It is 1956, and although Jonathon Statler is barely fifteen, he is already a proven survivor.

Locked in a world of loneliness and abuse, Jonathon has nonetheless managed to learn golf and tennis, and embrace a levelheaded approach to life. He has paid a price, however. He is grossly overweight and short on self confidence. His eyes are more often on the tops of his sneakers than level with the world around him.

Until one magical summer when Jonathon meets Malcolm Platt, the Director of Robert Morris Camp for Boys, and Angus McClatchy, a former teacher who now considers himself nothing...

For James Mason and Sarah Feinstein, antiques are more than desirable possessions. They are windows to a history that comes alive under their fingertips and reminders of interesting lives long turned to dust. Selling antiques also provides their living, and James and Sarah seek them out with passion, hunting the sometimes elusive prey with tenacity and perseverance. On an unseasonably warm winter afternoon, Sarah's efforts are rewarded with a once in a lifetime find, a pristine robins-egg blue bucket bench that ultimately proves to be the source piece to a vein of colonial period furniture....