When ill teenager Milla falls madly in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it's her parents' worst nightmare. Milla soon shows everyone in her orbit - her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest, pregnant neighbor - how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. Based...

In this final book in the Reflections of Michael Trilogy, Michael's wish was for Ron to exile himself in the heart of Paris with its beautiful culture and citizens as they protest and fight for the soul of the city. Ron's journey is met with life-affirming friendships and lessons along the way.A story that began with A Reservoir Man, and continued in Reflections on the Boulevard, concludes with this final book, Exiles.

In this bittersweet story of youth, lust, and life, Sonny Dennison catches the allure of Lela, a local temptress. Idolizing a local Don Juan named Dion, Sonny pursues Lela until she seduces him. Under the guidance of his cynical friend, Alfie, Sonny prepares for the loss of his virginity.Following an hilarious attempt at a first sexual encounter, Sonny and Lela have a brief affair, until she rejects him for an old friend. Cast adrift, Sonny painfully...

From The Good and Two Fly Fishing Women:Now, as I approach the autumn of my life and some, though not all, of my dreams have come true, how do I describe myself? As a wife and a mother who loves her family, as an attorney who admires the law, and as a fly fisher who proudly says she learned from the greatest fly fisher she ever knew: her grandmother.And whether by accident or not, my grandmother, with the help of some unexpected and dark events, taught...

Twelve-year old Jake accompanies his father and some friends on a fishing expedition but things don't turn out quite the way he expected. While an almost tragic event has special meaning for the young boy, that same event is viewed by another man on the boat as yet another reason to deny his own cultural heritage.

As a family travels home for the Christmas season, they come across a series of hurdles (including forest fires and unruly shipmates) that delays them from getting there in time. As the days drag on, they begin to wonder if the holiday season is truly ruined.

This is a book of poems, mainly about coming of age and finding friendship and love.

Winner, IP Picks Best Junior Prose, 2010, Arlo and the Vortex Voyage is a fascinating fantasy. When Arlo and Kate go rock-climbing, the last thing they expect is to be caught up in a vortex and transported through to another universe. The absence of television and junk food is the least of their problems.

It's the shiny happy 80s in Los Angeles, but Vida's mood couldn't be blacker. Never mind her writer's block, recent suicide attempt or the painful scrutiny of her colleagues, there's drinking to be done! When a cut-rate psychic releases a recurring nightmare, Vida decides it's time for a Vegas road trip. May the gods help anyone in her path...First written in 1991, this novel captures the early voice of a writer who would go on to compose more self-assured...

The story of a young teenage girl making a major decision in her life. Her and her Father make this journey together along with a most unusual friend. Read her story as she completes the transition from middle school to high school and learns to choose what is best for her.