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Highlights from our 2020/2021 Season
Lois Lowry| October 11, 2020
Audience reach: 873
Chris Grabenstein | December 6, 2020
Audience reach: 328
Jennifer L. Holm | January 24, 2021
Audience reach: 247
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IN P R IN T I N PR I N T I N P RI N T I N PR INT INPR INT R EADING S FOR YOUNG PEOPLE R E ADIN GS FOR YOU N G P EO P L E R EA D I NG S FO R YO U NG P EO P L E R EA D I N G S FO R YO U N G P EO P L E R E A D I N G S FO R YO U N G P EO P L E Chris Chris Chris Chris Chris Grabenstein Grabenstein Grabenstein Grabenstein Grabenstein SUNDAY, 4 PM CT SUNDAY, 4 PM CT SUNDAY, 4 PM CT SUNDAY, 4 PM CT SUNDAY, 4 PM CT DECEMBER 6, DECEMBER 6, DECEMBER 6, DECEMBER 6, DECEMBER 6, 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 This copy of Chris This copy of Chris This copy of Chris This copy of Chris This copy of Chris Grabenstein's The Smartest Grabenstein's The Smartest Grabenstein's The Smartest Grabenstein's The Smartest Grabenstein's The Smartest Kid in the Universe is Kid in the Universe is Kid in the Universe is Kid in the Universe is Kid in the Universe is provided to you by Inprint provided to you by Inprint provided to you by Inprint provided to you by Inprint provided to you by Inprint with the support of H-E-B with the support of H-E-B with the support of H-E-B with the support of H-E-B with the support of H-E-B and the National and the National and the National and the National and the National Endowment for the Arts. Endowment for the Arts. Endowment for the Arts. Endowment for the Arts. Endowment for the Arts.
daughter, Rose, is missing, and be- The odyssey takes him from New that might explain his daredevil ous thrills. “East of Texas, West of
cause she is probably in with some Orleans to stops in Georgia. From heroics. Hell” brings into focus the bigger
pretty bad company, Jack is about Atlanta, he goes to Savannah and Perhaps he has nothing left to lose. questions of righteousness found on
the only person she believes can then to South Carolina. He stops at But that would not explain the the roads leading out of perdition.
help her. He is someone who strad- last in Texas, including in Dallas. artful ways he continues to dodge the
G4 | Sunday, December 6, 2020 | HoustonChronicle.com | Houston Chronicle
dles many worlds. Is he closer to a With very little to go on, Jack starts exceptionally diabolical cast of char- Yvette Benavides is the host of “Book
ZEST cop or criminal? Is he more saint to chip away at the lock on a Pando- acters in this novel. Public,” a podcast featuring reviews
than sinner? Will he be able to return ra’s box that would be better left The worst of the bunch is Topper, and author interviews from Texas
the girl to her mother or further hermetically sealed for an eternity. a white supremacist who emerges as Public Radio. She is a professor of
alienate himself from this enigmatic
woman with whom he’s had a ro- BOOKS
He has an Atlanta address that
might help him locate Rose, but all
the novel’s arch-rival. To flush out
the evil he orchestrates, Jack has to
creative writing at Our Lady of the
Lake University.
