"transparent daydreams" is a short story collection. The stories are based on feelings, sentences or trains of thought. As unexpected as my chaotic mind and wild fantasy may be.

A musician's life is upturned when a letter arrives at his doorstep. As the story unravels, a whole family shifts its dymanics and drama unsues. Daughters, wives and exwives, and all the women in his life get a say.

Examining the constitutive role of language and narration in key areas of human experience, Narrative and the Self articulates a view of the self as the implied subject of narrative utterances. Anthony Paul Kerby draws on the diverse insights of recent work in philosophy, literary theory, and psychology to synthesize a coherent and provocative view of narrative identity and selfhood. Invoking the writings of Benveniste, Ricoeur, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Taylor, and other theorists, he argues that language and narration play a central role in key aspects of human experience such as emotion, values, recollection, and sense of history. Fundamental to Kerby's exposition is a defense of the quasi-narrative nature of our everyday experience. Kerby delineates a convincing narrative model of the self and offers a valuable overview of contemporary philosophical issues surrounding the place and role of narrative in human experience.

The Bermuda Triangle is a vicious place when you discover its secrets. Superstitious tales of missing shipwrecks, conspiracies of merfolk luring sailors to their deaths, and even giant monsters are only some of the rumours that encompass that spot in the North Atlantic Ocean. But do they really tell the truth? Are the gods to blame for these occurrences? And is the Apple of Youth actually real or merely a children's bedtime story? I thought this would be another regular sailing trip with my best friends, yet my life flipped upside down only within a few days. With everything I've gone through and all of the hardships I've endured, I don't know if I'll live long enough to see the sunrise tomorrow. I'm alone. Alone and scared.

Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.

A provocative scholar delivers the first book on the new science of storytelling: the latest thinking on why we tell stories and what stories reveal about human nature.

Because children's literature explores serious issues using situations and language young students can readily understand, the authors of Sensitive Issues have selected current fiction and nonfiction elementary-level titles that can also be developed into units of study. They describe popular high-quality literature and stimulating activities to help young people deal with specific and important issues in their lives: divorce, substance abuse, death and dying, nontraditional home environments, child abuse, prejudice and cultural differences, moving, and disabilities.