The Secret Pool

The Secret Pool
Author: Kimberley Ridley
Publisher: Tilbury House Nature Book
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Children's literature
ISBN: 9780884483397

You might walk right by a vernal pool and not notice it. Often mistaken for mere puddles in the woods, vernal pools are the source of life for many interesting creatures. These secret pools form every year when low places on the forest floor fill up with rain and melted snow. They soon become home to hatching wood frogs, spotted salamanders, and fairy shrimp. Even in late summer and fall, creatures such as turtles and snakes rely on these places for shelter and food.

The Hidden Pool

The Hidden Pool
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 8184754558

Ruskin Bond's first novel for children in a whole new look! Laurie, an English boy in a small hill town in India, strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anil, the son of a local cloth merchant, and Kamal, an orphan who sells buttons and shoelaces but dreams of going to college. One day the three discover a secret pool on the mountainside, and it is there that they plan their greatest escapade yet—a trek to the Pindari Glacier, where no one from their town has gone before. This newly illustrated edition of Bond’s magical tale of camaraderie and adventure is sure to win over yet another generation of readers.

The Secret Pool

The Secret Pool
Author: Kimberly Ridley
Publisher: Tilbury House Nature Book
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780884484943

You might walk right by a vernal pool and not notice it. Often mistaken for mere puddles in the woods, vernal pools are the source of life for many interesting creatures. These secret pools form every year when low places on the forest floor fill up with rain and melted snow. They soon become home to hatching wood frogs, spotted salamanders, and fairy shrimp. Even in late summer and fall, creatures such as turtles and snakes rely on these places for shelter and food.

Chandelier

Chandelier
Author: David O’Meara
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2024-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0889714770

Award-winning poet David O’Meara captures one family’s precarious balance between misery and hope in his debut novel. Twenty-year-old Georgia is reeling from severe depression after the death of her best friend when she arrives in South Korea. Everyone teaching English is there for one of two reasons—adventure or escape—and she quickly falls in with a group of other foreigners. She eases into a life of late-night bars, riotous student protests and surfing until some unexpected news forces her to face the problems she has left behind. Hugo Walser is bound for Barcelona to publicly confront the man he’s convinced is presenting a keynote speech about Hugo’s controversial failure as an architect. Determined to drink away his pain until the big event, Hugo rambles through the city, distracted by thoughts of how he’s failed his family. When the police call to investigate the disappearance of his ex-wife Sarah Trimble, Hugo turns his attention to all he stands to lose. Meanwhile, Sarah, a high-end real estate agent, has been duped out of her life savings by a con man. En route to sell her last asset, the neglected family cottage in Gatineau, she’s derailed when her car is caught in a flash flood. Alone and desperate, she seizes one last chance to right a wrong. Following a modern family’s dysfunction, Chandelier is a three-part portrait of a young adult and her divorced parents as they navigate profound loss and disappointment and the crux between despair and optimism.

The Pool Is Closed

The Pool Is Closed
Author: Hannah S. Palmer
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2024-10-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0807183199

In 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a seemingly all-white swimming pool, she started to worry about how her young sons would learn to swim. Would they grow up accustomed to the stubbornly segregated pools of Atlanta? Was it safe for them to wade in creeks laced with urban runoff or dive into the ever-warming, man-made swimming holes of the South? Should they just join the Y? But these weren’t just parenting questions. In the South, how we swim—and whether we have access to water at all—is tied up in race and class. As she took her sons pool-hopping across Atlanta, Palmer found an intimate lens through which to view the city’s neighborhoods. In The Pool Is Closed, she documents the creeks behind fences, the springs in the sewers, the lakes that had all but vanished since her own parents learned to swim. In the process, she uncovers complex stories about environmental history, water policy, and the racial politics of public spaces. Nothing prepared Palmer for the contamination, sewage, and bodies that appear when you look at water too long. Her search for water became compulsive, a way to make sense of the world. The Pool Is Closed is a book about water: where it flows and where it floods, who owns it, and what it costs. It’s also a story about embracing parenthood in a time of environmental catastrophe and political anxiety, of dwindling public space and natural resources. It chronicles a year-long quest to find a place to swim and finding, instead, what makes shared water so threatening and wild.

Security Protocols

Security Protocols
Author: Bruce Christianson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642417175

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Security Protocols, held in Cambridge, UK, in March 2013. The volume contains 14 revised papers with transcripts of the presentation and workshop discussion and an introduction, i.e. 15 contributions in total. The theme of the workshop was "What's Happening on the Other Channel?".

The Golden Room

The Golden Room
Author: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1928
Genre: English poetry
ISBN: