The Plaid Robe is a memoir of a girl who transitions from bliss innocence to austere realism. The upheavals of the sixties merge with her journey from an innocent fifties childhood. Step back for a nostalgic jaunt to air raid drills, summer evenings playing red light, hairnets, stockings with seams, gloomy hospitals and polio. As the tale weaves into her adulthood, see her struggling with God, her marriage, and the complexity of the times.

Peck, the raven, struck the goblet, spilling wine on the British soldier's coat. Tally lifted a bowl of ice cream in her claws, and dropped it on his head. What are those ravens up to in the White House? Join their adventures, and get the scoop as the ravens travel through time to the War of 1812. They create confusion when they meet the British plotting destruction up and down the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

The Ravens of Time are back They travel with Harriet Tubman as she leads slaves to freedom, nurses an African American guard at a Confederate prison camp, and journeys with General Wallace to save the city of Washington. Along the way, the ravens spur skunks into action, thwart a bloodhound, attack slave owners, and get trapped in a cannon.

As three horses with riders galloped up the lane, their nostrils blew steam into the cold morning air. Their riders beat them with whips. Tally, the raven, landed on a branch near Peck. "Patrollers " screeched Peck. "They're coming to take Ruby...