locally by BookPeople, Inc.; Steven Bercu is president of company and operates the store<\/p>\n

Marketing director: Abby Feenewald<\/p>\n

Opened in November, 1970<\/p>\n

#5 Barnes & Noble Dallas: Lincoln Park<\/h1>\n

7700 West Northwest Highway, Dallas, TX 75225<\/p>\n

Manager: Craig Schlabs<\/p>\n

Community relations manager: Cody McMahan<\/p>\n

Opened September 1998<\/p>\n

#4 Texas Star Trading Company, Abilene<\/h1>\n

174 Cypress St., downtown Abilene<\/p>\n

Owners: Carol and Glenn Dromgoole<\/p>\n

Opened July 22, 2004<\/p>\n

#3 Paragraphs on Padre Boulevard, South Padre Island<\/h1>\n

5505 Padre Boulevard, South Padre Island, TX (3 miles north of the Queen Isabella Causeway)<\/p>\n

Owners: Joni Montover and Griff Mangan<\/p>\n

Opened February 9, 2009<\/p>\n

#2 Barnes & Noble at Stonebriar Centre, Frisco<\/h1>\n

2601 Preston Rd., Suite 1204, Frisco<\/p>\n

Store Manager: Jamie Lockhart<\/p>\n

Community Business Development Manager: Nicole Caliro<\/p>\n

Opened August 2000<\/p>\n

#1 40 Acre Wood, Lexington<\/h1>\n

521 3rd Street\/ Lexington<\/p>\n

Owner: Heidi Frazier<\/p>\n

Opened 2010<\/p>\n

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Lubbock sets first all-day Lubbock Book Festival for Sat., Oct. 28, 2017<\/h1>\n

Lubbock \u2014 The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the first-ever Lubbock Book Festival, <\/span>scheduled for Sat., Oct. 28, 2017. With an impressive lineup featuring New York Times best-selling authors, award-winning Texas Tech writers and other regional and local favorites, the Festival will offer readings, signings, and entertainment for all ages throughout the day on the LHUCA campus, with Thursday and Friday related, off-site events leading up to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very excited to strengthen LHUCA\u2019s connection to the literary arts,\u201d said LHUCA executive director Jean Caslin. \u201cThe Lubbock Book Festival adds a rich new dimension to the activity that goes on here week in, week out.\u201d<\/p>\n

S. C. Gwynne <\/span>will be the keynote author on Saturday afternoon. In 2010 his award-winning book about the history of the Comanches, Empire of the Summer Moon,<\/span> spent four months as a New York Times top 10 Bestseller. He later published an acclaimed biography of Stonewall Jackson, Rebel Yell.<\/span> But it\u2019s his most recent book that should score with readers during football season in Lubbock. In The Perfect Pass,<\/span> Gwynne tells the incredible story of how Hal Mumme and Mike Leach\u2014two unknown coaches who revolutionized American football in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s\u2014changed the way the game is played at every level, from high school to the NFL.<\/p>\n

Distinguished Texas Tech alumna Jodi Thomas,<\/span> who serves as writer-in-residence at West Texas A&M University, will talk about her journey to becoming a New York Times<\/span> and USA Today <\/span>bestselling author with millions of books in print. Her Ransom Canyon series of West Texas novels launched in 2015; more highly anticipated new books in the series are forthcoming in fall 2017.<\/p>\n

Terry Jennings<\/span> was introduced to the music business at an early age through his work as production manager for his father, West Texas legend Waylon Jennings. His combination autobiography and memoir, Waylon: Tales of My Outlaw Dad,<\/span> was praised by Willie Nelson as \u201ca terrific tribute, from a son to his father.\u201d<\/p>\n

Houston-based chef and food writer Ad\u00e1n Medrano,<\/span> author of Truly Texas Mexican: A Native Culinary Heritage in Recipes<\/span> (Texas Tech University Press, 2015), will be featured in a lunchtime cooking demonstration, along with Lubbock Avalanche-Journal<\/span> food columnist and The Whole Enchilada<\/span> cookbook author Angelina LaRue.<\/span> Lunch will be served at this paid, ticketed event.<\/p>\n

