Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia

Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia
Author: Lisa M Russell
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2021-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 143966501X

An archeologist reveals the mysterious world that disappeared under North Georgia’s man-made lakes in this fascinating history. North Georgia has more than forty lakes, and not one is natural. The state’s controversial decision to dam the region’s rivers for power and water supply changed the landscape forever. Lost communities, forgotten crossroads, dissolving racetracks and even entire towns disappeared, with remnants occasionally peeking up from the depths during times of extreme drought. The creation of Lake Lanier displaced more than seven hundred families. During the construction of Lake Chatuge, busloads of schoolboys were brought in to help disinter graves for the community’s cemetery relocation. Contractors clearing land for the development of Lake Hartwell met with seventy-eight-year-old Eliza Brock wielding a shotgun and warning the men off her property. Georgia historian and archeologist Lisa Russell dives into the history hidden beneath North Georgia’s lakes.

Lake Sidney Lanier

Lake Sidney Lanier
Author: Robert David Coughlin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 391
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780966224504

Castle Danger (Matt Lanier, #2)

Castle Danger (Matt Lanier, #2)
Author: Chris Norbury
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1634910508

WINNER! B.R.A.G. Medallion (Book Readers Appreciation Group) for overall excellence among independently published titles HONORABLE MENTION! Writer's Digest's Self-Published Book Awards -Genre Category Finalist--Adult Fiction--MN Writes, MN Reads Self-Published Author Contest. Author Chris Norbury donates a portion of all book sales to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Minnesota (BBBS). Fugitive Matt Lanier, unjustly accused of a violent crime, has been hiding in the northeastern Minnesota wilderness for nine months. The law wants him in jail. His enemies want him dead. He simply wants to survive the most brutal winter in decades. After rescuing an injured trapper, Matt is forced to leave his primitive encampment. He undertakes a Herculean trek through a blizzard to Castle Danger, a small town on the rugged North Shore of Lake Superior. There he’s saved from near death by Allyson Clifford, a shrewd and beautiful restaurant owner with secrets of her own. Despite wanting to move on in order to evade his pursuers, Matt helps Allyson weather a business crisis as repayment for her benevolence. Then Allyson’s estranged husband, Donnie Vossler, shows up intent on reclaiming their 8-year-old son, Josh. Caught in the middle of the custody battle, Matt learns about Allyson and Vossler’s criminal past life together and is torn between self-preservation and his growing feelings for Allyson and Josh. Matt's recent past has left him with little hope for the future, so when Vossler resorts to sabotage, kidnapping, and attempted murder to capture his son, Matt's integrity, honor, and survival instincts are put to the ultimate test just as a hit man hired by his enemies closes in for the kill.

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Author: Patrick Phillips
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393293025

"[A] vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America." —U.S. Congressman John Lewis Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. But then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. One man was dragged from a jail cell and lynched on the town square, two teenagers were hung after a one-day trial, and soon bands of white “night riders” launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving all 1,098 black citizens out of the county. The charred ruins of homes and churches disappeared into the weeds, until the people and places of black Forsyth were forgotten. National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth’s tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and ’80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth “all white” well into the 1990s. In precise, vivid prose, Blood at the Root delivers a "vital investigation of Forsyth’s history, and of the process by which racial injustice is perpetuated in America" (Congressman John Lewis).

Unquenchable

Unquenchable
Author: Robert Jerome Glennon
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2010-04-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1597266396

In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run out. Robert Glennon captures the irony—and tragedy—of America’s water crisis in a book that is both frightening and wickedly comical. From manufactured snow for tourists in Atlanta to trillions of gallons of water flushed down the toilet each year, Unquenchable reveals the heady extravagances and everyday inefficiencies that are sucking the nation dry. The looming catastrophe remains hidden as government diverts supplies from one area to another to keep water flowing from the tap. But sooner rather than later, the shell game has to end. And when it does, shortages will threaten not only the environment, but every aspect of American life: we face shuttered power plants and jobless workers, decimated fi sheries and contaminated drinking water. We can’t engineer our way out of the problem, either with traditional fixes or zany schemes to tow icebergs from Alaska. In fact, new demands for water, particularly the enormous supply needed for ethanol and energy production, will only worsen the crisis. America must make hard choices—and Glennon’s answers are fittingly provocative. He proposes market-based solutions that value water as both a commodity and a fundamental human right. One truth runs throughout Unquenchable: only when we recognize water’s worth will we begin to conserve it.

