"Swinging Sisters" is a one-of-a-kind book, because there is no other story like it.
Come along for the ride with a Depression era all-girl band as they tour the country in a 1928 Packard hearse. The Texas Rangerettes garner headlines in "Variety" and "Billboard" for several years before taking a fork in the road that subsequently has Paramount Studio cameramen camping on the women's doorstep hoping to film a history-making event featuring four band members.
Based on a true story, "Swinging Sisters" celebrates the life of a family rooted in the Irish famine who achieves success and...
"Swinging Sisters" is a one-of-a-kind book, because there is no other story like it.
Come along for the ride with a Depression era all-girl band as...
As touchstones to the past, dolls validate childhood, a span of years that often seem like fragmented moments in time. With their life-like faces, blemished complexions, and snarled hair, vintage dolls hold sway with a magical power that rarely wanes, and often grows. In this collection, 60 contributors reminisce about their childhood dolls. Not all the dolls were pretty; not all were wanted; some were disappointing; not all became favorites, but each doll was memorable.
As touchstones to the past, dolls validate childhood, a span of years that often seem like fragmented moments in time. With their life-like faces, ble...
A spare, elegantly simple exploration of father-son love and father-son hate. Equally strong passions, left unbridled, one can be harmful, the other deadly.
Based on a real event, Patricide begins with a brutal homicide on the Iowa prairie in 1920. Told by several observers, the subject is handled with the respect befitting these salt of the earth people bewildered by the horrifying act of fifteen-year-old Carl Jess.
What drove this boy to patricide? What was his motivation? Did he believe he had something to gain, or was he totally deranged?
While the community wrestles with...
A spare, elegantly simple exploration of father-son love and father-son hate. Equally strong passions, left unbridled, one can be harmful, the othe...
