"The best things in life are really not that fancy. This photo-driven book featuring all-things-Reba invites you to get back to the basics of life: fun, food, friends, and family. In her first book in over two decades, actress and country music legend Reba McEntire takes you behind the scenes and shares the stories, recipes, and Oklahoma-style truths that guide her life." --publisher's website

In 1957, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma coal town, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his six-year-old sister, Susan. Alternate chapters are told from the human and canine points of view.

What do we lose when a language disappears? Today, Choctaw, Creek, Comanche, and Ponca are just a few of the Native American languages quickly moving towards extinction. The question of what is lost--after all, speakers themselves often wonder whether it's worth the trouble of keeping their dialect alive--sparked the interest of journalist Elizabeth Seay, who returns to her home state of Oklahoma to research what is left of tribal languages and the...