This 2005 Best New Canadian Christian Author Award tells the story of a policewoman who finds redemption, aided by a man she suspects of murder. Linda Donner, a Boston native, travels north to rural Nova Scotia, and takes a post as a policewoman with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in hopes of finding balance in her life. Instead of a slower pace, things heat up as she becomes preoccupied with a controversial pastor she suspects is guilty of arson, murder and child abuse. She breaks into a church and finds the suspected pastor exorcising demons from a child. She believes she has caught him in the abuse act, but finds her own self powerless as she spirals into what appears to be a nervous breakdown. As she realizes she is fighting supernatural forces, she decides she must find God’s help--a God she had stopped believing in after a priest seduced her when she was a teenager. The only person who seems able to help is her chief suspect--the pastor.
Nobel Prize winner Al Gore wrote of Deborah Cramer's previous book Great Waters, "I urge everyone to read this book, to act on its message, and to pass on its teachings." Now Cramer offers a groundbreaking book for an even more urgent time. Our lives depend on the sea. As gifted science writer Deborah Cramer makes clear in this extraordinary volume, the ocean has been earth's lifeline for more than three and a half billion years. Life began in the scalding inferno of deep-sea hot springs. The first cell, the first plant, and the first animal were all born in the sea. Climate changes wrought by the sea created evolutionary pathways for mammals and gave rise to our human ancestors some 200,000 years ago. The one, interconnected sea still sustains us. Invisible plants in the ocean's sunlit surface give us air to breathe. Rushing currents supply water to the atmosphere's protective greenhouse and rain to dry land. But as Cramer reveals in this sweeping look at earth's biography, the vital partnership between earth and the life it nourishes has recently been disrupted. Today, a single terrestrial species, man, has begun to alter the health of the sea itself. The mark of humans on the seas is now everywhere—from the fertile waters of continental shelves to the icy reaches of the poles, from the dazzling diversity of coral reefs to the porous edge of estuaries. Even the open ocean bears clear traces of our harmful ways. Scientists believe human impact may have already sparked a catastrophic event that could change the sea and the earth irrevocably: the sixth mass planetary extinction on a scale unseen since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But unlike the forces that caused previous extinctions, humankind can make a choice. We can choose the mark we wish to make and the legacy we leave behind. Written in the passionate tradition of Rachel Carson, Smithsonian Ocean is at once a book for our time and for the ages. Carson wrote: "One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself: What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?" Cramer's powerful and inspiring message is equally a wake-up call: "We hold earth's life-giving waters—and our future—in our hands." Our lives depend on the sea.
Plastic surgeon Max Jordan treats the bored rich women of Chicago and is shocked when his son Joshua decides to focus his medical abilities on Haitian orphans. Embittered by Joshua's sudden death, Max travels to Haiti for answers and closure.
In the course of an ocean voyage, Cramer offers a remarkable meditation on and spiritual exploration of one of our least appreciated natural resources: the Atlantic Ocean. 20 line drawings.
Out of sight of most Americans, global corporations likeNestlé, Suez, and Veolia are rapidly buying up our local watersources—lakes, streams, and springs—and taking controlof public water services. In their drive to privatize and commodifywater, they have manipulated and bought politicians, clinchedbackroom deals, and subverted the democratic process by trying todeny citizens a voice in fundamental decisions about their mostessential public resource. The authors' PBS documentary Thirst showed howcommunities around the world are resisting the privatization andcommodification of water. Thirst, the book,picks up where the documentary left off, revealing the emergence ofcontroversial new water wars in the United States and showing howcommunities here are fighting this battle, often against companiesheadquartered overseas. Read areview...http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/18/RVGS9OHPKT1.DTL
How do you love God? How does a loving God allow difficult things to happen in your life? Can you even believe that God exists? The secret to loving God is trusting in His word and learning from and living through the stories found in the Bible. We can love God through prayer, through obedience, and through faith. We can even love God when we suffer. Loving God will help you grow in Him and help build the foundation to trusting and loving the Creator of the heavens and the earth. Deborah Tarver Waters invites us to join her on a spiritual odyssey that takes us deeper into an exploration of God's love for us and our love for Him. Through personal witness and candid sharing, Tarver Waters illustrates how God's gracious loving pursuit of us opens the door for a healing and transforming relationship with Him.
