
Historic novel set in West Central Texas
An excellent debut novel, The Shinnery by Kate Anger (pronounced ahn-JHER), is set in 1894-96 in this part of West Texas. The fast-paced story revolves around Jessa Campbell, 17, who likes working with her father to eke out a living on their farm in the Shinnery. However, to settle a ...
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Elmer Kelton saga continues
Elmer Kelton, who died in 2009, featured Hewey Calloway in three of his novels – the best known being The Good Old Boys, which became a movie starring Tommy Lee Jones as Calloway. A prequel -- Six Bits a Day -- and a sequel -- The Smiling Country – ...
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Popular Jay Moore book now in paperback
Abilene historian Jay Moore’s book, Abilene History in Plain Sight, is back in a new paperback edition, $23.99. First published in 2014 by ACU Press, the hardback edition has been out of print for a year or so. We have autographed copies of the new edition at Texas Star, and ...
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Remember the Alamo Bowl
Veteran sports writer Jim Reeves writes about TCU’s epic comeback in the 2016 Alamo Bowl. The 11th-ranked Horned Frogs, with backup quarterback Bram Kohlhausen forced into action at the last minute, trailed number 15 Oregon 31-0 at the half. But Kohlhausen, playing his final game as a senior, wasn’t quite ...
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A Literary Tribute to Texas Rivers
Viva Texas Rivers! takes up where John Graves (Goodbye to a River) left off – as a lyrical tribute to the rivers in all sections of Texas. Collected and edited by Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester and supported by the The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, ...
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New novel by Steve Harrigan
Book Notes by Glenn Dromgoole Best-selling Texas novelist Steve Harrigan returns to fiction with his new novel, The Leopard Is Loose ($26 hardcover), based roughly on a true event of the 1950s when a leopard escaped from the zoo in Oklahoma City. Writing as a man of 70 looking ...
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