Literary Fiction

How many commandments were there originally? Were there really 10? Do the commandments have any relevance today? Scholars, filmmakers & others have written, enacted & shown on the silver screen both events many times. Here is celebrating all those interpretations & to add to the confusion, one more.

Private lessons draw sixteen-year-old Caitlin deeper into the personal life of her art teacher, a man with cystic fibrosis. Convinced that a woman he’s on the brink of dating might hurt him, Caitlin makes one very bad decision.

Every woman buries secrets. Even from herself. Meet Lizzie, Grace, Sassie and Ruby—boomers who laugh together and cry together. And keep each other together through life’s Oys* & Joys. Until decades of old baggage flood their lives—and not like a hurricane. Like a tsunami. A story of unlocking truth. Of defeating regret. Of the power of steel-laced friendships. But sometimes, the back side of middle age shoves the past, and the secrets it harbors, into the present. And secrets never die quietly. *Oy or oy vey: Expresses dismay or any sense of woe. Yiddish origin but so widely used, now an American colloquialism included in dictionaries.

BECOMING: The Life & Musings of a Girl Poet is a uplifting and inspirational collection of poetry about living a life of fulfillment.

Spencer Casey is a 20-year-old high-school dropout who works in a failing puzzle factory in Philadelphia. He’s tired of being a victim—he wants to be a cause, not an effect. So like the butterfly in China that flaps its wings and causes a hurricane, he jumbles up the puzzles, triggering chaos with no end in sight—unless he can fit the right pieces together for a happy ending. A satrical comic novel that has been hailed as a comic masterpiece.

Leon’s past is a labyrinth of truths, half-truths and untruths - not one story but many different stories at once, which Leon has been trying to put behind him. But ghost-writer Anna Tor knows much more about his history than he does, and when Leon reluctantly agrees to meet her, as they begin to trace together the two converging courses of their separate lives since their birth on the same September morning in 1973, the devastating secrets of the past are revealed one by one to bind them ever closer together.