Jock Bethune is best known as the "Voice of American Airlines", having recorded several thousand hours of narration for training pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and other personnel. JoAnn Moore is a retired AA flight attendant who has donated her uniforms from the 1970s until her retirement after a half-century of service with the airline.

Together, Jock and JoAnn possess deep, rich knowledge of the history of American Airlines, along with personal recollections of their own experiences in and under the skies of DFW and far beyond. Join us at Fielder Museum with Jock and JoAnn as we embark on an engaging flight of history and memories.

The Texas Author Book Club is jointly sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society and the Arlington Public Library. Club coordinators are O. K. Carter (AHS) and Mark Dellenbaugh (APL). The club meets on third Thursdays, 6:30 PM, at the Fielder Museum. For questions/additional info, email texasauthorbookclub@gmail.com.

Sandra Brown, Arlington's most successful author, has been living her American dream as a #1 New York Times bestselling author of over 70 novels (and ober 70 million copies sold). In Two Alone, when their plane crashes in the remote reaches of the Northwest Territories, confident businesswoman Rusty Carlson finds herself hurt and alone with a man she can't stand to be around. Vietnam vet Cooper Landry holds a deep-rooted grudge against beautiful women, but he's survived far worse and he'll be damned if he lets them both die in the wilderness. The ex-soldier's training has prepared him with the skills to defend against the predators of the deep woods—both animal and human—but that's not all that awaits the couple. What Rusty and Cooper couldn't have expected is their shared desire for more than just survival.

The Texas Author Book Club is jointly sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society and the Arlington Public Library. Club coordinators are O. K. Carter (AHS) and Mark Dellenbaugh (APL). The club meets on third Thursdays, 6:30 PM, at the Fielder Museum. For questions/additional info, email texasauthorbookclub@gmail.com.

Texas author Larry McMurtry said of Hard Scrabble: "If Goodbye to a River was in some sense Graves's Odyssey, this book is his [verion of Hesiod's] Works and Days. It is partly a book about work, partly a book about nature, but mostly a book about belonging. In the end John Graves has learned to belong to his patch of land so thoroughly that at moments he can sense in himself a unity with medieval peasants and Sumerian farmers, working with their fields by the Tigris."

Graves lived near Granbury, and it's easy to drive to the part of Texas he's writing about in just over an hour.