Twelve titles worth a slow afternoon — rotating monthly, written by hand, read cover to cover before they land on the shelf.
The list below rotates monthly and is written by hand. Every title has been read by someone on our staff. Availability changes weekly — please call (817) 346-2186 to confirm before making a trip.
A quiet novel of inheritance and one Texas peach farm. Long sentences, short chapters, a very kind narrator.
Twelve essays on the small acts of noticing. Reads like a letter from a good friend who happens to be very well-read.
A debut set in East Texas, told across three summers and one long funeral. Our favorite first novel of the year.
Sixty-eight short poems arranged like a farmer's calendar. Read one on Sunday mornings.
A generous history of dream research from the 1890s to the modern lab.
Two cousins, one runaway ferry and a summer that refuses to end. Ages 9–12.
One woman's account of buying, losing, and re-earning a home in West Fort Worth.
A quiet-shelf mystery set among rare-book dealers in New Orleans. No gore, plenty of guile.
A patient popular history of the Trinity River watershed, 1840–1920.
Short field notes from a Fort Worth backyard. Illustrated by the author.
Twelve linked stories on quiet Gulf-Coast towns and the people who almost leave them.
A calm, non-devotional guide to the language and history of a very old book.
We shelve half of the store the ordinary way — fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children's — and the other half by mood. If you are looking for something specific, ask at the front counter. If you are looking for something you cannot name, walk to the mood wall.
Books written to be read on a hot afternoon with no particular hurry. Often long, often gentle.
Stories that never leave one town, one family or one summer. Big feelings in modest square footage.
Books that reward being carried around. Non-fiction, mostly, but a handful of thick novels too.
Books you can read a chapter of and put down without losing the thread. Perfect for bedside tables.