Still Waters: A Contemplative Retreat, is a doctoral dissertation based upon a five day contemplative retreat developed to have a positive impact upon the experience of Christ's presence among a self-selected group of women. A retreat environment was designed and facilitated with teachings and spiritual practices that invited participants into a deeper relationship with Christ. The spiritual formation practices of contemplative prayer, silence and solitude were introduced and utilized during the retreat. As a result, participants experienced a deeper intimacy with Christ and gained a new understanding of contemplative prayer, silence and solitude. Particularly, relationships with Christ were restored and renewed in unexpected ways.
It's as if Deborah Rosch Eifert's soul is writing this book, egging it on, awe driven and cheering, reminding us that rebirth is everywhere around us and within us. Her words are luscious, keenly poignant, and laden with imagery. It is a book of wisdom and it is a book of personal forgiveness as Eifert shows us how to become the ocean/that lives within [our] skin. Sewn from Water is an incredible poetic tribute to female strength and the human spirit. - Claire Hersom, author of Drowning: A Poetic Memoir and Dreamscape - Moon Pie Press How can we bear the hurt that it is to be human? Eifert turns her attention to the natural world and the self, demonstrating the fluidity of existence where the power of jays, oceans, pines, barnacles can perform a kind of alchemy to make the heart whole. - Susan Grimm, past Ohio Poet of the Year; Runner-up 2020 Wilder Prize; author, Roughed Up by the Sun's Mothering Tongue - Finishing Line Press In Sewn from Water, Deborah Rosch Eifert offers the reader not only a picture of the infinite and myriad negotiations between the self and the world that surrounds it, but also, in lush, visual language, a lyrical grimoire full of instructions on how that self, by virtue of connecting to often archetypal sources of energy and power, can shore itself up for the challenges to come. - Jenny E. Drai, author, The New Sorrow Is Less Than the Old Sorrow and Wine Dark - Black Lawrence Press
A modern woman confronts a nineteenth-century mystery in this haunting novel of tragedy, trapped spirits, and moving on from the past . . . Michelle left Australia to begin a new life in London away from the pain caused by her cheating husband and her own infertility. But one thing hasn’t changed: her ability to see and speak to the dead. When she encounters Ned, who died in 1848, Michelle wonders what unresolved business keeps his spirit from eternal rest. And as she explores Ned’s past, she learns of the tragic fate of Clara, Ned’s lover. But now that Michelle knows what haunts Ned, can she help free him—and herself at the same time? Dark Waters is a haunting debut novel about finding hope for the future by learning to set yourself free from the sins of the past.
In the tradition of the griots, oral historians, and all indigenous storytellers, Deborah Fletcher Mello brings to life the haunting story of Janay Tucker, a young woman who is forced to reflect back on her past and the memories of her tumultuous childhood when she receives notice of her incarcerated father's death. Rehashing history through the eyes of her paternal grandfather, James Tucker, Janay is made to flash back to a past with an abusive mother who dies a violent death, a father incarcerated for the crime, and the family and friends left to help rebuild her future. Through a tapestry of human encounters, Rested Waters delves into the emotions and experiences of love and turmoil, racism and respect, flesh and spirit.
Smoky Sky Smooth Water is the story of a young boy and his father who find themselves on Manhattan Island during the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers. Along with nearly five hundred thousand other refugees, they are rescued during the relatively unknown boatlift, a group of brave watermen who joined together in the face of danger to help stranded Americans.
Annotation For utilities serving up to 100,000 customers, this book provides guidance on implementing a water conservation program. With a menu of conservation approaches from which to choose, the book lets utilities plan a custom program. Includes worksheets, cost analysis, sample programs, and recommended budgets.
