Polly returns to Harrington, Alabama, to rejoin her rich aunt, but she finds harmony in short supply as the town adjusts to a new orphanage director and election unrest.

A poignant and bittersweet tale of tender sexual discovery in the rural Louisiana of the 1950s.

"Viviana Valentine--Girl Friday turned partner to New York's top investigator, Tommy Fortuna--is drawn into a sordid new case when Buster Beacon, a wealthy man of science, beckons them to a party at his mansion north of the city. There, Buster entertains blue-blooded friends as well as investors keen to make a dollar on the many advancements made in his home laboratory, but he's been hearing strange noises in the night coming from his expansive estate,...

Real-life stories told by the people who lived them, favorite family and historic photos, vintage ads, newspaper and magazine clippings, and icons of pop culture.

"1957: In the beach town of Brighton, music is playing and guests are sunning themselves, when a young man is found dead, dripping blood, in a deck chair. Constable Twitten of the Brighton Police Force has a hunch that the fiendish murder may be connected to a notorious nightspot, but his captain and his colleagues are-- as ever-- busy with other more important issues. Inspector Steine is being conned into paying for the honor of being featured at...