Fiction (fic)

In exchange for billions in defaulted bonds, the bankrupt State of New York is about to transfer four million acres of Adirondack Park land to a development consortium of Chinese and Saudi banks. Catastrophic climate change and collapse of the debt-driven U.S. economy have devastated the dream that was America. But when a twenty-second-century adventurer discovers he is lost in the Adirondacks--and it is 1832--there is hope that America has one last chance to get it right, before everything goes terribly wrong. -- back cover.

The moving story of a self-aware young woman who refuses to surrender the vision of herself as a great artist.

Allie Armington is a bright, successful and self-reliant young Texas attorney coming up to the top of her game. But that independent streak just might be the death of her. Of course she doesn't admit it until she's about thigh deep in a conspiracy involving cattle, oil and drugs.

Set in the southern Adirondacks of upstate New York, during World War Two, eleven-year-old Mary, and her younger brother, Chief, survive the premature death of their Native American (Abenaki) mother only to suffer abuses from their white father. When they are sent to live with a widowed aunt in Fiddler's Rock, it appears they have a good home, but an unplanned pregnancy and two deaths change that. -- cover.