Blogs in July 2020

Texasville 5th July 2020

With Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and characters of one of his best-loved books, The Last Picture Show. This is a Texas-sized story brimming with home truths of the heart, and men and women we...

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North Dallas Forty 5th July 2020

On the field, the men who play football are gladiators, titans, and every other kind of cliché. But when they leave the locker room they are only men. Peter Gent’s classic novel looks at the seedy underbelly of the...

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The Paragraph Ranch 5th July 2020

Every writer knows you can’t go home again. But that’s just what is required of West Texas expatriate Dee Bennett-Kaufmann when her mother is badly injured in a mysterious car accident. Single-again “Dr. Dee” has never been on the...

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The Bottoms 5th July 2020

The Edgar Award winning thriller The Bottoms is classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and more affecting form with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee. Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air...

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The Simple Soul of Susan 5th July 2020

Love hopes for the simple things to last forever, even though life itself does not. When Susan Combs discovers a heart-breaking truth from the boy she has loved her entire life, she must make a life-altering choice. Will she...

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