The story follows Jane Sidley, a thirty-one year old moderately successful attorney, from the day she makes her last alimony payment to her rat of an ex-husband to the day he becomes a hero, falling from a tenth story window while trying to stop a terrorist bomber, sacrificing his own life to save the lives of Jane and her unborn child, whose paternity is uncertain. Jane survives the ordeal and learns to love again as she finds a new man who can accept her child, even if he cannot offer her wealth.

Packed with irony, and sprinkled with a pathos and poignancy, Adventures in Long Island and Abroad is a collection of sixty hilarious, amalgamated stories with amusing twists at their conclusions. They are written with a sharp, original voice, a smart speedy delivery, and a sense of the absurd. The eccentric narrator's wife is a federal judge who, unfortunately, in a rare lapse of judgment, was charmed by, and married a not so lovable misfit. Although interlinked, each chapter stands on its own as a bite-sized study in levity that you can enjoy in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee....

Ensnared by life's choices, Professor Rachelle Zannes marries ex-football star turned radio sport's announcer-Carl Bostich. Initially swept up by Carl's panache, mistaking his possessiveness as caring, she soon finds him to be selfish, controlling, and a philanderer. Seth Trudow is an art student taking Rachelle's course. He is attracted to Rachelle and she is to him. At the same time, Seth is entangled with the eccentric Laura Toth, who is as possessive of Seth as Carl is of Rachelle. Things spin out of control as Carl becomes embroiled in an underworld gambling scandal. In the meantime,...

The history of the House of David and its members is a fascinating, often sensational tale, filled with torrid relationships, emotion, and drama. It is the story of people who persevered in the face of hardships and scandal clinging to their faith and living together in peace and harmony. Although this book is a work of fiction, it is based on true events, and many of the characters depicted in this book are real people.

Improvisational Arguments is written in free verse to capture the essence of modern problems and triumphs. The poems clearly relate short, frequently humorous and occasionally tragic, stories about travels to exotic and unusual places, fantastic realms, abnormal jobs, artistic innovations, political objections, and misadventures with love.

This book creates a taxonomy for the major currently popular and bestselling fictional genres: romance (Heyer, Cartland, Woodiwiss and Roberts), religious and inspirational (Corelli and Douglas), mystery and detective (Conan Doyle, Christie and Mankell), and science fiction, horror and fantasy (Wells, Tolkien, Orwell, Niven, King and Rowling, among others). Each of the main chapters looks at the history of a generic form from its earliest roots to its most recent works. The structural patterns in the plot, characters and setting of these genres are then explained. The book also contains a...