Texas Star Trading Blog

By Glenn Dromgoole         Quite a few new Texas books have hit the shelves at Texas Star Trading Company. Lance and Ron Varnell have published a spectacular book of Texas landscape photography. 254: A Photographer’s Journey through Every Texas County includes one beautiful photograph from each county, with a brief ...

By Glenn Dromgoole              It took them about 40 years to write it, but Gaylon Finklea Hecker and Marianne Odom have produced an excellent book of oral history – Growing Up in the Lone Star State: Notable Texans Remember Their Childhoods (Briscoe Center for American History, $39.95 hardcover). They started ...

By Glenn Dromgoole Former President George W. Bush, who has become quite an accomplished painter since his White House days, has an exceptional new book of artistic and literary portraits of American’s immigrants – Out of Many, One ($38 hardcover). Bush said he set out several years ago to write ...

By Glenn Dromgoole        Two new books we’ve received at Texas Star Trading Company feature Lady Bird Johnson. Another tells the story of legendary McMurry University basketball coach Hershel Kimbrell. And two Texas poets toured the 62 National Parks and wrote poems about them. FIRST LADY: Lady Bird ...

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By Glenn Dromgoole Abilene author Johnnie Lou Avery Boyd has written a cookbook that’s not your usual cookbook. A Cookbook for Non-Cooks ($13.99 spiral-bound) is, Johnnie Lou says, “about my journey to learning to cook after age 70.” The book’s subtitle is “80 simple recipes with tips for success!” The ...

Feb. 24, 2021 By Glenn Dromgoole March is Texas History Month. Here are some books to consider (available at Texas Star Trading):

1. Big Wonderful Thing by Stephen Harrigan is the new quintessential book on Texas history. A much thinner paperback history is titled, simply, History of Texas.
2. Sam Houston ...
   
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