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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n12.9.2018\u00a0 Gaines, Kelton titles head new book lineup<\/h1>\n
New books by Joanna Gaines and Elmer Kelton<\/span> head this week\u2019s lineup, but I also will touch on several others that you might want to read or give this holiday season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/gaines%2c%20homebody_cover%20sm.jpg\")
<\/div>\n<\/a><\/span>In Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave<\/span> (Harper Design, $40 hardcover), Gaines offers practical and simple ideas to \u201cempower and motivate you to create a home that communicates the soul and substance of the people who live within its walls.\u201d<\/p>\nThe full-color, oversized book, she says, \u201cis a culmination of all that I\u2019ve learned through the hundreds of homes I\u2019ve designed over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chapters are devoted to \u201cidentifying your design style,\u201d followed by specific ideas concerning entry ways, living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, kid spaces, rooms to retreat, and utility rooms, with a detachable design template at the back.<\/p>\n
Distinctive homes: <\/span> Another home d\u00e9cor book new this fall is Helen Thompson\u2019s<\/span> Texas Made\/Texas Modern: The House and the Land,<\/span><\/a><\/span> with photographs by Casey Dunn<\/span> (The Monacelli Press, $50 hardcover). Thompson and Dunn teamed up earlier on Marfa Modern.<\/span><\/p>\nTexas Made\/Texas Modern<\/span> takes readers on a delightful tour inside and outside 19 elegant and distinctive Texas homes featuring architectural modernism with a Texas twist \u2014 also known as Texas regionalism.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/kelton%2c%20hard%20ride_cover%20sm.jpg\")
<\/div>\n<\/a><\/span><\/span>Kelton stories:<\/span> Elmer Kelton\u2019s<\/span> many fans will be happy to know that Forge Books has released a new collection of Kelton\u2019s short stories, available for the first time in book form.<\/p>\nThe publisher brought out a collection of 11 stories last year under the title Wild West,<\/span> and that one is now in paperback ($9.99).<\/p>\nThe new collection, Hard Ride<\/span><\/a><\/span> ($27.99 hardcover), includes 14 stories by the beloved San Angelo western author who died in 2009. The stories are from the 1950s when Kelton got his start writing for the old pulp western magazines before any of his novels were published.<\/p>\nEventually, he would write more than 40 western novels and be voted by his fellow western authors as the best ever in that genre. Most of his books are still in print.<\/p>\n
Women outlaws:<\/span> Melissa Lenhardt\u2019s new western novel, Heresy<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Redhook Books, $15.99 paperback), concerns a female band of outlaws who seek revenge after they are run off their ranch by an unscrupulous cattleman.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/lenhardt%2c%20heresy_cover%20sm.jpg\")
<\/div>\n<\/a><\/span>Even as they pull off a series of robberies, the outlaws get no credit for their misdeeds, with the newspapers blaming the rival Jeb Spooner Gang instead.<\/p>\n
Lenhardt relies on realistic-sounding (but fictional) journal entries, slave narratives, newspaper accounts, and other documents to craft the tale, her fourth western novel. Her other three were the \u201cSawbones\u201d series featuring a tough woman doctor on the western frontier.<\/p>\n
Plennie Wingo:<\/span> One of the more unusual non-fiction books this year is Ben Montgomery\u2019s<\/span> tale about an Abilene man who set out to walk backwards around the world in 1931.<\/p>\nPlennie Wingo\u2019s odd story is told in The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer\u2019s Search for Meaning in the Great Depression<\/span> (Little, Brown, $28 hardcover).<\/p>\nForty-five years later, Wingo delighted Tonight Show<\/span> host Johnny Carson<\/span> with his tale, but it never made him the fortune he sought.<\/p>\n* * * * *<\/p>\n
Glenn Dromgoole<\/span>\u2019s most recent book is The Book Guy.<\/span> Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/a><\/span>In Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave<\/span> (Harper Design, $40 hardcover), Gaines offers practical and simple ideas to \u201cempower and motivate you to create a home that communicates the soul and substance of the people who live within its walls.\u201d<\/p>\n The full-color, oversized book, she says, \u201cis a culmination of all that I\u2019ve learned through the hundreds of homes I\u2019ve designed over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n Chapters are devoted to \u201cidentifying your design style,\u201d followed by specific ideas concerning entry ways, living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, kid spaces, rooms to retreat, and utility rooms, with a detachable design template at the back.<\/p>\n Distinctive homes: <\/span> Another home d\u00e9cor book new this fall is Helen Thompson\u2019s<\/span> Texas Made\/Texas Modern: The House and the Land,<\/span><\/a><\/span> with photographs by Casey Dunn<\/span> (The Monacelli Press, $50 hardcover). Thompson and Dunn teamed up earlier on Marfa Modern.<\/span><\/p>\n Texas Made\/Texas Modern<\/span> takes readers on a delightful tour inside and outside 19 elegant and distinctive Texas homes featuring architectural modernism with a Texas twist \u2014 also known as Texas regionalism.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/span><\/span>Kelton stories:<\/span> Elmer Kelton\u2019s<\/span> many fans will be happy to know that Forge Books has released a new collection of Kelton\u2019s short stories, available for the first time in book form.<\/p>\n The publisher brought out a collection of 11 stories last year under the title Wild West,<\/span> and that one is now in paperback ($9.99).<\/p>\n The new collection, Hard Ride<\/span><\/a><\/span> ($27.99 hardcover), includes 14 stories by the beloved San Angelo western author who died in 2009. The stories are from the 1950s when Kelton got his start writing for the old pulp western magazines before any of his novels were published.<\/p>\n Eventually, he would write more than 40 western novels and be voted by his fellow western authors as the best ever in that genre. Most of his books are still in print.<\/p>\n Women outlaws:<\/span> Melissa Lenhardt\u2019s new western novel, Heresy<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Redhook Books, $15.99 paperback), concerns a female band of outlaws who seek revenge after they are run off their ranch by an unscrupulous cattleman.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/span>Even as they pull off a series of robberies, the outlaws get no credit for their misdeeds, with the newspapers blaming the rival Jeb Spooner Gang instead.<\/p>\n Lenhardt relies on realistic-sounding (but fictional) journal entries, slave narratives, newspaper accounts, and other documents to craft the tale, her fourth western novel. Her other three were the \u201cSawbones\u201d series featuring a tough woman doctor on the western frontier.<\/p>\n Plennie Wingo:<\/span> One of the more unusual non-fiction books this year is Ben Montgomery\u2019s<\/span> tale about an Abilene man who set out to walk backwards around the world in 1931.<\/p>\n Plennie Wingo\u2019s odd story is told in The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer\u2019s Search for Meaning in the Great Depression<\/span> (Little, Brown, $28 hardcover).<\/p>\n Forty-five years later, Wingo delighted Tonight Show<\/span> host Johnny Carson<\/span> with his tale, but it never made him the fortune he sought.<\/p>\n * * * * *<\/p>\n Glenn Dromgoole<\/span>\u2019s most recent book is The Book Guy.<\/span> Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n