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Ann Richards was a born entertainer, author Jan Reid says.Photos courtesy of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. From Let thePeople In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards by Jan Reid, © 2012, TheUniversity of Texas Press
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Author Jan Reid believes Richards lives on so vividly in our memories becauseshe was “such a refreshing difference from what we see now.”Courtesy photo
Photo of a young Ann Richards.Photos courtesy of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. From Let thePeople In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards by Jan Reid, © 2012, TheUniversity of Texas Press
Richards in her later years.
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Astray by Emma Donoghue
Son by Lois Lowry
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Locke's new book, The Cutting Season, is set in a Louisiania plantation.
Attica Locke's father, Houston attorney Gene Locke
Author Junot Díaz will open the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series onMonday.Photo by © Nina Subin
This is How You Lose Her, Díaz's newest book, was released on Sept. 11.Courtesy Photo
Texas writer Andrew Porter will be at Brazos Bookstore on Wednesday to discusshis newest novel, In Between Days.Photo by Chris Krajcer
The novel — Porter's debut full-length piece — is set in Houston.
The fight to save New Orleans has been a long battle that continues.
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The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back
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Booksellers are anticipating a new biography of Ann Richards by Jan Reid.
Expect a lot of new novels that copy Fifty Shades of Grey.
Justin Cronin's The Twelve is out in October.
At BookExpo, Dan Rather, whose latest book, Rather Outspoken: My Life in theNews, is in bookstores now, explained how he and KHOU invented modern hurricanecoverage.Photo courtesy of Dan Rather
Stephen Colbert composed random euphemisms for his penis during a BookExpobreakfast panel discussion.
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Canada by Richard Ford
Wanna Get Lucky? by Deborah Coonts
The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe
Istanbul Passage by Joseph Kanon
Johnell Kelley, left, and Robbyn Hill both grew up in Pasadena and current livein Fort Worth. Together, they are Joan Rylen.Courtesy Photo
Getaway Girlz is just the first in a series of embellished novels about theladies' vacation escapades.