Give Butler Center Books This Holiday Season
Butler Center Books Make Great Gifts!
It is time to start thinking about gifts for loved ones, especially those Arkansas history buffs in your life. Butler Center Books, which focus on people and events of Arkansas, just might fit the bill.
Here are a few recent and popular titles:
(opens in new window)Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany (Revised Edition), edited by Jay Jennings/Afterword by Donna Tartt 
(opens in new window)The Education of Ernie Dumas: Chronicles of the Arkansas Political Mind, by Ernest Dumas 
(opens in new window)OUTSPOKEN: The Olly Neal Story, by Olly Neal Jr. as told to Jan Wrede
(opens in new window)Arkansas Backstories: Quirks, Characters, and Curiosities of the Natural State, Volume One, by Joe David Rice 
(opens in new window)Arkansas Backstories: Quirks, Characters, and Curiosities of the Natural State, Volume Two, by Joe David Rice
The entire Butler Center Books catalog can be found at https://robertslibrary.org/bc-books/.
The Butler Center Books publishing program is a project of the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System. This nonprofit program was made possible by a gift from John G. Ragsdale Jr. and Dora “DeDe” Ragsdale. Books are available at local bookstores, from online retailers, and from Butler Center Books’ distributor, University of Arkansas Press (via University of Chicago Press).
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