Cathay saved Rand's life after he'd been chained in the water and cut to attract the sharks by fellow gangsters. However, Cathay and her dolphin companions freed him. Cathay and her family are not fantasy mermaids and only the females in her family are mermaids. Cathay and her siblings are the result of her mother rescuing a seaman. Her mother and her grandmother and the rest of the merpeople have kept themselves secret for generations and are occasionally hostile. Since Rand's rescue, wan...

Juul goes on a quest to track down missing crystals. She and five children, including two orphans who are returning to their former home, and accompanied by assorted plants, must cross the desert on their way to Lani's Valley. Hostile and hate-filled plants await them in a desolated village. The mad mage, responsible for the carnage, must be dealt with.

Her name is Sugar. Sugar Sweet. But never EVER call her "Sweetie."When Sugar's Uncle Max falls ill and his collaborators disappear, she investigates the old Victorian mansion where he conducted his research. She soon finds the collaborators -- or what's left of them -- along with an angry Neanderthal. She also finds her uncle's research project, a working time machine. Sugar must act quickly to unlock the secret of time travel so she can set things right and protect her uncle's res...

Juul and Skyseeker rescue children who've escaped into the desert after their parents are killed. but danger pursues them.

The Terrans had been dismayed when they discovered they weren't the first to colonize Bright Skies. Though the Firstcomers were humanoids, they were so very different--taller and bulkier with such flexible hands, and their hair was impossible! Patterns that randomly combined colors and then ran in different directions. Sure, some of the women--and men--were intrigued by that, but both parties kept their distance until disagreements arose about which lands were available. The Firstcomers na...

Not long after Anfissa meets Ferenc, a strange humanoid bodyguard, on the space cruiser, St. Catherine, she is forced to flee with him, his menacing boss, and another bodyguard in a lifeboat during an attack on the cruiser, to a planet where even the grass is deadly. Travelling across the planet to find a small relay station, Fissa nearly succumbs to dehydration and insect bites until Ferenc offers her help unique to his home planet.

Sequel to Pretty Pink Planet. Lori and Chiing continue their adventures, meeting up with Chameleons, Ghosters, Splurts, and other aliens and humans.

One woman and her family sold their home finally--after dropping the price a few times--and then had to find a new home so the new owners of her old house could move in; and then they had to remodel and landscape a really neglected house. Their story is told in diary format and should be helpful to anyone coping with a remodeling project. You have to be flexible and realize that schedules change, materials can be out of stock, deliveries can be delayed, and suppliers can make mistakes.

The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originallysupplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life whichit annually consumes, and which consist always either in theimmediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with thatproduce from other nations.According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it,bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those whoare to consume it, the nation...

Using simple exercises, rediscover the pleasure you got from childhood drawing, before you became too self-conscious and self-critical to enjoy it.As we grow up, somehow we learn that drawing is hard and there are all sorts of rules about colour and perspective that stifle our creativity. This book is here to remind you of the joy you once found in creating, scribbling, getting something down on paper—and that it's more about the process than the result. This acces...

Note: This story is a reprint; it was published most recently in the WomanScapes anthology in 2006; and there is a sequel, Hot Yellow Planet.

From Betty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young love and marriage.In 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone halfway across the country to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law—and there they marry.But Carl and Annie's first year together is much...