Derek never learned he was becoming a father.My guilt and his misconceptions made it so much harder. When he delivers my twins—our twins—that one icy night seems to seal our fate forever.I once drew hearts around his name. We pushed the boundaries of our fine lines, but he was my brother's best friend—off-limits and out of reach.Years later, the story hasn't changed. Derek is an OB-GYN at my new hospital, as sexy and self-assured as ever.Our...

Hugh Aaron's short story collection It's All Chaos represents dynamite tales on a short fuse, hot bursts of epiphany in the ever expanding growth of human pain, searing journeys from innocence to experience, underscoring the troubled spirit lurking beneath the face that faces the world.In these riveting stories of stark prose and lacerating dialogue, weddings are preludes to disaster, hopes are blasted, achievements blunted, success thwarted, marital bliss is an oxymoron. Though no...

Business Not As Usual 2 is a candid account, in 57 down-to-earth narrative essays on crucial issues that commonly arise when running a business through both hard and easy times. Although all about business, the topics are wide ranging. The author's company was a virtual management laboratory that developed innovative methods for motivating employees and improving productivity leading to skyrocketing profitability. Based on the first-hand experience of a creative CEO, these essays are of un...

HARRY SIMON’S PRIVATE KINGDOM, The Journey of a Self-Made  Man A business novel with locomotive force, rare in its honest presentation of the drama of business. The author holds nothing back in this story about running a small manufacturing business. He writes of the double dealings, the betrayals and petty dishonesties, as well as the acts of generosity, trust and loyalty that occur in his relationships with his employees, his customers, the bank, his friends, his wife and his ...

Stories from a Lifetime carries readers through a widely diverse series of life’s peaks and valleys with poignant, clear-eyed vision and understanding that is only gradually gained across the course of a lifetime through endurance and honest appraisal of the emotional rollercoaster that we all ride. These stories form a welcome, and increasingly rare, honest, grounded, and beautifully written collection that will touch nerves while sympathizing with what it means to be human.

Hugh Aaron's new book doesn't quite have it all. Sure you can find blood, guts, pathos, drama, comedy, tragedy, wisdom, and even sex in its pages, but something's missing. The book is refreshingly un-academic; perhaps that's one reason it's so effective as a tutorial manual for running businesses today.Aaron's 240 page narrative, an expansion of an article series he wrote for the Manager's Journal column of The Wall Street Journal, is candid and wise, but it's also cuttingly self-c...

Young Hal Arnold doesn't know much about war or life or anything else. He certainly doesn't fit the Hollywood image of The Fighting Seabees battling the Japanese while driving his growling bulldozer into a hail of gunfire like John Wayne. In fact, Hal Arnold isn't really much of a war hero at all, except he did his duty like so many others. Arnold survived.Hugh Aaron's novel is about the wartime experience as seen through Hal Arnold's naïve and idealistic eyes. So many Wor...

Hugh Aaron's short story collection It's All Chaos represents dynamite tales on a short fuse, hot bursts of epiphany in the ever expanding growth of human pain, searing journeys from innocence to experience, underscoring the troubled spirit lurking beneath the face that faces the world.In these riveting stories of stark prose and lacerating dialogue, weddings are preludes to disaster, hopes are blasted, achievements blunted, success thwarted, marital bliss is an oxymoron. Though no...

A collection of five novellas: Doctor Banner's Garden: A retired elderly professor, whose life is coming to a close, and her female cohort are rejuvenated when three young college students enter their lives. Family Agendas: A Jewish son is tricked into taking over the family business in a ruse to break up his relationship with a Catholic girl. A story about generational conflict, aging and letting go. Ambition deals with racial prejudice in business, the seeking of power, and liberal hypoc...

This book by Hugh Aaron really gives any reader with any amount of time to read just about the perfect selection of stories to choose from! From the moment I peeked into the cover of this book until the last time I looked into it I was amazed at how quickly I could get through a story but not be left wondering. Sometimes you get a book of short stories and you read them and you get the feeling constantly that the author has left something out. This is not the case at all with "Stories from...

Set amidst the last two years of the Pacific war, this story follows a young, naïve Seabee (U.S. Naval Construction Battalions) from California to the harsh, tropical jungles of New Guinea and the Philippines. The war provides twenty-year-old Hal Arnold with his first venture into real life, where his youth and naivete are dashed and where reality and maturity emerge.

A Journey of the Heart is a 47,000 word non-fiction journal in the American literary tradition of philosophical travelogues. Harry’s journey across America in 1986 with his grown son opens a dialogue as wide as the Midwestern plains. The two generations, born from vastly different Americas, can never be reconciled, but they can understand each other. And in frank dialogue, Harry, his marriage failing, confronts his past, and his assumptions about what the rest of his life holds. Throughout...