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Escaping Rochester's harsh winter, Billy and Beth Brook fly to Miami to celebrate their anniversary. No sooner do they touch the ground than their rental car is rear-ended, but this is no simple fender bender. Things get ugly fast. Guns are drawn and the Brooks narrowly escape their assailants. Despite everyone's insistence that the couple have stumbled into Miami's drug trade, Billy and Beth suspect that something more is going on. After they...

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Ingrid Levi was born at the onset of WWII to a Jewish father and a German mother. Her parents had been married 22 years and she was their first and only child. The Germans were turning against the Jews at an alarming rate. Ingrid's father was a traveling merchant and was living in fear. This new child was very scary. Her parents feared she would be taken to the gas chambers at Dauchau nearby. A high ranking Nazi officer hid Ingrid until the wa...

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Moving Experiences are the childhood memories and imaginations of the author, who grew up in the northwestern corner of Arkansas during the a40s and a50s. His parents were farm laborers who married during the Depression and struggled to raise a family of seven. The authoras family moved more than a dozen times before they settled at 101 Lake Street in Bentonville, where his mother put her foot down and said they would move no more. It was ther...

Daniel Ortega Grady is a California kid, Mexican-Irish, and a firefighteraa dream come true that began when a small boy was mesmerized by Sacramento Fire Station 2's red behemoth trucks and the men and women who drive them. His career path, however, was neither straight nor smooth. As a young Marine, Dan returns from Afghanistan a war hero, only to find his biggest battles lie still ahead in the college classroom. A stunning Austrian coed beau...

Crash As the light came into my face I could hear the glass shatter A screaming voice Searing pain Everything was black But warm was running down my face I remember the flashing light But it has disappeared Everything has gone silent But I feel the cuts on my face Canat remember a memory before Only frames since Everything is patchy So are the scars on my face

In the summer of 1973, twenty-year-old Helen Harvey is desperate to escape the dull, repetitive life of a farmeras daughter. She is pretty, smart, and longs for something more, but what else is a young, black woman to do but marry, have children and remain oblivious to the rest of the world? Helen packs her Kansas bags and heads west to California. She accepts a domestic position in the home of the most prestigious film producer in town. Helen...

In his harsh and unflinching debut collection, poet Dylan Moore explores the dark corridors of post-teen angst and the disaffected anger of the 20-something who woke up one morning to discover adulthood was a lie. This is a book for young people who currently roam the halls in awkwardness and alienation and for adults who have discovered that the big questions have not become easier to answer with age. With a style that is simultaneously clums...

Dan Walker answers the questions Mark Twain avoided: What if Huck Finn carries out his promise, at the end of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to alight out for the Territorya? Twain himself got sixty-two pages into the prairie and lost interest. But what if Huck, Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and the rest are caught upaas they surely would beain the crisis of the Civil War? What choices will they make when history calls? For the boy who once...

Women are walking a very thin line between self-acceptance and self-hate. Sad to say, most have fallen into self-hate. Itas easy to see that few women are exempt from the pressure to be the ideal display of beauty. With such a drive and hunger for perfection, too many women and young girls are diminishing themselves to measure up to a standard that is biased, contradicted, and generally unattainable. In todayas culture and society, it almost s...

Arnystal Kensington has never considered herself special or unique. She has never thought that there was more to life than just surviving normal everyday occurrences. Content in being alone and devoted to work, Arnystal is visibly rattled when her seemingly calm lifestyle begins to become plagued by horrific dreams that threaten to steal her sanity. Fearing that she is trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to a padded room in a mental in...

The House on Black Bay is about the cooperation between security agencies across the Atlantic in the ever-increasing threat from international terrorism, and of a case of murder which catapulted a FBI agent into a web of terrorism and intrigue, at one stage nearly costing him his life. It is to convey to the man in the street that these agents are ordinary people just like them, but we ask them to do an extraordinary and difficult job. The aut...