David Fine

"Who am I?" is the question keeping Aggie Boyle up at night. On the surface, she's a seventh grader from a town near Salem where her family has lived for centuries. At school, she's an outcast because of her unconventional appearance, and has difficulties making new friends since her best friend disappeared three years prior. At home, her mother treats her with icy disregard for reasons Aggie doesn't understand, while all she has left of her father...

In a world that's not always built for hard-of-hearing people, we can take communication for granted. Based on her essay "Seeing At The Speed of Sound," Rachel Kolb reminds us of the value of human connection.

A woman's dream to forge a new life for herself on the great American plains becomes a test of her pioneering spirit, her inner strength, and her undying faith. It was Marty Claridge's dream to build her new life on the frontier with her husband. But when the courageous pioneer woman is suddenly widowed, she's offered a new opportunity-- to marry a widower in a marriage of convenience. What they did not expect was that the marriage would lead to love....

Two strangers, both folk musicians stranded in California, take a road trip to New York in the days after 9/11.