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From Kathy L. Murphy, owner of Beauty & the Book and founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club: "Our 'Once Upon a Time' themed faeries, fairy tale characters and woodland creature authors are ready to serve dinner for our opening author dinner during our annual Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend 2016. Always held during Martin Luther King Weekend, we were at Mast Hall in historic Nacogdoches, Tex., the oldest town in Texas and so befitting for our now over 600 book clubs, running coast to coast and in 15 foreign countries as we are making history happen when it comes to reading great books!"
During the Girlfriend Weekend festivities, the following Pulpwood Queen Books of the Year winners were named:
Fiction: Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Nonfiction: Liar, Temptress Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott
Bonus Book of the Year: Sisters of Shiloh by Kathy Hepinstall & Becky Hepinstall Hilliker
Children's: Dear Hank Williams by Kimberly Willis Holt
Doug Marlette Award for a person who has spent a lifetime promoting literacy: Helen Thompson, a librarian in Mt. Pleasant, Tex.