Writers profile early Texas ranch women
Two mystery novels by popular Texas authors
New guidebooks feature Texas wines, wildflowers
Book offers practical advice on grief ministry
Author provides tour of tiny Texas jails
If you think Texas BBQ: Small Town to Downtown (University of T
Maybe a New Year’s Resolution would be to cook several new dishes in 2019. Not necessarily anything wild and crazy, just something you haven’t tried before.
Texas author Michael Lee Lanning’s 25th book is Dear Allyanna, An Old Soldier’s Last Letter to His Granddaughter (John M. Hardy Publishing, $18.95 paperback).
Over the course of the year, I receive probably 200 or more books to consider for Texas Reads, and I try to get around to as many as possible. So far I’ve been able to write about, or at least mention, 110 titles by Texas authors or about Texas subjects, covering a wide range of interests and genres, and I hope to get around to several more this month before taking off a couple of weeks.
Three former First Ladies from Texas are included in the new children’s book, Have You Heard About Lady Bird? Poems About Our First Ladies by Marilyn Singer and illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (Disney/Hyperion, $17.99 hardcover).