Wilson R. Bachelor was a Tennessee native who moved with his family to Franklin County, Arkansas, in 1870. A country doctor and natural philosopher, Bachelor was impelled to chronicle his life from 1870 to 1902, documenting the family's move to Arkansas, their settling a farm in Franklin County, and Bachelor's medical practice. Bachelor was an avid reader with wide-ranging interests in literature, science, nature, politics, and religion, and he became a self-professed freethinker in the 1870s. He was driven by a concept he called "fiat flux," an awareness of the "rapid flight of time" that...

When a homeless woman gives Maxzyne a painting of a French poodle like the one in a storefront display, Maxzyne finds herself at the center of a rescue mission when a wayward freight elevator, a family of enchanted vintage mannequins, and a secret tunnel propel her into the mysterious depths of a historic Chicago department store. Can she convince the ghastly Gigi not to use the mannequins' heads in her art exhibit before it's too late? It's a race against the clock for Maxzyne and her new mannequin sidekick Elise. However, Maxzyne's overactive imagination and tendency to get distracted won't...