Gulf Coast Reads selection for 2016 is Jan Jarboe Russell's book , The Train To Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program And America's Only Family Interment Camp During World War II. The book is also the October read for the Stewart Library 3rd Thursday Readers Group.

The public is invited to hear professor Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies in History, Sam Houston State University, discuss the book Friday, October 14, 2016 at 2 pm.