Deep in the wilderness of the Laurentian mountain range lives a community of troubled souls. There's Lila, the landlady of the forest who shoulders a terrible guilt; the young, beautiful and carefree Violette, who bears deep childhood scars; and the boy Jeremie, who whispers his confessions to frogs and ants in the forest. There's Claire who writes murder scenes, and Simon, who cares for his brother's son while pining for various women. Each character has come to this forgiving Eden to escape some private trauma; forced to interact through loneliness and proximity, they learn each other's secrets, with stunning consequences. At once tender and uplifting, Wildlives is a beautiful novel about the nature of beauty and its infinite power to heal.
Recognized today as one of America's best zoos, Riverbanks Zoo and Garden has become one of Columbia, South Carolina's most popular tourist destinations and one of the most visited zoos in the southeastern United States. Riverbanks celebrates its fortieth anniversary on April 25, 2014. Over the last four decades both the zoo and the garden have been honored with many regional and national awards for excellence. Among its many accolades, Riverbanks has received five prestigious Edward H. Bean Awards from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, most recently in 2011 for the long-term breeding and conservation of the endangered Bali mynah. Riverbanks also has been honored with three Travel Attraction of the Year Awards by the Southeast Tourism Society and two Governor's Cup Awards by the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism as the state's Most Outstanding Attraction. Riverbanks Botanical Garden has received praise by Horticulture magazine as one of ten gardens that inspire and by HGTV as one of twenty great public gardens in the United States. What began in the mid-1960s as a modest dream of a few business leaders to create a small children's petting zoo has evolved into today's nationally ranked Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, visited by more than one million guests annually and supported by a membership base of more than thirty-three thousand households. Riverbanks is home to more than two thousand animals, which reside in natural habitat exhibits with barriers that are designed to create an environment almost totally free of bars and cages. Much like the zoo itself, this book features extraordinary animals, dynamic natural habitats, and significant historic landmarks. Riverbanks's rich history is captured here through anecdotal stories and nearly two hundred brilliant photographs and illustrations, making it easy to see why Riverbanks is recognized as one of the nation's great zoological parks and botanical gardens. Readers will discover some of the world's most magnificent and fascinating plants and animals that call Riverbanks home, while gaining a deeper understanding of how a midsized zoo gained world-class status as it pursued its mission: to foster an appreciation and concern for all living things. Proceeds from the purchase of this book go directly to the Riverbanks Society, the private, nonprofit organization supporting the mission of Riverbanks Zoo and Garden.
Do you ever think about your relationship with Nature? This book is about the importance of nature and the need for (re)connection, a topic that concerns all of us. You will discover the links between nature and health, nature and nutrition, the disconnection from nature and how to (re)connect. But the main part of the book consists of twenty-seven interviews with a group of inspirational people, who are all strongly connected with nature, through profession or personality. The interviews produced twenty-seven fascinating stories about the importance of nature. Be inspired. The book is full of fascinating facts and practical advice, focusing on the special relationship we all have, consciously or unconsciously, with nature, the benefits for our health and well-being, and the necessity to restore this lost connection to save our planet and our future.
Step into a unique world of longing, wish fulfillment, and enlightenment. My Poetry Speaks is definitely from the heart of a poet who strives for greatness and prosperity.
What do you do when all at once your personal life is filled with so much turmoil that a chaotic, stress-filled work environment becomes more of a safe haven than the comforts of your own home?Meet Carla Reese, a savvy, sexy, and confident 32-year-old single woman trying to cope with it all. Carla works for The Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), an agency known both for servicing Section 8 clients and for being one of the most highly dramatic workplaces in all of Boston. Daily, Carla must maintain her professionalism while dealing with an overwhelming client caseload that brings a wide array of characters into her life, ranging from the endearing to the most annoying clients in Boston. The only thing that tops her colorful clients are her very own co-workers, including her office adversary, a hilarious new gay employee, and a Housing Manager who smells like yesterday's garbage. When this clan gets together there is constant drama and even more juicy personal scandals that spill into wild office gossip. After working with so many diverse personalities over the years, Carla has become an excellent judge of character and an expert in her field. She only wishes it could be less difficult to judge the character of the people in her life outside of work.While coping with the loss of her father, Carla makes life-changing decisions, closing the door on significant people in her life who deceived her, including an ex-boyfriend that she misses dearly but no longer tolerates, and her trusted sister who reveals a secret of Carla's that is so private, she must cut off all ties with her sister. Being a strong-willed woman, Carla is just fine with simply removing people from her life who betrayed her, until a dark secret from the past re-emerges. Now Carla is forced to take control over a situation that she thought was far behind her, a situation that is so persistent she plans to seek revenge until an unexpected relationship develops that changes everything. Follow Carla as she tries to balance a personal life in shambles and a work life wild enough for reality TV! You will laugh out loud, and weep with joy and from despair. In the end this heroine and the characters who share her life with will captivate you.
