The Manatee That Flew is about an adventurous young manatee we have named Manford. Though his story is fiction, it is based on the true facts and events recorded in files of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Most children know that manatees could never fly, but Manford actually did. His adventure started when his [...]
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On Belmont Drive in Dennisonville, North Carolina, stands the Magnolia Arms, a stately house Jonas Grinstead constructed as a monument to love and abandoned when that love was thwarted. He becomes a math professor at Brighton Park Community College. An inveterate recluse, he lives a solitary life till Agnes Quinn, a new English professor, encounters [...]
Luke Rosentino and Claire Bennett are professors at a small southern university. They meet at a time when both their lives are being turned upside down by fate. Claire’s marriage is ending after she finds her husband to be unfaithful. At the same time, Luke’s daughter comes to live with him after her mother’s death. [...]
A novel of political intrigue. Presidential candidate Herbert Atkinsen shocks the convention with his choice of running mate. But can he mask his depressive illness?
It has begun! Fourteen years after a catastrophic disaster, the world has regained its balance with the help of the Primortus. They have secretly walked amongst us since the beginning of time, protecting the earth with the power of the elements. When a fourteen-year-old girl is given two mysterious gifts from a father she never [...]
In 1843, newlyweds Nathan and Mary Kingsley envisioned a good life in their new house in the pioneer community of Livonia, Michigan–until a runaway slave on the Underground Railroad takes refuge in their cellar, and Mary must make a desperate attempt to save her wounded husband and the slave from hunters who are pursuing them. [...]
Ed Stone, a baby boomer, spent his youth rebelling against his domineering mother. When Ed graduates from college (1977) and takes a corporate position, he expects to achieve happiness with his new independence. Ed’s immature expectations with attractive women and conflicts with his corporate superiors cause him to question the direction of his life. A [...]
Children are hard work, major inconvenience, heavy expense, and constant worry. Why would couples voluntarily burden themselves with that? What is the compensation? What is the reward? The reward, if any, is vicarious: watching a child take his first steps, or making the football team, or earning an A in algebra, or editing the school [...]
