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Antiracist baby
By Ibram X Kendi. 2020
From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist comes a fresh…
new audiobook that empowers parents and children to uproot racism in our society and in ourselves, now with added discussion prompts to help listeners recognize and reflect on bias in their daily lives. Featured on Good Morning America, NPR's Morning Edition, CBS This Morning, and more! Take your first steps with Antiracist Baby! Or rather, follow Antiracist Baby 's nine easy steps for building a more equitable world. With thoughtful yet playful text, Antiracist Baby introduces the youngest listeners and the grown-ups in their lives to the concept and power of antiracism. Providing the language necessary to begin critical conversations at the earliest age, Antiracist Baby is the perfect gift for listeners of all ages dedicated to forming a just societyAnne, a divorced single mom, barely able to cope with life and struggles to make sense of the death of…
her young son. Mark, a former architect, now works as a handyman and wonders how his life got off track. Father Paul, the abbot of the Abbey of Saints Philip and James, questions how to best live a life that secludes him from the world. At a Pennsylvania abbey, this unlikely trio discovers the answers--a miracle of hope and understanding that bears witness to the surprising power of God to bring healing and wholeness to our lives. UnratedThe elected member
By Bernice Rubens. 1986
Norman Zweck had once been a child prodigy and a brilliant barrister. Now, at age forty-one, he is a drug…
addict, confined to his bedroom. It strains his family, and they have him committed to a mental hospital. His sister Bella tries to bridge the relationship between Norman and their father. 1969Calamity at the Continental Club: a Washington whodunit (A Washington Whodunnit #3)
By Colleen J. Shogan. 2017
Congressional chief of staff Kit Marshall is reluctantly spending two precious vacation days with her future in-laws attending a meeting…
of the Mayflower Society at D. C.'s Continental Club, while fending off attempts to arrange a posh wedding. Then Kit finds the leader of the society dead, and begins sleuthing. Some strong language. 2017Gutter Child
By Jael Richardson. 2021
A fierce and heartbreaking debut from FOLD founder Jael Richardson about a young woman with the courage to determine her…
own future Imagine a world in which the hopeless and vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Imagine a world divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In that world lives Elimina Dubois, one of only 100 children selected as a social experiment by the Mainland government to be taken from their mothers in the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity. But when her Mainland mother dies when Elimina is just a teenager, Elimina finds herself all alone, forced into an unfamiliar life of servitude, unsure of who she is and where she belongs. When she makes friends with Gutter children, each making their own way through the crushing cycle of the Gutter System in whatever ways they know how, Elimina will discover that the thing she needs more than anything may not be the freedom she imagined after all. Gutter Child takes us on the journey of a young woman in a fractured world of heartbreaking disadvantages and horrific injustices. Richardson’s Elimina is a modern heroine in an altered but all too recognizable reality, who, must find the strength within herself to determine her own future and defy a system that tries to shape her destiny. Jael Richardson is the Artistic Director of The FOLD literary festival, the books columnist on CBC Radio’s ‘q’ and an outspoken advocate on issues of diversity. She is the author of The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lesson, a Father’s Life, a memoir based on her relationship with her father, CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey. The book received a CBC Bookie Award and earned Richardson an Acclaim Award and a My People Award as an Emerging Artist. A children’s book called The Stone Thrower was published by Groundwood Books in 2016. Her essay “Conception” is part of Room’s first Women of Colour edition, and excerpts from her first play, my upside down black.Minutes of glory: and other stories
By Ngũgĩ Wa Thiongʼo. 2019
Collection of short stories from across the author's career that cover the period of British colonial rule and resistance in…
Kenya to eventual independence. Women fight for their space, men inherit power, and rebels embody the fighting spirit of the downtrodden. Includes two new stories. 2018On our way to Oyster Bay: Mother Jones and her march for children's rights (CitizenKid)
By Monica Kulling, Felicita Sala. 2016
In 1903, labor activist Mother Jones inspired a group of working kids and adults to march with her from Kensington,…
Pennsylvania, to President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home in Oyster Bay, New York, in an effort to end child labor. For grades K-3. 2016Homicide in the house (A Washington Whodunit #2)
By Colleen J. Shogan. 2016
After the murder of her senator boss in Stabbing in the Senate (DB 83491), staffer Kit Marshall landed a job…