EVENTS
SUNDAY REVIEW bluewillowbookshop
.com
PI Jack Prine returns
Chris Grabenstein: Anne Bogel: Author
Author will discuss will be in virtual con-
“The versation with Valerie
Smartest Koehler to discuss book
in ‘East of Texas, West of Hell’
Kid in the clubs, holiday gift sug-
Uni- gestions and her book,
verse” as “Don’t Overthink It,” via
part of MONDAY Cara Black: Authors bluewillowbookshop Blue Willow’s Facebook
Cool will discuss “The Opi- .com THURSDAY Live stream. 7 p.m.,
Darci Wilde: Author
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will discuss “A Lady
Grabenstein Inprint Compromised” via
Hours in Paris” via WEDNESDAY Storytime: Author .com
Readings Murder By The Book’s Laura Gehl will join Jeff Lindsay: Author
Murder By The Book’s Paige Shelton:
for Young People. The YouTube page. 7 p.m., Valerie Koehler to cele- will discuss “Fool Me
YouTube page. 7 p.m., Author will discuss
free event will be murderbooks.com brate Hanukkah and Twice” via Murder By
murderbooks.com “Cold Wind” via Murder
streamed on Inprint’s Jen Atkin: Author share her book, “Happy The Book’s YouTube
website; registration is By The Book’s YouTube page. 7 p.m.,
will discuss “Blowing Llamakkah!,” via Blue
required. 4 p.m., TUESDAY My Way to the Top” via
page. 7 p.m.,
Willow’s Facebook Live murderbooks.com
inprinthouston.org murderbooks.com
Jasmine Aimaq and Crowdcast. 7 p.m., stream. 10 a.m., Ana Khan
NewSouth Books
Rod Davis puts his PI Jack Prine to the test in the brutal thriller “East of Texas, West of Hell.”
Devilish characters fill pages of Southern-fried thriller
By Yvette Benavides he finds there are two corpses. get his own hands dirty.
C ORRE SP ON D E N T Among information about meth It is a compromise he is forced
T
dealers and human trafficking, he into — to play the game by Topper’s
he title alone of Rod learns that Rose has been involved in rules.
Davis’ new novel is criminal activities. The search for her “Noir” begins to describe this
enough to set us to think- becomes more difficult when he thrill-a-minute tale, but Jack is not a
ing about what dark finds out she is living under an as- flat or predictable character — and
corners of the South we sumed name. neither is anyone else in the book.
will enter. What intricate webs hang- Along the way, he encounters the Elle’s initial entreaties for help are
ing thickly and intractably in the expected drug dealers, sure, but also always at the front of Jack’s mind,
seediest underbelly of underbellies trails of violence and death he hadn’t and he finds her appeals irresistible.
will ensnare us this time? banked on. But once in, there is no It is hard for him to say no to her,
“East of Texas, West of Hell” — like turning back, never mind the tran- given their past and the profound
“South, America,” the previous novel quilizer dart that fells Jack and leaves ways they have bonded.
by former San Antonio Express-News him vulnerable to murderous neo- However, the drug dealers, sex
travel editor Davis — takes us on the Nazis. traffickers and mafiosi he encountersIN P RI N T SERIES
F E AT U R I N G
Jennifer L. Holm
New York Times bestselling children's author of
Our Only May Amelia, Penny from Heaven, and
Turtle in Paradise, sharing her new book The Lion of Mars
SUNDAY
JANUARY 24, 2021
4 PM Live Stream Event
Hey kids, send in a short video message for Jennifer
L. Holm to be included in the live event! The first 20 kids to
send in a video will receive a free copy of The Lion of Mars.
Videos should be no longer than 30-seconds.
Videos can include a question for Jennifer L. Holm about her
new novel The Lion of Mars, about her life as a writer, or a
general message about what her books have meant to you.
Begin the video with your name, your school, and what
grade you are in.
Send videos via email to info@inprinthouston.org by
12 pm noon, Wednesday, January 20, 2021.
