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The dreams of a courageous Apache girl illuminate the hidden world of an Indian orphanage in this unforgettable story. Over forty years ago, Sharon Skolnick (Okee-Chee) and her sisters were removed from their Apache parents and became wards of the state of Oklahoma. She and her nearest sister made their way together through the Oklahoma Indian child welfare system. Shuttled back and forth between foster homes and orphanages, they finally ended up at the Murrow Indian Orphanage in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Here, Skolnick tells the gripping and ultimately triumphal account of the year the sisters...

Colored Edges traces the stages of word artist Iris Miller's quest for inner peace and world peace. At first obsessed with mirror images of celebrity, she finally harnesses her own power. Inherited wounds, heart connections, and color healing entwine to weave a Mobius carpet she learns to ride on spectral waves across the globe."

This black and white version of the novel Colored Edges is otherwise the same as the full color 2nd edition. It explores the inner and outer quest for peace of an embattled artist, tracking her adventures across continents and into her own heart. Chromotherapy helps her locate the center inside herself and in the world.

Like departures of a storyline, Orphan at the Well builds understanding around who, what, and how an orphan survives. In the absence of adopting a firm foundation of relationship, McPherson's craft suggests there is a safety, perhaps, a homing gravity, in the art of writing. These poems inform the reader on an almost taboo subject with its struggle for identity and significance.