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TCU Press Events & Books

Join TCU Press for their annual Holiday Book Fest with the distillery
backdrop of Whiskey Ranch. Featured authors include Firestone
& Robertson Distilling Co.’s Head Distiller, Rob Arnold, prolific
Texas writer Jan Reid, and legendary broadcaster Bobbie Wygant.
Additionally, Dan Jenkins’ final book, The Reunion at Herb’s Café,
will be also available. A dozen authors of various genres will be
present to autograph and inscribe books. A wide selection of titles
will be available for purchase—all at a 40% discount.

Enjoy TX whiskey holiday-themed cocktails and distillery tour times
which are on a first come, first serve basis. Food trucks will also be
on-site selling food.

When: Wednesday, Dec. 18
Time: 4:30 - 8 pm, come & go
Where: Firestone & Robertson Distilling Company
4250 Mitchell Blvd, FW 76119

This event is free and open to the public, but we request guests
register ahead of time through the TCU Alumni website at
alumni.tcu.edu.

The Reunion at Herb’s Café brings back some of Dan Jenkins’s most-beloved characters
for one last laugh. Billy Clyde Puckett, Shake Tiller, T. J. Lambert, Barbara Jane Bookman,
Big Ed Bookman, Slick Henderson, Juanita Hutchins, Doris Steadman—the list goes on,
and they’re all packin’ heat. It all begins when Herb’s Café—modeled after a Fort Worth
landmark renowned for its chicken-fried steak—goes up for sale after Herb’s death and the
establishment’s disastrous sequel as a trendy restaurant featuring outrageous nouvelle cuisine.
Tommy Earl Bruner buys the place, rehires most of the old staff, and invites all its former
denizens to Fort Worth for a grand celebration. The uproarious outcome could only have been
dreamed up by comic mastermind Dan Jenkins. This special commemorative edition includes
a foreword by Tom Brokaw and an afterword by Sally Jenkins.

This book of genuine wanted posters distributed by law enforcement agencies at
the turn of the twentieth century will change your perspective on the genre. Wanted
in America: Posters Collected by the Fort Worth Police Department, 1898–1903
features fifty posters and the fascinating true crime stories behind them. While some
of the offenders are virtually unknown today, others, such as Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid, remain household names. You will meet fugitive pickpockets,
embezzlers, robbers, kidnappers, murderers, and more, along with their associates
and their victims. They are a cross-section of America—men and women of all
ages, social classes, and many races and nationalities. Over thirty-five professors,
journalists, and historians generously contributed their talents to research and craft
the essays that accompany these posters. The tales themselves run the gamut from
amusing to puzzling to horrific.

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