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<\/span><\/span>Lone Star Reviews<\/span>Michelle Newby, NBCC,<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Author revisits deadly riot at 1926 A&M\u2013Baylor football game<\/h1>\n
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T. G. Webb, a Waco historian and football fan,<\/span> revisits a dark moment in college football in Battle of the Brazos: A Texas Football Rivalry, a Riot, and a Murder<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas A&M University Press, $27 hardcover).<\/p>\n
In 1926 the intense football rivalry between Texas A&M and Baylor erupted into a riot at halftime and an Aggie cadet was fatally injured. He died the next morning in a Waco hospital. Webb examines the background, eyewitness testimony, and subsequent investigations that led to several prime suspects being named in the death of cadet Charles Sessums, but no one was ever charged.<\/p>\n
Sessums was struck in the head by a Baylor student or fan wielding a club or a broken piece of a wooden chair. The riot grew out of a halftime prank that escalated when two Aggies leaped onto the field in protest, and both student sections joined the fray.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Both sides pointed the fingers at the other in assessing blame for the riot, and Baylor and A&M \u2014 less than 100 miles apart \u2014 would not play each other in any sport for five years.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor decades,\u201d the author writes, \u201cechoes of the riot and whispers of a murder haunted the rivalry between Texas A&M and Baylor. This book explains the Cotton Palace riot, including its causes and aftermath, and reveals the untold story of the murder of a Texas A&M cadet and the search for his killer.\u201d<\/p>\n
High school football:<\/span> Nearly every year a new book comes out about Texas high school football. Why not? There\u2019s so much history and lore connected with the high school game in the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n
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High School Football in Texas: Amazing Stories from the Greatest Players of Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Sports Publishing, $19.99) by Jeff Fisher, <\/span>editor-in-chief of the High School Football America web site, focuses on more than 50 Texas football stars recalling their high school years (Sports Publishing, $19.99 hardcover).<\/p>\n
Among the players featured: Earl Campbell, John Tyler High School; Bob Lilly, Throckmorton High School; Joe Greene, Temple Dunbar; Don Maynard, Colorado City; Johnny Manziel, Kerrville Tivy; Mike Singletary, Houston Worthing; LaDanian Tomlinson, Waco University; Von Miller, DeSoto High School; Jerry LeVias, Beaumont Hebert; Sammy Baugh, Sweetwater, and Kenneth Hall, Sugar Land.<\/p>\n
The stories are short and easy to read — anywhere from two to eight pages per player. Each piece concludes with a very brief summary of the player\u2019s accomplishments after high school.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn all of my interviews,\u201d author Fisher writes, \u201cthe players spent more time with me than I requested. Almost every player said they did longer interviews because they enjoyed reminiscing about things that they hadn\u2019t thought of in years.<\/p>\n
\u201cHigh school football in Texas,\u201d Fisher adds, \u201cis woven into the fabric of every community \u2014 no matter how big or how small.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> writes about Texas books and authors. Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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4th Annual Permian Basin Writers\u2019 Workshop set for Oct. 13-14<\/h1>\n
Now in its fourth year, the Permian Basin Writers\u2019 Workshop<\/span> annual event will feature writing coaches, agents, and publishers from around the country, October 13-14, 2018.<\/p>\n
The two-day workshop event will be held in Midland, at the Marie Hall Academic Building at Midland College.<\/p>\n
The workshop will feature ten speakers, including Margie Lawson, Christie Craig, Manning Wolfe, David Farland, Reavis Z. Wortham, Kristen Marten, Stephen Graham Jones, Donna M. Johnson, B. Alan Bourgeois<\/span> and Arlene Gale<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/a>>>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Boerne Book & Arts Fest Brings Authors, Art, Crafts, Music & More to Boerne Main Plaza<\/h1>\n
