"This is so unfair, " laments Gus McCarty, a twelve-year-old who first struggles at school with an obnoxious bully named Al, and then is reeled back in time to a lumberjack camp with an equally troublesome acquaintance named Alex. Added to Gus' dilemma are a camp full of rugged lumberjacks who think the youngster needs to know a few things about being a real 'jack. Gus' misadventures in lumberjack camp lead him from hilarious encounters with a three-legged...

Eleven-year old Jennifer decides to humor her father by listening to entries in an old journal stored in the family trunk. Much to her surprise she becomes intrigued by the journal's writer, her ancestor, Jenny Case, a spunky New York farm girl who travels to the Michigan Territory in 1836. The Case family's journey begins along the Erie Canal on a boat owned by Jenny's young aunt and her difficult husband. Along the way Jenny befriends an orphan...

A world lost . . . First Daughter Nerienne, heir to the Tiria of Gayome, faces the destruction of everything she knows when her mother's enemies kill the Tiria. Nerienne is left with just her magic and with Bidge, a mysterious creature that speaks only to her. She is rescued by Durgan Ketassian, leader of the rebels in the northern woods, but can she trust this man whom her mother condemned to die? A dream found . . . Durgan knows he cannot trust...

Lost Dreams . . . Janna Bezitt has fought hard to hold onto what is left of her dreams. She has lost everything but her loyalty to the Tiria of Gayome. For the Tiria, she will risk everything. So when an Elasian, one of the Tiria's enemies, appears in Gayome, Janna must work with him to save Gayome and the Tiria's newborn First Daughter. Found Dreams . . . Tate Wyborn prides himself on believing only what he can see and hear and touch. He denounces...

Hidden Treasures . . . The mantle of First Daughter of Gayome weighs heavily on Dariana's shoulders. Compassionate and sensitive, she worries about being a disappointment to her parents. She cannot dreamsing like her father, Durgan Ketassian. And she despairs of being adequate to rule as Tiria, as her mother Nerienne has done with intelligence and grace. Conscious only of her shortcomings, Dariana is unaware of the strength--or the existence--of her...

A dead showman looks down upon the Earth and dreams of his perfect show. A who's who of credited and uncredited Hollywood talents.

Collects three stories starring three friends, each of whom struggles to conquer an obstacle in order to attend ballet class and become a professional ballerina.

When Henry Gilmore is given a private stateroom on a gay cruise for a Christmas present, he has visions of cute party boys, hunky muscle gods, and breaking his run of bad luck when it comes to love. Things don't turn out quite as he planned, but sometimes Santa knows best and two out of three ain't bad.

Andy's Mom sends him to his childhood home to check on the house for Christmas -- and he can't avoid memories of the past, especially when Jake shows up on his doorstep to spark a fire in the unheated house.

When the nineteen-year-old twins who work at Bonny Fairley's fine craft gallery place a personal ad in the paper on her behalf, Bonny is mortified. A personal ad? She's not that desperate! Then the ex-husband who'd abandoned her shows up in town, vowing to win back her heart.