Böcker av Rachael Ikins

A young boy shares an unusual dream with his family. He doesn''t want a puppy, kitten or goldfish as a pet. Instead David, or "D.C." as his big brother nicknamed him wants to adopt a pot-bellied piglet.Since David is only six years old, his parents try to discourage him. They set goals he must achieve before he can think about seriously searching for a piglet. Little do his parents and grandparents know the extent of David''s determination. With his brother''s help they spend time researching the needs of pigs online and at the library.. D.C. starts to save his allowance as well as working at odd jobs such as collecting cans and bottles to redeem. His savings and knowledge grow over two years. Then comes the magical day when his grandmother finds an ad in the newspaper "For Adoption: Pot bellied piglets."An award winning story for pig lovers of all ages, A Piglet for David shows how one  family unites to help one of its youngest members pursue what seems to be an impossible dream and then shares unique adventures because of that dream. A heartwarming story told with humor and tenderness about  following your truth and growing up.

Eating the Sun grows lushly from a May-December love affair between a twenty-something patient and her surgeon and blossoms sensuously into a marriage of shared passions. In this cross-genre collection, Ikins cultivates multiple gardens and harvests delicate, yearning verse, recipes for fruits and vegetables sun-coaxed from the earth, and luminous stories of her star-crossed union with Phillip, thirty years her senior and the love of her life. We fall head over heels for the couple, the homes in which they nest, the patches of soil they till, and the meals they prepare, following their relationship throughout their seasons of love. Embracing both joy and heartache, despair and delight, Eating the Sun is ripe and intoxicating. ~Linda Lowen, Contributor, The Writer Magazine and book reviewer for a leading trade publication