Island Hopping:Trinidad & TobagoAbandoned as a newborn and now a determined twenty-three year old with her mind set on uncovering her true heritage, Sakkara Riley lands in Trinidad. She's met by Natalia Day, a local historian with a wealth of knowledge and Anthony, the elderly woman's grandson.Ms. Natalia introduces Sakkara to the memory of a high-spirited Frenchwoman with a connection to the young girl and a past so strong that the...

On the 3rd of June 1975 in New York, Edward and Pearl Riley receive the ultimate gift of love - a newborn baby, wrapped in a blanket and stuffed in a burlap bag. The child's name, Sakkara, is written out on a torn sheet of paper, and immediately fills every void the married couple has ever had.Pregnant seamstress Petrina Dugal becomes a runaway at the age of twenty-six. She flees the claws of a brutish husband, despite her adoration for a well-loved South American country known as ...

The Choreography of Environments: How the Anna and Lawrence Halprin Home Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design explores how objects and the domestic spaces seep into the aesthetic consciousness of movement-based artists, like dancers and urban designers, significantly shaping their approach to movement invention and choreography. If these objects and spaces happen to have been designed by a leading modernist architect and landscape designer working with the dancer, then ...

Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine’s contemporary, who remained in Lenin’s Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revolutionary dances that spoke to the Soviet condition. His work was often considered so culturally explosive that it was described as “like a bomb going off.” Based on untapped archival ...

Abandoned as a newborn and now a determined twenty-three year old with her mind set on uncovering her true heritage, Sakkara Riley lands in Trinidad. She's met by Natalia Day, a local historian with a wealth of knowledge and Anthony, the elderly woman's grandson.Ms. Natalia introduces Sakkara to the memory of a high-spirited Frenchwoman with a connection to the young girl and a past so strong that the story is capable of capturing readers by the heart.Continue this colorful...

When Wade Franklin returns to his hometown of Taylors Crossing, Georgia, his future hangs in the balance. He is in love with his lifelong friend and college sweetheart, Pamela Palmer, but will she take him back after a two-year absence? He left without saying goodbye or giving any explanation, and now it is time to reveal his reasons for doing so.Pam is finally making a life of her own as editor of the local newspaper, the Taylor Times, and her world is shaken when Wade returns to ...

When the "perfect man" is the "wrong man", heartbreak is inevitable!This little story is a powerful story about a young woman who falls in love when she should've been standing in love. Leah Daniels meets the perfect man, when she literally runs into Nate (Nathan Moore) on her first day at work. She is swept away and is beyond help. Sadly, Nate knows that Leah is weak for him. He takes advantage of his effect on her, as she allows him to drift in and out of her life. Nate is the ty...

When the "perfect man" is the "wrong man", heartbreak is inevitable!This little story is a powerful story about a young woman who falls in love when she should’ve been standing in love. Leah Daniels meets the perfect man, when she literally runs into Nate (Nathan Moore) on her first day at work. She is swept away and is beyond help. Sadly, Nate knows that Leah is weak for him. He takes advantage of his effect on her, as she allows him to drift in and out o...

A Broadway actress has a pout to die for, a past to hide from, and Stone Barrington on her case in this page-turning thriller in Stuart Woods’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.Stone Barrington is back in New York, working on some simple cases for Woodman & Weld when he crosses paths with a aspiring actress and gets a little more involved with show business than he’d expected...Then the fleecing of a wealthy art dealer’s daughter leads him into...

When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city.Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds himself thrown in jail. While there, he gets a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family.The sudden communication from ...

Life in the California sun suits Elvis Cole, until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings walk into his office—then everything changes.**"Suffused with wry humor, lots of action, and some devilishly clever plot twists, Indigo Slam is the most satisfying detective novel I've read in a while." -**Miami HeraldThree years ago, a Seattle family ran for their lives in a hail of bullets. Hired by three kids to find t...

In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the twentieth century’s most notorious criminals and life as one of his "girls."At age fourteen Dianne Lake—with little more than a note in her pocket from her hippie parents granting her permission to leave ...