Jed Springs’s high school production of the once controversial play, The Children’s Hour, had been a total success at the end of June in 1997; the talk of the community for all the right reasons. But frustrated with America’s puritanical roots, its skewed take on human sexuality, and goaded by his lover, Matt, to put up or shut up about it, Jed decides to workshop a radical idea, The Sex Show. By day, he teaches AP language courses and rehearses a production of Cabaret with his students. By night, his new play, The Sex Show, begins to take shape with a cast of fifteen eccentric LA actors.

A freak car crash in 1960s rural North Carolina sets in motion moments of grace that bring redemption to two generations of women and the lives they touch.

The narrator repeatedly insults his readers of 2050 and wishes he were instead addressing readers of 2025, when somewhat fewer were boneheads. He looks back to early nineteenth-century Indiana where two utopian experiments were launched in the village of New Harmony. He then recounts the adventures of a another attempt to recreate utopian ideals during the turn of the twentieth century--a new "Boatload of Knowledge" on the banks of the Wabash. Though the novel chastens utopian ideals, its narrator doesn't give up on them altogether.

Jess Freeman, a facial plastic surgeon, refashions the identities of others while knowing little of his own. Who are his biological parents, and could they explain his sudden trances when drifts off into visionary worlds, both radiant and nightmarish? Whenever one of these occurs during a delicate surgery, he is given a reality check by his nurse--quick bops on the head. The novel is a satirical exploration of human identity. Jess has a group of friends, both female and male intimates, who have a strong sense of group loyalty that sustains them through a series of remarkable calamities.

Six hapless geniuses travel to the mythical isle of Aphrodite with utopian notions as to how the tortured island might be rescued. A string of felicitous successes is heartening--rescuing the famed sea turtles and mouflon, solving the problem of desertifcation, even harmonizing the factions of Turkish and Green Cypriots, who rarely send a complimentary bottle of wine to their adversaries' tables. Only alert readers will sense that there is a counterplot to dismantle their best designs.

It’s 1969. Women are fighting for equality. Rosalee, an insecure sculptor, and Fran, a best-selling novelist, have their issues. Will their bitter envy of each other and long-held secrets destroy their tenuous friendship? Or will Jill, Rosalee’s granddaughter, and the story behind her emerald necklace bind them together?