A photographic journey through the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Layered with thick, rich special effect type photos. A visual experience.

On New Year's Eve, 1967, Bobby met up with some of his former school friends in Vidalia to bring in the New Year and to catch up on their accomplishments and their goals. They used this opportunity to kick up their heels before returning to the world of work, education, and armed services draft registration for the Vietnam War. Not long afterward came the notification of Sammy Galloway's "casualty" in the Tet Offensive. Now all that mattered to Bob was protesting the Vietnam War, parties and getting stoned. No place was better suited for the Hedonistic Paradise for the Disilusioned young man than Boston. In 1970 the war spilled into Cambodia with the students of Boston and Cambridge erupting in rage. They marched to the Harvard Bridge that joins Boston with Cambridge. It was called ""The Great Harvard Square Riot of 1970" and was witnessed by Bob Darby who relates what he saw.""

Sent on a mission to New York he gets involved in a wild journey that takes him in and out of stolen cars, freight trains, and buses. By the time he returns home to Texas, Norwood has met his true love, Rita Lee, on a bus; befriended the second shortest midget in show business and “the world's smallest perfect fat man†?; and helped Joann “the chicken with a college education,†? realize her true potential in life. As with all Portis’ fiction, the tone is cool, sympathetic, and funny.

Newly married, writer Jan Baumgartner and her husband, John, pack up their home and busy lives in San Francisco trading the city verve for a quieter one along the rural coast of Maine. Looking forward to a slower pace, a life intertwined with nature, and greater opportunities to satiate their wanderlust for world travel, the couple buys a rambling Victorian house on the shores of Eggemoggin Reach, excited to begin this new chapter of their lives. But just a few years later, they receive the unexpected and devastating news that her husband is terminally ill with ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. In their 30s and 40s, in a place not quite yet home, without family or closest friends nearby, and facing a crippling disease that will leave him paralyzed from the neck down, the author chronicles the heartbreak and depth of their love as she struggles with the emotional and physical challenges as a full-time caregiver for her dying husband. Throughout the journey, she finds an unexpected source of inspiration in her travels to Africa, with and without John, a healing connection with the bounty of nature surrounding their coastal home, and her determination to one day return to her beloved Africa. From the rugged isolation of the Maine coast to the wilds of the African bush, Moonlight in the Desert of Left Behind is a poignant and often heartrendingly candid story of devotion, courage, and ultimately, hope.

No Moonlight in My Cup provides translations and commentaries for more than two hundred Sinitic poems (kanshi 漢詩) from the Nara and Heian courts (710-1185) together with a detailed introduction to this important but relatively little-studied literary genre.