A novel about Gilchrist's beloved, flawed, deeply human heroine Rhoda Manning.

A fictional account of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, as told by the aviatrix herself. She details her love of flying, her aspirations as a child, her relationship with her husband G. P. Putnam, as well as with Fred Noonan, her navigator, and the notorious disappearance itself.

This influential essay tackles the uncomfortable subject of disease, and specifically the metaphors we use to try to come to terms with it. Dealing with tuberculosis, syphilis, and cancer, Sontag makes a case for the necessity of metaphor as both a distancing ploy and a way to understanding. However, as a cancer sufferer herself (a disease from which she died in 2004), she also points out that such myth-making can be destructive for the victims of disease--that views of cancer as a curse, or a punishment, or a war (i.e. patients "battling" cancer), rather than as a disease that is often, in fact, curable, may actually stand in the way of effective treatment.