Ft. Worth Star-Telegram

With "The Lost Girls" (Simon & Schuster, 288 pages, $23), author Laurie Fox needs readers to suspend disbelief early on, and she offers a captivating premise that makes it easy...

It's 1975 in small-town Iowa when Mama dies in an apparent suicide. But Mama doesn't go away. She returns frequently to give her teenage daughter, Alice Martin, advice. Mama gives...

All anyone associated with the Texas Ranger seemed interested in last week was the loss of Alex Rodriguez. Question after question flowed about Rodriguez. That was to be expected, as...

Most people think in words. Terry Stickels thinks in spatial images and numbers. Stickels sits alone in his east Ft. Worth apartment up to 16 hours a day and creates...

I felt at a disadvantage upon beginning "Goodbye, Earl" (Simon & Schuster, 368 pages, $24). I'd never read anything by author Jo-Ann Mapson, including the previous two books in the...

Of all the personnel decisions the Dallas Stars have made since the 2000-01 season, perhaps none has stung them quite as much as letting winger Brett Hull leave for Detroit...

Carrie, of "Sex and the City," has been awarded her Prince Charming for the show's final season. We have seen what she can do with regular Joes and Mr. Big,...

How smart is Canadiens forward Joe Juneau? He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in three years. He built his own airplane. And he's so smart that even Brett Hull had...

Lost novels are often greeted with great fanfare. Truth be told, most of these lost novels should have stayed lost. To a large extent, this is true of "For Us,...

On Jan. 8, the last of the Levi Strauss & Co. manufacturing plants in the United States will close, fading this American icon like a pair of its own 501s....