THE TRIBUTARIES of ALEX BECKHAM is a series of connecting novellas which begins by escorting an innocent boy of three on a downstream journey to appreciate the preciousness of life and family. The book begins in 1953 when life was quite different for children; no TV, no computers, no movies. Readers may experience nostalgia as it intertwines with the happy and sad memories of their own family experiences. And in the end, the emotional tributaries which fed into Alex Beckham's life produces...

Maria, the nurse and nanny. invokes Haitian Voodoo to protect those she loves from her damaged and violent sister Andrea. And Michael. the wealthy man between them fights desperately to save his infant son and escape with the sister he truly loves. This exhilarating saga of love and revenge sweeps us from Hispaniola in 1916. where the sisters' ancestors lived in poverty to the lurking drug culture of Balboa Panama and finally to the U.S. The ripples of the sisters' history spread insidious...

The story is one of love, courage, sadness, and intrigue. It is the history of the Wehmeyer family, starting in Prussia in 1866 and ending in the Midwestern city of Cincinnati in 1960. As two elderly sisters deal with their individual problems of aging, Carrie, the younger sister, begins the saga by sharing with her five year old great-great nephew Alex, the heroic past of his ancestors in the Austro-Prussian War as it involves the inception of the International Red Cross. The boy hangs on...

In 2004, during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ian Roberts becomes associated with a budding megachurch in North Carolina. As part of their building campaign, they include funds to build an AIDS hospice inside a Black township of South Africa. One Sunday, Ian returns home and sends an email, impulsively volunteering to travel to Africa to help start a business to create jobs and fund the operations of the Hospice. Being a world traveler, his philosophy of accept...