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Thirteen short stories by Phillip Good ranging from 800 to 7000 words in length describe various stages in relationships from first meetings to break ups. Three homeless women go to a dance, a young girl meets a silkie, and a new divorcee joins the Flying Dutchman on the back of his motorcycle.

John Kennedy was President when five young men, one of them white, sat in at a downtown New Orleans lunch counter. The same five sat in at the Tulane University cafeteria months later. The University didn't change its "whites only" policy, nor did Woolworth's, but in May 1961, the Parish School Board announced they would open the Orleans public school system to children of all races. Wood came to New Orleans on his motorcycle looking for adventure. The first night, he crashed a hotel wedding reception, hustled a Bourbon Street strip joint, was swept up in a police raid, got a part-time job as an animal caretaker, and met the women of his dreams-all three of them. For Wood, the integration movement is of no more interest than scenery glimpsed from a passing train, like a sit-in at a five and dime, a meeting of the Congress on Racial Equality, Leander Perez at the Civic Auditorium, a Citizen's Council fund raiser in the Garden District, and a riot at an elementary school.

Spying for the Confederacy, Jean-Pierre Mercier, a bilingual McGill student, survives the Battle of Baltimore to join the correspondents who have flocked to Washington to report on the forthcoming War Between the States. A balloon ride brings him to Bull Run. Appalled by the carnage among the green troops, he follows a Confederate deserter into the hills of Kentucky where he meets the young Protestant girl who will later become his wife. Resuming his mission, he spys on the Union troops at Mill Run and Shiloh, then travels down the Mississippi to New Orleans and then across the Southern States by train. Captured at Chancellorsville, he is sent to the Federal prison at Point Lookout. Once he is free, he heads for home, riding to New York with a trainload of draft protestors. The man who returns to Montreal, hardened by travel, war, and the constant need to live by his wits, is far different from the boy who left.

Divorce and the loss of his job have left Peter at the mercy of a series of psychologists. Teaching at an all-black college in the Deep South promises a new beginning. Within hours after pulling off the Interstate, Pete has an apartment, an answering service, and a new girl friend, Peri Mattox. But the presence of so many blacks makes him nervous. The woman whose job he's taking hasn't left yet and doesn't plan to. Senior faculty resent his existence. And his cover-your-ass boss makes it clear it's to be sink or swim. His position at the college seems increasingly temporary. Changes he thought he'd made to his department (accompanied by all the necessary signatures) never materialize. He turns to Peri for comfort, only to find she is leaving him for a woman. The opening chapter of this novel, an invocation, found Peters in the office of a psychiatrist. In the closing chapter, again in a psychiatrist's office, we view the events of the novel in a completely different light.

A year ago, Diana decided to return home, get a teaching credential, and work with kids as mixed up as herself. Going through the boxes in the garage, the stuff her family had been lugging around for as long as she could remember, she found a record of another dropout from another generation. Her father's Berkeley Barb articles were in those boxes, along with some short-story attempts, and the responses to Aimai Cristen's ad in the Barb's personal column. She wanted to discuss them. Her professor father was reluctant, afraid where their discussions might lead. " Young attractive girl, 24, searching for love, compassion, joy from a man who can provide financial security. Write Aimai Cristen, Barb Box 3689, Barb Office, 1234 University Ave, Berkeley CA 94709." An odyssey through the late 1960's from L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium to Berkeley and Altamont, this novel describes a daughter's search today for her father and herself.

Accompanied by his faithful Morgan, Reuben Lee finds the hidden village of the Havasupai where two white women are held captive. Reuben instantly falls in love with Helen, the golden-haired teen-age daughter. Reuben persuades Helen to escape accompanied by her friend Spring Morning. The Havasupai chase the trio up to the canyon's rim and through the forest. Helen's childishness brings the threesome close to calamity time after time, but is offset by Spring Morning's courage and maturity. They reach the town of Sojourn where Reuben must compete for Helen's attention with a horde of single men. But the Havasupai attack and destroy the town. Reuben and the girls live off the land avoiding the Apache. Approaching a burnt-out wagon train to see if they can aid the survivors, they narrowly avoid a group of bandits robbing the corpses. Soon Reuben discovers that the town of Hostler's Rest is not what it seems and that Spring Morning is the woman he has loved all along.

Confined to a wheel chair, Jay still gets off watching the many beautiful women he glimpses through his window. Marriage hasn't slowed Adrianna, Linda, and Liz any. (Though, if a married woman plans to fool around, she'd do best to keep her lovers at some distance from her home.) Joanne was a lonely window, until her new African-American neighbours saw to her needs. The novelette, The Whites Next Door, and five erotic short stories provide hours of good reading in this volume.

With smell, taste, and sound remaining to guide him, the explosion that strands Paul Anders in a world of silhouette and shadow isn't about to keep him from his twin passions of women and the two-step. Donna Clark has short hair, slim hips, and a mouth that tastes like peaches. "She says I'm a great dancer, not I dance great for a blind man." But when Paul shows up at her door, the only one home is her thirteen-year old son Tim, all arms and legs and the common sense of a month-old spaniel. As Paul tries to track down the boy's mother, threats come at him from every direction including a 6'5", 250-pound enforcer for a loan shark and a nymphomaniac social worker. Martha's ex-husband didn't pay for the dope he bought or return the money he borrowed to pay for it. Can Donna be involved? Paul's driver, six-foot, 24-year old Marcie Foss, an Aikido brown belt helps clean up the loose ends, but Paul, curmudgeon to the end, won't admit it.

A beautiful day at the beach, a women's volleyball tournament ends with the death of the tournament favorite. Fortunately, I have a list of suspects: o JoAnne Greene, Barbara Dahl's coach, a media personality. Her houseguests don't like me. o Erica Mueller, Barbara's opponent. Erica has exquisite taste, a breath that smells of peaches. She may not care for me now, but tomorrow who knows? o Diana Purdy, the umpire, very attractive, very married and a crack shot. o Sara Newcombe, Erica's partner in the tournament, very attractive and, hopefully, very available. Was that Sara I saw nude in Erica Mueller's apartment? o Dee-Dee Williams, one of the few black girls on the professional circuit. She played on Barbara's team in high school, which ought to have made them friends. Don't forget "Barbara's Kids." I loved those kids the moment I saw them. Though all I have is the memory of seeing Barbara play that one day on the beach, I fell in love with her, too.

From 1939 to 1945, Squadron Leader Peter Freygood overcomes anti-Semitism, anti-colonialism, innumerable encounters with the enemy, and the normal problems associated with coming of age. Book 1 describes his training as a navigator, mechanic and pilot, his first encounters with the opposite sex, the initial raids on Germany, and the escape of the Allied armies from Dunkirk. In Book II, a crash landing off the Isle of Guernsey leaves the protagonist with amnesia. He meets the girls he will later marry, recovers his memory and returns to England to help in the Battle of Britain. In Book III, he is dropped into the foothills of the Pyrenees to help organize the French resistance and is soon caught up in a trio of romantic entanglements. Sent to spy in occupied France, he escapes after rebuilding World War I vintage aircraft. In Book IV, he is sent to Guernsey to supervise its transition to peacetime, where he must determine the fate of accused war criminals and collaborators.