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Sarajevo, Bosnia; 1992. When the Serbs begin their campaign of ethnic cleansing, seventeen-year-old Muslim Irena Zaric takes refuge with her…
family and beloved parrot, Pretty Bird, in her grandmother’s apartment. As the Zarics struggle to survive, Irena becomes a sniper. 2005.
Reagan was a bold president whose vision included a new world order and a fresh definition of the office he…
held. He sought to reduce taxes, destroy communism, and restore American patriotism in an increasingly troubled world. A man who advocated smaller government, Reagan also expanded the power of the Executive Office--and scholars still disagree about how he used his new power. Ultimately, Reagan emerged as a dynamic and crafty politician whose legacy will long be felt. 2005.
The Little House on the Prairie actress traces her complicated journey from buck-toothed Laura "Halfpint" Ingalls to Hollywood starlet, wife,…
and mother. She partied with the Brat Pack, dated heartthrobs like Rob Lowe and bad boys like Billy Idol, and began a self-destructive pattern of addiction and codependence. She eventually realized that her career on television had earned her popularity, admiration, and love from everyone but herself. 2010, c2009.
Reeling from the sudden death of his wife, Daniel Dixon returns to Wyoming's Powder River country to start anew. It's…
the end of the nineteenth century and the Indians are gone. The growing city of Buffalo, just a stone's throw from the ruins of Fort Phil Kearny, seems a peaceful place to start a medical practice and raise his sons, Harry and Cal, and his willful daughter, Lorna. But the peace Dixon seeks eludes him. Johnson County is soon engulfed in a bloody range war that will draw in the Dixon family in ways he could never have imagined. When the wealthy cattle barons and their hired guns invade, vowing to eliminate anyone who dares stand in their way, the Dixons and Billy Sun, the half-breed Indian boy Lorna loves, must find the strength to confront the violent men whose greed threatens their way of life. Sequel to "Thunder at dawn". 2016.
The book begins with glimpses of foods, medicines, and cultural practices North America's indigenous peoples have contributed for worldwide benefit.…
It documents the dark period of regulation by racist laws during the twentieth century, and then discusses new emergence in the twenty-first century into a re-establishment of Indigenous land and resource rights. The result is a candidly told personal take on the history of a culture's fight for their rights and survival. It is Canadian history told from a First Nations point of view. Bestseller. 2016.
Graydon Fallon is living the teenage dream: he has a hot girlfriend, a basement bedroom, he and his best friend…
play Xbox and smoke dope, and his parents lay off the discipline as long as he keeps up his grades. Then Gray's 12-year-old sister Maggie is diagnosed with stage-four rhabdomyosarcoma, a fatal strain of cancer. Desperate to find a cure and a cause for Maggie's illness, Gray reinvents himself as an eco-warrior bent on ridding the world of cancer-causing foods and chemicals. For senior high readers. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. 2009.
Biography of the Italian chemist and writer Primo Levi (1919-1987). Recalls his sense of duty as a survivor of a…
Nazi extermination camp to bear witness to the horror of the Holocaust. Describes his Jewish childhood under fascism, his lifelong devotion to family, and his eventual suicide. 1999. Uniform title: Primo Levi, ou, La tragédie d'un optimiste.
Warm, tempestuous Jewish saga of four generations of the Sansonitsky family, beginning with their arrival from Europe in the early…
1900's to settling in on the lower East Side of New York. This is the story of their American dream, without the loss of the spiritual heritage brought with them from the Old Country. 1979.
The Predynastic cultures of Egypt before the country's unification under one king in about 3000 BC, were discovered independently by…
de Morgan and Flinders Petrie in the 1890s. Since then, the study of this period has split into many specialities, with little to meet the increasing general interest in the beginnings of Egyptian culture. This book is a factual introduction to the remains of this era and how without a written language they can provide information. 1988.
Three immigrant families find evangelism and opportunity in late-nineteenth-century America. Young Susanna Fallon, having come to New York to care…
for her niece, distrusts her deceased sister’s husband--a brilliant, blind composer. A Scottish physician contemplates his practice, and a poor Irish family journeys across the Atlantic. Followed by “Cadence”. 2002.
Hoping to draw New York socialite Margaret Tyson into his life, dam builder Ed Garth convinces her beloved brother Henry…
that working for him out west for a while will make him a man and improve his boxing. Henry thrives until he learns Ed's real motive. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 1996, c1920.
Through studying the lives of Elijah and Elisha (1 Kings 17-19 and parts of 2 Kings), readers will be challenged…
to pray bold prayers rather than settle for meek prayers not offered in deep faith. Readers will learn to cultivate their prayer lives, surrender to God's timing and plan, and persist when prayers seem to go unanswered. c2000.
U.S. Army Springfields were going missing and ending up in the hands of the Sioux. The Army wanted it stopped,…
and they depended on a trio of deadly enforcers to bring their own brand of frontier justice to a lawless land -- Powell's Army. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 1994.
Moore teaches that to be set free from each and every stronghold which claims our lives, we have to replace…
it with the mind of Christ and fervent daily prayer. 2000.