Christopher Awdry's father created the iconic Thomas the Tank Engine series in the 1940s when he was a young boy.

A dusty country setting. Cowboy hats and printed shawls. A mighty delicious, generation-spanning family drama tied to property investments. No, this isn't "Yellowstone." This is "Ransom Canyon," ...

He and his wife, Dorothy Hoobler, wrote 103 books, most recently one about presidential love letters, “Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?” By Clay Risen Thomas Hoobler, who with his wife, ...

On Dec. 29, 1170, the archbishop of Canterbury was cut down in his own cathedral. “Every attempt to tell the story of Thomas Becket,” writes Michael Staunton in his biography of the martyred ...

THE LIPTON STORY (277 pp.)—Alec Waugh—Doubleday ($3). It would be the biggest cheese in the history of the world. To make it, said the advertisements, 800 cows had given, six days’ supply of milk, ...