For free tickets and more information,
visit inprinthouston.org or call 713.521.2026IN P R IN T I N PR I N T I N P RI N T I N PR INT INPR INT R EADING S FOR YOUNG PEOPLE R E ADIN GS FOR YOU N G P EO P L E R EA D I NG S FO R YO U NG P EO P L E R EA D I N G S FO R YO U N G P EO P L E R E A D I N G S FO R YO U N G P EO P L E Jennifer Jennifer Jennifer Jennifer Jennifer L. Holm L. Holm L. Holm L. Holm L. Holm SUNDAY, 4 PM SUNDAY, 4 PM SUNDAY, 4 PM SUNDAY, 4 PM SUNDAY, 4 PM JANUARY 24, JANUARY 24, JANUARY 24, JANUARY 24, JANUARY 24, 2021 2021 2021 2021 2021 This copy of Jennifer L. This copy of Jennifer L. This copy of Jennifer L. This copy of Jennifer L. This copy of Jennifer L. Holm's The Lion of Mars is Holm's The Lion of Mars is Holm's The Lion of Mars is Holm's The Lion of Mars is Holm's The Lion of Mars is provided to you by Inprint provided to you by Inprint provided to you by Inprint provided to you by Inprint provided to you by Inprint with the support of H-E-B with the support of H-E-B with the support of H-E-B with the support of H-E-B with the support of H-E-B and the National and the National and the National and the National and the National Endowment for the Arts. Endowment for the Arts. Endowment for the Arts. Endowment for the Arts. Endowment for the Arts.
Q: Houston certainly wasn’t lack- ment and insisted he spoke without Q: Perception of George W. Bush A: That’s totally what I wanted to do.
ing crime when it increased the racial implications. The mythology has grown warmer in recent years. I I was obsessed with the craft element
number of people it executed … runs deep. had filed and forgotten the zeal he of it. My favorite fiction makes you care
G4 | Sunday, January 24, 2021 | HoustonChronicle.com | Houston Chronicle HH
A: Houston had a lot of crime. And A: Mythology allows us to not even expressed for this system. And I’d about a character, then they dip away
ZESTthe death penalty became a symbolic worry about reckoning with reality. forgotten the interview in which he and slowly come back. You have some
way of showing that you were doing That judge made a comment about a mocked Karla Faye Tucker. momentum when you see them again.
something about it. Reducing crime is tree and rope, and I don’t think he was A: He came along at a key moment And you learn more about them when
hard to do, frankly. It’s systemic, and
it’s hard to get your arms around it.
People get elected by convincing oth-
ZEST
just lying that he didn’t intend for it to
be about race. But cultural mythology
allows these cultural biases and prob-
when the death penalty peaked in
American life, and it was just starting
to turn where people were questioning
they return.
andrew.dansby@chron.com
EVENTS
Q&A FRIDAY
SUNDAY TUESDAY
Crime and an ever-evolving
Kate Weinberg: Author
Jennifer L. Holm: J. Elle: Author discusses will discuss “The Truants”
Author will discuss “The “Wings of Ebony” via Zoom; via Murder By The Book’s
Lion of Mars” as part of registration required. 7 p.m., YouTube page 1 p.m.,
punishment
Cool Brains! Inprint bluewillowbookshop.com murderbooks.com
Readings for Young People. Hilary Davidson and
Susan Elia MacNeal:
The event will be streamed SATURDAY
on Inprint's website; Authors will discuss their
Kelly Rippon: Author will
new releases via Murder By
registration is required. 4
appear in conversation with
p.m., inprinthouston.org The Book’s YouTube page.
Adam Rippon to discuss
By Andrew Dansby7 p.m., murderbooks.com
“Parent Up” via Zoom;
MONDAY
STA F F W R I T E R
registration is required.
Matthew Cordell:
WEDNESDAY Tickets, $19-$29, include a
Maurice Chammah’s “Let the Lord
Author and
Sortillustrator
Them: The Rise andPeter
will Fall ofSís:
the Author copy of the book and a
discuss Death
“Bear Island”
Penalty” viais a work
discusses “Nicky & Vera”
of nonfiction, signed bookplate. 2 p.m.,
Stephanie Wrobel:
Zoom; registration
which bears is stating because
via Zoom;
everyregistration
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Authors will discuss “If I
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5 p.m.,
a character passes required.
through5thep.m., Courtney LeBlanc:
Disappear” and “Darling
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outfitted Writespace Houston is
Rose Gold” via Murder By
Jaynewith
AnnaKrentz
Stetson, and
a handlebar Gregg Hurwitz: Author
mustache hosting a virtual “Sip &
The Book’s YouTube page. 1
Nalini Singh:
and a powerful persuasion with col-“Prodigal Son”
Authors will will discuss Slam” reading event with
p.m., murderbooks.com
discuss orfully
“All thearticulated
Colors of straight-shooter
via Murder By The Book’s poet Courtney LeBlanc;
Brigid Kemmerer:
notions
Night” and “Quietabout
in Herthe valueYouTube
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page. 7 p.m., watch via Facebook Live as
Author will discuss “A Vow
justice.
