Geography has dealt Florida a lavish hand when it comes to natural gifts. The Sunshine State is filled with unusual flora and fauna. South Florida is home to the endangered Florida panthers and the only North America crocodiles. The Everglades swarms with wildlife from birds such as wood storks, ibises, flamingos, roseate spoonbills and dozens of others to mammals such as black bears, bobcats, fox squirrels and raccoons. When it comes to reptiles, you will find more alligators than you ever dreamed of as well as gopher tortoises, caimans, green anoles, five lined skinks and hundreds of other snakes, turtles and lizards.  

Take a boat ride into the surrounding waters of the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico, you will find dolphins dancing in your wake.

Drop on down to Big Pine Key, which is the only place you can encounter the tiny Key deer in the wild. You will probably spot a few sun-loving iguanas as you island hop through the Keys.

South Florida’s plant life is also abundant and rich. From the native mangroves, which are at the root of the food chain to the colorful exotic Brazilian pepper, which threatens native plant life but seems impossible to eradicate to the delicate wild orchids, which thrive on air alone, your senses will be overwhelmed by the color and variety.

Then there are also all the refuges, preserves, parks and zoos that make South Florida a nature lover’s paradise. 

A novel of hand to hand combat, sex with a foxy werewolf and interstellar love and war This is not chick–lit and I do not emote well nor do the characters in the book. They are direct and tough and since she’s part wolf she acts like what she is. He is a soldier and talks and acts like one. They are both warriors and are bonded for life just as wolves are.

Here's a sample: 

Chief shouts. ”Don’t fire, use knives and bayonets only.”

 He charges into the fray with a Bowie knife in one hand and his tomahawk in the other. He hacks a Chink down, stabs another, then throws his hawk at the last one hitting him in the face knocking him back into wolf lady who bites him on the neck ripping his throat out. Wolf lady comes up licking her lips while he’s holding his side huffing and puffing trying not to have a heart attack. 

A while later he feels her hands moving on his body lingering at certain places. He stirs and says. ”I don’t know if I can do this after that wild session.”

“Not to worry I went to the pharmacy and bought some of those pills they advertise on TV and  I slipped one in your drink. I want to see if we can get that four hour erection and I intend to make good use of it. What’s that song ‘All day all night Maryann’, oh I see it’s working and it’s your turn on top.

 The females of the Ghang are like the wolves they are related to, they go into heat once a year and expect a years worth of sex in that week.

OF TIME AND THE RIVER

A time when leg-switchings from a limb of a child's choosing or mouth-washings With lye soap kept kids walking the straight and narrow.

A river where a summerday swim or tending a fishing pole or lazily floating Down the river washed away troubles like rain drops on new fallen snow.

A time when: "kill what you eat … eat what you kill" was the bag limit.

"if you used slang the boogerman would get you."

Princess Annado, a honey-fairy, reigns over the Land of Candy. In so doing, she teaches these Sugarites important life values.

There is nothing better than fantasy to get your child’s imaginative juices flowing. Watch your children’s eyes light-up as these candy characters take life. And, each versery-rhyme story has been created as a learning tool for young minds.

Princess Annado’s Versery-Rhymes is a parent’s dream: Give your children candy without the calories or tooth decay!

What happens later that night is what sets some hotels apart from their contemporaries. He awakens with the distinct feeling that he is not alone. There is a presence in the room. He senses it means him no harm. In fact, the presence of this benevolent spirit reassures him that there is life after death..

He snuggles back into the soft mattress and drifts back into a peaceful sleep. After all, he did chose to stay at a host with a ghost.

Join me as we tour some of the most interesting historic hotels in the southeast. They range from the opulent to the economical. Some are in big cities; some in tiny towns. But they all have one thing in common. They have a guest that never leaves.

While we are there, we will also get a glimpse of the surrounding area and its attractions. So pick up this book and prepare for a trip you will never forget.

He feels a strange connection with the state and her people, a connection that is hard to explain to his wealthy family and friends in Baltimore.

Duncan makes yearly visits to Miami and into the mysterious Everglades until after World War I. After the war, Duncan relocates his family to the muck lands of the newly drained Everglades. In Moore Haven, the largest town in interior south Florida, his  family put down their roots.  

“Tragedy in Tin Can Holler” is a captivating must read true story of a family’s past transgressions revealing a family member who was a serial killer that got away with murder during the great depression, incest and child abuse, lies and betrayals and domestic violence buried for decades! 

Every Tuesday morning, a small group of golden age women (the Stitchers and Bitchers) get together for coffee. When one of the women goes missing, the rest of the group determines to find out why. With no acceptable assistance from the local police, these women turn amateur detectives. Their sleuthing takes them from their small hometown in Nebraska to South Dakota.

Is Ada alive or dead? Was Ada in an accident, or was there foul play?

When you think of a crack-head, what kind of picture comes to mind? A stupid teenager, with little, or no education? A prostitute? A smack-talking, ghetto-born African-American? Or, maybe, a misfit Caucasion dropout, from a broken home, with an alcoholic, abusive, absentee father? Crack-heads are street-walking, panhandling, hustling, poorly dressed, teeth missing, gaunt, thin, useless and dangerous looking kinds of people, that you’d never invite over to dinner, right?

Well, guess again, because the author of these memoirs is an educated, articulate and thoughtful, formerly successful family and businessman, a grandfather, who owns expensive suits, always knows how to appear well groomed, and knows which fork is used when, at the gourmet banquets of the upper middle class.

"I Romanced the Stone" observes, discusses, and exposes fundamental tendencies of addiction in our society, and weaves these general themes throughout the personal story of the author’s journey. The reader comes to understand that drug addiction is not some exclusive disease of the poor, or the uneducated, or the social castaways of our world; it is an insatiable and insidious ghost, shadowing anyone, of any walk of life, from any economic or social environment. It can appear as a false god, "the good life", and then devour you as "the grim reaper" is revealed bewilderingly to you, as your new slave master. The book tells how the author was rehabilitated, cured, and had his life and soul spared, through love and help from family, and most significantly, through a powerful spiritual experience. It is an inspiring, yet fearsomely awesome story, sending a message of hope, and advisement.

An exceptional coming of age story by a first time writer. A boy growing up in a small town experiencing life from grades one through twelve. The book also details his experiences with an adventuresome sibling, who generally steals the stage. A must read for both young and old, that will surely bring a smile to your lips and fond memories to mind. You will easily relate to the situations, and the characters will be like old friends revisited. A scrape with death as a young boy brings a life's importance into focus for the author. The stories are SO good, you won't want them to end. "Dear Alfie" is a fast, easy and enjoyable read.

VICKIE needs to know. Was it an accidental overdose, or murder? To find the answer, she must leave her safe life behind and plunge into the terrors of the drug culture. Will the search lead her to love? Or will she end up on a morgue slab, just one more casualty in the war against drugs?

HANK His mistakes caused the death of those he loved most. Drug addiction is his sworn enemy. His chosen life has no place in it for love until he meets Vickie.