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By Ishmael Beah. 2007
The author recalls experiences as a war refuge and as a thirteen-year-old soldier forced to join the Sierra Leone army.…
Beah describes his participation in mass slaughters, rehabilitation, immigration to America, and involvement with UNICEF. Violence. 2007By Lawrence Wright. 2006
Traces Islamic fundamentalism from 1948 to the 2001 attack on America. Highlights Al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman…
al-Zawahiri. Asserts a historical lack of concern from intelligence agencies except for FBI agent John O'Neill and Saudi prince Turki al-Faisal. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2006By Susan Campbell Bartoletti. 2005
Traces the Hitler Youth movement's development during the period 1926 to 1945, when it indoctrinated German children and teens in…
Nazi ideology and loyalty to Hitler. Features personal accounts of members such as Elisabeth Vetter, who betrayed her own parents for objecting to Hitler. Violence. For grades 6-9. 2005By Nicholas Booth. 2007
Biography of British spy Eddie Chapman (1914-1997), a career criminal imprisoned on a Channel isle when the Nazis captured it…
in 1940. Describes his training as a Nazi spy, his return to England, and his services as an agent for MI5. Some violence and some strong language. 2007By Drew Gilpin Faust. 2008
President of Harvard University interprets the significance of the U.S. Civil War's death toll. States that two percent of the…
country's population was killed and many died without proper burials. Analyzes the way those losses transformed American society, culture, and politics through the experience of shared suffering. Violence. Bestseller. 2008By 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. 2007By 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. 2008By 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. 2008By 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. 2008By 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. 2001By 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. 2008By 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. 2007By 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). 2008By Walter Joseph Ciszek. 2010
" Capturé par l'armée russe durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, accusé d'être un espion du Vatican, Walter J. Ciszek, prêtre…
jésuite américain, a passé vingt-trois ans dans les prisons soviétiques et les camps de travail de Sibérie entre 1940 et 1963. Son livre présente un intérêt historique certain car très peu de témoignages ont été édités sur le ministère des prêtres catholiques dans les camps soviétiques durant cette période. Mais il est avant tout le récit d'un itinéraire spirituel impressionnant que le père Ciszek a accepté de rédiger parce qu'après son retour aux États-Unis, on lui demandait comment il avait pu surmonter pareilles épreuves. Avec beaucoup de simplicité, il relate les événements auxquels il a été confronté - les cinq ans d'emprisonnement à la Loubianka, le travail dans les mines de sel en Sibérie, etc. - et qui l'ont conduit à un long dépouillement, mais aussi à un abandon de plus en plus confiant à la Providence, à une sérénité intérieure grâce à laquelle il a pu se préserver de l'arrogance du mal qui l'entourait... " -- 4e de couvBy 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. 2009By 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. 2008By 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. 2009By 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. 2009By Paul Cesbron. 2011
" Devenir parent - au cours de la grossesse, de l'accouchement, puis dans les premiers temps avec le bébé -…
est une mise à l'épreuve des individus et du couple lui-même. Quant à l'enfant à naître, il effectue un tumultueux voyage vers notre monde. Comment prépare-t-on ce délicat passage du foetus au petit humain ? Quel rôle jouent les professionnels à la maternité ? Pourquoi y rencontre-t-on désormais des psys ? Un obstétricien et un psychanalyste, s'appuyant sur leur expérience de cliniciens, dépassent le clivage du corps et de l'esprit pour explorer, dans un dialogue sans jargon, les temps forts de la grossesse, de la naissance et de l'accueil du nouveau-né. Ils permettent ainsi aux couples d'aborder plus sages et mieux armés ces neuf mois cruciaux, les relations avec les professionnels de santé et les premiers moments de leur vie de famille. Parents virtuels et confirmés, professionnels en formation ou chevronnés trouveront dans cet ouvrage non pas des réponses standardisées mais des éléments de réflexion pour mieux accueillir un enfant. " -- 4e de couvBy 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. 2009