Village Readers
Fiction and Non-Fiction with a Texas Twist
Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map
by Stephen Yafa
When:
Tuesday, July 22
6:00 p.m.
Where:
SMU Bookstore, 3060 Mockingbird Lane
Cotton has touched off wars and revolutions, inspired astonishing inventions, laid waste to entire ecosystems,
and enslaved untold millions of people. Beautifully researched and written, Big Cotton traces the cultural,
economic, and social history of the worlds' friendliest fiber from the kingdoms of Mesopotamia to the Gap.
Will's War
by Janice Woods Windle
When:
Tuesday, September 23
6:00 p.m.
Where:
SMU Bookstore, 3060 Mockingbird Lane
From bestselling author Janice Woods Windle comes a compelling historical novel based on the life of her own grandfather.
The protagonist is Will Bergfeld, a brash young man of German descent who is accused of treason and stands trial for his
life in 1917, in the midst of the anti-German sentiment that ran rampant in small-town Texas during World War I.
- Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution by James Crisp
- Hill Country by Janice Woods Windle
- Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
- Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen.
- Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression turned Mexicans into Americans by Ben Johnson.
- A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
- Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America by Linda Lawrence Hunt and Sue Armitage
Questions? Contact Melissa Prycer, Director of Education at 214-413-3671.
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