Kinky Friedman to share stories and perform from new album<\/h1>\n
Another chapter of the Boerne Book & Arts Fest<\/span> will open October 6 on Boerne\u2019s Main Plaza with a celebration featuring live artist demos, author discussion panels, children\u2019s activities and an appearance by Texas\u2019s beloved singer, songwriter, humorist, and politician Kinky Friedman.<\/span> Admission is free.<\/p>\n
The one-day literary and arts celebration offers a little something for every age group, including seven engaging discussion panels of authors who will cover topics ranging from the Houston Astros\u2019 World Series-winning season to one of Texas\u2019 best Honky Tonks, The Broken Spoke. Kinky Friedman will appear at 3 p.m., performing songs from his new album, Circus of Life,<\/span> and sharing readings from Heroes of a Texas Childhood<\/span> in the Main Plaza gazebo. Panels will take place throughout the day at Main Plaza and upstairs at the Dienger Trading Company.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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August 2018<\/h1>\n
What are Texans reading these days, you ask? <\/span>Lone Star Lit\u2019s newest regular feature is a monthly list of trending titles at the <\/span>Twig Book Shop,<\/span><\/a><\/span> a leading independent bookseller in San Antonio. Click on any title for the Buy link. And we’ll also include a hotlink to related content in Lone Star Literary Life.<\/span><\/p>\n
Jessica Honegger,<\/span>Imperfect Courage: Live a Life of Purpose by Leaving Comfort and Going Scared<\/span><\/a><\/span> 0-735291292<\/span><\/p>\n
Andrew Sansom<\/span> (Author), <\/span>Rusty Yates<\/span> (Photographer), <\/span>David K. Langford<\/span> (Photographer)<\/span>Seasons at Selah: The Legacy of Bamberger Ranch Preserve (Myrna and David K. Langford Books on Working Land<\/span><\/a><\/span>, 978-1-623496349<\/span><\/p>\n
Carmen Tafolla,<\/span>New and Selected Poems (TCU Texas Poets Laureate)<\/span><\/a> 978-0-875656897<\/span><\/p>\n
Clay Bonnyman Evans,<\/span>Bones of My Grandfather: Reclaiming a Lost Hero of World War II<\/span><\/a> 978-1-510730613<\/span><\/p>\n
Atul Gawande,<\/span>Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-1-250076226<\/span><\/p>\n
Amor Towles,<\/span>A Gentleman in Moscow<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-0-670026197<\/span><\/p>\n
Anthony Doerr,<\/span>All the Light We Cannot See,<\/span><\/a><\/span>978-1-501173219<\/span><\/p>\n
Jeremy Banas<\/span> (Author), <\/span>Kit Goldsbury<\/span> (Foreword by), <\/span>Bill Jones<\/span> (Preface by)<\/span>Pearl: A History of San Antonio’s Iconic Beer<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-1-540227944<\/span><\/p>\n
Hector Pacheco,<\/span>Canary Islanders of San Antonio<\/span><\/a><\/span> (American Heritage), 978-1-467138215<\/span><\/p>\n
Mark Manson,<\/span>The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life<\/span><\/a><\/span>, 978-0-062457713<\/span><\/p>\n
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A prize of $750.00 and publication in The Ocotillo Review<\/span> Winter 2019 will be awarded for a short story up to 4,200 words. Antonio Ruiz-Camacho<\/span> will judge. Revenue generated will be donated to Parkinson\u2019s research. Details: www.kallistogaiapress.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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9.30.2018\u00a0 Texas Teen Book Festival programming director Meghan Goel on what\u2019s new and perennial favorites at the 10th annual TTBF<\/h1>\n
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The tenth annual Texas Teen Book Festival (TTBF) <\/span>takes over Austin\u2019s St. Edward\u2019s University on Saturday, October 6, 2018, for a full day of bookish fun. More than thirty-five authors will read from and sign their books and participate in panel discussions. There will be creative writing workshops conducted by Barrio Writers and Badgerdog, the Epic Reads costume contest, the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival Workshop, presentation of the winners of the annual fiction writing contest, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n
