A year after recklessly trading her halfway house existence for an episodic life with five men, Cindy tells her friend-lover-tormentor Larry, 'F*ck you!' and boards a Greyhound bus alone. With just a small duffel bag, she embodies the hard-won lessons of her first adult relationships: she must manage her circumstances, not be crushed by them. This is the story of how a woman-child, desperate to escape loneliness, was forged in the tumultuous crucible of a year she had to live through to leave it behind her. But when she arrives at her destination, you, the reader, have a choice: Go back in time to relive her past year of growing up with Larry and the others who prepared her for this moment, or go on with Cindy into her new life.

The young NYC heiress and socialite was finally engaged to marry well and destined for a life of decorum on the Times' society page. But unfortunately, she was ten weeks pregnant, her fiancé wasn't the father, and the worst of it was that the baby might strongly resemble a previous flame. There were no options. She publicly broke her engagement and disappeared. Now, two weeks later, in early November 1955, Barbara was with her father in the international departure terminal of Idlewild airport. He handed her a booklet of traveler's checks and a one-way ticket. She had six weeks to submit a binding proposal to her father to remain part of the family, but never again return home.

An Intermediate Level Spanish Reading Book that is way different than typical classroom textbooks.

A kite tugs two loners into a conversation that leads to a shared mezcal margarita and a relationship that is both sexual and conversational.

Una aventura en español latinoamericano sencillo para aquellos estudiantes que quieran aprender a leerlo. An adventure in simple Latin American Spanish for those students who want to learn to read it. The story starts in Intermediate Spanish but becomes more Advanced as you read. This is the Spanish spoken in Mexico.