with freshman congresswoman Maeve Dixon. But when Dixon is found standing over the corpse of the Speaker of the House's top staffer--after their public argument--Kit must investigate again. Some strong language. 2016The opposite of loneliness: essays and stories
By Marina Keegan. 2014
Collection of essays and short stories by Keegan (1989-2012), who was killed in a car accident five days after her…
college graduation. In the title essay--which appeared in the graduation issue of the Yale Daily News--she reflects on the bright future awaiting the graduates. Bestseller. 2014Just help!: How to build a better world
By Sonia Sotomayor. 2022
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Just Ask! comes a fun and meaningful story about making…
the world—and your community—better, one action at a time, that asks the question: Who will you help today? Every night when Sonia goes to bed, Mami asks her the same question: How did you help today? And since Sonia wants to help her community, just like her Mami does, she always makes sure she has a good answer to Mami's question. In a story inspired by her own family's desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young listeners on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and strangers all help one another to build a better world for themselves and their community. This audiobook shows how we can all help make the world a better place each and every day. Praise for Just Help! : "Generosity proves contagious in this personal portrait of community service by Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor." — Publishers WeeklyThings we didn't see coming
By Steven Amsterdam, Steven K Amsterdam. 2009
Nine connected apocalyptic stories centering on a boy and his family that begin on New Year's Eve 1999 and span…
three decades. Extreme weather, disease, government control, and a plethora of other disasters plague the narrator as he struggles to survive. Some strong language. 2009Ordinary magic: everyday life as spiritual path
By John Welwood. 1992
If I ran for president
By Catherine Stier, Lynne Avril. 2007
Le retour du jeune prince: Livre audio 1 cd mp3
By Alejandro Guillermo Roemmers. 2020
« Aime tes rêves et grâce à eux tu pourras construire un monde plein de sourires et de tendresse... »…
Un jeune homme errant sur une route de Patagonie est recueilli par un automobiliste. L'adolescent est le prince d'une contrée lointaine qui explore l'univers. Dans les paysages désertiques et sauvages, les deux voyageurs, si différents, engagent un dialogue abordant avec simplicité les grandes questions de l'existence. Au fil de leurs aventures, chacun apprend à écouter le cœur de l'autre et à tenter de trouver le vrai sens de la vie. Ce voyage se transforme peu à peu en une véritable quête spirituelle. Et, au bout de ce chemin, il y a le secret d'un mystère que nous passons parfois une vie entière à chercher : le bonheur... Un délicieux conte philosophique moderne sur le sens de la vieArmageddon in retrospect: and other new and unpublished writings on war and peace
By Kurt Vonnegut. 2008
Twelve fiction and nonfiction pieces representing Vonnegut's views on violence and war and his desire for world peace. Contains both…
a 1945 letter to his family summarizing his prisoner-of-war experience in Germany and his last speech, written in 2007. Introduction by his son Mark Vonnegut. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2008See how they run: campaign dreams, election schemes, and the race to the White House
By Susan E. Goodman, Elwood Smith. 2008
Explains the process for electing the president of the United States. Discusses the electoral college system of voting, the role…
of political parties, candidates' campaigns and debates, and the reasons all citizens should vote. Presents historical facts about former presidents and past elections. For grades 4-7. 2008In the days of sand and stars
By Francois Thisdale, Marlee Pinsker. 2006
Ten stories based on women from the Bible: Eve Naamah, Sarai, Sarah, Rebecca, Leah, Rachel, Dina, and Yocheved. In "Rebecca…
Comes Home," a compassionate young woman's trip to the community well leads her to a husband. For grades 5-8. 2006Come back to Afghanistan: a California teenager's story
By Said Hyder Akbar, Susan Burton, Said Akbar. 2005
Provides an insider's view of the post-Taliban Afghanistan government. The author describes his father's return to Afghanistan in December 2001,…
as President Hamid Karzai's spokesman and later governor of Kunar province, and his own experiences while spending summers there beginning in 2002. For senior high and older readers. 2005Chicken soup for the teenage soul on love & friendship (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger. 2002
Companion to Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul (DB 44853) and others offers anecdotes, poems, and short essays by teenagers…
about falling in love, breaking up, friendship, family, and growing up. For junior and senior high and older readers. Bestseller. 2002The hard questions: 100 questions to ask before you say, "I do"
By Susan Piver. 2000
Exercises for couples contemplating marriage to help gain a deeper understanding of each other and strengthen intimate bonds. Topics range…
from money and sex to having children and organizing a home. Bestseller. 2000