This is a well-written and entertaining book with many a good and thoughtful point to make about love, loss, communication, finding your tribe, finding your place in life, moving on, etc. Readers who love movies or have ever worked in… Read More ›
Alcoholism
Between Before and After
Molly is a young teenager in 1950’s California who unexpectedly discovers that her mother is hiding some secrets about her life. An aspiring writer, she then places an ad in the New York Times seeking clues (her mother grew up… Read More ›
Orphan Monster Spy
Sarah is the teenage daughter of a beautiful German Jewess whose husband? boyfriend? made himself scarce years earlier. As their situation in Nazi Germany becomes ever more precarious, the mother dissolves into an alcoholic, depressed mess. She rallies finally for… Read More ›
Unclaimed Baggage
Three teenagers end up working together at an Unclaimed Baggage store in small-town Huntsville, Alabama: (1) Doris, an experienced staffer who hires the other two as new employees, and who is something of a social misfit because she is liberal… Read More ›
The Truth about Martians
Life seems really hard for 11-year-old Mylo, who sleeps in a room with an empty bed where his brother used to be. It even seems to him that there is grayness around his dad, who doesn’t play ball with him… Read More ›
The Geography of Lost Things
Graduating senior Ali Collins has a full-ride scholarship to UC-Davis waiting for her acceptance letter to be sent, but, stuck at the bottom of her backpack, it is already past due. She can’t make herself mail it. Instead, she spends… Read More ›
Ten After Closing
High school senior Scott just thinks he has problems. At home his unemployed, depressed, alcoholic dad is becoming increasingly abusive towards him, his mother and his younger sister Evie. Even though he has several outstanding college offers for the fall,… Read More ›
I’m Not Missing
Two high school seniors in Las Cruces NM have been tight friends for years. Both have mothers who ran off–one to join a religious cult, the other to fall into a lowlife of alcoholism and its attendant issues. The former… Read More ›
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