Bones” via Zoom. Event murderbooks.com she reads from her work
So Bold and Deadly” via
access willAbestaff writerwith
granted for “The Marshall and answers questions
Zoom; registration is
Project,”
the purchase Chammah
of either book spent years re-
THURSDAY from the audience. 7 p.m.,
required. 7 p.m.,
searching
or $5 ticket. 7 p.m.,and conducting interviews
Courtesy photo
writespacehouston.org
Eliza Jane Brazier and bluewillowbookshop.com
for “Let the Lord Sort Them” resulting
murderbooks.com Ana Khan
Poet Courtney LeBlanc
in a dark and complicated history that
touches on life and death, processes
and politics, myth and fact, crime and
punishment. The book also shows the
sharp evolution of public opinion. In
1994, public approval for capital pun-
ishment was around 80 percent. Today
it’s below 50 percent.
“There has definitely been a sea
change over the past 25 years,” Cham-
mah says. “Not that long ago, people
who opposed it seemed like outsiders
and zealots and eccentrics. They were
the prehistory of this movement. What Paul Buck / AFP via Getty Images
we’ve seen is people slowly building “Let the Lord Sort Them” focuses on the evolution of the death penalty.
the case for a justice system that was
out of control. Now we have more
people who support criminal justice lems to get subterra- it, or at least ambivalent about it. He
reform.” nean, so to speak. Fortu- didn’t choose when to come along, but
Austin-based Chammah fielded a nately, scholars are his career as governor found him rid-
few questions about some of the peo- increasingly studying ing a wave. It went both ways: there
ple on all sides of the law, whose lives the death penalty and was a callousness when he mocked
were and are connected to a practice finding problems like Tucker. But he also defended the death
that is trending toward obsolescence. implicit biases. There penalty in the case of the men who
Chammah was the case of Duane dragged James Byrd to death in Jasper.
Q: It makes sense that much of Buck, whose guilt He projected this swagger. But in his
this deals with Texas. The state has wasn’t disputed, but he was sentenced memoir, he did express this idea that
a hearty mythology and notions of to death because jurors were told he he was tortured by these decisions and
justice are tied up in it. was likely to commit a violent crime took them seriously. Times were chang-
A: Yes, and a lot of that didn’t even again because he was Black. ing faster than consultants could man-
make it into the book. But Texas is age them. And for a long time in Texas,
unique among states in the way it Q: I believe that was a case of an the death penalty played well. Ann
considers its mythology. And that flows expert witness offering less than Richards, by all accounts, didn’t sup-
into this story, because Houston at- expert data — which is a thread that port the death penalty personally, but
tracted hundreds of thousands of new runs through this. Expert testimony she had to publicly.
residents flooding in the Sun Belt wave. in the Cameron Todd Willingham
And Texas had something that at- case has been questioned. And the Q: The portrait of Carroll Pickett,
tracted people that was different com- forensic psychiatrist Jim Grigson — a chaplain at Huntsville, was affect-
pared to Florida or Arizona, which ‘Let The Lord Sort Them: some of his testimony was outra- ing.
