James Rice

This is a book about phobias and obsessions, isolation and dark corners. It's about families, friendships, and carefully preserved secrets. But above everything else it's about love. Finding love - in any of its forms - and nurturing it. Miss Hayes has a new theory. She thinks my condition's caused by some traumatic incident from my past I keep deep-rooted in my mind. As soon as I come clean I'll flood out all these tears and it'll all be ok and I...

In this bilingual version of "The Night before Christmas," Santa has become Papa Noel and his reindeer have been replaced with eight burros pulling a cart.

A history of the cowboy in America from the time the Spanish brought cattle to the New World in the 1500s through the Civil War.

When Wise Woman Magee is tricked into nursing a goblin back to health, she only escapes with the help of her children whose costumes frighten the goblins.

A hardworking cowboy who wears his clothes to bed sleeps so soundly he isn't aware how, during each night, he is losing an item of clothing.

In this parody of the famous poem by Clement C. Moore, Santa Claus is a salty sailor who pays a visit to those on board a ship in Fisherman's Bay on Christmas Eve.