Texas Star Trading Blog

Texas Star has extended our hours back to pre-Covid! We are now open 10-5:30 Monday-Friday, and 10-4 on Saturday. We strive to offer a safe shopping environment -- face masks encouraged for customers, employees wear them; hand sanitizer stations at front door and checkout counter; and high-touch areas sanitized frequently ...

By Glenn Dromgoole              Jay Moore tells the story of the Dodge Jones Foundation and the generous family who made it possible in his handsome new coffee-table book, Legacy. It’s already a hot seller at Texas Star Trading Company ($40, with proceeds benefiting the Abilene Heritage Square project), and Jay ...

Popular Abilene authors have new books due this fall  By Glenn Dromgoole Hey, Jay Moore, Sandi Mathur, and Charlie Russell fans: Three of Abilene’s most popular authors have books scheduled to come out this fall. Abilene history virtuoso Jay Moore has written a history/biography of the Dodge Jones Foundation and ...

By Glenn Dromgoole This is probably the weirdest book on American history I have ever read. And the most creative, too. J.W. Brands, a distinguished author and professor at the University of Texas, has compiled the history of the U.S. three lines – 17 syllables – at a time. He’s ...

By Glenn Dromgoole Sharron Ann Sibley, a high school beauty queen who expected to live a happy life as a wife and mother, pulls no punches in her autobiography titled Men, Money & Gypsy Blood: A Memoir of Love, Survival, and My Rise to Wall Street ($24.95 paperback). Unlike most ...

3 excellent debut novels by Abilene writers By Glenn Dromgoole I’ve read three first novels by three Abilene writers this year, and I have to tell you that I have enjoyed – and heartily recommend – all three. Earlier this year I reviewed The Arms of God by Leslie Hammond ...