don’t have that same mythology. You The Rise And Fall of the geous. A: Yes, yes, yes. He wrote a wonder-
see it some there, but I don’t think you Death Penalty’ A: It was both funny and shocking to ful memoir. I like to intellectualize
have as many public officials with that by Maurice Chammah revisit these strange anecdotes from storytelling, so his story just ran in my
Old West swagger. Johnny Holmes Crown
the past. He was creative, but lives head over and over and over. I couldn’t
(former Houston district attorney) was were in danger because of his testimo- stop trying to reverse engineer why
368 pages, $28
very much a big-city DA seen as small- ny. But this man developed an “ex- that was. His ambivalence conveys a
town sheriff. He’s a smart guy and he pertise” that could make absolutely larger ambivalence I think we all feel.
knows it, so he used that as a natural anybody look like a psychopath. And Even if you support capital punish-
part of his personality. He used lan- ers they’re going to do something he did. So many criminal forensic ideas ment, it’s hard to look at it up close.
guage about personal responsibility, about it, and the death penalty became that helped lead to convictions have But it’s also incumbent upon us to look
harsh punishment. Houston wants to a clear illustration of that. The rhetoric been thoroughly debunked. Bad foren- at it up close and wonder why we’re soForward
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Keeping at Blue Willow, this week and every week (as long as social distancing
lasts), we have the most comprehensive listing of bookish goings-on[line]* including
book and author events, festivals, story times, readings, workshops, and lectures in
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The 2020/2021 Inprint
Cool Brains! Reading
Series invites you to
blast off to Mars at a
free live virtual event
featuring three-time
Newbery Honor
recipient Jennifer L.
Holm, sharing her new
middle-grade novel The
Lion of Mars on
January 24, 4 pm CT.
Though Jennifer
completed The Lion of
Mars before the pandemic began, the book tells the story of how a regular kid living
on Mars must save the day when a virus infects all the grown-ups in the colony.
For a chance to be featured in the live stream and receive a free copy of The Lion
of Mars, have your kids send in short video questions/messages for Jennifer to
info@inprinthouston.org.
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VIRTUAL FOR KIDS: The 2020/2021 Inprint Cool Brains! Series presents an afternoon with three-time Newbery Honor recipient Jennifer L. Holm, sharing her new middle-grade novel The Lion of Mars. The event takes place this Sunday, January 24, 4pm via the Inprint “virtual studio” -- get your free tickets here. After her presentation, Holm will respond to video questions/messages submitted by kids and the first 20 kids will receive a free hardcover copy of the book. The Lion of Mars tells the timely tale of how a regular kid living on Mars must save the day when a virus infects all the grown-ups in the colony. Though the novel was written pre-pandemic, Holm’s “delightful space adventure” (Kirkus) has been celebrated as “anti- isolationist at its core” (Publishers Weekly). ➡ Virtual for ADULTS: Join Houston Center for Contemporary Craft/HCCC Curatorial Fellow María-Elisa Heg and Contemporary Handweavers of Houston President and former HCCC resident artist Molly Koehn for a short lunchtime "Craft Chat" this Thursday, January 21 from 1-1:30pm. They will focus on the exhibition Weave Houston: 71 Years of the Contemporary Handweavers of Houston and there will be a live q-and-a from viewers following a tour of the show and a conversation between the artists. The exhibition is on view through March 6; please note that the museum is currently
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Jennifer L. Holm is a New York Times bestselling children’s author and the recipient of three Newbery Medals for
her novels Our Only May Amelia, Penny from Heaven, and Turtle in Paradise. She is also the co-creator of the
Eisner Award-winning Babymouse series, the Squish series, and the Sunny graphic novels, which she collaborates
on with her brother Matthew Holm.
Widely embraced by educators, librarians, and children across the country, Jennifer’s novels have struck a chord
with all who read her heartwarming and poignant stories, many of which are based on her own life and family.
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Inprint invites you to blast off at a free live virtual event featuring New York Times bestselling children’s author Jennifer L. Holm.
Jennifer will give a presentation about her new novel, The Lion of Mars, and respond to video messages/questions submitted by
kids.
Hey kids, send in a short video message for Jennifer L. Holm to be included in the live event! The rst 20 kids to send in a
video will receive a free copy of The Lion of Mars.
