The Dog Who Wanted A Person is the story of a charming one-year-old dog named Huleekalabulee who is on a quest to find a person or people to live with and love. On his quest he meets several remarkable dogs who befriend him and help him on his way. In the course of his adventures he learns many valuable lessons about life and love, overcomes hunger, danger, fear, and loneliness, and ultimately discovers what is more important to him than anything else. Full of humor and excitement, The Dog...

The Farm at the East Cove Hotel explores the lives of a marvelous collection of people who coalesce into a family of friends in the town of Mercy on the far north coast of California. Among these people are a nun, a painter, a postal clerk, performance artists, musicians, dancers, chefs, a master potter, a weightlifter, a nurse, a waiter, children, gardeners, farmers, a movie producer, a play producer, pub owners, and a baker. Humor, Love, Daring, Sacrifice, Forgiveness, Improvisation, Tru...

Good With Dogs and Cats: The Adventures of Healing Weintraub is a novel about a man who helps dogs and cats resolve their difficulties with humans, and vice-versa. Set in the small town of Mercy on the far north coast of California, Good With Dogs and Cats spans a decade in the life of Healing Weintraub and his friends and relations, both animal and human. Mystery and romance and comedy abound in this poignant tale brimming with fascinating insights into the minds and hearts of dogs and ca...

The forty-two short tales that comprise Buddha In A Teacup are set in contemporary America, as opposed to long ago China or India. Each parable springs from the author’s meditations on fundamental aspects of Buddhist dharma as those teaching apply to the world today. Some of the tales are humorous, some sad, some erotic, some mysterious-all linked and balanced by themes of mindfulness, compassion, generosity, kindness and love. The reader need not be a Buddhist or know anything ab...

creativity, and the quest for meaningful ways to spend this precious life. Each story may be read as a stand-alone creation, or the stories may be read as interconnected tales giving the reader an experience akin to reading a novel.Poets, chess masters, bartenders, artists, musicians, purveyors of cannabis, sheriffs, writers, moviemakers, shopkeepers, dogs, gardeners, children, auto mechanics, psychotherapists, and actors populate these stories about facing the ceaseless challenges...

Todd Walton is the author of the acclaimed novels and short story collections Inside Moves, Forgotten Impulses, Louie & Women, Ruby & Spear, Buddha In A Teacup, Under the Table Books, and Little Movies. His many music CDs include Lounge Act In Heaven, Dream Of You, Mystery Inventions, and Incongroovity.A visionary science fiction novella, Oasis Tales of the Conjuror is a life-affirming response to the question: How will humans survive in the wake of societal and environmental calam...

Little Movies: tales of love and transformation is a collection of fourteen short stories by Todd Walton. Each of these stories illuminates the transformative power of friendship, emotional honesty, trust, generosity, compassion, and love.The Screw is a humorous modern parable in which a young woman entrusts the choosing of her husband to her mother, and the comedy drama that ensues.Mrs. Espy and the Hippy is about an elderly woman reclaiming her true identity through her i...

Fired sports columnist Vic Worsley discovers a renewed vigor for life when he becomes involved in the promising career of Spear, a talented young basketball player, who refuses to trust Vic's encouragement.Sportswriter Vic Worsley is forty-four, divorced, and burned out. His basketball column for the San Francisco Chronicle is fueled by strong coffee, red wine, and anger, instead of the love he once had for the game. But his life is about to be changed by two women...

Jerry Maxwell and his good friend Roary are both handicapped. They divide their time between Max's bar in San Francisco and the bleachers of the Oakland Sports Complex to cheer on the Golden State Warriors. Together the two set out to make Jerry's dream of playing professional basketball a reality.Inside Moves is an off–beat, exuberant and extremely emotional novel focusing on the bonds of friendship between two men brought together by physical and psychological challenges...

Pooches and Kiddies is both the sequel to Good With Dogs and Cats and a stand-alone novel chronicling a momentous year in the life of Healing Weintraub and his colorful family and friends: human, canine, and feline.Assisting Healing in helping dogs and cats resolve their difficulties with humans are Healing’s wife Jahera and her mother Maahiah, Healing’s daughter Tova, Healing’s mother Naomi, Healing’s sister Jean, and Tova’s children, Raaz and Oz, delightful four-year-old twins.

Walton tracks the fate of Lily and Charlie, two down–and–out musicians on the run from an army of "very well–connected" thugs out not just for blood but for spirit. Fleeing by car, foot, air, bicycle, train, covered wagon and dirigible, the two make their way with Lily's baby from Sunset Boulevard to a mountain retreat in Oregon. Eluding all manner of physical and mental danger, Lily and Charlie take their final stand with a commune of utopian artists. Their odyssey is seedily realistic, w...

**"Piercingly real eroticism told in an ear-perfect rendering." —The New York Times Book Review"Striking . . . The characters are appealing, sturdy and daring at once." —The New Yorker**To outsiders, they seem the perfect American family. Margaret, the loving, widowed mother. Mackie, the brilliant, dazzling handsome older son. Phillis, his beautiful, talented, sophisticated wife. Dink, friendly and outgoing, with all the energy of young manhood. Gina, his ...