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Book Festival returns to Lone Star-Kingwood
A group of committed book lovers at Lone Star College-Kingwood took a gamble last year.
Proudly wearing their new Bayou City Book Festival T-shirts, Chelsie Meredith, director of the Bayou City Book Festival, joins Dr. John Theis (center), director of Lone Star’s Center for Civic Engagement, and Seth Howard, assistant director for the center, to review books by a few of the 85 authors participating in the festival April 3-8 on Lone Star College campuses, including Lone Star-Kingwood.
Photo by Tom Broad
A group of committed book lovers at Lone Star College-Kingwood took a gamble last year. In this age of Facebook and Twitter and streaming videos, they organized a book fair, inviting local as well as nationally and internationally published writers.
How successful was their gamble?
Last year, more than 2,000 book lovers met more than 150 authors.
This year, Lone Star’s Center for Civic Engagement, which organizes the event, has expanded it to a week-long festival that will be spread throughout Lone Star’s campuses and culminate in a Saturday experience on the Kingwood campus.
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