A Vermont Christmas tree farmer learns a valuable lesson on a visit to New York City in this touching holiday story featuring stunning photographs."A modern holiday story set apart from the sentimental pack by Brad Kessler's fine prose and Dona Ann McAdams's beautiful black-and-white photos." — Publishers WeeklyFor one family in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood, the Christmas season begins with the arrival of ...

An acclaimed biographer, Lauren Kessler immerses herself in her work to construct compelling portraits of her subjects. In Dancing with Rose, she recounts her time at a West Coast Alzheimer's facility. Working as an unskilled resident assistant, Kessler learns important lessons about humanity while conducting interviews with patients in various stages of the disease.

To chase, to embrace, and to savor the deepest passions of her heart, a quirky carpenters daughter builds her social work career - and fills the emptiness she has long known - by captivating the love of her life - Carolyn. But Jordan Mathews success is short-lived, as her career evolves into an outrageous battle of office politics, where no good deed seems to go unpunished - and where only the power of love survives.A vibrant and playful celebration of gay pride, Building It All Fr...