Northern Virginia, 2001. Just as he is about to enter eighth-grade, Andy Blaine, a shy, disenchanted introvert with a perchance for writing, Dune, and Catholic guilt, is horrified to discover he has hookworms, which he regards as a shameful secret he cannot share with his family, especially older sister Odette, the private school lacrosse star whose shadow he struggles to escape. While the family is challenged by much more devastating developments, such as Odette being raped by her boyfrie...

Who are these moon maidens?Summer of '94 and Connor Whelan is excited to spend the last three months before his senior year with his uncle in Texas. Aware this trip is due to his mom's cancer treatments, he still hopes this will be a season of magic.He gets his wish when he encounters three magical women one night. Claiming to be from the moon itself, bewitching Iluna, flighty Eiru, and motherly Cassiopeia are about to make Connor's last summer of childhood one to remember....

All my life, people have been telling me the meaning of life…Ben Carter, drifter in dreamland, has a broken heart and a wandering mind. His memories are in fragments, played back and forth, like a CD of life's greatest hits.Devoutly Catholic and reserved philosophy student Ben's conservative sensibilities and romantic inexperience were challenged by intense, eccentric Professor Wilkinson and gothic, beguiling Winona. Winona's European departure and Wilkinson's suic...