Captain Aunt (memoir) A sailing adventure with six teenage girls helps the captain come to terms with her childlessness.   Grammy's Stone A woman obituary writer considers adoption and discovers her Irish mother's secrets.   The City Girls Three women take a mid-life sabbatical and get drawn into a community's denial of its drug and alcohol problem.   It Will Surely Come A bone marrow transplant changes the lives of a woman, her donor-brother and their mother, who slips into dementia while her son cons her out of her money.   Saluting the Sun A roadshow and a quest, this is the quirky story of 23-year old Nevaeh Thera, a street musician in New Orleans, and her beautiful cousin, television weathercaster Dawn Ann McKnight, whose dreams are coming true so quickly she can't admit her husband has become a vicious abuser. When their worlds collide, the two women learn the difference between "starting over" and “starting again.”   One for the Ark Three events in the small town of Stirling, Wisconsin, challenge the political and religious beliefs of its conservative mayor (a candidate for State Senate) and his liberal wife: a farmer declares his intention to build an exact replica of Noah’s Ark across from the State Forest, an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary appears on an underpass, and their Yale-educated daughter writes them a letter announcing that she is having a sex-change operation.   Warming Up Give a guy on a Chicago street a buck, and your relationship is forgotten by the time the light changes to “Walk,” but it’s impossible for musical actress Cecilia Morrison to forget Kix.  A teenage runaway, Kix cons her out of sixty bucks by telling her that he has a wife and baby to support and that she has kind eyes.  Desperate to find something to give meaning to her life, when she next encounters Kix, she invites him to bring his family to spend the night at her apartment.  Ten years ago, after a cruel review, Cecilia’s mother stopped pushing her and Cecilia stopped auditioning.  Reluctantly, Cecilia now seeks therapy with widowed psychiatrist Dr. Haverill Richardson.  An aspiring sculptor afraid of his inferior talent, he can’t take the first swing at his wife’s last gift to him, a block of Colorado Yule marble. But is therapy really what Cecilia needs?  Or does she need simply to find within herself, not on stage, what stirs her soul? Kix uses his innate abilities as a con man to take care of his sister and her baby, their father’s child. Taking a chance, Cecilia sings with him in a subway, to help him earn some “dough-re-me,” but at her first professional audition since therapy, her returning confidence fails her at the sight of her mother’s critical ghost.  When the teens disappear and leave the baby with her, she wonders if she is meant to adopt it. Facing her deepest fears, Cecilia helps the teenagers escape their damaged childhoods and bring their father to justice.  Finally confronting her ghost, she successfully returns to the stage, with a surprise co-star, and finds her passion in coaching rather than performance.  Inspired by his patient, Dr. Richardson chisels his first cut in the marble.