Join Us
Feeling inquisitive? Looking for good conversation?
Love a great book? Then Books for Texans is just the thing
for you. Join fellow book lovers every other month to
discuss exciting books about Texas, yesterday and today.
The book club is free and open to the public. You do not
need to be a member of the Museum to participate. Please
check back here or on the Museum’s event calendar for
specific dates.
Next
Meetings
Upcoming Book Selections and Meetings
January 19, 2010:
Texas
Politics and Greed by Ross
McSwain and Harold Byler
February 16, 2010:
The Liar's Club: A
Memoir by Mary Karr
March 16, 2010:
Spanish Texas,
1591-1821 by Donald E. Chipman and Harriet Denise
Joseph
April 20, 2010:
Off the Beaten Trail
by William Edward Syers
May 18, 2010:
The Kings of Texas:
The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire by
Don Graham
June 15, 2010:
Lyndon Johnson and
the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every
month at 7:00 pm in the Hewlitt Room (second floor)
at the Georgetown Public Library.
Books We've Read:
Friday Night
Lights: A Town, A Team and A Dream by H.G. Bissinger
Isaac's
Storm by Erik Larson
Lone Star
Nation: How a Ragged Army of Volunteers Won the
Battle for Texas Independence
by H.W. Brands
The Time it
Never Rained by Elmer Kelton
Goodbye to a
River by John Graves
Three Roads
to the Alamo by William C. Davis
From a
Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of
LaSalle's Shipwreck, La Belle by James E. Bruseth
and Toni S. Turner
Tulia: Race,
Cocaine and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
by Nate Blakeslee
More than
Petticoats: Remarkable Texas Women
by Greta Anderson
Harder than Hardscrabble
by Thad Sitton
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians
on the Texas Frontier
by Scott Zesch
City on Fire: The Explosion that Devastated a Texas
Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle
by Bill Minutaglio
Spindletop Unwound: A True Story of Greed, Ambition
and Murder in the First Degree
by Roger L. Shaffer
In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas
by Larry McMurtry
True Women: by Janice Woods Windle
To recommend a book for
selection, fill out the
Book Recommendation Form and email it back to
us. (if you do not have Microsoft Word click
here [Book
Recommendation Form] for a PDF form that you
can mail or drop off the form at the Museum)
Interested?
For more information or to
RSVP for an upcoming meeting, contact Mickie Ross at
512-943-1670 or
mross@williamsonmuseum.org.
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