Dust Bowl Girls: A Review

Dust Bowl Girls: A Team's Quest for Basketball Glory Author: Lydia Reeder Publisher: Algonquin Books Genre: Nonfiction Oklahoma. The Dust Bowl. Women's basketball. The season that made history. The 1930s were a hard time for many, but none so much as the farmers of Oklahoma. At the time, poor families made dresses out of grain…

Little Nothing, by Marisa Silver

Little Nothing by Marisa Silver Penguin Group/Blue Rider Press "The silence is so dense that it is just as hard on the baby's eardrums as is any sound. It is the silence that will become the refrain, when a stranger falls speechless in the child's presence, or when a villager pushes her children behind her skirts…