What if "Mad Men" handled the Anheuser-Busch account? The man who was the director of sales and promotion has privately published a look at the colorful life of marketing Michelob and other A-B brews from the mid-'60s through the '70s.

New book provides a handy guide for people who already love Forest Park and for those who are just beginning to explore all it contains.

From riots in Munich to flood waters on the Mississippi, Don Marsh has seen a lot of history. He shares what he's seen in a new book, "Flash Frames."

A new book designed for children opens the world of bonobos through photos of Lucy, who was born in 2003 and lives at the Jacksonville Zoo. St. Louis photographer Marian Brickner teamed with Washington University biologist Ursula Goodenough, who published the book, and Goodenough's daughter, Mathea Levine, who wrote the text.

"Never Been a Time" tells of lynchings and riots prompted by racial hatred in East St. Louis in 1917. About 9 whites died and dozens - perhaps hundreds - of black residents. This excerpt starts as "rioters began torching flimsy railroad shacks on the Mississippi River bottomland."

Also read author Harper Barnes' commentary on the legacy of the riot, which remained in the collective memory of many blacks but not many whites.

William F. Woo, the late editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, looks at the competing demands of a career and a life.