Power to hurt

Power to hurt
Author: Darcy O'Brien
Publisher: Harpercollins
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1996-03-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780060179595

Encompasses the landmark federal case against Judge David Lainer, who was sentenced in April 1993 to twenty-five years without parole for harrassing, stalking, and raping nineteen women, and who was recently released. By the author of A Dark and Bloody Ground.

Two Faces of a Serial Rapist

Two Faces of a Serial Rapist
Author: Jack Mallard
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-12-19
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9781478213598

Two Faces of a Serial Rapist is a true-crime story of shattered dreams, passions, violence, extreme fear, explicit sexual assaults, a sexual predator, and the anatomy of DNA profiling. After three years of burglaries, sexual assaults, and rapes of women in apartments within a few miles of the "Big Chicken", a local landmark restaurant in Marietta, a "John Doe" suspect is arrested. A masked serial rapist would silently enter apartments of women while asleep, and demand, "Don' screan, I won't hurt you, I'll be here only a minute and I'll be gone." At times, the predator would have erectile dysfunction, and once a victim actually fought him off receiving a knife wound ... but could this suspect be the most unlikely serial predator? Terry Greenway was honorably known in his community to be a pillar of the Church, a good citizen with two jobs, a wife and three teen-age sons. In 1992, Greenway was put on trial for 14 felony charges of Rape, Sexual Assaults, and related offenses. Would the new scientific technology of genetics profiling of an individual through testing of the suspect's DNA against the DNA from the cold-case rape kits of victims implicate this family man, whose church members and employers came to his aid in his hour of need? Would victims be required to testify to the most detailed and humiliating personal invasions of their lives and privacy, by using explicit verbal testimony, in their own words? Were the cold cases solved, and a serial rapist taken off the streets? Would this hardworking family man with two jobs, devoted to his church and family, be the masked intruder who, for years, broke into apartments and terrorized women alone at night. The evidence is presented. You be the judge. The author reveals, 20 years later, through interviews of the victims, how their lives have been shattered by their victimization, how they have dealt with their recovery, their continuing fear, and their prospects for the future. Likewise, a personal and unusual interview of the serial rapist revealed his explanations of the past and contemplations for the future, regarding himself, his wife, and family.

Tiger-lilies

Tiger-lilies
Author: Sidney Lanier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1867
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

"Tiger-Lilies is actually a somewhat autobiographical book. In it, Lanier analyzes the relationship between a Northerner and a Southerner throughout the Civil War. As a Southerner who had fought for the Confederate army, Lanier had experienced the war firsthand, both on the battlefield and as a prisoner of war. These experiences are recognizable in the battle scenes especially, which are considered some of the most realistic representations of Civil War combat in literature. Ultimately, Tiger-Lilies can be interpreted as an anti-war novel and one of Lanier's less successful endeavors in the course of his career."--The History Engine

Patient Safety and Quality

Patient Safety and Quality
Author: Ronda Hughes
Publisher: Department of Health and Human Services
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2008
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Teach Me

Teach Me
Author: Ella Sheridan
Publisher: Ella Sheridan
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Private security has never been so risky—or so tempting. Ex-military security specialist Conlan James avoids commitment like the plague. His job, his Harley, and an occasional one-night stand are all he needs—or so he tells himself. But after he rescues Jess from a tense situation, he can’t get the shy, sexy brunette out of his mind. He can teach her self-defense, but can he shield his own scarred heart? Southern belle Jess Kingston spent eight weeks healing from an ex-boyfriend’s brutal attack. Now she’s ready to put her life back together. Her ex, Brit, has other ideas. She needs someone who can teach her how to fight back—someone like the tough former soldier who rides to her rescue. As the deadly game of cat-and-mouse intensifies, the heat between Con and Jess becomes an inferno. He’ll do anything to keep her safe. She’ll do anything to survive. Her vengeful ex is determined to destroy them both, and all it would take is one wrong move.