Fascinating Fashions: In the 1920s, American women morphed from alabaster Victorian homemakers to painted jazz babies. The conformist ‘50s mom vacuuming in heels made way for... Read More

“You’re here to learn about Texas history, a subject that can be fascinating and compelling,” states Mr. Barrington, Hannah’s seventh-grade teacher. “By the end of the... Read More

“Some folks, including my dad, insisted she should get married, then do for her husband and children. That it wasn’t a girl’s place to leave home and go off to the city to... Read More

For formalists, this author comes as a gift, a poet fully in charge of her forms, subtle and controlled. She embraces the villanelle, Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets, the... Read More

Any owner of this paperdoll book is almost guaranteed to have the most extravagantly dressed dolls in town. The costumes, drawn from the Jerry Silvermann/Shannon Rodgers... Read More

This is a strangely sad and compelling memoir, like a story told at a bar frequented by artists. In the summer of 1976 a local boy hitches a ride from a white Mercedes... Read More

Did you hear about the two cowboys who one hot dusty day decided to take a forbidden dip in one of the water tanks on the ranch they worked at? A couple of their cohorts thought... Read More

On April 29, 1945, the Seventh Army’s 42nd Rainbow and 45th Thunderbolt divisions liberated Dachau concentration camp. This book compiles the personal accounts of some 60... Read More