A generation of children have grown up reading and listening to Panhandle storyteller John R. Erickson\u2019s<\/span> Hank the Cowdog books. In 1982, after receiving numerous rejection slips from large publishers, Erickson borrowed $2,000 and began his own publishing company, Maverick Books. Hank the Cowdog debuted in The Cattleman<\/span>. Fifty years and seventy books later, Erickson\u2019s iconic pup and his lackluster sidekick have sold 8.5 million books worldwide.<\/p>\n

A presenter whose face is familiar in Lubbock as co-anchor of the 6 pm and 10 pm news for KCBD-TV. Karin McCay<\/span> is one half of the longest-running anchor team in the nation and regularly emcees events, judges science fairs, speaks at luncheons, and reads to classes in elementary schools. She is also an Ambassador for the Children\u2019s Miracle Network, having co-hosted that Telethon for 34 years. Now, she\u2019s the author of the Magic Mommy children\u2019s book series, Marvin and the Giant Bubble<\/span> and Marvin and the Surprise Package,<\/span> forthcoming in fall 2017.<\/p>\n

In addition to sessions by Texas Tech faculty poets and writers and selected creative writing graduate students, the lineup to date includes:<\/p>\n

Mystery writer Linda Castillo<\/span> of Amarillo\u00a0 \u2022 Miles Arceneaux,<\/span> the pen name for a trio of Texas mystery writers \u2014 and the persona of their book series. \u2022 The Adventures of Wilder Good series of novels for young readers by Lubbock\u2019s S. J. Dahlstrom<\/span> \u2022\u00a0 Spur award winner Patrick Dearen<\/span> of Midland \u2022 Bestselling author of gothic\/fantasy tales A. G. Howard<\/span> of Amarillo \u2022\u00a0 Nancy Draves<\/span> with A Promise Fulfilled: The Kitty Anderson Diary and Civil War Texas, 1861<\/span> \u2022 Retired journalist Bob Horton<\/span> with his memoir Of Bulletins and Booze: A Newsman\u2019s Story of Recovery<\/span> \u2022 Rosa Walston Latimer<\/span> of Post, with her histories of Harvey Houses in the Southwest \u2022 Texas Tech alumna and mystery author Melissa Lenhardt<\/span> of Dallas \u2022 Author and playwright Tim Lewis<\/span> of Canyon \u2022 Singer, songwriter, and children\u2019s storyteller Tim A. McKenzie<\/span> of Lubbock \u2022 Texas deejay Ruben Molina<\/span> with Chicano Soul: Recordings and History of an American Culture<\/span> \u2022 Texas Tech engineering professor Michelle Pantoya <\/span>with a middle-readers activity connected with her book Designing Dandelions<\/span> \u2022 Janet M. Neugebauer<\/span> of Lubbock with her recent biography A Witness to History: George H. Mahon, West Texas Congressman<\/span> \u2022 Texas Tech alum Frank Sikes,<\/span> telling the story of West Texas middleweight LaVern Roach \u2022 Award-winning poet Laura Van Prooyen<\/span> of San Antonio \u2022 Poet and Dos Gatos Press publisher Scott Wiggerman<\/span> \u2022 Award-winning Christian historical romance author Karen Witemeyer<\/span> of Abilene.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit the Festival\u2019s Facebook page, www.Facebook.com\/LubbockBookFestival<\/span><\/a><\/span> or its Twitter page, @LubbockBookFest, or contact LubbockBookFest@gmail.com.<\/p>\n

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Lady Bird Johnson Environmental Award to Ken Burns<\/h1>\n

Press release by Anne Wheeler, LBJ Foundation,\u00a0 May 4, 2017<\/p>\n

The 2017 Lady Bird Johnson Environmental Award<\/span> has been presented to Ken Burns<\/span> for reawakening a nation\u2019s consciousness to the natural world through his work, including The National Parks: America\u2019s Best Idea.<\/span> As a direct result of the publicity and broadcast of this documentary, national parks across the country saw a dramatic increase in attendance. Burns has directed and produced some of the most influential, important and popular historical documentaries of our time.<\/p>\n

