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.

Set in San Francisco in 1969, Maggie Stone is the twelve-year-old daughter of a single mother who suffers from a mental condition that sends her to bed unresponsive for hours at a time. Forced to be the responsible adult since the age of eight, Maggie has had to do the household shopping, cooking, cleaning and money management chores. When her mother is hospitalized after lapsing into an extended coma, Maggie is sent to an orphanage. A month later her grandfather Ira, whom Maggie has never met, suddenly shows up in San Francisco to whisk Maggie away to his ranch in Montana.

When Commissario Marco Leone of Rome's police discovers the murdered corpse of a Vatican scholar floating in the Tiber, he postpones a sabbatical trip abroad to investigate. The murder is only the first in a puzzling series of costumed and ritual assassinations. The mystery intensifies with attacks on specific chruches in the Eternal City....all built ovver the ruined chapels of an ancient god, Mithras. The investigative twists lead Leone to two American archaeologists excavating the Villa of the Papyri.

In a world devastated by chaos, the existence of God is no longer questioned, and humanity faces a stark choice: to believe or suffer under divine wrath. The Omega Team, once protectors, now find themselves hunted. Christopher Barrett, their reluctant leader, must navigate his team's fractured remains while deciding who will survive the merciless pursuit of the United Empire (U.E.). Meanwhile, a founding Omega member, Jackson Williams, grapples with his newfound faith and a burning desire for vengeance against the U.E.'s ruthless leader, Draven Cross.

The Pianist’s Only Daughter is a frank, humorous, and poignant exploration of aging in an aging expert's own family. Gerontologist Kathryn Betts Adams was the only daughter of colorful and talented parents: her mother an English scholar/poet, and her father a concert pianist/music professor. Their dramatic emotional lives, marital instability, and eventual break-up provided backdrop for her youth. Nearly thirty years after they divorced, her parents reconcile and decide to live together again. As her mother’s Parkinson’s disease progresses, Kathryn steps in to manage her care.

This book honors Patsy Swayze who was the mother and mentor of her beloved son Patrick. Patsy was an icon in the dance and performing arts world for decades as a dancer, teacher, mentor, and choreographer. Her work includes founding the Houston Jazz Ballet, teaching at the university of Houston, and choreographing for Hollywood movies and Houston's main theatre companies. She inspired thousands of dance students, many of whom went on to become professionals in the performing arts. With that said, she was most proud of being the mother of five children.