TTBF is a one-day event that celebrates the teen reading experience by inviting fans to engage with some of the most popular and critically acclaimed young adult authors in the country. TTBF started as the Austin Teen Book Festival in 2009 with sixteen authors and five hundred attendees at Westlake High School. The event continued to grow, and in 2011 through 2013 was sponsored by the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation. In 2014 the event was renamed the Texas Teen Book Festival and is one of the largest gatherings of its kind anywhere.<\/p>\n
Presented in collaboration with the Texas Book Festival, BookPeople, and a dedicated team of volunteers, librarians, and venue sponsor St. Edward\u2019s University, TTBF is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/p>\n
For more information and to plan your visit, visit<\/span> www.texasteenbookfestival.org<\/p>\n
Meghan Goel <\/span>is the TTBF Programming Director, Children\u2019s Book Buyer and Programming Director at BookPeople, and columnist for <\/span>Publishers Weekly. She spoke with Lone Star Literary Life via email.<\/span><\/p>\n
LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE:<\/span> Ms. Goel, how and when did the Texas Teen Book Festival (TTBF) begin?<\/span><\/p>\n
MEGHAN GOEL: <\/span>The Texas Teen Book Festival began in 2009 when librarian Heather Schubert partnered with BookPeople to see if we could start a festival together. A number of other librarians joined the cause. And the rest is history!<\/p>\n
What is the festival\u2019s primary mission?<\/p>\n
Our primary mission is to introduce readers to exciting literary voices and bring teens together around conversations that use young adult literature as a jumping-off point for anything that\u2019s on their minds.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Texas’s only statewide, weekly calendar of book events
<\/span><\/a><\/span>Bookish Texas <\/span>event highlights\u00a0 9.30.2018<\/span>>> GO this week<\/span><\/a><\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Waco WordFest,<\/span> October 5-7<\/li>\n
Boerne Book & Arts Fest,<\/span> October 6<\/li>\n
Evening with the Authors,<\/span> Lockhart, October 6<\/li>\n
Texas Teen Book Festival,<\/span> Austin, October 6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, <\/span>Abilene, June 7-September 30<\/li>\n
\u201cDawoud Bey: Forty Years in Harlem\u201d photography exhibition<\/span> (from the book Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply<\/span>), Austin, August 29-December 8<\/li>\n
The Texas Liberator: Witness to the Holocaust exhibition<\/span> (from the book The Texas Liberators: Veteran Narratives from World War II), Houston, September 7-October 28<\/li>\n
Texas Writers exhibition, <\/span>Fort Stockton, October 1-22<\/li>\n
Traversing Dimensions: An Exploration of Diversity in Science Fiction,<\/span> Austin, October 1-31<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
AUSTIN\u00a0 Mon., Oct. 1 <\/span> BookPeople, SYLVIA ACEVEDO speaking & signing Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist, 6:30PM [ticketed event]<\/p>\n
DALLAS\u00a0 Mon., Oct. 1<\/span>\u00a0 Interabang Books, Ben Fountain discussing and signing his new book, Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution, 7PM
ALSO SIGNING IN AUSTIN\u00a0 Wed., Oct. 3 <\/span> Central Library, 7PM<\/p>\n
ALSO SIGNING IN HOUSTON\u00a0 Thurs., Oct. 4 <\/span> Brazos Bookstore, 7PM<\/p>\n
AUSTIN\u00a0 Tues., Oct. 2\u00a0 <\/span>Malvern Books, An Evening with Sabrina Orah Mark & Elizabeth McCracken, 7PM<\/p>\n
The North Door, One Page Salon, 7:30PM<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH\u00a0 Tues., Oct. 2\u00a0 <\/span>The Fort Worth Club, World Affairs Council of DFW hosts Ken Starr discussing and signing Contempt, 5:30PM<\/p>\n
ALSO SIGNING IN DALLAS\u00a0 Wed., Oct. 3\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Crescent Club, World Affairs Council of DFW hosts Ken Starr discussing and signing Contempt, 12PM<\/p>\n
AUSTIN\u00a0 Wed, Oct. 3<\/span>\u00a0 St. Edward’s University, The Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series featuring Natalia Sylvester, 6PM<\/p>\n
PLANO<\/span>\u00a0 Thurs., Oct. 4 <\/span> B&N – Legacy West, Handcrafted: A Woodworker’s Story book signing with Clint Harp, 7PM<\/p>\n
AUSTIN\u00a0 <\/span>Fri., Oct. 5<\/span>UT – Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Donna Marie Miller signing The Broken Spoke: Austin’s Legendary Honky-Tonk (with Broken Spoke owner James White and music by Ben Stafford Rodgers), TBA<\/p>\n
