LONE STAR REVIEW Querencia: Sonnets on Seeking Home in a Troubled World by Carol Flake Chapman From Si Dunn's review: "Texas writer Carol Flake Chapman's noteworthy new poetry collection, Querencia, brings fresh light to some challenging and vital questions about people's concepts of "home."" READ MORE |  KSR titles as of 6/24/23 | | LONE STAR LIT'S Kids' Summer Reads 2023 Our annual Kids' Summer Reads is LIVE and growing! You can now peruse 43 of the best Texas-connected children's, middle grade, and young adult books. The KSR is always a highlight of the year and gives our Texas children's book authors & illustrators a chance to shine. (And because we just can't help ourselves, it's offered with pay-what-you-can pricing so EVERYONE can afford to participate.) We're still accepting submissions of children's, middle-grade, and young adult titles with a Texas connection (by book content or author). Any pub date welcome!
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