She never planned on becoming a teacher. She knew nothing about Special Education. In fact, Special Education as we know it was just being birthed in 1974. But at age 23, C'Anna Bergman-Hill found herself working with twelve children with profound disabilities. Within a very short time she began to discover new dimensions to life and new definitions of strength and humility. What followed was an ever evolving thirty- eight year career teaching students from diverse backgrounds, children who brought to school a wide range of challenges and capabilities. In this memoir, you will meet some of...

After years of living a contented life in Brooklyn, musician and barista Mateo Schumacher is summoned back to his New England home town by an unsettling phone call. Something is amiss. He quickly finds himself enmeshed in his mother's odd behaviors and ultimately to the silences that have held his family hostage from the time of his beloved grandfather's childhood. Mateo nearly falls victim to the consequences of these secrets before the family is finally able to speak the truth about the past. Junctions is Bergman-Hill's first novel, and one of a four book series chronicling the lives of the...

"In the beginning, Pedro's nightmares were not dreams; they were his life." In the fourteen stories that make up Journeys, the reader accompanies Pedro through his sorrowful childhood, aches and delights in Dane's sensual infatuation with the young Cecilia, and discovers that Reverend Rex Randall was not always a settled man. Why is a young man like Derrick working in a small town church office? What was it like for Rowan and Mateo when their idyllic childhood was shaken? Witness how Victoria held Olivia in her time of need. And, take a glimpse into the future for the Pine Junction friends....