Alex has always lived a quiet life with his family in a peaceful neighborhood, his days blending into one another with a predictable rhythm. But when his estranged aunt, Allie, moves back into the neighborhood after their grandfather's passing, his world is turned upside down.
Charlie invented a time machine, but that’s not really what this book is about. It’s about love and relationships, and retrospection, and tamales, and cute girls, and love. Did I mention love? Join Charlie and his girlfriends in a coming-together feel-good story.
The Stanos family became wealthy Greek shipping merchants in the early 19th century. Their ships sailed throughout the Mediterranean to numerous ports exporting Greek olive oils, cheeses and cotton. In return, their ships arrived full of exotic goods; amongst them were frankincense, myrrh and silk from the Arab world and beyond. The shipping empire was at its height when a random set of events beyond their control brought it crashing down, leaving only an aged grandfather.
Rachel Mears – a promising young athlete – has her life turned upside down when a drunken driver knocks her off her bicycle, rendering her a paraplegic. She faces a fragile, long journey on her way back to wholeness. (NOTE: No sex, but there is a brief discussion about intimate marital relations.)
There Was This Girl - The Universe of Romance in Quick Time
All he wanted to do was get the network job finished, but the customer’s daughter wound up doing much more for him than he could have imagined at the time. One never knows what might come up from the past and change your life forever. Charlie ran into Billi again after several years and the result was more than phenomenal. Charlie’s dad told Billi’s dad to keep her away from him when they were kids. Didn’t work. Oh, shucks.
Charlie was a good kid and a good student who put his family first. A simple question changed his life forever. A simple question asked by one of the school's prettiest and most popular girls... and her friends. Oh, my, what is a boy to do?
Very short, partly cloudy little story that might connect with you if you have trouble putting yourself out there because you think no one might buy what you're selling. No sex. But! There is a cat. So maybe there could be some sunshine after all (;
Scientist Rebecca, 28 years old, ambitious, hard-working, and indifferent to sex, moves into an townhouse with two younger men. She discovers there is something more to life than her laboratory.