Public Waters

It begins on a perfect summer day. A family trip to a warm, freshwater lake ends in an unthinkable tragedy. Days later, a child complains of a headache, and within a week, the unthinkable happens. This is the terrifying reality of Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic predator that triggers a rare but devastating brain infection: primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). MEDICAL MYSTERIES: Brain-Eating Amoeba takes you beyond the sensationalist headlines and deep into one of medicine’s most harrowing challenges. This exhaustively researched narrative combines gripping true stories, cutting-...

It is not your imagination: water crises are more frequent. Our twentieth-century systems for providing the water that grows food, sustains cities, and supports healthy ecosystems are failing to meet the demands of growing population and the challenges brought on by climate change. But the grim news reports—of empty reservoirs, withering crops, failing ecosystems—need not be cause for despair, argues award-winning author David Sedlak.

“Despite his cavalier attitude, he was being careful; anyone who did happen to see them would be unlikely to be able to recognize what was happening. Of course… just a quiet moment together on the balcony… she thought to herself with wry amusement.” After weeks of issues, Vince took his fiancee Marcy to his favorite paradise-like island resort, playground of the super-rich — which he was. When they find one another alone on the balcony at sunset, things go from hot, to positively steamy. Strong adult content.

Our PFAS Legacy uncovers the hidden story of “forever chemicals” that have invaded our soil, water, and bodies. Once celebrated for their use in everyday products like nonstick pans and waterproof gear, PFAS now represent one of the greatest environmental and public health threats of our time. Found in the blood of nearly every person tested and in ecosystems from the Arctic to the deep sea, these nearly indestructible chemicals are linked to cancer, immune dysfunction, hormone disruption, and more. This eye-opening book blends science, urgency, and hope, exposing the regulatory ...

When a lonely graphic designer makes a desperate wish on a shooting star, she doesn’t expect her favorite bedside companion to turn into the man of her dreams. He already knows exactly what Sadie likes—because for the past three years, he’s been her literal vibrator.

At least thirteen million Americans will have to move away from American coasts in the coming decades, as rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms put lives at risk and cause billions of dollars in damages. In Charleston, South Carolina, denial, boosterism, widespread development, and public complacency about racial issues compound; the city, like our country, has no plan to protect its most vulnerable. Susan Crawford tells the story of a city that has played a central role in America's painful racial history for centuries and now stands at the intersection of climate and race.

Winner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - 2019 When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply...

In 2023, the Supreme Court made one of its most devastating rulings in environmental history. By narrowing the legal definition of "waters of the United States" (WOTUS), the court opened the floodgates to unregulated pollution. But while tremendously consequential, the decision was also simply the latest in a long series of battles over WOTUS, and which rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands, and perhaps even farm fields were to be protected by the Clean Water Act of 1972. Waters of the United States is an unprecedented exploration of this history.

Winner of the 2021 Caldecott Medal New York Times Bestseller This program is read by the author. Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption—a bold and...

New York Times best-selling author Seth Siegel tells how contaminants got in our drinking water, what they’re doing to us, and what we must do to make our water safe.

Every day, millions of New Yorkers drink some of the purest tap water in the world, delivered effortlessly by gravity from sources over one hundred miles away. Yet, beneath this simple act lies a dramatic, two-hundred-year history of monumental engineering, political ambition, and human sacrifice. This book unveils the epic, largely invisible story of the system that makes the modern city possible. The narrative begins in a colonial city choked by fire and disease, where the desperate search for clean water led to a solution that would save the city but soon prove inadequate. Follow the ...

"Do you want the four of us to go some place more private?" After turning 30 this year, I felt the spark begin to fade from my marriage. Our sex life just wasn't what it had been. While browsing the mall, I saw a skirt that looked like it was made for me. After getting dressed to kill in a revealing outfit, I insisted that my husband Jake take me to the club like we used to when we were younger. Some younger men took notice, but I only had eyes for my husband. That is, until married couple Bianca and Sam walked into our lives. Bianca and I got wild on the dance floor, and Sam couldn't keep ...

In her best-selling books Blue Gold and Blue Covenant, world-renowned water activist Maude Barlow exposed the battle for ownership of our dwindling water supply and the emergence of an international, grassroots-led movement to reclaim water as a public good. Since then, the United Nations has recognized access to water as a basic human right - but there is still much work to be done to stem this growing crisis.

Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West into a region hostile to human habitation—a “Great American Desert,” as early US explorers once mislabeled it. As Bruce E. Cain suggests in this timely book, the unique complex of politics, technology, and logistics that once won the West must be rethought and reconfigured to win it anew in the face of a widespread accelerating threat.

Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the world’s two most critical resources, their vital interconnections and vulnerabilities are less often recognized. This farsighted audiobook offers a new, holistic way of thinking about energy and water - a big picture approach that reveals the interdependence of the two resources, identifies the seriousness of the challenges, and lays out an optimistic approach with an array of solutions to ensure continuing sustainability.

Toxic Water, Toxic System exposes the consequences of a seemingly anonymous authoritarian state willing to maintain white supremacy at any cost—including poisoning an entire city and shutting off water to thousands of people. Weaving together narratives of frontline activists along with archival data, Michael Mascarenhas provides a powerful exploration of the political alliances and bureaucratic mechanisms that uphold inequality.

Science Be Dammed is an alarming reminder of the high stakes in the management - and perils in the mismanagement - of water in the Western United States. It seems deceptively simple: Even when clear evidence was available that the Colorado River could not sustain ambitious dreaming and planning by decision-makers throughout the 20th century, river planners and political operatives irresponsibly made the least sustainable and most dangerous long-term decisions.

Conquer the REHS/RS Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Registered Environmental Health Specialist/Registered Sanitarian is designed for practical, focused exam prep. This study guide helps you review essential topics like food safety, water quality, air and waste management, vector control, housing, and emergency response—along with key environmental health regulations. Clear explanations aim to simplify complex material without unnecessary filler. Whether you're new to the field or reviewing for recertification, this guide provides a structured way to study core subjects that appear on ...

When Isabelle runs into her college sweetheart while stranded in an airport, they have one night to pass until flights resume. The ex-lovers find themselves getting it on in a taxi, sharing a bed, cavorting in a park, and breaking in a poolside lounge chair before catching their respective flights. Warning: hot sex in public places. 18+ only.

Rachel believes her life is complete until Steve walks into her office. In a heartbeat's time, she falls for the understated man who steals her heart as he explores her body. Warning: this book contains sexually explicit scenes involving desk sex, parkade sex, bar pick-up sex, literal phone sex, girl on girl sex, and much more. Adults only!