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Killbear Park, the Wild Side is the story of a small area that is part of one of the largest wilderness regions in the world where the land is natural, water is clean and visitors can receive a tonic of rest and healing from the spirit of the wild. From the rugged, rocky shoreline mixed with numerous sand beaches, the views of windswept pines on rocky islands, canoeing, and Georgian Bay sunsets, Jake Hayes has time to look at his life, his ever-increasing connection with nature, and the ramifications of that connection in all its twists and turns.

The story of Millie and Ami reveals how a young girl entrapped in dreadful hopelessness discovers fulfillment through unforeseeable circumstances. Millie was plagued with hampering physical birth defects, which caused social rejection during her formative years. Her birth parents were dysfunctional alcoholics and added no positive dimensions to Millie's life. Millie displayed uncanny instincts to transcend social barriers. Fateful events combined with Millie's resilience opened unperceived opportunities. Millie's adoptive parents foisted the power of profound love lifting Millie to a living standard that she was unaware existed. Her love bond with her adoptive parents created an atmosphere leading to serendipitous events including the precious gift of her beloved Ami. Millie's journey exposed myriad challenging circumstances testing her physically and psychologically.

Queenie is one of six rescued wolves. "Walking slowly to the den, dug out under a large boulder, I crawled in using my flashlight. There they were, six of them, staring at me. They did not seem frightened but whined a little. I picked each one up and looked them over one at a time and they seemed in pretty good shape, staring intently at me with their penetrating eyes. This was such an amazing experience. It's likely the bounty hunters poisoned their parents and siblings, and these were the survivors. I was their savior. I have never felt such instant bonding, overwhelmed with a desire to make a life for these beautiful critters of the wilderness

"i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)..." Painted against the backdrop of e.e.cummings poetry, Chopin's Nocturnes, and the unleashed passions of the times, River of Forgiveness is a coming-of-age story set at the close of the Second World War. Eighteen-year-old Sydney Archumbault's chance encounter with an older British stranger awakens her longings for the exuberant power of her one true love, forever altering the course of her life. Intrigued by this educated, artistic man, whom she later discovers is an escapee from an internment camp, Sydney impulsively embarks into a complex and tumultuous relationship, finding herself embroiled in a love that can never be.

Only one thing was certain: John Donne was dead. That fact was verified after the wedding. Marco, a former police officer, currently a private detective and police consultant, must follow clues from Southern Spain to Morocco to determine if the brilliant scientist on the verge of one of the world's greatest discoveries, the cure to the insidious disease of cancer, had been murdered.Marco had been assigned to work with Alberto Flores, a detective from the police force of Malaga, Spain, a member of the blue wall that had betrayed him. How could they work together? Moreover, Marco and the straight-laced Flores employed different modus operandi for solving crime.During this journey of discovery, Marco also finds out about himself and his relationship with his own culture, and to his family. He is also forced to examine his relationship with his live-in girlfriend, Belen, a Spanish flamenco dancer.Murder in the Parador introduces you to a diverse array of characters unlike any you've ever met. The various threads of the intricate plot ultimately align to reveal the startling circumstances at the heart of this compelling mystery.

Street violence in Mexico's tourist areas follows a 1990 financial meltdown, brought to life through two Americans left behind after a major evacuation effort by the U.S. Navy. These Americans tell their story of escape, integrating involvement by the US. Navy personnel, The White House, the Mexican government, a middle-class Mexican family together with a radical and unstable Mexican professor who seeks a new Mexico.A financial crisis is almost a regular event in Latin America but this differs from most, spinning out of control, bringing together a political crisis to the White House, international conflict with a Mexican governor, and on through the respective armies, to Mexicans and Americans caught up in the ensuing violence. Common Americans and Mexicans, each with their own personal stories to tell, illustrate the quick effect that politics can have on ordinary citizens. Ultimately, the crisis is resolved in major part due to the insights and unusual bravery of Americans and Mexicans.The President, military leadership, U.S. Navy initiatives, street violence, recession, romance, and legal punishment are all a part of The Mexican Incident.

