Belle Fortman is a feisty, curious, intelligent woman who is determined to break into a traditional world controlled by men who will go to extremes to exclude her-professional baseball. Against all odds, she's determined to become the first woman umpire in the Major Leagues. In this endeavor, she faces obstacles-from setbacks in umpiring school to travails in her life and on the field as she moves up the minor league system, from tank town sandlot games to Triple A, longing for an assignment in the Majors. Along the way, Belle falls in love and runs into characters readers get to know so well that they'll feel they've actually met them. The author has the uncanny skill to make the strangest, most unlikely characters seem so compellingly real.

Product Description: Bash is a spy, a special kind of spy, caught up in the devious intrigue of naval Intelligence during the war in Vietnam. He's handsome, clever, and smart-essential prerequisites for “honey trap” assignments. He seduces foreign agents and is well aware that they welcome his intentions if only to gather intelligence of their own...read more

Unveiled Echoes tells of a fascinating, a little-known aspect of Hispanic life in the American Southwest. Trying to keep the lid on secrets of its own, a modern, successful Mexican American family from the small town in New Mexico is suddenly thrown by a traumatic revelation: that it is descended from conversos. Catholic for almost 500 years, the family is now made to face the fact that it may have originally been Jewish! It's a wrenching revelation because the Rael family is one of the pueblito's leading families, which, in little Remedios defines the local culture - structured by church, devotion, family tradition. In large part this is Tía Parada's story, an elderly and eccentric paternal Rael auntie. She appears odd and is thought bizarre by many in the family, but she surely knows more than is believed. With the special knowledge of good witches, she has a mysterious life of her own with feet both in the near and very distant past. Her life and rumination provide a chorus for a more modern story about the people in the Rael family -each with his own loves, worries, relationships, pressures, rivalries and secrets to keep - the intrigue in the various family subplots.

Book by Keifetz, Norman