Follow Jane's adventurous and tumultuous journey, a struggling secretary unable to retain a job. A sliver of hope arrives when she's offered a position with Temporary Secretary, an agency veiled in enigmatic allure, offering services far beyond the realm of clerical duties.Venturing into uncharted territories, Jane finds herself entangled in a world of forbidden desires and provocative undertakings, becoming the centerpiece of unspoken fantasies.This tale of liberation and ...

‘At a certain point in illness care is the only thing we have. Care for those we love, care for ourselves.’ Roger Ebert, US film critic and screen writer. ‘To be vulnerable is to live.’ In Tales from the Cancer Ward renowned filmmaker Paul Cox celebrates the beauty and fragility of life. The unexpected message of illness that he is delivered leaves him feeling utterly alone and with no alternative but to confront his own mortality, to question the separation of the spirit and the...

Follow Jane's adventurous and tumultuous journey, a struggling secretary unable to retain a job. A sliver of hope arrives when she's offered a position with Temporary Secretary, an agency veiled in enigmatic allure, offering services far beyond the realm of clerical duties.Venturing into uncharted territories, Jane finds herself entangled in a world of forbidden desires and provocative undertakings, becoming the centerpiece of unspoken fantasies.This tale of liberation and ...

A neophyte reporter, William Weston III, assigned to cover the U.S. army's search for Pancho Villa, quickly becomes entangled with a bull-of-the-woods lumberjack named Monte Segundo and Rosa del Carmen Fernandez Bustamonte, a fiery captain in the revolutionary army.Together the trio plunge into the heart of the Mexican Revolution, Monte seeking revenge for the murder of his parents, Rosa struggling to justify the barbarism of Villa, and William attempting to find his place in a wor...

The saga of Monte Segundo, Rosa Bustamonte and Billy Cabott continues as the trio is unwittingly drawn into a military search and rescue mission along the 1916 U.S.-Mexican border. Soon it is discovered that the woman they are looking for, an Eastern aristocrat, was not injured or lost but has been kidnapped. Believing the woman has been taken by bandits, the search continues deep into Guadalupe Canyon. However, what the combined patrol of civilians and soldiers eventually discover stuns e...

Having recently learned the location of his parent's graves, Monte Segundo heads for an abandoned ranch near the U.S.-Mexican border. Hoping to recover some of his lost memories, he returns to the site where his father and mother were murdered thirty years before.Hiding under the stones of one of the graves, Monte is astonished to discover an emaciated fugitive desperately trying to hide from a band of approaching rurales. Resenting the intrusion and distrusting the rurales, Monte ...

With the war lost and refusing to live under Yankee domination, Confederate soldier Tyler Grayson heads west. Taking a steamer up the Missouri River, Grayson is determined to start a new life with allegiance to no-one. However, Grayson is befriended by Jericho, a twelve year old ex-slave and cabin boy who becomes Grayson's constant companion. Aboard the steamer, Lilly Kendrick, the widow of a Yankee officer, discovers to her shame that she is attracted to Grayson. Thrown together by circum...

Pursued by a posse, gambler and womanizer Caleb Felton joined the Confederate company that entered Tucson, Arizona in 1862. The Old Pueblo, almost deserted, was surrounded by bandits and Apaches, but inside its walls a few Anglos and Mexicans held out. Within the Pueblo, Caleb briefly, mysteriously crosses paths with the beautiful Bricela Verde. Then both their lives are altered forever by the battle of Picacho Pass, the westernmost conflict of the Civil War. After twenty years separation,...

We've always lived on a dangerous planet, but its disasters aren't what they used to be. How the World Breaks gives us a breathtaking new view of crisis and recovery on the unstable landscapes of the Earth's hazard zones. Father and son authors Stan and Paul Cox take us to the explosive fire fronts of overheated Australia, the future lost city of Miami, the fights over whether and how to fortify New York City in the wake of Sandy, the Indonesian mud volcano triggered by natural ga...

We've always lived on a dangerous planet, but its disasters aren't what they used to be. How the World Breaks gives us a breathtaking new view of crisis and recovery on the unstable landscapes of the Earth's hazard zones. Father and son authors Stan and Paul Cox take us to the explosive fire fronts of overheated Australia, the future lost city of Miami, the fights over whether and how to fortify New York City in the wake of Sandy, the Indonesian mud volcano triggered by natural ga...

The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human health. Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water quality.Biodiversity and Human Health brings together leading thinkers on the globa...

Blending lives together is an art, and animals have a sensitivity to the people with whom they share their lives. A young puppy sets out on an adventure to find a family, wondering what else is yet to be discovered.