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Micki had always loved being a nurse, but lately, she was feeling uninspired and unneeded. That is, until she met Opal. Opal was an eccentric elderly lady whose mannerisms and wardrobe spoke of a bygone era. She was a total stranger, and yet, her pleading with Micki for help could not be ignored. However, she had no idea the strange and dangerous situations she would find herself in. Everything Micki had believed to be absolute truth would be challenged....

Good Night Little Nurse continues Ad Astra Media's Good Night series for children ages 0-6. Written by Dr. Intergalactic and Alyssa Harden, this series of multilingual bedtime stories hopes to inspire kids to dream about their future STEM careers! Meet our little nurse, Kai, a young boy with vitiligo who dreams to make the world a better place by healing it one person at a time! Will he help a soldier heal? Give vaccines to kids like him? Join...

Taylor has spent the winter in the laid-back beach town of Negril, Jamaica. Tomorrow, he'll be catching a flight back home to Canada. But today he's on his motorbike and he's making his farewell tour of Negril. It's a cool morning. He's headed for the Out of Town Bakery for a roadside snack. Ahead he spots an attractive Jamaican woman walking along the shoulder of the quiet road. He slows down. She waves and calls out, asking him for a ride. This...

A collection of short stories captures powerful and poignant moments in everyday lives of African American families, friends, and neighbors in the years spanning from the beginning of the Clinton presidency to the eve of Barack Obama's election.

Long for This World features the best of Ronald Wallace's work from his previous collections of poetry-Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks (1981), Tunes for Bears to Dance To (1983), People and Dog in the Sun (1987), The Makings of Happiness (1991), Time's Fancy (1994),and The Uses of Adversity (1998)-along with a generous selection of twenty-six new poems. If Wallace's recent poems sometimes seem darker and deeper, more meditative and complex, less sanguine...

""America's favorite poet" (the Wall Street Journal) has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love--all in a handful of lines. Neither Haiku nor limmerick, and certainly not a gimmick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry's famed power to condense emotional and conceptual content into small spaces. Taken together the...