The $25,000 award was given to Burns on April 27 at a program at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. Presenting the award were Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson\u2019s daughters, Lynda Johnson Robb<\/span> and Luci Baines Johnson.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Lady Bird Johnson Environment Award honors outstanding achievements in the preservation, restoration or improvement of the natural world that embrace Mrs. Johnson’s style, energy and commitment to her work. Its mission is to increase public awareness of the environmental challenges facing our country by highlighting the work of selected individuals, corporations, and non-profit organizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cLady Bird Johnson was one of the most impactful environmentalists of the 20th century,\u201d said Larry Temple, chairman of the LBJ Foundation. \u201cWith her voice and her actions she elevated to the general public\u2019s consciousness the importance and significance of protection and enhancement of our land, our waterways, our air, our forests and our parks and every facet of the environment. Lady Bird Johnson would have taken great pride in knowing this Award was being presented to Ken Burns.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his forty years of filmmaking, Burns has reached millions of viewers of PBS through his inventive style of storytelling.<\/p>\n

The National Parks: America\u2019s Best Idea<\/span>, broadcast on PBS in 2009, captured an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. It was filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature\u2019s most spectacular locales \u2014 from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska.<\/p>\n

The musician Wynton Marsalis has called Burns \u201ca master of timing, and of knowing the sweet spot of a story, of how to ask questions to get to the basic human feeling and to draw out the true spirit of a given subject.\u201d Burns\u2019 films have won fifteen Emmy Awards and two Oscar nominations, and in September of 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n

(Information from organization\u2019s press release)<\/p>\n

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O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships to mark 40th year, Sat., May 13, in Austin<\/h1>\n

\u201cLend us and ear and we\u2019ll give you more corn,\u201d<\/span> was how those who attended the first O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships were welcomed in 1977. Shucks! Now, forty years later the Pun-Off continues to a-maize people with wacky wordplay and home groan wit from powerful punsters who are out standing in their field.<\/p>\n

The event will celebrate its 40th Anniversary Sat., May 13, 2017, with a fun exhibit \u201cOnce a-Pun A Time\u201d with photos, an interactive game, and memorabilia in the Susanna Dickinson Museum at 409 E. Fifth Street, Austin, in the back yard of the O. Henry Museum, also known as Brush Square.<\/p>\n

For information about the O. Henry Pun-Off event, call (512) 472-1903 between noon and five p.m., Wednesday to Sunday or leave a voice message. Please note that registrations to compete can only\u00a0 be made online following instructions on the registration page at www.punoff.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(Information from organization\u2019s website)<\/p>\n

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Awards go to Cortez, Dahlstrom for recent books<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Houston poet Sarah Cortez<\/span> has won the Editing Award from the Press Women of Texas for Vanishing Points: Poems and Photographs of Texas Roadside Memorials<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas Review Press, 2016).<\/p>\n

The judge of the contest commented, \u201cExcellent and extensive poetry set apart with extraordinary photography. The collection is unique and the writing is a perfect match with the art.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Selected as one of 2016 Southwest Books of the Year, Vanishing Points<\/span> features the poignant drama of Texas\u2019s lonesome highways and bustling intersections illustrated by the stunning photography of Dan Streck.<\/span> Four poets respond to the visual summons of roadside memorials with lyric intensity: Larry D. Thomas, Jack B. Bedell, Sarah Cortez, <\/span>and Loueva Smith.<\/span> Graphic designer Nancy J. Parsons<\/span> was responsible for layout and design.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>At the 2017 Western Heritage Awards in Oklahoma City<\/span> in April, S. J. Dahlstrom<\/span> of Lubbock won the Outstanding Juvenile Book award for The Green Colt<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Paul Dry Books, 2016), which was also a Spur finalist earlier this year. Dahlstrom\u2019s Wrangler award was presented by legendary stuntman Dean Smith.<\/p>\n

The Western Heritage Awards were established in 1961 as the pinnacle commemoration of the American West by honoring the legacy of men and women for their works in literature, music, film, and television.<\/p>\n

(Information from author and awards website)<\/p>\n

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Texas book festival to host Reading Rock Stars\u00a0 presentations by Laura Bush and other renowned authors<\/h1>\n

Mrs. Bush will also announce the 2017 recipients of the Laura Bush Foundation for America\u2019s Libraries grants<\/h1>\n