Each Students' Book offers:· Varied subjects, often humorous, ranging from science fiction to everyday scenes· A task on every page, or pair of pages, often based on a picture and usually with a puzzles element· Practice of a variety of skills, including matching, sequencing, cloze, classifying, deduction, and interpreting simple flow charts and maps· Constant repetition of basic sight words and concepts· New and difficult work introduced in meaningful concepts to help learners comprehend what they read
Fully revised and expanded with fresh insights, this new edition of The Elements of Ritual is a must-have resource on Wiccan ritual. Not only does it teach you step-by-step how to cast a circle, but it also explains why each step is important. Deborah Lipp looks at every phase through an elemental lens, revealing the process (earth), mythology (water), mystical inspiration (fire), and theology (air) behind it. The Elements of Ritual now features updates throughout on gender and polarity as well as all-new sections on the history of elemental associations and raising the cone of power. This edition also includes alternate orders for the traditional steps of ritual. You will learn how to write your own rituals, discover new ideas on magical tools, and use meditations to deepen your understanding of Wicca's most enduring rite.
This new book provides a sound summary of the rapidly expanding body of knowledge on ground water pollution sources, evaluation and control. It is used to plan and implement ground water quality management programs, and also may be used as a text. The first three (introductory) chapters are about ground water quality, its importance, its management, and information sources.
With the advent of the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1986, many water utilities are reexamining their water treatment practices. Upcoming new regulations on disinfection and on disinfection by-products, in particular, are the primary driving forces for the big interest in ozone. It appears that ozone, with its strong disinfection capabilities, and apparently lower levels of disinfection by-products (compared to other disinfectants), may be the oxidant/disinfectant of choice. Many utilities currently using chlorine for oxidation may need to switch due to chlorine by-product concerns. Utilities using chloramines may need to use ozone to meet CT requirements. This book, prepared by 35 international experts, includes current technology on the design, operation, and control of the ozone process within a drinking water plant. It combines almost 100 years of European ozone design and operating experience with North American design/operations experience and the North American regulatory and utility operational environment. Topics covered include ozone chemistry, toxicology, design consideration, engineering aspects, design of retrofit systems, and the operation and economics of ozone technology. The book contains a "how to" section on ozone treatability studies, which explains what information can be learned using treatability studies, at what scale (bench, pilot, or demonstration plant), and how this information can be used to design full-scale systems. It also includes valuable tips regarding important operating practices, as well as guidance on retrofits and the unique issues involved with retrofitting the ozone process. With ozone being one of the hottest areas of interest in drinking water, this book will prove essential to all water utilities, design engineers, regulators, and plant managers and supervisors.
This is part of a series of fiction for 11-14 year olds with reading ages of 6-9 years. The storybooks are carefully graded into four levels, using the Fry reading scale, and range from 400-3000 words in length. Built-in progression, through story length, language level and conceptual loading, allows reluctant readers to increase their reading skills and stamina gradually. The stories range across the genres of mystery, fantasy, romance, true stories, crime and horror. Each level is supported by a Teacher's Book and three cassettes.
OIL, THE KEY TO WORLD POWER Patrick Donovan, Texas wildcatter, has tapped into a vast reservoir. A senior Senator from Texas is presumed dead. Sam Donovan, Patrick’s daughter, finds herself in the bullseye of a world scramble to gain control of her father’s well. A helicopter pilot operating between the rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, Sam knows how the game is played. But this time, the stakes are life and death. PRAISE FOR Deep Water “Thrilling, explosive suspense, a wonderful romance, Deep Water has it all. So many twists and turns. I loved it.” - Barbara Freethy, #1 New York Times bestselling novelist
For centuries an ancient shipwreck in azure Greek waters has concealed an astonishing truth. Radio talk show host Sammy Greene and ex-cop Gus Pappajohn investigate. From the marble steps of the Parthenon to the peaks of the hidden monasteries of Mount Athos, the two risk their lives in a desperate race to find the lost chapter of human history.
This new book provides a sound summary of the rapidly expanding body of knowledge on ground water pollution sources, evaluation and control. It is used to plan and implement ground water quality management programs, and also may be used as a text. The first three (introductory) chapters are about ground water quality, its importance, its management, and information sources.
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