"Briann Encapara, teacher extraordinaire, has her life turned upside down when she returns home from a day at the spa to find her husband and son gone. Her summer takes an adventurousor horrific?turn when shes kidnapped, meets an exasperating European spy, and learns from a rookie FBI agent that her husband is not the man she thought he was. And hes not the only liar. She soon discovers that there are more duplicitous people in her life than honest ones. Then theres the PCprecious cargo she keeps hearing about. Several factions are dying (sometimes literally) to get their hands on it and Briann who supposedly knows its whereabouts. But does she? Briann has some secrets of her own, and isnt without resources. With the help of several CIA contacts, a mysterious homeless man, and her neurotic best friend she scrambles to find her son. and outmaneuvers almost everyone in the process."

How does an eleven-almost-twelve-year-old deal with a jelly belly he never asked for, the never-ending taunting by bullies, and the need to level the playing field for himself and his friends? Life’s not fair as Willie sees it! What’s a boy to do when he is not good enough to play on a tournament baseball team? How is a boy to befriend the school’s worst bullies at the request of the school principal? It’s the 1950s and Willie is jolted into the reality that even skin color can cause problems for a boy. Baseball at Beaver Creek Bottom teaches Willie and his buddies, The Beaver Creek Nine, how to deal with the hits and the strikeouts in life.

"A true-crime story that reads like fiction, SMUGGLER'S BLUES is a psychedelic road trip through internation drug smuggling, the hippie underground, and the war on weed. The first part of Richard Stratton's three-part memoir of America's War on Drugs told from the inside, it brings to vivid life an important chapter in pot's cultural history." -- page 4 of cover.

"A YA memoir of sexual abuse in the Air Force academy, and the author's survival and healing."--Provided by publisher.