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Man's search for meaning
By Viktor E. Frankl. 2006
Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) recounts his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, where he developed his doctrine…
of logotherapy. Argues that individuals can overcome suffering not through pleasure but through the discovery and pursuit of meaningful purpose. First published in German in 1946. 2006The Wednesday wars: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
By Gary D. Schmidt. 2007
Long Island, 1967. Seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood knows that Mrs. Baker "hates his guts" because she would have Wednesday afternoons free…
if he went to catechism or Hebrew school like his classmates. Mrs. Baker worries about her husband in Vietnam and introduces a reluctant Holling to Shakespeare. For grades 5-8. Newbery Honor. 2007Our 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. 2008Final salute: a story of unfinished lives
By Jim Sheeler. 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sheeler recounts the two years he spent shadowing marine major Steve Beck, an officer whose job is…
to notify the families of fallen soldiers. Sheeler portrays the lives of the deceased, Beck's efforts to comfort the grieving relatives, and the toll on surviving kin. 2008The war within: a secret White House history, 2006-2008 (Bush at war ; #4)
By Bob Woodward. 2008
Woodward examines President George W. Bush's management of the war in Iraq. Discusses political, social, and moral issues involved, including,…
Woodward reports, the United States spying on Iraqi allies and estrangement between the White House and the U.S. military. Sequel to State of Denial (RC 63560, BR 16804). Bestseller. 2008The expectant father: facts, tips, and advice for dads-to-be
By Armin A. Brott, Jennifer Ash. 2001
Month-by-month guide to emotional, financial, and physical changes men may experience during the course of their partner's pregnancy. Offers advice…
on understanding prenatal testing, starting a college fund, strengthening one's relationship with the mother-to-be, providing support during labor and delivery, and preparing for life with a new baby. 2001Patriot pirates: the privateer war for freedom and fortune in the American Revolution
By Robert H. Patton. 2008
Details America's maritime conflicts with the British during the Revolutionary War that consisted primarily of commissioned private American vessels attacking…
enemy ships. Describes the huge profits the privateer owners made from their wartime activities and discusses the ways their newfound wealth propelled the nation's entrepreneurialism. 2008How the South could have won the Civil War: the fatal errors that led to Confederate defeat
By Bevin Alexander. 2007
Military historian posits that the South would have been victorious had Confederate president Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee…
followed General Stonewall Jackson's advice and attacked factories, railroads, and farms in the North rather than engaging in frontal assaults. Details crucial battles that support this theory. 2007Eight women, two Model Ts, and the American West
By Joanne Wilke. 2007
The author chronicles a nine-week cross-country camping trip made by eight young women, including her grandmother and great-aunt, in two…
Model T Fords in 1924. Wilke pieces together the account from journal excerpts, letters, and reminiscences of the adventurers, who drove nine thousand miles and visited six national parks. 2007Mutiny: the true events that inspired The hunt for Red October
By David Hagberg, Boris Gindin. 2008
Former Soviet naval officer Boris Gindin, now an American citizen, provides an eyewitness account of the mutiny that occurred on…
the submarine Storozhevoy in November 1975. Those events were the basis for Tom Clancy's 1984 thriller The Hunt for Red October (DB 21513, BR 7205). 2008Around the world on two wheels: Annie Londonderry's extraordinary ride
By Peter Zheutlin. 2007
Freelance journalist Zheutlin chronicles his adventurous great-grandaunt Annie Kopchovsky's much-publicized 1894 bicycle ride around the world. Relates that Annie, going…
by the name Annie Londonderry and determined to win the ten-thousand-dollar prize, left her husband and three young children to embark upon the fifteen-month-long ride. 2007What to expect before you're expecting (WHAT TO EXPECT)
By Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff. 2009
Preconception medical advice by the authors of the perennially bestselling primer on childbirth What to Expect When You're Expecting, Fourth…
Edition (RC 66600, BR 14234). Authors suggest both women and men prepare their bodies before having a baby, to help assure the best probable outcome. Also discusses fertility issues. 2009The drillmaster of Valley Forge: the Baron de Steuben and the making of the American Army
By Paul Douglas Lockhart. 2008
Biography of Prussian army officer Friedrich von Steuben (1730-1794), who trained the ragged U.S. Continental Army to fight the British…
during the Revolutionary War. Focuses on the winter of 1778, when Steuben drilled the demoralized colonial troops at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in European techniques of war. 2008Master of war: the life of General George H. Thomas
By Benson Bobrick. 2009
Biography of Virginia-born Union general George Thomas (1816-1870), who was compared to George Washington by his officers and soldiers. Discusses…
Thomas's family life, his decision to stay in the federal army, his successful military campaigns, and his marginalization by rivals Ulysses Grant and William Sherman. Some strong language. 2009Harry Truman's excellent adventure: the true story of a great American road trip
By Matthew Algeo. 2009
Author retraces the 1953 2,500-mile cross-country road trip of Harry and Bess Truman. Describes the Trumans' post-presidential life in Missouri,…
when they lived on Harry's army pension, and provides first-person accounts of the original journey. 2009Soldier from the war returning: the greatest generation's troubled homecoming from World War II
By Thomas Childers. 2009
Documents the hardships experienced by U.S. veterans who returned home from World War II. Discusses problems such as unemployment, homelessness,…
alienation, and physical and psychological wounds. Highlights the lives of a former prisoner of war, an infantryman without legs, and the author's father, who suffered from undiagnosed post-traumatic stress. 2009Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft
By Thor Heyerdahl. 2004
Recounts the 1947 voyage of six Norwegians who sailed from Peru to Tahiti on a balsa-log raft to test the…
author's theory that the original settlers of Polynesia were South Americans following Pacific Ocean currents. Describes the sailors' difficult, exhilarating, and ultimately successful one-hundred-one-day journey. Includes 2004 foreword. 1950Great expectations: the essential guide to breastfeeding (Great Expectations Ser.)
By Marianne R Neifert. 2009
Pediatrician pens a complete guide to breastfeeding. Discusses issues such as preparation before birth, health benefits, common problems, high-risk babies,…
and expressing and storing milk. Offers tips for working moms and guidelines for adjusting to parenthood. Also covers dietary matters and weaning. 2009A lucky child: a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy
By Thomas Buergenthal. 2009
Memoir of an American judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague describes childhood years spent on the…
run from Nazis, followed by his imprisonment in Auschwitz. Buergenthal highlights the circumstances that enabled him to survive. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Violence and strong language. 2007The buffalo soldiers: a narrative of the Black cavalry in the West
By William H. Leckie, Shirley A. Leckie. 2003
Updated account of the all-African American Ninth and Tenth Cavalry during the post-Civil War Indian campaigns. Recognizes their contributions to…
the conquest of the West. Describes daily life, social issues, and various battles and peacekeeping missions with Native Americans, outlaws, and Mexican revolutionaries. Originally published in 1967. 2003