Books with title Points of Departure: Bk. 1

(Re-edited) Tom Baker has spent most of his life building his company, E-Squared, into a technology powerhouse. Becoming in the process both a leader and a trendsetter in the high tech industry, not to mention more wealthy than he ever expected. But his success in not the product of a thirst for power nor wealth, he is instead driven by a secret obsession. Tormented by the death of his father, a marine during the Gulf War. Tom has spent more than twenty years trying to learn the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, which had been deemed classified by the government. Enlisting the help of his sister, a reclusive scientist, a retired soldier and a somewhat unwilling physicist, Tom endeavors to not only learn where, how and why his father died, but he wants to go further. Tom wants to go back in time and save his father, as unlikely as it may seem.

Adolescence is a very trying, frequently anguished period of life, with seemingly endless variations in the ways it can be difficult. Out of the diversity of their experience, eighteen distinguished authors have written sensitive and honest stories of adolescence, articulating the world teenagers know and the future they anticipate. In clear, compelling language, the stories in this collection probe the mystery, love, pain and affirmation of adolescent experience.