The Beauty Doctor by Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard

The year is 1907. Women still wear their hair over layers of padding, they wear corsets and covers, which require a maid to help with dressing, they have no recourse when it comes to homeliness or when a small facial defect assumes huge proportions in a young woman's mind. Make-up is minimal or non-existent in…

In the Shadow of the Hanging Tree by Michael A. McLellan

This turned out to be a fascinating story. It starts with Henry and Eliza, newly freed from slavery at the end of the Civil War. The beginning of their freedom has a very big downside in that they have no idea how to manage it. They were released like little puppies with no idea how…