For Zora, a young Italian peasant girl, the thought of traveling to a new world with her new husband brought feelings of excitement, freedom and an opportunity to focus on what she wanted, getting out from under the yolk of her powerful mother.Leaving parents and country behind, she embarked on an adventure that would turn out to be both exhilarating and disappointing. Living during decades of enormous changes, wars, cultural chaos and periods of both depression and prosperity, she persisted in love and loyalty to her man and family, struggling to weave a life of constancy and flexibility...

Late Night Stories include short pieces about relationships between lovers, parents and children and strangers who become friends. The characters mirror people we all know, love or hate and indulge in behaviors common to the human condition.

From Sevens to Seventies is a collection of poetry by a grandmother, Gloria Hanson, with contributions by two of her granddaughters. The poems include subjects such as love, politics, family, humor, prose and feelings. Written between the 1950's and the twenty first century, these poems span a lifetime.

The story is set in the early twenty-first century, but it resonates with today's world. The main protagonists, Cecil and John, have lived through the tumultuous sixties and seventies and rolled with cultural changes. Despite their different life journeys, they re-established a bond developed during their youth in South Philadelphia where racism and prejudice were commonplace. The strains of race and culture test the ties of friendship between the two men and their families, but the human links give the reader a tale of hope and redemption.