Keep an eye on this page to find out about upcoming book signings, openings in our Alpine store's Art Gallery, and other events.
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Jun 20-21, 2008 - Fiesta del Sol
Alpine celebrates the summer solstice all around town. Front Street Books will have music, books signings, and other activities to be announced. Watch this space!
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Aug 8-9, 2008 - Way Out West Texas Book Festival
Alpine Rotary Club presents the Way Out West Texas Book Festival, at Sul Ross State University’s Espino Conference Center. The festival benefits the Alpine Public Library & APL Capital Campaign Fund.
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Previous Events:
Poetry Readathon 7 :00 - 10:00 p.m. - Apr 18, 2008
Celebrate National Poetry Month at our Annual Poetry Readathon
Organic Gardening in the Big Bend Presentation - Apr 4-5, 2008
Deborah Tout and Mark Foster, local master vegetable growers, will share their techniques for seasonal success.
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Botanical Triple-Header Book Signing! - Apr 3, 2008
We will have an astounding array of authors in to sign and discuss from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the Reading Room. The books and authors that will be represented: Field Guide to the Cacti of Texas, by A. Michael Powell and Shirley A. Powell; Little Big Bend: Common, Uncommon, and Rare Plants of Big Bend National Park, by Roy Morey; and The Rare Plants of Texas, by Jackie Poole et al.
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Joaquin Jackson Presents "One Ranger Returns" - Feb 22, 2008
Joaquin Jackson will be at Front Street Books from 6:00-8:00 p.m. to sign copies of One Ranger Returns, the sequel to his best selling memoir One Ranger
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5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Keith Bowden Talk and Signing - Oct 27, 2007
Bowden will discuss his time on the Rio Grande and border issues important to us all.
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World Premiere of Edwin Shrake's Custer's Brother's Horse - Oct 13, 2007
New novel by Texas literary legend, cover photo by Bill Wittliff.
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Douglas Preston and Walter Nelson — 7:00 p.m. - Sep 12, 2007
National bestselling author Douglas Preston returns to present his latest sophisticated thriller, The Wheel of Darkness (coauthored with Lincoln Childs), at 7:00 p.m. in the Reading Room.
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Fiesta del Sol - Jun 22, 2007
featuring Elmer Kelton and his new memoir Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer. Other special guests and activities.
Alpine
121 & 201 E. Holland Ave.
Alpine, Texas 79830
432/837-3360
Fax: 432/837-1126
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next to the Gage Hotel
P.O. Box 145
Marathon, Texas 79842
432/386-4249
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