The Dog Park is a book of eleven short stories that share a magical dog park as a setting. There people and their canine companions deal with betrayal and redemption, mathematical odds, illicit love, and more. Example: In "Embodiment," interspecies boundaries blur between Argus, a stray German shepherd, and Cara Rosetti, who is in despair over a break-up and her dog's death.

After Joan, who has Alzheimer's Disease, goes to live at The Home on Second Street, it seems to those who love her, especially her husband, Barry, and her twin sister, Francie, that her life is essentially over. It isn't. Joan & Bella is one of a trilogy of novellas, Extraordinary Loves, about those rare and magical close human relationships that fall outside the category of conventional romance.

Why did a nun in a seventeenth-century convent flagellate herself until her blood spattered the wall? Why did nuns save a child doomed to death in the Holocaust and who wanted her killed? Who wants a lost head-shaped reliquary that holds something other than a head? And are answers to these questions the key to a terrible modern-day death in a quiet archive? When American historian Pandora (Dory) Ryan finds a very rare, uncataloged seventeeth century nun's diary inside a record book at the provincial archives in Avignon, she is thrilled. This is historian's treasure. But she doesn't know yet...

Set in a small New Jersey town in 1920, Out of Stone tells the story of three neighbors whose lives become intertwined by the lasting effects of the late war and a terrible family tragedy: Bruce Minton, a shell-shocked World War I veteran, who lives alone in the house his great-grandfather built; Marion Blauvelt, a sculptor, whose fiance was killed in the battle of the Somme; Suzanne Girard, a twelve-year-old girl whose family is troubled. The war memorial Marion is creating exemplifies the novel's main theme: "A war memorial should be not just to remember those who died or were wounded, but...