THE STORY: A famous and successful architect, Harry Harrison (after confinement for a mental breakdown), can no longer accept the restrictions and second-rate standards of modern society. He cannot even bear to stay indoors and has, instead, set up

While her father is in the hospital, 13-year-old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry's health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to fly, on the lake outside Harry's window.

This book suggests a merely logically organized society, carried too far, is destructive of culture. Another reason, weaker than science, is more important for cultural direction, and for understanding evolution's direction as well. Such a reason is set within frameworks of contrary directions called here Arrow and Lace. Recognizing these frameworks is essential for understanding social, cultural and individual differences, both locally and world-wide. A much needed companion to any study of Logic and Critical Thinking.

The entrancing new work by Harry Middleton, the author of the popular The Earth Is Enough. This is a fisherman's appreciation of the wonderfully wild Great Smoky Mountains which straddle the Tennessee-North Carolina border, and includes lyrical accounts of eccentric people, evanescent landscapes and unexpected climates among the permanence of the mountains.

Emma has built a thriving design business and her children are flourishing with their new families. She has settled in for a wonderful life. Just when she thinks she and the family have squashed the evil that had surrounded her just a few years ago and was firmly behind her, a new threat surfaces, and a child's life may be at stake. With the help of her family, her agent-investigator son-in-law, and a retired police captain, she has a family secret to unravel and a new family member to keep safe. Will Emma's love for her family be enough to protect this child and all she has worked so hard to build?

'East of Suez' is a play by W. Somerset Maugham. The action of the play is set in Peking and it explores the lives of three English men working as expatriates in China. Harold Knox wakes up from his nap to meet his two friends Henry Anderson and George Conway. They discuss among others the cultural divide between the English and the Chinese, and the difficulty of marriage to half caste persons. And then Anderson drops his bombshell. He is to marry the widowed Mrs. Rathbone, a young woman of mixed heritage...

From the glitter of Australia's Gold Coast to the rugged outback, a reporter chases a crooked politician and his offsider