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A single cry for help can change the person who listens forever. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Kelly Flynn is called to a crime scene where a foot in a running shoe has washed up along the Pacific shoreline. While there, she meets Therese, the mother of a missing Native woman, Diyanni. The young woman has been missing for almost a month, but the local police and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have shown little interest. Kelly resists Therese's...

Seven-year-old Hanna Shelby has one big problem: everyone thinks she's Johnny Shelby. She's not only miserable, in 1950s rural Colorado, a boy could get killed acting even a little girlish. So, she buries her doll and tries to fit in. On her twenty-first birthday while working at the embassy in Bonn, Germany, she finds herself teetering on a bridge over the Rhine River. She realizes the risk of not being Hanna is greater than being, and return...

New experiences can be scary, especially going to school for the first time. Ever wonder what to tell your child who may be apprehensive about going to preschool? Award winning author and early childhood educator, Sylvia Rouss, has written another book inspired by the children in her own classroom. She takes the verses of Ecclesiastes-the ones that inspired Pete Seeger's song "Turn, Turn, Turn"-and transforms them into an entertaining look a...

When we first meet Nomi, she is gazing out the window of an airplane taking her from the kibbutz that's been home all her adult life, to Massachusetts, which she has not seen since she left after a traumatic fallout with her parents in high school. Her only sister and nephew were found mysteriously dead in their big farmhouse on the outskirts of Salem, and her widowed mother is suffering from dementia in a nursing home nearby. Recently widow...

Dreams of Drowning is a work of magical realism that moves between real time where lives are buffeted by political conflict, tragedy and loss and another mysterious time where pain is healed, and love is eternal. It's 1973 and Amy, an American ex-pat, is living as an illegal immigrant in Toronto where she's fled to escape the scandal surrounding her twin sister's death by drowning. Joanie's been gone two years, but Amy still hears her cries ...

On July 26, 1902, The Elmira Daily Advertiser described Maple Point as, "The cottage itself is a marvel of beauty, and the boat landing is covered by a neat pavilion, which makes it the handsomest dock on the lake." Patricia Taylor Wells delves into the history of a cottage called Maple Point, built in the late nineteenth century on Keuka Lake in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. She had been lucky enough to spend summers at Maple...

On July 26, 1902, The Elmira Daily Advertiser described Maple Point as, "The cottage itself is a marvel of beauty, and the boat landing is covered by a neat pavilion, which makes it the handsomest dock on the lake." Patricia Taylor Wells delves into the history of a cottage called Maple Point, built in the late nineteenth century on Keuka Lake in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. She had been lucky enough to spend summers at Maple...

Historian Maggie Winegarden decides she needs to spend some time away from her partner Bethany, who is upset over Maggie's desire to be a painter. Maggie visits the seaside town of Hastings and while in St. Clement's Church discovers that poet Christina Rossetti and artist Elizabeth "Lizzie" Siddal had been frequent visitors to Hastings and the church. Agatha, the church caretaker, shows Maggie a chest of papers in the catacombs that the vicar...

A collection of tales that sparkle like tiny, fractured gems, reminding us that things aren't always what they appear to be. Katherine Hetzel steps away from juvenile fantasy fiction and taps into her darker, slightly twisted side with nineteen short stories and flash fiction-some previously published-brought together for the first time in a single volume. Hollow Daughter is not only the name of a story in the collection, it embodies the und...

The amazing story of Anna Merz, who helped save black rhinoceroses from extinction. After growing up in stodgy, post-WWII London, Anna Merz is determined to live a life of grand adventure. She spends much of her life in Ghana, racing horses, exploring the Sahara, and rescuing orphaned wild animals that are dropped at her door. Anna retires to Kenya in anticipation of rest and relaxation. Instead, she finds her true calling: that of Kifaru ...

Meet the spunkiest five sisters of the Bible: Mahlah, Noa, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah. The Sisters Z. Orphaned, the Sisters Z have learned to stick together and stand up for their rights as a family. Camped near the River Jordan, the five sisters can almost see the land of Canaan. They look forward to no longer having to live in a tent, but in a real home of stone and clay. One day, Milcah and Tirzah climb Mt. Nebo to get a glimpse of Canaa...

I'm not like your white women who lose their tongues and wits in a house full of men." So says Catharine Montour to her white captive during the Indian depredations of the 1750s. Catharine Montour, a métis, born during Pennsylvania's Long Peace, is nurtured by her grandmother, the celebrated Madame Montour, an interpreter for the British colonies. Her uncle, Andrew Montour, is also an interpreter and sits on the Council of the Iroquois. The ...

Jane Angier won't stop helping women, even if it kills her. And it might. Trapped in a granite cell, a nineteenth century midwife awaits her trial for the crime of helping women time their pregnancies. Or is she guilty of something far worse? A trapper's daughter, Jane Angier is a woman of the woods, a free spirit, and a misfit in the Loyalist colony of Queen's Bay, New Brunswick, a beautiful seaside town with ugly secrets. The community i...

Meet Yonah, a quirky kid obsessed with fish, who is about to start kindergarten. The day before school starts, Yonah's parents take her to the mikveh, a ritual immersion pool, to mark her transition from preschool to kindergarten. When her brother, who also went to the mikveh when he was starting kindergarten, tells her she'll love the fish at the mikveh, she is excited to go. But when she goes into the pool to dunk, she can't find the fish. W...

What seventeen-year-old Adrielle Maddox wants most in life is to fit in. But she's a strikingly beautiful Albino, a foster child whose mother died in a suspicious fire. Dumped by her boyfriend on her birthday eve, Adrielle wishes her life were different. Then Coco, her sister, gives her a broken watch once belonging to their mother. Coco drags Adrielle to a party where they join their besties. Adrielle has an encounter with an ancient immor...

It was about ten minutes after five a.m. when Bartholomew began to eat his breakfast. Suddenly, his dish began to shake, and then it slid across the room. Bartholomew was frightened and the fur on his back rose as his dish slid away from him. As Bartholomew tried to get to his dish, he heard a loud roaring noise. In the kitchen, Bartholomew slid around the room. He could not get his feet to work. As he slid past the kitchen table, Mrs. Higgins...

Before Elizabeth Warren was a Senator from Massachusetts and a presidential candidate with a plan for everything, she was a girl from Oklahoma who dreamed of becoming a teacher. Young Betsy Herring was an energetic tomboy and such a whizz in school, her second grade teacher looked her in the eyes and said, "When you grow up, if you really want to, you can do something." Doing something included winning a debate scholarship to Georgetown ...

To Cure Sometimes, To Relieve Often, And to Comfort Always. What moment in time do you decide you need to see a doctor? When do you seek the best help available to rid yourself of constant or intense pain? When It Hurts: Inside a Pain Management Doctor's Practice, takes readers behind the scenes of a pain management practice and the treatments available to those suffering from chronic pain. Through the recounting of true stories When It H...

Patricia Taylor Wells brings us a new collection of poems that represents life's everchanging views. Kaleidoscope is dedicated to those who have forgotten how to love. Wells seeks to express how we hide our humanity when we allow darkness to overcome us. She discovers the loneliness that follows us around is not always due to being alone, but from feeling unloved. But there's nothing like nature to remind us sometimes, after a threatening st...

North of the Mexican border, freedom has a price. Teresa sells souvenirs and helps care for her father's fighting roosters in Centro-the heart of Nogales. When Teresa's mother receives a letter from a friend assuring haven from her troubled marriage, she takes twelve-year-old Teresa and her sisters north, into the bone littered Sonoran Desert where the most dangerous predators drive cars, rob desperate travelers of hope, and sell the naïve t...