Rapid City, South Dakota, June 9, 1972... 238 people died, 5 are still missing. In the midst of one of the worst floods in the history of the US, one young woman clung to the roof of a house. Merlyn Magner survived, but she lost her brother, mother, and father. Questions coursed through her mind then and for much of the rest of her life: Why did this happen? Why did my family die? Why did I survive? Rescued from that rooftop, Merlyn set out to find the answers to these questions.
Oakland, California, is a city shaped by water. The waterfront, home to the ship and rail yards, is also ripe for development. There’s lots of money to be made, so greed and crime inevitably follow. PI Jeri Howard looks into the murder of a former coworker who was a security guard at a construction site on the Embarcadero. It was a surprise when Cal Brady’s body washed up on the Estuary shoreline. But Jeri is certain Cal’s death was no accident, and she’s determined to find out who killed him, and why.
This book chronicles a fascinating aspect of Texas history ... So much of the history of tourism has focused on the grand places that have retained some appeal - such as Saratoga Springs or Newport News - or on the grand dames of the National Park system. This work focuses on the many small-scale, individual entrepreneur operations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This is an important reflection of the scale of operations at the time, of the critical role of individual boosters, and the significance of local creativity in American society ... I will certainly add springs to my list of destinations and will have to carry a copy of the book in my car library.
Middle-aged Beth Calhoun is haunted by the drowning death of her young mother and the shame of having no father. Escaping from an abusive marriage, she retreats to her family's wilderness island home and delves into her mother's old diaries, which contain long-held secrets.
This historical study reveals a fascinating yet forgotten aspect of life in nineteenth century Texas—its once-famous mineral spring health spas. Southern Texas once boasted an enviable variety of mineral waters. Though most are closed and nearly forgotten today, Texas spas and resorts once drew thousands of visitors from across the country. They came seeking rejuvenation of body and spirit in the healing mineral waters. This book offers the first comprehensive history of Texas’ healing springs. Janet Valenza tracks the rise, popularity, and decline of the "water cure" from the 1830s to the present day. She follows the development of major spas and resorts, such as Mineral Wells and Indian Hot Springs near El Paso, as well as smaller, family-run springs. Valenza also describes how mineral waters influenced patterns of settlement, transportation routes, commerce, and people’s attitudes toward the land. Period photos and quotes from those seeking cures offer vivid glimpses into the daily life at the springs, which Valenza lists and describes county-by-county in the appendix.
Between extremes of climate farther north and south, the 38th North parallel line marks a temperate, middle latitude where human societies have thrived since the beginning of civilization. It divides North and South Korea, passes through Athens and San Francisco, and bisects Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada, where authors David and Janet Carle make their home. Former park rangers, the authors set out on an around-the-world journey in search of water-related environmental and cultural intersections along the 38th parallel. This book is a chronicle of their adventures as they meet people confronting challenges in water supply, pollution, wetlands loss, and habitat protection. At the heart of the narrative are the riveting stories of the passionate individuals—scientists, educators, and local activists—who are struggling to preserve some of the world's most amazing, yet threatened, landscapes. Traveling largely outside of cities, away from well-beaten tourist tracks, the authors cross Japan, Korea, China, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Greece, Sicily, Spain, Portugal, the Azores Islands, and the United States—from Chesapeake Bay to San Francisco Bay. The stories they gather provide stark contrasts as well as reaffirming similarities across diverse cultures. Generously illustrated with maps and photos, Traveling the 38th Parallel documents devastating environmental losses but also inspiring gains made through the efforts of dedicated individuals working against the odds to protect these fragile places.
In this compilation of three separately published works, Shyanna, Rachel, and Cora, three thirteen-year-old mermaids in the Kingdom of Neptunia, have their friendships tested by secrets, worries, and other challenges.
This story is about the love affair between a Rock Star and a young girl. They met secretly, but out in the open--in front of the family business. He watched her grow up. As they spent more time together, their conversations became more stimulating. Because of some of her wacky suggestions, he found he wasn't limited to writing only about love. They discussed religious beliefs, the Bible, world peace, space travel, world hunger, the environment, business principles, panic in business, and how farming communities were formed centuries ago. The book also shows some of each of their personal struggles.
