TLA’s 2024 Texas Topaz Reading List

We’re thrilled that the Texas Topaz List includes FIVE Macmillan titles this year! COBALT RED: HOW THE BLOOD OF THE CONGO POWERS OUR LIVES BY SIDDHARTH KARA “[This is] a penetrating exposé on the deliberate smoke screens created by powerful companies to obscure the realities behind the abysmal conditions of cobalt miners in the Congo… […]

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Happy Half Hour (11/14/22)

In today’s Happy Half Hour we have an investigation behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operations, a mesmerizing story about faith and family, a supernatural YA thriller about an eerie town, and a chilling account of what happened three decades ago in Waco, TX. COBALT RED: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by […]

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Nonfiction Round-Up (10/12/22)

Memoirs, biographies, and more…this nonfiction round-up has a revealing memoir of a late award-winning writer, a personal look and social critique on addiction, a neurosurgeon’s exploration of death, and the full story of the standoff between Branch Davidians and the FBI. STILL PICTURES: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm Available for download on Edelweiss […]

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New Edelweiss E-galleys (9/12/22)

Hello e-galley readers! Check out some of the exciting e-galleys that were recently added to Edelweiss for your downloading pleasure: WACO RISING: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America’s Modern Militias by Kevin CookISBN 9781250840523 | on sale 1/31/23 In 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of […]

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