There’s nothing like the smell of a nice body spray. Whether you like florals, seascapes, woodsy scents or anything in between, Creating Your Own Body Spray can help you make your favorite kind at home. Inside, you’ll find lists of ingredients and instructions to help you make the perfect body spray to meet your needs and suit your taste and style like the base ingredients, essential oils, simple recipes, storage ideas, and more. If you’ve ever wondered if you could make your own Creating Your Own Body Spray, the answer is YES. Pick up your copy of this book and make your own today for substantially less than what it would cost you in a store!
Until now, Daryl and his best friends, Leon and Jamir, and their friends Jacinda and Erika, have been the average professionals and college students, attending Florida A&M University and Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. While each friend is unknowingly linked to the other's destiny, an incredible opportunity for Jacinda, the aspiring singer, transforms all of their lives indefinitely. From books to booked, Jacinda takes her friends, Daryl, the rapper, Jamir, the business man, Erika, the entrepreneur, and Leon, the athlete, along for the wild, unpredictable and emotional journey that comes with chasing your dreams. Soon, they begin wondering if everything they've experienced - life and death, love and hate, trust and betrayal - are all a part of their dreams or their nightmares...and whether they'll survive it all to have One Last Try.
Goodbye quiet geek ... hello hot TV personality.Television property renovator Maddison de la Botella is popular, adored, and on the brink of snagging the opportunity to restore her ancestral home—if a ruthless developer doesn't tear it down first! Her life has suddenly gone from smooth to bumpy, and it all starts the night she discovers her new neighbour ogling her in her hot tub is none other than Zachary Canady! Her once-upon-a-time best friend and heartbreaker.He's still way too gorgeous, still makes her heart flip—and still sees her as just a friend. Back in uni, Zach made sure she understood men wanted exciting women. And there was nothing exciting about Maddie. Now ten years on, here's her chance to make him notice she's a living, breathing, desirable woman—even if she almost cracks a tooth to prove it. But is it coincidence that as soon as Zach re-enters her life, she becomes curiously accident-prone?Commercial property developer, Zach is about to close the business deal of his career until his past catches up with him, and he's knocked sideways by the stunner next door. Suddenly he can't decide what he's protecting Maddie from—his white-hot desire, or the psychotic stalker out to harm her.
Have you ever wondered what happened to those Cartwright men of the Ponderosa plains? Did they fall in love? Marry? This book explores the possible connection between the Cartwrights of today and those four men of the past as Cartwright descendants try to solve a family mystery, and in the process, introduce us to the women the four Cartwright men meet and fall in love with. These women seem perfect for Ben, Adam, Hoss, and Joe -- but will avalanches, cattle rustlers, criminals, and wily women keep them apart from true love?
Nadia is playing for her local soccer team, and they have made it all the way to the national tournament against some very determined opposition. Unfortunately, Nadia's challenges don't just come from her opponents but from her teammates as well. After their coach is injured in a suspicious accident and the threats against the team mount, it is up to Nadia and her younger brother Devin to pull the team together and take a run at the championship. Another wild ride!
LaMonica Walker is a journalist and a woman who has always done what was expected of her; never walking on the wild side of life. When it comes to success and her career everything has fallen perfectly in place. However, her love life is at a standstill. Until she gets the chance of a lifetime—interview Detrick Raulins. From the first moment she meets him nothing goes as planned. Amidst a case of mistaken identity, resistance and her body on overdrive from one of the city's sexiest men, LaMonica is way out of her element. Detrick has never had any qualms about being a no-holds-barred attorney when it comes to battling slumlords. Neither has his playboy reputation bothered him; until LaMonica. Always one to protect his privacy, he can't fathom why he agreed to give an interview, especially to a woman who's making him second guess his own rules of commitment. In the end one of them must learn to trust and the other has to take a chance for love.
Falling for a man like Jackson Wilder was not something I had planned. He was wild, experienced and savagely beautiful. He was also damaged and dangerous. Our love was a cosmic collision of lust and obsession that left me scorched by exquisite flames of desire and domination. Jack possessed me. He educated me. Loving him was the greatest pleasure I'd ever known... up until the moment I discovered the dark secrets he had been hiding. I could never have imagined that pulling myself out of the agony of betrayal would lead me to reconnect with a former friend, Cameron O'Neill, scion of one of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful dynasties, and sworn enemy of Jack. Cameron's craving for me was acute. The relentless force of his devastating masculine beauty and his powerful, controlled virility was dizzying. Desire colored his fierce gaze. I knew it was wrong. Jack would never allow it. I had to do everything within my power to resist him, even when he pulled me down the rabbit hole where I uncovered dark truths about Manhattan's most secret society that led me to the brink of madness...
It’s summer in Newfoundland, and Julia’s nana wants to make a blueberry grunt, so Julia and her poppy head out to pick wild blueberries. Julia is a bit confused. Do blueberries grunt? She remembers hearing a pig grunt at a farm, but a blueberry? Now THAT would be funny! It isn’t until after a mishap in the blueberry bushes that Julia discovers the true meaning of a blueberry grunt. This is a tender, funny, relatable story of multigenerational love and cultural tradition. An ode to food memories and the traditions that unite families, Blueberry Grunt brings readers together with a universal and timely message of love and the importance of quality time. Included in this book are two simple recipes for classic blueberry desserts so that readers everywhere, of all ages, can experience a part of Julia’s adventure and a taste of Newfoundland.
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