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Friends of the Belton Public Library
Belton, Texas

2024 Book and Author Luncheon Poster

Book & Author Luncheon
    and 
Silent Auction

2024 Book & Author Luncheon

The Friends' annual Book and Author Luncheon and Silent Auction began in 2005 and is a major literary event for the community. The Luncheon features three or four authors with local or Texas ties to give a short review of their books. The authors' books are also available for purchase at the Luncheon. The proceeds from the Luncheon ticket sales and the Silent Auction constitute the major source of funding for the Friends' activities in support of the library.

The Luncheon is held the fourth Saturday each February and ticket sales begin in late January. Then, you can print and mail an invitation and reservation form with the details of this year's Luncheon through a link on this page. If you would like to receive a mailed invitation, please contact Membership Coordinator and we will be happy to add you to our mailing list.

Tax deductible donation of items for the Silent Auction can be arranged by contacting the library or by contacting the Volunteer Coordinator.

This year's Luncheon was held Saturday, February 24, 2024 with about 100 people attending. If you weren't there, here is what you missed.


This year's authors:

Christine Boldt photograph
Christine Boldt
For Every Tatter book cover

Christine Boldt, a retired librarian, has lived in Texas for 40 years. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nigeria in the 1960s and lived in Italy during the 1970s. Christine has published essays in Christianity and Crisis, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, and Working Mother. Her poetry has appeared in publications including Christian Century, Windhover, and the Texas Poetry Calendar. Her collection Missing, One Muse won the 2018 ASPS Morris Memorial Chapbook Competition.


Dr. Donald S. Frazier photograph
Dr. Donald Frazier


Don Frazier book covers

Dr. Donald S. Frazier is the Director of The Texas Center at Schreiner University in Kerrville. A graduate of The University of Texas at Arlington and Texas Christian University, Frazier is the award-winning author of six books on the Civil War including Blood and Treasure, Cottonclads, Fire in the Cane Field, Thunder Across the Swamp, Blood on the Bayou and Tempest Over Texas. His other work includes serving as co-author of Frontier Texas, Historic Abilene, and The Texas You Expect, as well as general editor of The U.S. and Mexico at War and a collection of letters published as Love and War: The Civil War Letter and Medicinal Book of Augustus V. Ball.

Frazier has taught in college classrooms at Texas Christian University, McMurry University, and Schreiner University. In addition to his classroom teaching, Frazier has been very involved in public history, working on Civil War and frontier heritage trails in Texas, New Mexico, and Louisiana, and work on historical projects in Europe and Mexico. He helped design Frontier Texas!, a museum-attraction in Abilene, Texas. He is the writer and director for the video Our Home, Our Rights: Texas and Texans in the Civil War, a winner of the Mitchell Wilder Award for Excellence in Publications and Media Design from the Texas Association of Museums. He also serves on the board of the Heart of the Hills Heritage Center, a museum attraction and visitors center that tells the story of The Texas Hill Country. Come and Take It, a treatment of the life story of Susannah Dickinson, is his first full length play.

He also heads an educational adventure enterprise, Bear Leader Tours as well as a publishing operation, State House Press, an imprint in consortium with Texas A&M University Press.

Dr. Frazier is an elected member of the prestigious Philosophical Society of Texas, the oldest learned organization in the state, a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, and a Director-Scholar on the board of the Texas Historical Foundation. He is also an advisor to The Alamo, the Texas Education Agency, and the State Board of Education. In 2021, Governor Gregg Abbott recently appointed him to the advisory committee for the Texas 1836 Project.


Sheri Wall photograph
Sheri Wall
Silly Milly Book Collection by Sheri Wall

Sheri Wall is a lover of rhyme
who has lived in Texas for a really long time.
She would read to her sons and kids that she knew,
and they all enjoyed rhyming picture books too.
Then A Matter of Rhyme began as a dream
to help others learn with zippy rhyme schemes.
Sheri likes to stay active and be on the go,
either biking, or shopping, or seeing a show.
To find more lively books by this witty mom,
visit her website amatterofrhyme.com.