This book is a practical and easily readable guide for neurologists, obstetricians, and primary care doctors treating female patients with neurological illness in their reproductive years. Offers wide ranging coverage, including family planning and lactation Presents information in approachable tables and summaries, focusing on high yield information useful for clinical consultation Is written by a team of experts and edited by recognized leaders in the field
Malnutrition due to hunger is the number one risk to human health worldwidegreater than malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis combined. Readers learn how, worldwide, 70 percent of all freshwater is used for agriculture as well as many other facts. During a drought, people cant get access to water, and food production suffers. One billion people in the world do not have access to safe water. Half of the worlds hospitalizations are because of water-related diseases. Approximately one and a half million children die every year from water-borne diseases. Food production and water supplies are inseparably linked to the climate, and the Earths climate is changing. Droughts used to occur every six to eight years in East Africa, but now they occur every one or two years. The average temperature in the United States has risen 2º F in the past 50 years, and it continues to rise. The coming changes are threatening our food and water supplieshigher temperatures and unpredictable rainfall will cause more drought and famine. Global stability and millions of lives are at stakeand were responsible. Human activities like industry, agriculture, transportation, and deforestation are causing global warming and climate change. The brightest minds are working on ways to slow the effects of climate change, limit its impact, and adapt to the unavoidable changes that are on the way. International cooperation has made it possible to begin saving different seed types in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, as a final safety net against global famine and food extinction. As of May 2010, the vault held samples of 526,000 unique crop varieties. Engineers are also perfecting methods to conserve water, such as special water tanks that harvest rain. And there are many promising innovations just around the corner, like artificial trees that absorb carbon from the atmosphere. Various cutting-edge green energy and construction, geoengineering, bioengineering, agricultural, hydrological, and conservation technologies and practices are discussed, as are the latest government regulations and international treaties and initiatives. What the reader can do to support and further these efforts at home, school, and around town are is also outlined in this beneficial resource. All of these and many more promising technologies, intriguing breakthroughs, and proactive strategies are examined in this volume, which ultimately provides readers with a sense of hope, cautious optimism, and an urgent call to arms, and it continues to rise.
When Texas cowboy, Jesse Pruitt, purchases land in Florida he quickly discovers ranching in Florida is uniquely different from ranching in Texas. When Jesse’s life intersects with Harriet Painter, a survivor of abuse at the hands of her uncle Buford, Malachai McQueen, the son of an El Paso working woman and others with names like Moccasin Bob and Pelo Berryhill, what results is a case of murder, stolen identity, a runaway girl in peril and a love story. Cracker Justice explores the true history of the Sara Sota Vigilance Committee, a group of prominent ranchers and business men who resorted to violent tactics to evict squatters and farmers from the open range. Itis a novel of Florida’s outlaw history that blends historical fact with engaging fictional characters who revolve around the classic cowboy hero – Jesse Pruitt. Cracker Justice combines all the essential parts of a classic Cracker Western.
The author of the acclaimed Dangerous Birds followed that success with a new collection of essays on the natural world, these connected by the theme of water: exploring issues as varied as the joy that water brings, the wistful rememberings it engenders, and its sacredness. As with all of Lembke’s essays, the world of classical myth and its characters meld with her native haunts and their people, lending resonance to the seemingly simplest things: a beetle in the garden, a tangle of forgotten roses, an afternoon rainstorm. Now available in paperback for the first time, Skinny Dipping brings us waters as diverse as the mythical River Styx and the Bullpasture, a stream near Lembke’s Virginia home. In the title essay she looks down a long corridor of time to visit Pliny, the natural historian, for a "skinny dip" in A.D. 79; "Up the Creek" examines a lazy day’s canoe trip with a frightened young friend about to leave home; "And This Way the Water Comes Down at the Gorge" is a tale of a burial—with a fine supporting cast of Faulkneresque characters. Skinny Dipping will delight all lovers of Janet Lembke’s other books, and anyone who appreciates the art of the personal essay.
With mercurial wands, Baal s angels, decks with wild Jacks of oracle bones, tempest Serpens, Lord Byron on the Bridge of Sighs, stallions mottled grey, a dark blue stronger than the Flemish blue of hummingbirds, and poesis lying in the ashes of a dress, Janet Hamill turns her wizard poet s eye on an immense body of alchemical empathies. This book is a romantic, surreal, lyrical Voyage. It twists and turns with the playful tide of poetic vision, enhanced by the delicate measures of Patti Smith s photography. Kudos all around. Anne Waldman Reading Janet Hamill now, as I have over the last thirty years, I m amazed again at the particulars of the world her poetry makes a night world, as I read it, peopled with bright creatures and splashes of color, beautiful and terrifying by turns. With this there is a mix, too, of pop forms and strains, and of catholic and pagan names and images angels and saints and hermits as in the vision of her sleeping gypsy: firebird sweets / a morsel a taste of carrion / . . . as in a dream. With this and much more, she has become indispensable. Jerome Rothenberg With its unbridled surrealistic, hypnotic imagery, Janet Hamill s alchemy of language gives us back communion with our souls. With a magician s grace she reminds us of the enchantment of our being. Hers is a music both modern and magik. Maureen Owen . . . Janet Hamill has sought transcendence in language on the page or sung . . . Hamill s mastery of form and feeling comes together to create a poem that delicately examines celebrity, gallantry, silence, talent, and beauty. Only a poet could do that. Or maybe only Janet Hamill. Patricia Spears Jones
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