Moondust: Autobiography of an Afterlife: “It rained for three weeks straight, a hard, steady rain. The first sighting of me came after that, as the fog gathered its skirts and tiptoed out of the woods, and things began to dry, to look upward at the sun, and grow. A young boy found my body, it was Leroy Wilson’s son…” She may have passed, but Colleen Nicholson (“Moondust”) still has much to say. In her sweet and compelling story she assures us that love transcends death, death is passage, faith endures, and hope lives. She tells us in no uncertain terms to nurture ourselves and accept nurture from others. Most of all, she insists on our freedom in a voice that is older than the ages, yet fresh with conviction.

Name the Baby and Feed the Dog: Having abandoned her harried life in Chicago for the chance to write undisturbed, animal lover Athie Wolfe now finds herself alone in a small Southern town where her closest friends are her cat (Tinker Bell) and her house mate’s two dogs (King Toot and Maxx Black). She’s entirely pleased with her quiet life, until an unlikely human friendship breaks into her heart and ruins her solitude. Anyone who sleeps with boxes of writing stashed under the bed will relate to (and love) this quirky, soulful story.