Best Selling Books by Susan Taylor

"In January of 1993, Susan received a seemingly innocuous phone call that was to change the direction of her life forever. A bit short of fifty years old, happily married, with three wonderful children in various stages of leaving the nest, she felt truly blessed. Though both committed and passionate educators, Susan and her husband, Richard, were really looking forward to the day when they could retire and reap the benefits of spending many long years in the workforce. But that was not to be! That pivotal phone call precipitated six years of strange and inexplicable happenings that led them to an unknown place, where they lived and worked for almost twenty years.This is a true story. Autobiographical in nature, it documents Susan''s life from the religious fervor of her childhood to the total upheaval of her life-long faith to a personal spiritual transformation, resulting from a raised consciousness that, to this day, remains a total enigma to her.The incidents were factual. The interpretation of these facts was personal. What transpired as a result of Susan being open to the Mystery as it unfolded was truly Beyond Belief!"--Back cover.

Semester project completed for Jill Terry Rudy''s English 392 class in Winter Semester 2000. Taylor examines the family tradition of storytelling at dinner each Sunday.

The year 1957 was full of new beginnings and hope for a growing movement. In January, prominent civil rights leaders attended a historic meeting in Georgia with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the helm. In September, as protests were heating up around the nation, a group of Black students, known as the Little Rock Nine, integrated Central High School in Arkansas. At the same time, activists push for legislation resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Progress toward equality for Black Americans was slow, but people s commitment to the movement continued to deepen during the year as the prospect of change seemed possible. This detailed account explains why 1957 was such a critical year in the civil rights movement.

Prior to 1985 polyvinyl chloride (PVC) was the most commonly used well casing material for ground water monitoring. In 1985 the EPA published the initial draft of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Ground-Water Monitoring Technical Enforcement Guidance Document. This document stated that ''steel casings deteriorated in corrosive environments; PVC deteriorated in contact with ketones, esters and aromatic hydrocarbons ... '' and recommended that either Teflon or stainless steel 316 be used for constructing wells. The EPA''s concerns were that PvC and the casing materials commonly used for ground water monitoring either altered the ground water samples or did not meet the long-term structural characteristics required of RCRA monitoring wells. While we have found many studies that have examined the effects of well casing materials on ground water sample, little information exists on the long-term stability of casing materials exposed to extreme environmental conditions such as highly salinity or pH, or to either pure of high concentrations of organic of organic solvents. (JES).

A story about a boy who is scared of riding a pony, so he takes his time with the pony and gets to know the pony and evently learns to ride the pony.