Author Appearance

Max Can Read! (A Max and Ruby Adventure) (Hardcover)

By Rosemary Wells, Rosemary Wells (Illustrator)

$18.99

ISBN: 9781534493964

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books - October 4th, 2022

Add to Wish List

From beloved author-illustrator Rosemary Wells comes a brand-new Max & Ruby story about Max surprising Grandma and Ruby when he finds a way to read the instruction book when no one else can!

When the mail carrier brings a big package from Uncle Gyorgy in Bulgaria to the house, Max turns to his Reading Is Fun book to help understand the instructions.

Spy Daughter, Queer Girl: In Search of Truth and Acceptance in a Family of Secrets (Paperback)

By Leslie Absher

$19.95

ISBN: 9781957607023

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Latah Books - October 11th, 2022

Add to Wish List

For Leslie Absher, secrecy is just another member of the family. Throughout childhood, her father's shadowy government job was ill-defined, her mother's mental health stayed off limits--even her queer identity remained hidden from her family and unacknowledged by Leslie herself.

Art History 101 . . . Without the Exams: Looking Closely at Objects from the History of Art (Paperback)

By Annie Montgomery Labatt

$34.95

ISBN: 9781595348784

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Trinity University Press - September 6th, 2022

Add to Wish List

Why is something a masterpiece? Art History 101 . . . Without the Exams is about revisiting famous works of art that we may have studied in an art history class or seen in a textbook. Each discussion delves into one great masterpiece and asks the questions that help us understand how it has shaped history. What is the piece about? How did the original owner look at this piece?

Brackenridge: San Antonio's Acclaimed Urban Park (Hardcover)

By Lewis F. Fisher

$37.95

ISBN: 9781595349668

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Maverick Books - October 18th, 2022

Add to Wish List

Brackenridge Park began its life as a heavily wooded, bucolic driving park at the turn of the twentieth century. Over the next 120 years it evolved into the sprawling, multifaceted jewel San Antonians enjoy today, home to the San Antonio Zoo, the state's first public golf course, the Japanese Tea Garden, the Sunken Garden Theater, and the Witte Museum.

The Medievalist (Paperback)

By Phil Adamo

$19.62

ISBN: 9781732779327

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Split Infinitive Books, LLC - July 11th, 2022

Add to Wish List

White supremacists are 'weaponizing' the Middle Ages. One historian aims to stop them. Embattled history prof Abe Kantorowicz enlists two Yale grad students, Molly Isaacson and Quinton Quick, to fight neo-Nazis on the battlefield of propaganda. Armed only with a mysterious manuscript and their knowledge of history, they set in motion a plan to disrupt and derange the Alt-Right for years to come.

More Than You'll Ever Know: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Katie Gutierrez

$28.99

ISBN: 9780063118454

Availability: Usually Ships in to Twig 1-5 Days

Published: William Morrow - June 7th, 2022

Add to Wish List

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

"Fantastic . . . A sweeping novel, unflinching and evocative in its engrossing study of love, motherhood, sex, Mexico, journalism and more." — WASHINGTON POST

Beasts of the Earth (Hardcover)

By James Wade

$25.99

ISBN: 9781665024082

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: Blackstone Publishing - October 11th, 2022

Add to Wish List

James Wade, whose first two novels were praised as "rhapsodic" and "haunting," delivers his most powerful work to date--a chilling parable about the impossible demands of hate and love, trauma and goodness, vividly set in the landscapes of Texas and Louisiana.

A Rain Ancestral: Poems (Paperback)

By Harold Whit Williams

$20.00

ISBN: 9781736177983

Availability: On Our Shelves Now

Published: San Antonio Review - July 1st, 2022

Add to Wish List

Poems written from the inside-out and the outside-in of the Old Country. An old country of not only quiet County Down pubs and gritty Belfast streets but also of childhood singsongs and snippets of last night's office dream. Fiddles and flutes, pipes and pints, liquor and loose-lipped language. Bone-and-blood ballads in formal and free verse.