Austin \u2014 The Texas Book Festival will host its Reading Rock Stars program<\/span> on Friday, May 19, 2017, at Thomas Tolbert Elementary School. Beginning at 11 a.m., the school will host three authors \u2014James Luna, <\/span>author of two bilingual picture books; Hena Khan,<\/span> Pakistani-American author of Amina\u2019s Voice,<\/span> and Texas Book Festival Founder, beloved First Lady, and bestselling children\u2019s book author Laura Bush.<\/span> Additionally, Mrs. Bush will announce the 2017 recipients of the Laura Bush Foundation for America\u2019s Libraries grants.<\/p>\n

The Texas Book Festival\u2019s Reading Rock Stars literacy program brings books to life for children in low-income schools by inviting authors and illustrators into classrooms with entertaining presentations that inspire students to read, write, and create. The Texas Book Festival also gives each student an autographed copy of each author\u2019s book and provides the school library with a new set of books. After each presentation, the author personally hands a signed book to each student. Texas Book Festival will be donating a total of 580 books to Thomas Tolbert Elementary School.<\/p>\n

The Texas Book Festival has coordinated more than 350 author visits and provided more than 81,000 books to students in Title I schools across Texas since its inception.<\/p>\n

For more information on the Texas Book Festival and Reading Rock Stars, visit www.texasbookfestival.org. For more information on the Laura Bush Foundation for America\u2019s Libraries, visit www.laurabushfoundation.org.<\/p>\n

WHO:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 James Luna \u2013 The Place Where You Live<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hena Khan \u2013 Amina\u2019s Voice<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Laura Bush \u2013 Our Great Big Backyard<\/p>\n

WHEN:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Friday, May 19<\/p>\n

11 a.m. \u2013 Pre-K & Kindergarten \u2013 James Luna (library)<\/p>\n

11a.m. \u2013 Grades 4 and 5 \u2013 Hena Khan (gym)<\/p>\n

12:45 p.m. \u2013 Grades 1, 2, and 3 \u2013 Laura Bush (auditorium)<\/p>\n

WHERE:\u00a0\u00a0 Thomas Tolbert Elementary School<\/p>\n

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(Information from organization\u2019s website)<\/p>\n

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Brookins to discuss her memoir, Rise, at WTAMU\u2019s summer Roundup event June 5; Thomas, Lewis, Claire, Navarro also featured<\/h1>\n

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<\/span><\/span>CANYON \u2014 West Texas A&M University will welcome author and motivational speaker Cara Brookins<\/span> as the keynote speaker for the West Texas Writers\u2019 Academy Writers\u2019 Roundup dinner on Monday, June 5. Brookins\u2019s memoir, Rise: How a House Built a Family, <\/span>details how she and her children left a traumatic situation and built a house from the ground up with their own hands.<\/p>\n

The event begins at 6 p.m. with a book signing by authors from across the nation who are attending the Writers\u2019 Academy at WTAMU. Authors will include New York Times<\/span> bestselling author Jodi Thomas,<\/span> Reader\u2019s Digest<\/span> Select author Timothy Lewis,<\/span> USA Today<\/span> Bestselling author Bethany Claire,<\/span> and Harlequin author and bestselling hybrid author of contemporary and historical romance Jolene Navarro.<\/span> Readers will find books of various genres from romance to western to thriller. Authors will sell their books and talk to readers until 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Dinner and remarks from Lewis will begin at 7 p.m. ,with Brookins taking the stage at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

After escaping two abusive marriages, Brookins was in desperate need of a home but without the means to buy one. So she did something incredible. Equipped with only YouTube videos and a 9-month bank loan, Brookins built her own house\u2014all 3,500 square feet of it\u2014from the foundation to the roof (and everything in between) with a work crew made up of her kids. The completed house has five bedrooms, a three-car garage, a shop, and even a two-story tree house.<\/p>\n

Rise is Brookins first work of nonfiction. Other books by Brookins include Little Boy Blu,<\/span> Timeshifters triology\u2014Mark of the Centipede, Mark of the Serpent and Mark of the Spider\u2014 Gadget Geeks, Doris Free: A Harvest of Friends, Doris Free<\/span> and Treasure Quest.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Writers\u2019 Roundup dinner is open to the public. Tickets are $35 per person and can be purchased with advance reservations by calling Education on Demand at 806-651-2037.<\/p>\n

(Information from organization\u2019s press release and website)<\/p>\n

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