New novel lampoons Drug War. WITCHGRASS: a pipe dream, a novel by Dave Wilkinson portrays shattered lives and conflicted families as a New England town splits apart. What if a Vietnam helicopter suddenly landed in your back yard? The town of New Salem, Maine faces an invasion of military operations, secret spies and child-parent betrayal that sets a peaceful rural county spinning. Carolyn Chute, author of best-selling The Beans of Egypt, Maine, "cry-laughed and laugh-cried through a book more important than most of what they give kids to read in school." Witchgrass: a pipe dream sweeps the...

Vacationing preteens find mystery and hidden knowledge in an old farmhouse on the Maine coast.

WORKSHOP: A Teaching Tale invites the reader on a spiritual and emotional journey with a group of college students at a photographic workshop in the late 60s. Lives are changed as a powerfully enigmatic master of photography challenges his students beyond their wildest dreams. Some thrive on the newly found freedom and undiscovered sexuality while it leads down a deadly path for another. WORKSHOP: A Teaching Tale captures the atmosphere and anything-goes attitude of thesixties. For some, the experience is ecstatic. For others, it's excruciating. It's a trip not to be missed."