Debrah Strait: 3 books

Here in Southeastern Arizona, Tombstone is called the town too tough to die. Bisbee, on the other hand, is known as the town too high to care. That description might refer to the mile high altitude.For 20 years I’ve lived in this little town among some of the kindest, most generous people...

A boy of the land becomes a man of the sea in The Sweet Trade. In the seventeenth century the clash of European empires engulfs eleven year old Dirk van Cortlandt when Spaniards raid his Caribbean island home and kill his family. He leads a gang of friends in a daring escape in a canoe, and thus begins...

A child is lost at the zoo. Footsteps are heard from around a bend in a tunnel. A teenager does chores for a neighbor lady. Feng shui becomes a weapon. A tattooed biker does dumb things. Here are twenty-two stories, glimpses into the lives of ordinary people (or wolf, or pixie) dealing with life the...