City Wilds


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The assumptions we make about nature writing too often lead us to see it only as a literature about wilderness or rural areas. This anthology broadens our awareness of American nature writing by featuring the flora, fauna, geology, and climate that enrich and shape urban life. Set in neither pristine nor exotic environs, these stories and essays take us to rivers, parks, vacant lots, lakes, gardens, and zoos as they convey nature's rich disregard of city limits signs. With writings by women and men from cities in all regions of the country and from different ethnic traditions, the anthology reflects the geographic differences and multicultural makeup of our cities. Works by well-known and emerging contemporary writers are included as well as pieces from important twentieth-century urban nature writers. Since more than 80 percent of Americans now live in urban areas, we need to enlarge our environmental concerns to encompass urban nature. By focusing on urban nature writing, the selections in City Wilds can help develop a more inclusive environmental consciousness, one that includes both the nature we see on a day-to-day basis and how such nearby nature is viewed by writers from diverse cultural backgrounds.




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Malibu Med and the Sweet Smell of Money


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Gene therapy has inundated Malibu, California, bringing opposition, competition, and the sweet smell of money to everyone at the local medical\ school. Dr. Ahmed Adams, known as Medi to his coworkers, is a junior faculty member at Malibu Med, home to lucrative trials of designer drugs to combat cancer and aging. As Medi works his way through racks of cages and meticulously counts the dead, he realizes the day of reckoning has arrived. Medi thinks he is on his way. With all his hopes of realizing success, fame, and fortune pinned on a study sponsored by Ahlus Inc., a local biotech company, Medi willingly serves as a corporate puppet, even though every woman he meets is more interested in the results of his study than in him. Everything is on the line for Medi and the company that has gambled its future on the outcome of the trials and FDA approval. But when animal rights activists sabotage the testing at Malibu Med, the trial and Ahlus are propelled into a crisis. In this medical thriller, time will tell if Medi is the culprit or the victim of a far-reaching assault by competitors. As his career and the survival of the company hang in the balance, one certainty remains the truth is the last thing anyone wants to see revealed.




The Producer


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Spanish Valley


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Zack and One Who Knows Horses have lived a good life in their hidden valley. Now their children are doing the same. Daughter Beth roams her mountains, knowing they have a story to tell. When she finds a journal about a Spanish captain detailing a task he must complete, she pursues the adventure. The captains mission to move gold from the mountain will win him the woman who waits for him at home. Many dangers challenge the man, and he wonders if hell successfully complete the task. Beth holds the answer in her hands. As she reads of his trials and triumphs, she knows she needs to make a journey of her own to meet the family of such a courageous man. His past and her present collide, giving answers to questions that before had no answer. During her travels, she sees a land ravaged by war between the North and South, each believing they were right. Small ranchers felt no need to get involved in a war that would not affect them no matter the outcome. But when troops took young boys from their homes, all that changed.




Deadly Deed


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Kari Bronx is an investigative reporter who accompanies her assistant editor and good friend Pam Clarkston down to Grandview, Texas for the annual Fall Festival. Her role was to assist Pam in chairing the event which was actually a ruse orchestrated to distract her from returning to work too soon. This was to be a time to convalesce from a shotgun wound, but Kari soon finds herself involved in a feud, an international smuggling operation and the murder of a close friend of Pam’s family. The list of suspects is long, but Kari is determined to find the culprit. It’s her stubborn determination, however, that puts her in a few dangerous situations. The quest to solve the mysteries surrounding the murder once again almost costs Kari her life and that of her friend Pam. This story will keep you intrigued and guessing who the murderer is until the end!




Snare the Drum


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The night of the fire changed Mike Drum’s life forever. The smell of gasoline, the unseen evil in the eyes that followed him, haunted him in his quest for an answer. He had been caught up in a whirlwind sucking him down since the death of his wife and child in a devastating accident. His many friends brought him back to find more life and love in the world than what he had lost. His love for Karla created a beautiful love story like no other.