Ecospatiality explores modern and contemporary American prose literature through the lens of place, showing how authors like William Least Heat-Moon, Willa Cather, Richard Wright, and Leslie Marmon Silko represent and reimagine real places in the world and the human-environment relationships therein. Building on the work of scholars in geography, sociology, ecocriticism, and geocriticism, this book articulates the theory of ecospatiality: an understanding of place as simultaneously spatial, ecological, and historical. In our current historical moment, which is characterized by ongoing ecological collapse and a not-unrelated increase in social disorder, few issues are more urgent than the human relationship with our environments. Whether we characterize this new epoch as the climate change era or the Anthropocene, we can no longer ignore the fact that the places we live are rapidly changing in response to economic and environmental pressures. Rather than thinking of place as a neutral site for social interaction, we should recognize how it underpins and intertwines with human experience. Fortunately, literature can help us think through how place operates. Lowell Wyse shows that texts can be understood as works of literary cartography. Focusing on works of nonfiction and fiction whose primary settings are on the North American continent, Ecospatiality demonstrates how these narratives rely on realistic literary geography to invoke, and sometimes retell, important aspects of environmental history within particular communities and bioregions.

The Rough Guide to Climate Change gives the complete picture of the single biggest issue facing the planet. Cutting a swathe through scientific research and political debate, this completely updated 2nd edition lays out the facts and assesses the options- global and personal- for dealing with the threat of a warming world. The guide looks at the evolution of our atmosphere over the last 4.5 billion years and what computer simulations of climate change reveal about our past, present, and future. This updated edition includes new information from the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and an updated politics section to reflect post-Kyoto developments. Discover how rising temperatures and sea levels, plus changes to extreme weather patterns, are already affecting life around the world. The guide unravels how governments, scientists and engineers plan to tackle the problem and includes in-depth information and lifestyle tips about what you can do to help.

Tess doesn't do playboy cowboys and Gage McBride is just that. It's the farthest thing from the truth. Gage hasn't been able to settle down since the woman he loved betrayed him. As he starts to win Tess's heart, they both end up in danger from a man who's out for revenge. Gage must save Tess while at the same time trying to stay alive.

Point Blank Special Agent Brooks Allen is furious when he learns his friend’s in-law is suspected of drug-trafficking. Natasha Simpson loves her new beginning in a small town in Arizona, where she runs into Brooks and enjoys his company. When Natasha finds out her products contain cocaine, her life is threatened, and everyone she loves is in danger. Brooks grows certain Natasha is innocent, then discovers the tangled web she’s caught in. Along the way, he loses his heart—now he just needs to make sure he doesn’t lose her…permanently. Chosen Prey Lyra Collins has made a life for herself in a sleepy artists’ community in Arizona. Having escaped from a cult five years ago, she keeps a low profile. When a mysterious man with a dark, dangerous look appears on her doorstep, she knows it’s time to run again. Former cop Dare Lancaster didn’t mean to lead a bunch of fanatical cult members straight to Lyra’s door. Now that he’s gotten her into this mess, he’s determined to get her out. Neal Barker is a cult prophet who rules the Temple of Light commune unchecked. According to his visions, he and Lyra are destined to produce the new Messiah. Soon Dare will discover just how far he’ll go to protect Lyra—and never let her go.

Charlee Burke is stuck on a deserted country road, just as a dangerous Christmas snowstorm begins to churn above her. With the storm coming, the closest person she knows she can call is the all-too-sexy-for-his-own-good Ace McBride—the last person on earth she wants to call. When Charlee’s name pops up on his phone, Ace is pleased, but surprised. As much as he teases her, and as mad as she gets at him, he figures she’s got to be pretty desperate. Sure enough, she’s in need of rescuing, and he’s happy to be her white knight. He’s always had a thing for Charlee, but he knows her history. He plans to show her he’s a man who can be trusted, and she can count on him. But her heart’s been shielded a long time. Charlee’s been afraid of relationships since a man ran a con on her to get to her inheritance. He ripped apart her life, and she doesn’t believe she’ll ever be able to fully trust her instincts after that terrible experience. With the storm coming in fast and hard, Charlee’s cabin is the closest shelter. The weather report says the blizzard will last for several days and they will be closed in together over the Christmas holiday. She’s not sure she can survive being trapped in such close quarters with Ace for that long. Alone. Ace is determined to win her heart. Charlee is determined to never go down that path again.

