San Antonio College Library

Tucker has an eye for tragedy and pain. A celebrated, internationally famous photographer, he has traveled the world and seen both the serious and the strange. But when his brother escapes from a mental hospital and an old girlfriend appears with her son and a black eye. Tucker is forced to return home and face the agony of his own tragic past. Back in rural Alabama, Tucker comes to terms with the ghosts he left behind. Miss Ella Rain once loved Tuck...

"The Chinese creation myth includes the battle between fire and water. As the battle continues, it shapes the lives and fates of every person. Some will know fire love, the wild passion that passes quickly. For others, there is water love, like the great rivers that defy place and time." "Tinling Choong draws on this powerful legend in FireWife to tell the fictional story of a fledgling photographer, Nin, who leaves her corporate job in California...

Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the honky-tonk glamour of the rodeo and the desperation of suburban Houston, it is the story of the restless and lovable Patsy Carpenter. Patsy-young, beautiful, with a sharp tongue and an irresistible charm-and her shiftless husband, Jim, are adrift in the West.

A fictitious portrayal of the relationship between Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, and Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of his Oxford college, ranges from their first meeting to the Liddell family's severing of the relationship seven years later.