The Glades

A biography of the Florida environmental activist whose efforts on behalf of the Everglades have resulted in the protection and revitalization of that area.

Decathla is threatened by a fast spreading evil from the depths of Erishkigal. Arawn rules his dark domain, spawning twisted creatures from the Deep to fight for his cause. A single light shines in the dark. Lilith the Light Bearer is the last defence against the power of Arawn, the Lord of Belgatan. Faye, a headstrong Knight of Savarin, fights to unite the realms of Decathla. She is determined to see her sister's plans for peace become reality. Her life is thrown into chaos the day she meets the Lord of the Glades and her journey to save her world begins. Tiernan is a warrior and a leader of a strong, proud people. Gladesmen fight for their own and their women take care of their holdings. When Faye of Savarin comes to Belvale to ask for an alliance between their people, he is faced with a decision that will change his life and the fate of Decathla.

Life in the Glades came easy, greeting Bayler like a welcome friend, and it felt good to return to the life he loved, trapping and fishing in it’s tributaries and waterways. His dreams of coming home and starting his family had come to a full realization. But he could not have foreseen a threat stemming from the city, pushing its way into his world. Now he must decide between His devotion to God, his strong sense of right and wrong, and his promise to Netty of protecting his family’s safety. He pressed his knife into its sheath, and headed out to his truck.

He was looking for a missing person. What he found was a beautiful stranger. Looking for a fresh start, detective Jake Young headed south on a case that could help launch his PI business. He knew no amount of work would make him forget his tortured past, but maybe Faye Star could help. Caught up in Jake's missing persons case, the distracting Faye was hiding a secret he was begging to find out. Expertly guiding him through the swamps, Jake's job grew more complicated when someone started taking shots at the free-spirited beauty. As much as she protested she could take care of herself, Jake stepped in, refusing to admit how desperately he needed someone to save. Especially since he'd never be able to save himself...

Over the last century, the Everglades underwent a metaphorical and ecological transition from impenetrable swamp to endangered wetland. At the heart of this transformation lies the Florida sugar industry, which by the 1990s was at the center of the political storm over the multi-billion dollar ecological “restoration” of the Everglades. Raising Cane in the ’Glades is the first study to situate the environmental transformation of the Everglades within the economic and historical geography of global sugar production and trade. Using, among other sources, interviews, government and corporate documents, and recently declassified U.S. State Department memoranda, Gail M. Hollander demonstrates that the development of Florida’s sugar region was the outcome of pitched battles reaching the highest political offices in the U.S. and in countries around the world, especially Cuba—which emerges in her narrative as a model, a competitor, and the regional “other” to Florida’s “self.” Spanning the period from the age of empire to the era of globalization, the book shows how the “sugar question”—a label nineteenth-century economists coined for intense international debates on sugar production and trade—emerges repeatedly in new guises. Hollander uses the sugar question as a thread to stitch together past and present, local and global, in explaining Everglades transformation.

Uncensored screen play for a not yet produced drama series pilot; some content subject to removal or change for broadcast purposes.

New York Times bestselling author Laura Sebastian makes her middle grade debut with an emotional fantasy adventure about four friends who journey through a magical, Everglades-inspired swampland to break a curse tied to the death of a loved one. Best friends Cordelia and Larkin have always called the Glades—a peaceful swamp full of magical creatures—home. But when Oziris, Cordelia’s father and the leader of their village, dies unexpectedly, a dark curse sweeps over the land. The girls know that the curse must be tied to Oziris’s death, and they’re determined to break its hold on their home and bring Oziris back to life. Together, Cordelia, Larkin, and their two little brothers set off into the wild Glades in search of an elusive and enigmatic witch who is rumored to have the power to reverse death. The Glades are no longer a familiar and friendly place, though, and danger lurks around every corner. But on their journey, the children discover that the most difficult challenge isn’t wild marsh-maids or bogilisks or dragon-gators—it’s the grief threatening to consume them.

A visually stunning account of bygone days in the Everglades transports readers to the remote, half-wild frontier of southwest Florida in the early part of the twentieth century. Reprint.