In researching material for childrens stories, I did not find any about raccoons, so I thought that should be remedied. Once begun, the stories seemed to take on a life of their own. What resulted were four stories about raccoons having holiday fun. Benny Bandit and Lenny Bandit and their sister Sprite evolved into interesting individuals that I will not soon forget. The Author is retired and living in the Green Mountains of Pennsylvania. She has written several adult books and this is her first foray into writing for children.

Once an outlaw, always an outlaw? Has Caitlin returned to her old ways, despite marriage and motherhood? Can Jake rescue her before she's lost forever? Even after seven years of marriage and four children, he still had the power to make her body tingle and her senses reel. There had always been that between them, since the first time they'd met. It was what had kept them together in the beginning, even against incredible odds. And now--now she wasn't certain that attraction was enough anymore. There were other things that mattered, unanswered questions that circled in her mind and destroyed her peace. She had to get away for a while to think things through. Caitlin Lassiter tearfully boards a train with hers and Jake's children in tow, planning to spend Christmas with her brother, Devon, and his wife, Maggie. Then fate throws an old enemy in her way--Charwell, a fellow bandit from her lawless years. He's boarded her train to rob the passengers, and when he recognizes "Colorado Kate," he kidnaps her to help him pull off some bigger jobs. Now it's up to Jake, Devon,¬ and Maggie to find her before the Law does, because it certainly looks like Colorado Kate has gone back to the wrong side of justice.

Twenty-one year-old Rosie Ross has graduated from college in 1955, and now prepares for a Catholic marriage. By the time she is thirty-three, she has had six children and is spiritually and emotionally fulfilled by caring for them full time, even though she senses her physical exhaustion. She also realizes she needs to get away from the husband who isolates and belittles her. As the children become more self- reliant and independent, it opens the way for Rosie to think about her choices. She receives a series of phone calls from her son in medical school encouraging her to think about becoming a doctor. As unlikely as it seems, Rosie recognizes it as a chance at a new life and a way to use the skills shes learned for the greater good. Eventually, Rosie makes the decision that will change the lives of her and her family. As Rosie follows her dream, the heartache of being separated from her family and her home take a cruel toll on her. Meanwhile, fate has intervened and the decision is now out of her hands and part of the great plan. Arbor Lane is an American family saga, not only about Rosie Ross, but about the many courageous women like her, all over the world, who transform their lives daily by following their destinies, while they continue to be responsible to their obligations.

Welcome to the scary House Of Mazes, Chilling Spine Series... This is actually Book 3. But I have added a few other books inside to give you a bit of a sneak peak at some other really great series I am in the process of publishing. Book 1 is the new Book 3 of: HOUSE OF MAZES called Glorified. Book 2 is MATRIX: The End Of Days. This book is actually the continuation from the first MATRIX book called: The Universe Of Chaos. Book 3 is from a series I call THE TRAVELOR: Buzz Kill. He is a lot like Doctor Who in that he travels the universe putting right what was once wronged. He comes from a planet known as Ayanna and he can change his form like a chameleon, when in terrible danger. Book 4 is called: MARIONETTES: Cherubim. It is about a bunch of puppets that seem to have a life all their own. You will absolutely be SCI-FIED, when you are done!

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Inspired by folklore, television, fairy tales, social media, novels, and films, Just Wonder addresses crucial themes in social and ecological justice efforts. Moving into the mid-twenty-first century, wonder—as a potentially critical sociocultural, ecological, and individual stance—will play a significant role in reconceptualizing the present to imagine a different and better world. These essays examine fairy tales and other traditional forms of the fantastic and the real to offer alternative expressions of justice relevant to gender, sex, sexuality, environment, Indigeneity, class, ability, race, decolonizing, and human and nonhuman relations. By analyzing fairy tales and wonder texts from various media through an intersectional feminist lens, Pauline Greenhill and Jennifer Orme consider how wonder genres and forms blend with diverse conceptions of seeking and enacting justice. International collaborators—both established and emerging scholars who self-identify with different subjectivities, locations, and generations and come from an impressive range of inter/disciplines—engage with contemporary and historical texts from various languages and cultural contexts, including interventions, counterparts, and comparisons to the fairy tale. Just Wonder offers a critical look at how creative wondering can expand the ability to resist modes of oppression while fostering equity, as well as encourage curiosity and imagination. In a world that can be overwhelming and precarious, this book presents scholarly, artistic, personal, and collective-action interventions to identify and respond to injustice while centering wonder and, thus, imagination, questioning, and hope. Just Wonder will appeal to fairy-tale scholars; folklorists; students and scholars of film, media studies, and cultural studies; as well as a general audience.