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Sports, everyone!: Recreation and sports for the physically challenged of all ages
By Conway Greene Publishing Company. 1995
Includes directories of clubs, camps, and associations for people with various kinds of disabilities; descriptions of premier recreation and sports…
programs at American universities; tips on travel and tourism; regional contact listings for wheelchair basketball; and profiles of noteworthy disabled athletesJunior Girl Scout handbook
By Chris Bergerson. 1994
An introduction to the world of Scouting for Junior Girl Scouts ages eight to eleven. Explains the history, traditions, ceremonies,…
and recognitions of Girl Scouting. Covers a range of subjects that include safety and health, life skills, leadership, sports, and outdoor activities. For grades 3-6Fragments: memories of a wartime childhood
By Binjamin Wilkomirski. 1996
A man's memoir of his early boyhood experiences in Nazi death camps. Recounts his father's cruel death, his separation from…
family, the terror and suffering of his internment, and his deliverance to a Swiss orphanage. ViolenceCadette Girl Scout handbook
By Toni Eubanks. 1995
This official guide to Cadette Girl Scouting outlines the roots and traditions of Girl Scouting and covers such topics as…
healthy living and self-esteem, relationships with family and friends, life skills, and recreation. Explains the various Girl Scout awards and recognitions. For grades 6-9The air down here: true tales from a South Bronx boyhood
By Gil Alicea. 1995
A collection of short autobiographical ruminations by a sixteen-year-old from New York's South Bronx. Gil discusses issues and problems that…
he confronts in his stressful urban environment: drugs, violence, gangs, parents with HIV, and the deaths of his mother and sister. For junior and senior high readersBridge to Terabithia: A Newbery Award Winner
By Katherine Paterson. 1977
Jess finds his biggest rival and best friend in Leslie, a girl who moves to his rural Virginia community from…
the city. Together they create Terabithia, a secret kingdom in the woods where they reign supreme--until tragedy strikes. For grades 5-8. Newbery MedalStay here with me: a memoir
By Robert Olmstead. 1996
The author's coming-of-age reminiscence of being an eighteen-year-old on his grandfather's New England farm. Recounts the critical experiences of his…
father's fall to alcoholism and his grandfather's to cancer, his first love affair, and leaving home. Strong languageYou want women to vote, Lizzie Stanton?
By Jean Fritz. 1995
Biography of Lizzie Cady Stanton. Born in 1815, Lizzie rebelled against the unjust treatment of women from the time she…
was a child. Later she fought alongside her friend Susan B. Anthony for the right to vote, but died in 1902, before women's suffrage came to pass. For grades 4-7Boy Scout handbook
By Boy Scouts of America, Robert Birkby. 1990
This official guide to Scouting explains the history, ideals, and organization of the Boy Scouts of America; outdoor knowledge and…
skills; safety and first aid; and other elements of the Scouting program. Provides guidance for advancing in the ranks from Tenderfoot to Eagle Scout. For grades 5-8 and older readersSwimming the channel
By Sally Friedman. 1996
Scenic artist and marathon swimmer tells of meeting and falling in love with her husband, Paul. Shortly after they married,…
Paul began helping her train for her goal swim--the English Channel. On the day she was to fly to England, Paul was hit by a truck and killed. Swimming helped her get through the long grieving processAn American requiem: God, my father, and the war that came between us
By James Carroll. 1996
Memoir by a former priest and Vietnam war resister of his conflict with his father, a general in the military,…
during the 1960s. Recounts the events, struggles of conscience, and decisions that would divide his family and alter their lives foreverMon petit Mozart enchanté
By Emilie Collet. 2022
Ma première histoire de saint François: livre audio (Livre sonore)
By Antoana Oreski, Jean-François Kieffer. 2021
la reine d'une ère nouvelle (Elizabeth II #1)
By Robert Hardman. 2022
Elizabeth Windsor n'était pas née pour être reine. Pourtant, depuis son accession au trône en 1952 à l'âge de 25…
ans, elle s'est révélée une figure astucieuse, déterminée, menant sa famille et son peuple à travers plus de sept décennies de changements sociaux sans précédentDalida: une oeuvre en soi (Alias poche #2)
By Michel Rheault. 2017
Dalida, c'est Andromaque et Blanche Dubois, Cléopâtre et Dalila, Rita Hayworth et Mistinguett. La rencontre en une seule femme de…
plusieurs personnalités mythiques, réelles ou fictives, qui ont toutes aujourd'hui valeur d'archétype. Chanteuse avant tout, actrice à ses heures, celle qui aura été l'un des plus grands monstres sacrés du music-hall d'après-guerre occupe désormais une place de choix dans la mémoire collective. Publié d'abord quinze ans après sa disparition, ce livre est le tout premier essai consacré à la créatrice de Gigi L'Amoroso. Un texte singulier, un regard lucide sur une artiste célèbre, mais néanmoins méconnue. Au-delà de l'anecdote, est mise en lumière ici l'extraordinaire complexité du personnage Dalida, un être dont l'existence et let travail s'enchevêtrent jusqu'à former une œuvre apparemment éclatée, mais forte pourtant d'une implacable cohérenceMy own two feet: a memoir
By Beverly Cleary. 1995
This sequel to A Girl from Yamhill (RC 29704, BR 9166), covers the children's author's life from the time she…
began college until shortly after her first book, Henry Huggins (RC 35642, BR 7178), was published. Although money was tight, Cleary went away to college in California where she met her future husband, Clarence, then to Washington where she learned to be a children's librarian. For junior and senior high and older readersTerry: my daughter's life-and-death struggle with alcoholism
By George McGovern. 1996
A former senator and onetime presidential candidate's anguished story of his daughter's unhappy life and alcohol-related death. He tries to…
understand and explain her steady, uncontrolled descent into depression and alcoholism, concluding that genetic vulnerability was a key factorThe place he made
By Edie Clark. 1995
As her marriage was ending, writer Edie Clark became attracted to the carpenter working with her husband. A quiet, gentle…
man who lived with his father, Paul Bolton had a reputation in the community as being odd. Edie describes their unusual courtship and the happy early days of their marriage. Then Paul is diagnosed with cancer, and the couple spends the next few years fighting the disease. Some strong languageTisha: the story of a young teacher in the Alaska wilderness
By Anne Purdy. 1976
Autobiography of Anne Hobbs as told to the author. In 1927 the nineteen-year-old woman went to teach in a one-room…
schoolhouse in the former gold-rush settlement of Chicken, Alaska. "Tisha" is the Indian children's pronunciation of "teacher." For junior and senior high and older readersSpotted Dick, s'il vous plait: an English restaurant in France
By Tom Higgins. 1995
Tom Higgins, a translator, and his doctor wife, Sue, dream of owning an English restaurant in Lyon, an area noted…
for its fine French cuisine. Higgins describes the trials and tribulations of dealing with the French, who considered English fare a bad joke. The restaurant, which opened in 1986, proved a great success. Includes several recipes