When Danica Cameron meets Creed McBride, the last thing she wants to do is get involved with a bull rider. Men who willingly put themselves in that kind of danger aren’t for her. It doesn’t matter that he is mouthwateringly hot and she is more than attracted to him. Creed wants Danica from the moment he spots her after a bull riding event. She’s beautiful, sexy, and intelligent. Her attempts at putting him off only make him want her more. Danica finds she can’t resist Creed’s cowboy charm and soon she finds herself falling for him. That is until something so emotionally devastating happens that she knows she can never trust him again. cowboy, western, country, rancher, rural, small town, suspense, sexy

Amazed by You Before he can come to terms with city folk leaving gates open and disrupting his operation, he meets Celine, the woman who runs the show. Damned if she doesn’t piss him off then impress him five minutes later. In Celine Northland's world, good looking men are a dime a dozen. When rancher Jayson McBride walks in, she meets her match in one sexy package. Jayson saves Celine’s life when her car is swept up in a dangerous flood. However, in the end it turns out the sexy, strong-headed woman just might have saved his. Loved by You Justice McBride feels like he’s been knocked upside the head with a two-by-four the moment he sees Fiona dancing. Fiona O’Shea and her daughter, Sophie, travel while selling their jewelry, and don’t have a place to call home. When Fiona meets a sexy cowboy, she starts to consider settling down. However, Fiona doesn’t think it’s possible. She escaped an abusive relationship and has been on the run with her daughter. Her ex, Gilroy, is hunting her… When he kidnaps Sophie, Justice and Fiona must find her before it’s too late. And build a love meant to last a lifetime. Midnight with You When Bailey McBride finishes grad school, he’s looking to relax in Hawaii before diving into her professional plans full force. Seth Greer, a Montana rodeo cowboy, is on the island to guest star in a charity island rodeo. He’s got several possibilities for a good career and life lined up. It all depends on what fate sends his way as to which fork in the road he will take. But then he spots Bailey. Although Bailey has had some bad experiences with men in rodeo, Seth isn’t like the others. He’s got plans for a life beyond competition, and that includes helping others as well as himself. Still, he isn’t part of her carefully planned future and the only thing she knows how to do anymore is run.

When an old nemesis resurfaces in New York City, girls from across the globe are recruited for a modeling competition, only to become enslaved prostitutes. It’s up to Lexi Steele, an undercover agent with the NSA’s Recovery Enforcement Division, and her partner, Nick Donovan, to infiltrate the operation and free the victims. Finding the mastermind, who slipped through their hands once before, is only half the challenge. Nick is keeping a shocking secret from his past that’s affecting their mission. Time is running out, and Lexi may be forced to do the unthinkable to see that the job is done.

Eight years ago Wayne Cameron hit rock bottom, when Kaitlyn Barrett walked out of his life after she had done everything she could for him. She’d had to do what he couldn’t—walk away from his addictions. Now a decorated soldier, Wayne was Special Forces in Afghanistan but returned to ranching life after an injury taken under fire. Kaitlyn comes home to Southern Arizona to take over her father’s ranch as she runs away from her demons…and she runs right into Wayne, her first and only real love. Now that Kaitlyn is back, Wayne is determined to show her that he’s a changed man and that he’s there for her as she faces the darkness that once threatened to consume her. Forces are working against Kaitlyn, trying to keep her from finding her new start. But that same element shows her that she really does need Wayne’s love, help, and support. Together they work to save her ranch and restore a love meant to last for eternity. cowboy, western, country, rancher, rural, small town, suspense, sexy