Product Description:  “Sounds The Living Make is a deeply satisfying collection of poems. D. James Smith combines the narrator’s art with a lyric poet’s intense and highly charged sense of setting and language. Whether exploring the labyrinth of memory or the mystery of ‘the other,’ here are poems that have the edge and authority of fiercely honed truths...read more

Product Description: It's September, the first week of school at John Muir Junior High School, and Paolo has a lot on his mind. He's thinking about finding a place of his own with his brother Georgie and his cousin Billy, running away part-time -- which means they are running away, but still come back home to eat and sleep and read the paper...read more

Product Description: Paolo's plan for August in Orange Grove City is to hire out his little brother to the neighbors. Georgie is six; he needs a manager. But then the family dog, Rufus, is stolen. Overnight, Paolo is trying to manage not just Georgie, but their deaf cousin, Billy, who speaks only with his hands; Henry, a strange vacation visitor whom the boys discover living locked in his aunt's attic; and Butter Schwartz, a lonely, half-wild schemer with a paper route...read more

In a small California town in 1951, twelve-year-old Paolo and his deaf cousin Billy get caught up in a search for money missing from the church collection, leading them to complicated discoveries about themselves and others.

Jason, a champion level Rollerblader, lives with his girlfriend Cat as he runs from a terrible secret, only to discover that Cat holds a secret that could threaten them both.