In England, newly pregnant seventeen-year-old Hattie and her gin-drinking great-aunt Gloria, who is in the early stages of dementia, set out togethere on a road trip of self-discovery--Gloria to finally confront the secrets of her past before they are wiped from her memory forever and Hattie to face the hard choices that will determine her future.

While Kiki and Echo help Shelly prepare for a royal tea with her visiting great-aunt, Queen Edwina, Shelly worries that the Queen will make her leave Trident City and move to Neptune Castle.

When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes Tía Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and embrace the adventures that ensue.

"When Great Aunt Beauregard announces her intentions to bring budding engineer John into the family business of coffin manufacturing for the rest of his natural life--and, worse, to teach his sister Page to embalm--John decides enough is enough, and the two of them head out on the lam, maybe joining the circus"--

Dramatic real life stories and inspiring fiction are combined in this collection of stories to lift the spirit and move the soul. The man who walked between the towers: A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers. Snowflake Bentley: A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations. Miss Rumphius: As a child Great-aunt...