Videos should be no longer than 30-seconds.
Videos can include a question for Jennifer L. Holm about her new novel The Lion of Mars, about her life as a writer, or a general
message about what her books have meant to you.
Begin the video with your name, your school, and what grade you are in.
Send videos via email to info@inprinthouston.org (mailto:info@inprinthouston.org) by 12 pm noon, Wednesday, January 20,
2021.
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Jennifer L. Holm is a New York Times bestselling children’s author and the recipient of three Newbery Medals for her novels Our
Only May Amelia, Penny from Heaven, and Turtle in Paradise. She is also the co-creator of the Eisner Award-winning Babymouse
series, the Squish series, and the Sunny graphic novels, which she collaborates on with her brother Matthew Holm.
Widely embraced by educators, librarians, and children across the country, Jennifer’s novels have struck a chord with all who
read her heartwarming and poignant stories, many of which are based on her own life and family. Reviewers rave about her
writing, calling her other work “fun, fun, fun” (Kirkus), “a hilarious blend of family dramas seasoned with a dollop of adventure”
(Publishers Weekly), and “a surprising coming-of-age story with a remarkably honest message” (The New York Times). Her timely
new book, The Lion of Mars, which Jennifer completed before the pandemic, tells the story of how a regular kid living on Mars
must save the day when a virus infects all the grown-ups in the colony. Kirkus calls the novel “a delightful space adventure” and a
starred Booklist review says it “will have readers feeling right at home on Mars.” Will eleven-year Bell be able to uncover the truth
and protect his family? Can he and his friends work together to unite the entire planet in the process?
Though born in California, Jennifer spent most of her childhood in Pennsylvania playing sports with her four brothers. After
getting her degree at Dickinson College, she moved to New York to become a television producer before pursuing a career as a
full-time writer. Today, Jennifer resides back in California, where she lives with her husband, Jonathan, two kids, and her two
cats, Augie and Livie.
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Jennifer L. Holm. Jennifer will give a presentation
about her new novel, The Lion of Mars, and respond to
video messages/questions submitted by kids. Jennifer L. Holm is a New York Times bestselling
children’s author and the recipient of three Newbery Medals for her novels Our Only May Amelia,
Penny from Heaven, and Turtle in Paradise. She is also the co-creator of the Eisner Award-winning
Babymouse series, the Squish series, and the Sunny graphic novels, which she collaborates on with her
brother Matthew Holm. Widely embraced by educators, librarians, and children across the country,
Jennifer’s novels have struck a chord with all who read her heartwarming and poignant stories, many
of which are based on her own life and family. Reviewers rave about her writing, calling her other work
“fun, fun, fun” (Kirkus), “a hilarious blend of family dramas seasoned with a dollop of adventure”
(Publishers Weekly), and “a surprising coming-of-age story with a remarkably honest message” (The
New York Times). Her timely new book, The Lion of Mars, which Jennifer completed before the
pandemic, tells the story of how a regular kid living on Mars must save the day when a virus infects all
the grown-ups in the colony. Kirkus calls the novel “a delightful space adventure” and a starred
Booklist review says it “will have readers feeling right at home on Mars.” Will eleven-year Bell be able
to uncover the truth and protect his family? Can he and his friends work together to unite the entire
planet in the process? Though born in California, Jennifer spent most of her childhood in Pennsylvania
playing sports with her four brothers. After getting her degree at Dickinson College, she moved to
New York to become a television producer before pursuing a career as a full-time writer. Today,
Jennifer resides back in California, where she lives with her husband, Jonathan, two kids, and her two
cats, Augie and Livie.
Who
Ages 8 - 12
Cost
Free
How
For free tickets and more information, visit https://inprinthouston.org/event/inprint-cool-brains-
jennifer-l-holm-live-stream-event/. Please note that this live stream event will be viewable directly on
the Inprint website. The link to view the reading will be provided to those that order a free ticket in
the ticket receipt from Eventbrite.
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