Richard H Schweitzer: 4 books

Dewey, who lost his mother at the occasion of his own birth, can feel his father's sadness, but all he can offer is his love and a poorly made cup of coffee. His father, loving, appreciative, well-meaning but prone to bad decisions, bad habits and worse luck, will once again let his son down and fall...

Based on an actual incident - In the mid 1970s, a group of high schoolers cut school and take a day trip to a nearby mountain. Robert, the instigator and under-aged, unlicensed driver; Greg, an easy target for Robert's shenanigans; and the girls, Vicky and Brenda, up for anything... anything, paying...

A small, friendly dog named Snowpatch is swept to the Land of Oz by a great deluge. He is taken in and cared for by Nick Chopper and lives a peaceful, happy life in his new home until a chance rain storm (or the mischievous machinations of a wicked witch) cause Nick, a man made of tin, to become frozen...

It would not be accurate to claim that Nature is unhappy, or even has that capacity. Maybe it does, maybe it does not. Like all living things, however, it does have the ability to defend itself. Donovan was an innocent. The opening salvo of an long, slow attack for which man would have no defense....