This is a true story about how a 20-year-old southern girl from Louisiana went to New York and landed in a shelter with some of the most troubled youths. Once she was there, she experienced things that she had never been exposed to like prostitutes, drug users, lesbians coming on to her, et cetera. She also went through so much trouble that she even found herself sleeping on a train one night. Read more to see how she overcame all of the obstacles that were in her way and was triumphant in her venture to New York City.

In Gift of the Jaguar, the ancient wisdom traditions of Peru are interwoven into a spiritual parable about the path to joy. Guilt-ridden over his sister's death, Juan encounters a black jaguar and is confronted with his own fear of dying but with a strange twist. He can see through the jaguar's eyes. Desperate for help, he reaches out to his friend Rosa, and her grandfather, the shaman Don Francisco, and enters into a world where the jaguar becomes a teacher of life and death. Sent on a journey of initiation to a sacred mountain, Juan uncovers the truth about his sister and discovers a secret...