Once again the Bordelon siblings are called back to their home town of Natchitoches Louisiana to attend yet another funeral for an elderly relative, but while there, they get some devastating news about one of their own. Their brother, Joe, is fighting a dreaded disease, and he needs all of their help to win the battle. The siblings quickly rally around Joe and his new family to offer them all the assistance they can while calling on their strong...

For every woman who wonders if she chose the right career…In Love and Other Subjects Carolyn Jenkins strives for two things-to be the greatest teacher ever and to find true love. She's as skilled at both as an infant trying to eat with a fork. Carolyn's suburban upbringing and genuine compassion for people who don't fit effortlessly into society are no match for weapon-wielding, struggling students, drug-using colleagues, and a wicked principal.Meanwhile,...

Miriam, a Washington secretary in her late twenties, recently divorced, living in a drab apartment and stuck in a dead-end job, longs for fame, fortune and love. Her two best friends at work, flower child Jocelyn and conventional Cass, harbor similar ambitions. The three secretaries hash out their dreams, and sometimes even pursue them, at a nightclub that Jocelyn co-manages in her spare time.

A straightforward anecdote about the imminent closure of a care home for the elderly, which had been founded by the indomitable Myra Thorndyke. Old age and its frequent accompanying states of dementia and diminishing ability of judgement, is both sad and humorous at the same time. Myra's difficult, early adulthood, which she had had the strength of character to overcome, was her insurance for the old age of those in her care, and the innocence of...

In the strange and unpredictable sequel to "Streaks of Blue," intern newspaper reporter Nikki Janicek is wooed by a cult of criminal ex-Scientologists obsessed with the looming effects of global warming, population control and the race to colonize Mars. By the time Nikki finds out the truth about the secretive organization, her loved ones, friends and even a former assailant are entangled in a web that stretches from New England to South Africa.

"...a perfect genius that makes the impossible in expression, possible; the unknowable in experience, knowable" --Anya Achtenberg, author of The Stories of Devil-Girl Nickels follows a biracial girl named "Little Miss So and So", from age 4-1/2 into adulthood. Told in a series of prose poems, Nickels' lyrical and inventive language conveys the dissociative states born of a world formed by persistent and brutal incest and homophobia. The dissociative...

Dr. Jack Conley, a medical intern, is mulling his future at a Brooklyn, hospital. Having found that he is not as fond of medicine as he thought he would be, Jack visits his boyhood friend, the hospital chaplain, and was abruptly interrupted when he was suddenly paged to the intensive care unit of the Emergency Room. A fifteen-year-old girl lay there, near death due to a botched back alley abortion. Jack is horrified and wanting to protect other...

Olivia Noble Sherman has had a long career at the prestigious Waldorf Astoria Hotel, working her way up from the kitchen to become the head of the conventions and banquets department. Her past seems to have caught up to her when she learns that her only aunt and uncle can no longer operate the family inn back home in Seaside, Oregon. She flies to Los Angeles where her three sisters live to share Uncle Sam's letter and the conditions of his Will. She...

This SEQUEL to 'Free as a Bird in a Healing Garden' is a Romantic, Historical Mystery which can also be read as a stand-alone novel.Unhappy with her life in Malta, Emma, Holly's mother has made preparations to leave the island and return to England. A few days before her departure, she receives a puzzling letter from some solicitors in Southport, the town where she lived as a child.Emma grew up believing that her grandmother Eliza was dead but the...

Until One Day, by Charlotte Symonds, is a poignant affectionate account of one day in the lives of four strangers. Each lives in Manhattan and hides their despondent lives behind masquerades. Follow each through a day in their lives where choices are presented and upon which decisions made not only alter the course of their lives, but impact others as well. Sydney, a successful attractive female corporate lawyer, Patrick a retired plumbing engineer...