In the springtime of 1886, three women leave their comfortable homes and head out for a mountain retreat, bound for adventure and self-discovery. Addie's old friend Ethel has been away at the Territorial University of Washington for the past four years, earning her Bachelor of Science degree. So much has happened in that time, they scarcely know each other any more. When Ethel proposes a trip to a hot spring on Mt. Rainier that the other students raved about, it seems like a perfect opportunity to re-build old bonds and create new ones. Addie invites her friend Lizzie along, sure that the trip will become a golden memory for all of them. But as they head out to the mountain together, each woman carries the problems of home with her. On the eve of their departure, Addie makes a discovery that shakes her faith in her perfect marriage to its very core. Lizzie can't stop thinking about her own failure to realize her ultimate dream, and Ethel wonders if she'll ever work out what, exactly, it means to be a woman. Their journey together presents its own challenges, not the least of which begin when Ethel adopts an orphaned owl chick and decides to bring it along with them. Before they can all go home again, each of the three women will have to look to her friends for advice on dealing with life's difficult issues, and at the same time look within herself to find her own definition of womanhood.

Frances Willard (1839 –1898) was an American educator and women's rights activist.

Six-day races, record-breaking rides, and renegade leagues are at the heart of this fascinating short fiction collection that explores women’s competitive cycling in the late Victorian era. Each of the stories contained in this meticulously researched collection focuses on a distinct racing event and the individual “ladies” who competed in them—like the indomitable Tillie Anderson—who mustered every muscle and every ounce of strength to prove that women had a place in the world of cycling. Overcoming constant scrutiny, judgement, chauvinism, exploitation, and even danger, these racers pedaled their way into annals of feminism, freedom, and cycling history.

Tabitha Baumander is a novelist, screenwriter, play write, living in Toronto Canada. She has had a live action dramatic short produced called Girl Alone that can be seen on YouTube and is the author of Blue Blood also available from Dog Ear Press. WHEEL WITHIN A WHEEL The World Space Organization controls what goes on in space. Its main project, the terraforming of the planet Mars is a process that requires complete control yet something out there is challenging that control. Trying to maintain this power on earth at least the WSO orchestrates the disappearance of three scientists. Chief of these three scientists is Frank Bishop a man with a secret he has forced himself to forget yet at the same time struggles to remember. With the help of professor Ace Watson and graduate student Benjamin Banks he learns that the mysterious meteor approaching earth is not a meteor but a huge space ship. This is what the WSO wants to hide. Investigating their disappearance is Detective Abraham Lisk. He trails the three missing scientists to the gates of the WSO base in Florida where he is arrested and put on house arrest along with the people he has been trying to find. It is now that Frank announces he has remembered what he forgot. Because of this they must steal a space shuttle and fly out to the ship. He now knows the ship is coming to earth for two reasons. It is coming to give mankind a gift and to take him into space.

"Based on his popular series in the New York Times chronicling his cross-country bicycle trip, bestselling author Bruce Weber shares his adventures from his solo ride across the USA. Riding a bicycle across the US is one of those bucket-list goals that many dream about but few achieve. Bestselling author and New York Times reporter Bruce Weber made the trip, solo, over the summer and fall of 2011--at the age of fifty-seven. Expanding upon his popular series published in The New York Times, Life Is a Wheel is the witty and inspiring account of his journey, where he extols the pleasures of cycling and reflects on what happened on his adventure, in the world, in the country, and in his life. The story begins on the Oregon coast with a middle-aged man wondering what he's gotten himself into and ends in triumph on the George Washington Bridge, wondering how soon he might try it again. Part travelogue, part memoir, part paean to the bicycle as a simple and elegant mode of both mobility and self-expression--and part wry and panicky account of a fifty-seven-year-old man's attempt to stave off mortality--Life Is a Wheel is an elegant and entertaining escape for any armchair traveler"--