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Facing possible death forces Emmie Steele to examine her life. She had plenty she could regret--like her choice in a husband. She is surprised to discover her greatest regret is that she never learned to dance. Now, as she undergoes a second mastectomy and treatment, Emmie learns to dance--with her feet and with her heart.

Young Countess Anna Green is placed in an orphanage when her parents are killed. Is Anna's aristocratic background so hated by the Communists that it can never be forgotten? Will she ever return to her homeland to find her inheritance?

Valentine's Day surgery trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey? OVER HER DEAD BODY! Rambunctious runaway K.C. Montreaux--thirtyish and coddled--crashes the men's room at Bush Intercontinental and straight into Nick Hart. His clear eyes x-ray through her while she hovers with a facetious grin on a lovely caramel face. A ruckus launches her to an empty stall and forces him into defense mode. Drafted actions cloak Nick's deceit--from the mainland to Maui--as he helps outwit her pursuer. Will K.C... more info>>

Will immersion in sports help two adopted Cambodian boys with special needs navigate their way towards a beautiful American manhood? Will the author-queer, white, far from rich-survive the difficulties, mistakes, stupidities, flaws, longings and pitfalls of parenthood? Will their beloved Manhattan, in the aftermath of 9/11, survive invasion by the nation's wealthy elite? Will their beloved Cambodia take history's brutal lessons to heart, or will these be overshadowed by newly built towers o... more info>>

In everyone's life, whether gradual or forced by outside circumstances, change is inevitable. The characters in these stories face crucial problems and lose all sense of direction. Change appears in the sinister form of an enemy in The Blameless. In The Angel of Darkness, it surfaces as the deadly inner-struggle of a young divorcee contemplating suicide. Whatever the case, each person sets out on some new, sometimes frightening, course--no longer drifting.

At the tender age of fourteen, Angel, with a short, slender, good athletic body, long reddish brown hair, hazel eyes, and strong will of her own, was a tomboy. Raised on the family-owned and operated hundred acre, standard-bred horse farm, she had no problem helping her brothers, Tim and Jake, in tending to the horses in the barn or on race nights. At about the same age, a young man named Stephen from Quebec, entered her life. He left a lasting impression on her heart. Angel loved her family,... more info>>

When a sixty-one year old retired college teacher travels fifty years into the past to change the tragic, childhood death of his beloved sister and only sibling, he spends several hours with that fourteen year old "kindred spirit"--and with himself as an eleven year-old farm boy--and must decide whether or not it is wise to alter the past.

Rainbow Bridge, filled with warmth and sunshine, is the place where our pets go when their lives on earth are finished. There is plenty to do at the Bridge while they wait for their humans, and Chloe, a Samoyed dog in her former life, has been assigned to tell of her experiences by her boss, Big Dog. She meets many creatures, human and otherwise and also spends time volunteering and visiting the many areas of the Bridge, including the human and animal halls of fame that exist there. Her favorite... more info>>

A high school boy finds out that in both love and algebra, solving for 'x' may not always get you the result you expect.

Get out your hanky before reading Nurses In Your Home. You'll need it. Since the advent of home health care, many of us have seen family and friends taken care of by those ubiquitous nurses who come to visit homes and care for their patients. Very few of us, however, know much about what goes through the minds of this wonderful cadre of specialized nurses who devote their lives to the care of others. Betty Bain spent most of her nursing career in Home Health nursing. About fifteen years ago, she... more info>>

These stories are uncollected in three ways. First they're uncollected in the sense there's no unifying theme, form or genre to hold them together as is today's standard in short fiction volumes. Second, Fisher's imagination works in an uncollected manner; whatever pops into his head, that's what he writes about, whether it be a mainstream, science fiction, fantasy or mystery story. So sit back, relax and enjoy the ride!

Sometimes, what is not communicated between two people can be louder than what is.