Banff, the Wild Side is a story of the struggle that went into making Banff National Park a famous center of adventure amid the towering beauty of one of the special places on earth where people today can come to experience the spirit of the wilderness. Rugged characters-dreamers, builders, and adventurers-were drawn by the call of mountains, rivers, and forests that those who came earlier respected as gardens of the Creator.

Bruce Nelson grew up in a small black community where he pitched watermelons, picked cotton, swam in the neighborhood canals, and attended the segregated Booker T. Washington School, in Mesa, AZ. The neighborhood was known as North Town. In 1994 Bruce stumbled into Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center located in Venice Beach, California. The eclectic atmosphere nudged him into attending their weekly writing workshops and performances. He was always eager to share his poetry and short stories with classes. So, when Nelson secured the position as Artistic Director for Saban Free Clinic's Project ABLE (An educational theater troupe) he was primed to write one-act plays. During his six years as Artistic Director, he received three LA Cultural Affairs grants to write a series of one-act plays that were performed in Los Angeles County for adolescents in alternative schools, youth hostels, prisons, homeless shelters, middle schools, high schools, and youth conferences. His one-act play Anansi and the Sky God was accepted into the Play Lab at the Last Frontier Theater Conference in Valdez, Alaska. Porch Short Stories is Bruce Nelson's first book

Olympic National Park, the Wild Side is a story of Olympic National Park that is over ninety-five percent wilderness, providing visitors an opportunity to explore not only the wild but also themselves and make wondrous discoveries beyond each person's wildest hopes and dreams. Join an explorer whose personality issues led him to the Park for rehabilitation.

The main character, Ann, is born into poverty in 1947. It shows how her family controls her and keeps her in poverty through their attitudes regarding gender inequality, immigrants, and minorities. We learn from her how to break this cycle to get out of poverty. She grows up in Brooklyn with a single mother and an absentee father and tells the story through her memories. You hear about the three generations of women who were chained to poverty because of ignorance, attitude, low self-esteem, gender inequality, and dependence, under the control of men. Then you will see how our main character starts to believe she needs to break free. You live with her through adolescence, where she does something she regrets for the rest of her life. Then on to young adulthood where she, unbelievably, goes to college and breaks out of the attitudes of poverty and makes it on her own. She learns to see things in a new light and starts to question her old-world teachings and the meaning of right and wrong.You see her married, divorced, remarried, and then in old age. It teaches us how one can reeducate oneself out of a poverty attitude and into the middle class.

Killbear Park, the Wild Side is the story of a small area that is part of one of the largest wilderness regions in the world where the land is natural, water is clean and visitors can receive a tonic of rest and healing from the spirit of the wild. From the rugged, rocky shoreline mixed with numerous sand beaches, the views of windswept pines on rocky islands, canoeing, and Georgian Bay sunsets, Jake Hayes has time to look at his life, his ever-increasing connection with nature and the ramifications of that connection in all its twists and turns.

Wyatt Earp and his brothers came to Tombstone to invest in recently opened silver mines and real estate, to get a share of newly discovered wealth and prosperity, and not to continue their law enforcement career. However, they soon realized that on one hand they cannot for long ignore the lawlessness of the town and the surrounding county, and on the other, the presence of the former lawmen did not escape the attention of the local administration and security people of the Wells Fargo Company. Once these people managed to convince Wyatt and his brother Virgil to return to law-maintaining activity, the conflict with the so-called "cowboy gang" was just a matter of time. It not only culminated in the shoot-out at O.K. Corral but once Virgil got shot in ambush a seriously wounded and the second brother Morgan killed while playing pool, it eventually led to the destruction of the afore mention gang and killing its leaders, namely William Brocious, known as "Curly" Bill and John Peters Ringgold known as Ringo.