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Ages and stages: a parent's guide to normal childhood development
By Charles E Schaefer. 2000
Offers information culled from scientific research about a child's emotional, cognitive, social, moral, and psychological development from birth to age…
nine. Provides examples of age-related behavior and suggests ways for parents to positively influence offspring. Highlights family and peer relationships, personal growth, and character formation. 2000Lush life: A Novel
By Richard Price. 2008
New York, Lower East Side. Frustrated actor-writer Eric Cash claims two teens mugged him and his drinking companions as they…
stumbled home, shooting Ike, an aspiring writer. But when Ike dies, detectives Matty Clark and Yolonda Bello arrest Eric for homicide. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2008Classics for pleasure
By Michael Dirda. 2007
Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic introduces roughly ninety literary authors and recommends some of his favorite works of fantasy, science fiction,…
horror, adventure, biography, history, and poetry. Contains essays on writers Ovid, Petronius, Agatha Christie, and Philip K. Dick and on Arthurian romances and H. Rider Haggard's She. 2007Silks
By Dick Francis, Felix Francis. 2008
London barrister Geoffrey Mason, an amateur steeplechase rider, defends an acquaintance, professional jockey Steve Mitchell, against the charge that he…
murdered a competitor, Scot Barlow. One of Mason's former clients muddies up the case with threats. Strong language and some violence. Bestseller. 2008Breakable you
By Brian Morton. 2006
While novelist Adam leaves Eleanor, his fifty-nine-year-old psychologist wife, for a younger woman, their troubled doctoral-student daughter Maud begins an…
affair with grieving Arab-American Samir. Eleanor ponders a new vocation and Adam makes a questionable move to revive his. Explicit descriptions of sex and strong language. 2006Novelist explores the relationships among five writers of the transcendentalist movement who clustered around the home of wealthy Ralph Waldo…
Emerson in Concord, Massachusetts, during 1840-1868. Highlights their intertwined families and the love affairs that contributed to the creation of their literary masterpieces. 2006Author examines the stressful shift in the roles of men and women and describes what he believes to be physiological…
gender differences in dealing with the tension. Outlines coping mechanisms for women to help both themselves and their partners improve communication, mood, energy, and levels of attraction. 2008The stowaway solution (On The Run)
By Gordon Korman. 2005
With no friends to help them and their parents in jail, Aiden and Meg Falconer can only trust each other.…
Hoping to avoid the FBI and a killer, they stow away on a freighter, but their problems increase. Sequel to Now You See Them...(BR 17841). For grades 4-7. 2005A bold fresh piece of humanity
By Bill O'Reilly. 2008
Emmy Award-winning television commentator's autobiography, its title inspired by his third-grade teacher, a nun, who summed him up with the…
phrase. O'Reilly reminisces about his postwar working-class upbringing in Long Island, a Catholic-school education, his two years as a teacher, and his journalism career's start in 1970s Boston. Bestseller. 2008Our bodies, ourselves: menopause
By Judy Norsigian, Boston Women's Health Book Collective. 2006
Describes the process of menopause for women and covers health-care options for its symptoms. Includes medical and alternative treatments such…
as stress management, diet, and exercise. Discusses scientific research studies and encourages women to focus on making good personal health-care decisions. Highlights women's natural life transitions. 2006Angler: the Cheney vice presidency
By Barton Gellman. 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman details the inner workings of Vice President Dick Cheney's office through interviews with…
Cheney's colleagues and critics. Discusses the war in Iraq, the interrogation of prisoners, domestic espionage, and Cheney's beliefs supporting a strong commander in chief. Bestseller. 2008Our bodies, ourselves: pregnancy and birth
By Judy Norsigian, Boston Women's Health Book Collective. 2009
Information about all stages of pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. Discusses choosing medical care, planning the birth, and attending…
to the pregnant woman's physical and emotional care. Describes special concerns during pregnancy and childbirth and covers the tests that may be involved. Also addresses infant feeding options. 2008The house at Sugar Beach: in search of a lost African childhood
By Helene Cooper. 2008
Memoir by New York Times correspondent describes her privileged childhood in Liberia as a descendant of black American founders. Cooper…
relates her uprooting by a 1980 coup that forced the family to flee to the United States--and her return decades later. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2008Hunting the hunter (On The Run Ser. #6)
By Gordon Korman. 2006
When Aiden and Meg Falconer discover that their parents' freedom from prison is in the hands of a killer and…
madman named Hairless Joe, the siblings vow to trap him--whatever the dangers. Sequel to Public Enemies (BR 17843). For grades 4-7. 2006The last lecture
By Randy Pausch. 2008
Carnegie Mellon computer professor Pausch provides personal lessons and stories for his young children to learn from as they go…
through life. Continues the message of his widely circulated taped lecture on achieving childhood dreams that he delivered after he learned he was dying of pancreatic cancer. Bestseller. 2008Shooting star (Martha's Vineyard Mysteries Ser.)
By Cynthia Riggs. 2007
The island's community theater prepares for the opening night of a stage adaptation of Frankenstein, written by ninety-two-year-old playwright (and…
sleuth) Victoria Trumbull. The production is marred by tragedy when a young actor disappears and an actress is murdered. Victoria investigates while the show goes on. Some strong language. 2007The fugitive factor (On The Run Ser. #No. 2)
By Gordon Korman. 2005
Fifteen-year-old Aiden and eleven-year-old Meg, escapees from a juvenile detention center, search for evidence to prove their parents' innocence against…
charges of treason. As fugitives running from the police, the Falconer kids must lie and steal to avoid capture. Sequel to Chasing the Falconers (BR 17056). For grades 4-7. 2005Lilith's ark: teenage tales of biblical women
By Deborah Bodin Cohen. 2006
Stories of young Jewish women from the Torah. Includes the story of Eve, the first woman named in the holy…
book, and of Sarah and Rebekah, the first and second matriarchs. Discusses the challenges they faced, including love, spirituality, and growing up. For senior high readers. 2006Examines Albert Einstein's discoveries in the quantum world, the theory of relativity, and nuclear physics. Discusses the way his theories…
revolutionized scientific thinking about the universe and led to modern inventions, from the atom bomb to cell phones. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2007Jumper: Griffin's story (Jumper)
By Steven Gould. 2007
Nine-year-old Griff O'Conner causes his parents' murders in San Diego when he teleports himself to avoid a bully. Griff hides…
with friends until, at sixteen, he is ready to confront the killers. Sequel to Jumper (DB 37465, BR 9548). Violence and strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2007