I, Molly MacKenna, am a pregnant woman's dream--and one man's nightmare! From the moment we met, obstetrician Clay Reynolds scorned my profession as a birthing coach. His scathing remarks left me crying on the shoulder of my potbellied pig, Gertie! It seems only the handsome doc's eight-year-old son, who thinks I hung the moon, can make Clay be civil to me. Clay is a great doctor and loving father. And we're finding a lot in common as we volunteer together at a free clinic. But he's still frowni... more info>>

A new novel of artful understatement about mortality, estrangement, and the absurdity of life from the acclaimed author of Unformed Landscape and In Strange Gardens On a day like any other, Andreas changes his life. When a routine doctor�s visit leads to an unexpected prognosis, a great yearning takes hold of him�but who can tell if it is homesickness or wanderlust? Andreas leaves everything behind, sells his Paris apartment; cuts off all social ties; quits his teaching job; and waves goo... more info>>

You could drink a glass of milk straight from the cow, ride a dirt road in the back of an old pick-up truck, and sleep on the back porch with a hound dog for company. A visit to Grandma and Grandpa's almost always promised a great adventure on their farm. Step back in time to the heartfelt innocence of a Southern childhood, a time when the rest of the world seemed far away and life was as clear as the morning dew on a ripe tomato.

One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as 'a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.' It begins with the famous "In Plato's Cave" essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching "Brief Anthology of Quotations."

When Carm, marries Jordan MacKay, she says goodbye to her friends, family and the she knew at the farm, against the will of those close to her. After only six weeks of marriage, at the young age of twenty-two, she's a widow, when a horrible storm kills her young husband, leaving her alone in a city unknown to her.  Carm, finds a friend in a complete stranger named Paige. The environment the young widow enters is so different than the one she had, she loses her identity as she conforms to it. To... more info>>

Imagine watching your husband confess his secret life to TV viewers while you're planning your fifteenth anniversary party. Enough to convince Laura Briggs to join a divorce support group, and worry about her son's imaginary friends. And when she found her ex shopping for sexy underwear, why not take off for Alaska? But there may be something worth pursuing even in such a cold climate? Contemporary Women's Fiction by Cynthia Baxter writing as Cynthia Blair; originally published by Ballantine

Poetry. Powerful vocabulary, rhyme, rhythm; quotable. Much history. Thomas Russell Wingate, historian by profession, capitalist by conviction and temperament, has lived in Salt Lake City since he left California in 1975. He is very married and rejoices in his posterity.

Nobody in Skip's family is very fond of Uncle Olaf, so when the odd duck of the family disappears on New Year's Eve no eyelashes are batted. Unknown to the rest of the family, Skip has met up with Uncle Olaf during the night and discovered that the effort of keeping personal secrets has completely altered people's perceptions of his unusual relative. A short story from our Nibs literary line.

Tommy McClure, the nastiest man in Sevierville, is dying. No one denies it, especially his dead daddy Big Ray, a renegade soul recently escaped from the blackness of The In Between. He gives Tommy an ultimatum--change his miserable ways or earn himself a ticket straight to Hell. Ruby doesn't know what to make of the new and improved Tommy. In her entire thirty years of life, no one has ever treated her with a speck of kindness. When Tommy suggests they take in an abandoned orphan by ... more info>>

Acclaimed artist Elaine Gordon can't believe her loving husband is gone. After a lifetime spent utterly devoted to her soul mate and their marriage, Elaine is now tetherless, faced with widowhood and all the decisions that come with it, not least of which is what to do with her rambling, now-empty family home. Anxious to console their mother in her time of grief, Elaine's four grown children urge her to put everything on hold and spend some healing time with them. But visiting each unique and co... more info>>

A brilliant collection of Harlan Ellison's short fiction, featuring an introduction by Norman Spinrad.

by Terry Piper Ozark Series, vol. 3 Readers first met Charlene Ridley and the colorful cast of characters, who were part of her life, as she was about to start school in Boogey Flats, Missouri. OZARK GIRL told the story of a young girl growing up in poverty with an alcoholic father and learning to cope, not always successfully, with middle-school bullies. In GETTING SMART, Charlene was a teenager who had learned to cope with bullies and had begun to carve a place for herself in the social land... more info>>

Life, love, politics--By pairing poems about similar topics written in different moods at different points in time, Pairs of Poems gives us a variety of perspectives on topics as diverse as nature, love, history, and politics.