Where the Water Ends

Where the Water Ends
Author: Zoe Holman
Publisher: Melbourne University
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780522876826

Around the world, forced migration doubled in the decade leading up to 2019. Over that time, the borders of the European Union became the world's deadliest frontier. More than 20,000 people have died or disappeared while attempting to gain entry since 2012, the year the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In Where the Water Ends, Zoe Holman traces the story of this frontier from the perspective of migrants, mainly from the Middle East, via Greece, the cradle of European and 'western' civilisation, now itself marginalised within the EU and precariously hosting some 90,000 refugees. This is human history in the best sense. Through Holman's account we see the intricate and complex daily, monthly and yearly challenges of those seeking, within or outside of 'the system', a future for themselves and their loved ones in which they can be safe and thrive. Where the Water Ends urges us to reflect on the lessons of the past, the isolationist spirit of the present, and the promises and failures of the international institutions and conventions we continue to rely on in our hope for a better future.

The Water's End

The Water's End
Author: Christopher Hawkins
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1552127281

The Water's End is the story of Rob Miner, a blue-collar kid from coastal New Jersey trying to find his place in the world. He has spent his entire life dreaming of a tropical paradise where he can forget his past and surf the blue waves that haunt him. When the story opens, his grandmother has just died, and Rob knows he has nothing left to keep him home. He heads for Pacific Mexico, and winds up in a remote corner of Oaxaca, full of white beaches and empty waves, Zapatista rebels and Mayan ruins. There he finds everything he'd always longed for, including another American traveler with whom he falls in love. Rob revels in his nirvana, but it does not last long. He soon discovers that the American girl is not who she claimed. She too is hiding from her past, and has brought trouble to Mexico. With one stroke, Rob's dreamscape is threatened, and he is on the run again, towards some painful lessons about life, love and dreaming.

The Bookshop at Water's End

The Bookshop at Water's End
Author: Patti Callahan Henry
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2017-07-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0399583114

The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it... Bonny Blankenship’s most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with her best friend, Lainey McKay. Amid the sand dunes and oak trees draped with Spanish moss, they swam and wished for happy-ever-afters, then escaped to the local bookshop to read and whisper in the glorious cool silence. Until the night that changed everything, the night that Lainey’s mother disappeared. Now, in her early fifties, Bonny is desperate to clear her head after a tragic mistake threatens her career as an emergency room doctor, and her marriage crumbles around her. With her troubled teenage daughter, Piper, in tow, she goes back to the beloved river house, where she is soon joined by Lainey and her two young children. During lazy summer days and magical nights, they reunite with bookshop owner Mimi, who is tangled with the past and its mysteries. As the three women cling to a fragile peace, buried secrets and long ago loves return like the tide. READERS GUIDE INSIDE

Water's End

Water's End
Author: Ron D. Drain
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2000-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595129293

An imaginative “string” of speculative fiction started to unravel with the publication of Water’s Way. From there it looped and wound its way around and through Chain Speed and Kindred Spirits. And now the stage is set for Water’s End. A fitting conclusion filled with enough unexpected twists, turns, and fast paced action to keep even the most avid reader of suspense fiction entertained for hours. For you see…Jack Anderson had never allowed a case, any case, to totally preoccupy him. Even those very few that had managed to avoid the Precinct’s Closed Case File over the years had never completely engulfed his life for any significant length of time. The Bad Guys would always come and go. The city’s citizenry would always resume their daily lives once the media headlines softened and died away. And Maplewoods and Jack Anderson would always find their own delicate balance between human cruelty and blindfolded justice. But there was one. One case and one faceless maniac which had stuck to Anderson like glue. So tight that it opened the door to Anderson’s early retirement. So strong its pull that it continued to gnaw at him long after he should have found a way to pry it loose. And when Jerry Lee returned, the vice-like bond of dread and hate pushed Anderson another step closer to the edge.Water’s End…the journey continues.

So Close to You

So Close to You
Author: Rachel Carter
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2012-07-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062081071

Rachel Carter launches a mind-blowing time-travel trilogy with her YA novel So Close to You. Lydia Bentley doesn’t believe the rumors about the Montauk Project, that there’s some sort of government conspiracy involving people vanishing and tortured children. But her grandfather is sure that the Project is behind his father’s disappearance more than sixty years earlier. While helping her grandfather search Camp Hero, a seemingly abandoned military base on Long Island, for information about the disappearance, Lydia is transported back to 1944—just a few days before her great-grandfather’s disappearance. Lydia begins to unravel the dark secrets of the Montauk Project and her own family history, despite warnings from Wes, a mysterious boy she is powerfully attracted to but not sure she should trust.

River's End

River's End
Author: Melody Carlson
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 142671274X

With brokenness and humility, three generations of women return to their roots to discover who they are and who they are meant to be.

The Bookshop at Water's End

The Bookshop at Water's End
Author: Patti Callahan Henry
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2017-07-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0399583122

The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it... Bonny Blankenship’s most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with her best friend, Lainey McKay. Amid the sand dunes and oak trees draped with Spanish moss, they swam and wished for happy-ever-afters, then escaped to the local bookshop to read and whisper in the glorious cool silence. Until the night that changed everything, the night that Lainey’s mother disappeared. Now, in her early fifties, Bonny is desperate to clear her head after a tragic mistake threatens her career as an emergency room doctor, and her marriage crumbles around her. With her troubled teenage daughter, Piper, in tow, she goes back to the beloved river house, where she is soon joined by Lainey and her two young children. During lazy summer days and magical nights, they reunite with bookshop owner Mimi, who is tangled with the past and its mysteries. As the three women cling to a fragile peace, buried secrets and long ago loves return like the tide. READERS GUIDE INSIDE

A Long Walk to Water

A Long Walk to Water
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547251270

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.

The End of Abundance

The End of Abundance
Author: David Zetland
Publisher: Aguanomics Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0615469736

In a past of abundance, we had clean water to meet our demands for showers, pools, farms and rivers. Our laws and customs did not need to regulate or ration demand. Over time, our demand has grown, and scarcity has replaced abundance. We don't have as much clean water as we want. We can respond to the end of abundance with old ideas or adopt new tools specifically designed to address water scarcity.In this book, David Zetland describes the impact of scarcity on our many water uses, how the institutions of abundance fail in scarcity, and how economic ideas and tools can help us direct water to its highest and best use. Written for non-academic readers, The End of Abundance provides examples, insights and ideas to anyone interested in the management of our most precious resource.