HOUSTON\u00a0 <\/span>Sat, Oct. 6<\/span>Blue Willow Bookshop, Houston journalist Joy Sewing and her rescue dog Ava will visit to celebrate the release of AVA AND THE PRINCE, 3PM<\/p>\n
HOUSTON\u00a0 <\/span>Sat., Oct. 6<\/span>\u00a0 Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Jodi Picoult reading and discussing A SPARK OF LIGHT, 7:30PM [ticketed event]<\/p>\n
ALSO SIGNING IN DALLAS\u00a0 Sun., Oct. 7\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Adolphus Hotel, 2PM<\/p>\n
LAREDO Sat., Oct. 6<\/span>\u00a0 Joe A. Guerra Library, One City One Book 2018: Loung Ung discussing First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, 10:30AM (reception at 9:30AM)<\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Sat Oct. 6\u00a0 <\/span>The Twig Book Shop, Jeremy Banas discussing and signing Pearl: A History of San Antonio’s Iconic Beer and San Antonio Beer: Alamo City History by the Pint, 12PM<\/p>\n
WEBSTER\u00a0 Sat., Oct. 6\u00a0 <\/span>B&N – Baybrook, Gulf Coast Poets meeting featuring Edward Vidaurre, 1PM<\/p>\n
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West Texas Book Festival honors Dromgoole with A. C. Greene Award, brings a full slate of programming to Abilene Oct. 18\u201320<\/h1>\n
ABILENE \u2014 The long-running West Texas Book Festival<\/span> returns to Abilene in 2018 with a robust lineup of activities October 18\u201320. One perennial festival highlight, the Books & Boots Luncheon,<\/span> will honor journalist, author, bookseller, and publisher Glenn Dromgoole <\/span>with the festival\u2019s prestigious A. C. Greene Award.<\/p>\n
The full festival lineup is as follows.<\/p>\n
Texas Cookbook Gala<\/h1>\n
Thursday, October 18, Abilene Country Club Dinner begins, 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
The gala features incredible vintners and featured cookbook author Sarah Penrod. <\/span>Penrod is an award-winning 7th-generation Texan, professional chef, and TV personality who charmed audiences as the vivacious and warm-hearted Texpert on The Next Food Network Star! Penrod\u2019s cookbook, Urban Cowgirl,<\/span> celebrates modern Southern culture with decadent Texas recipes.<\/p>\n
Boots & Books Luncheon<\/h1>\n
Saturday, October 20, Abilene Woman\u2019s Club<\/p>\n
Doors open, 11:30 a.m. | Lunch, 12 p.m. | Book signing, 1:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
The A.C. Greene Award is presented annually to a distinguished Texas author for a lifetime achievement. The A.C. Greene Award is named for author, columnist, and Abilene native, A.C. Greene.<\/p>\n
This year, the West Texas Book Festival is proud to honor Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> as the 2018 A.C. Greene Award recipient. As a tribute to his literary memoirs, Glenn has written a new book called Book Guy: One Author\u2019s Adventures in Publishing.<\/span> \u201cYou\u2019ve probably heard me say that every book tells at least two stories \u2014 the story inside the covers of the book, and the story outside the covers,\u201d says Dromgoole. \u201cIn Book Guy, <\/span>I focus on the stories outside the covers of my thirty (now thirty-one) books and some others that I\u2019ve helped publish.\u201d\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Women\u2019s Storybook Project of Texas awarded Texas Center for the Book 2018 Literacy Award<\/h1>\n
Readers 2 Leaders and Literacy First both awarded honorable mentions<\/h1>\n
AUSTIN \u2014 The Women\u2019s Storybook Project of Texas<\/span> has been selected as the 2018 Texas Center for the Book Literacy Award winner. The nonprofit organization will receive $1,000 to use in its future work. Texas Center for the Book also gave honorable mentions to two additional literacy nonprofits, Readers 2 Leaders<\/span> and Literacy First.<\/span> Each honorable mention winner will receive a $500 prize.<\/p>\n
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The Women\u2019s Storybook Project of Texas connects incarcerated mothers with their children through the power of reading. The organization\u2019s volunteers visit women\u2019s prisons in Texas once a month to record eligible mothers reading books aloud to their children, as well as short, personalized messages. The volunteers then mail a copy of the book with the recording to the children. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/span>Evening with the Authors 2018 benefiting Lockhart\u2019s Dr. Eugene Clark Library<\/h1>\n
LOCKHART \u2014 Evening with the Authors 2018, <\/span>an unforgettable evening of conversation with locally and nationally renowned authors, gourmet food, and wine, is scheduled for Sat., Oct. 6, 2018, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. This year the evening is in a new location, the garden of Margaret Riddle, at 509 South Commerce Street in Lockhart. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s author lineup includes Jessica Lee Anderson, author of Trudy (winner of the 2005 Milkweed prize for Children\u2019s Literature); Bob Alexander,<\/span> a renowned historian of the Old West and author of Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy;<\/span> Donaly Brice,<\/span> former senior research assistant at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and co-author with Alexander of Texas Rangers;<\/span> Sarah Bird, <\/span>author of ten novels, the newest of which is Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen;<\/span> Don Graham,<\/span> professor of English at the University of Texas in Austin and author of Giant;<\/span> Patrick Kelly, <\/span>author of the Hill Country series; David Liss,<\/span> author of four novels, including The Day of Atonement<\/span> and The 12th Enchantment;<\/span> Nola McKey, <\/span>a former senior editor of Texas Highways <\/span>and author of From Tea Cakes to Tamales, Third Generation Texas Recipes;<\/span> Liz Garton Scanlon,<\/span> author of numerous beloved books for young readers, including the highly acclaimed Caldecott-honored picture book All the World;<\/span> Elizabeth Crook,<\/span> author of The Which Way Tree,<\/span> which has been optioned for film; and Canan Yetman, <\/span>author of two books based on the WWII aftermath of finding and restoring famous works of art to their Jewish owners, including The Roses Underneath, <\/span>based on the experience of her grandmother in Germany, which won the 2015 Gold Medal for Historical Fiction from Independent Publishers. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Lone Star Listens compilation available summer 2018, for readers, fans, and writers everywhere<\/h1>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/span>The present generation of Texas authors<\/span> is the most diverse ever in gender, age, and ethnicity, and in subject matter as well.<\/p>\n
Week in, week out, Lone Star Literary has interviewed a range of Texas-related authors with a cross-section of genre and geography. To capture this era in Texas letters, we’re pleased to bring you<\/p>\n
Lone Star Listens:<\/p>\n
Texas Authors on Writing and Publishing<\/p>\n
edited by Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon; introduction by Clay Reynolds<\/p>\n
Available in trade paper, library hardcover, and ebook Summer 2018<\/p>\n
360 pages, with b\/w illustrations and index<\/p>\n
Featuring novelists, poets, memoirists, editors, and publishers, including:<\/p>\n
Rachel\u00a0 Caine \u2022 Chris\u00a0 Cander \u2022 Katherine\u00a0 Center \u2022 Chad S. Conine \u2022 Sarah\u00a0 Cortez \u2022 Elizabeth\u00a0 Crook \u2022 Nan\u00a0 Cuba \u2022 Carol\u00a0 Dawson \u2022 Patrick\u00a0 Dearen \u2022 Jim Donovan \u2022\u00a0Mac Engel \u2022 Sanderia\u00a0 Faye \u2022 Carlos Nicol\u00e1s Flores \u2022 Ben Fountain \u2022 Jeff\u00a0 Guinn \u2022 Stephen\u00a0 Harrigan \u2022 Cliff\u00a0 Hudder \u2022 Stephen Graham Jones \u2022 Kathleen Kent \u2022 Joe R. Lansdale \u2022 Melissa Lenhardt \u2022 Attica Locke \u2022 Nikki\u00a0 Loftin \u2022 Thomas\u00a0 McNeely \u2022 Leila\u00a0 Meacham \u2022 John\u00a0 Pipkin \u2022 Joyce Gibson Roach \u2022 Antonio\u00a0 Ruiz-Camacho \u2022 Lisa\u00a0 Sandlin \u2022 Donna\u00a0 Snyder \u2022 Mary Helen Specht \u2022 Jodi\u00a0 Thomas \u2022 Amanda Eyre Ward \u2022 Ann\u00a0 Weisgarber \u2022 Donald Mace Williams<\/p>\n
As a collection of insights into the writing and publishing life, the book will be useful in creative writing classes (not just in Texas alone) and other teaching settings, as well as for solo reading and study\u2014and a great Texas reference volume.<\/p>\n
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Examination and review copies will be available fall 2017 in watermarked pdf format.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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