Book Club Blogs

Join us here at 7:30 pm on January 17, 2017 to chat with Light Cummins about Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas.

We hope you all have a wonderful holiday. See you next year!

Click here to chat with author Cynthia Brandimarte tomorrow night about her fabulous book, Texas State Parks and the CCC. We’ll kick it off at 7:30 pm. See you there!

I hope everyone enjoyed our discussion of LaBelle: The Ship That Changed History.

Our next book is Texas State Parks and the CCC: The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps by Cynthia Brandimarte with Angela Reed. Author Cynthia Brandimarte will join us on Oct. 25. This book tells the story of the Roosevelt-era Civilian Conservation Corps, which built many Texas state parks from Palo Duro Canyon to Lake Corpus Christi.

Our friends at Texas A&M Press gave the book group 5 free copies of the book! Send your name and address to bookgroup@texaspbs.org for a chance to receive a free copy. First come, first served! Happy Reading!

Join us here (our book group’s main page) to chat with editor James Bruseth on Tuesday, September 27th at 7:30 pm about the book, LaBelle: The Ship That Changed History. Don’t miss it!

All of our free copies of the LaBelle are gone!Here’s a link to Texas A&M Press’ website so you can purchase your own copy.

I hope everyone had a wonderful summer!

The book group is back with a fabulous story of persistence and the quest to find artifacts from the 17th century. LaBelle: The Ship That Changed History, chronicles the ship’s excavation and the preservation of over one million artifacts found. Many of you have seen the amazing exhibit at The Bullock Texas State History Museum – this book takes you on the journey editor James Bruseth and his team went on to uncover the lost ship and the stories it tells. 

Our friends at Texas A&M Press gave the book group 5 free copies of the book! Send your name and address to bookgroup@texaspbs.org for a chance to receive a free copy. First come, first served! Happy Reading!

Join us tomorrow night (Tuesday, May 24th) to chat with Fran Vick, editor of The Tales of Texas Cooking. We will start the chat at 7:30 pm on our book group’s main page. See you then!

Have y’all tried some of the delicious recipes in Tales of Texas Cooking? Mark your calendars to chat with editor Fran Vick about this fun book from our friends at UNT Press. You can also set an email reminder on our book group’s main page (where the chat will take place on Tuesday, May 24th at 7:30 pm).