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What are you doing in there?: balancing your need to know with your child's need to grow
By Charlene C. Giannetti, Margaret Sagarese. 2003
"For an inside look at the hard work, pleasant play, hearty meals and devout worship of the "Plain People", we…
asked 63 Amish families to keep a diary --all on the same day--of their dawn-to-dusk activities."A nickel's worth of skim milk: a boy's view of the Great Depression
By Robert J Hastings. 1972
Told from the point of view of a young boy, this account shows how a family "faced the 1930s head…
on and lived to tell the story." It is the story of growing up in southern Illinois, specifically the Marion, area during the Great Depression. But when it was first published in 1972 the book proved to be more than one writer's memories of depression-era southern Illinois.The Klan unmasked
By Stetson Kennedy. 1990
In this unexpurgated edition, Stetson Kennedy tells the story of his years in the KKK. The book mixes eyewitness reports…
of Klan activities with accounts of Kennedy's clandestine information-gathering activities and of his efforts to report his findings to the media and to any law enforcement agency that would listen. Contains descriptions of violenceThe argument culture: moving from debate to dialogue
By Deborah Tannen. 1999
Asserts that public issues tend to be framed as adversarial, yes-or-no arguments by lawyers, journalists, politicians, and others in American…
society. Explains how the resulting conflict in public dialog often obscures the truth and hampers the constructive resolution of problems. Includes Reader's CompanionThe content of our character: a new vision of race in America
By Shelby Steele. 1990
These essays illuminate the origins of the current conflict in race relations--the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between…
blacks and whites. Black and white Americans have become trapped into seeing color before character, and how social policies designed to lessen racial inequities have actually increased themPapa's game
By Gregory Wallance. 1982
Papa was Vincent Papa, a New York drug dealer. His game was the theft of the heroin confiscated in the…
celebrated French Connection case. The heroin was stored in the Manhattan Police Headquarters and his accomplices were members of the NYPD Special Investigations UnitIt feels good to be yourself: a book about gender identity
By Theresa Thorn. 2019
Ms. LaGrange is strange!: My weird school, book 8 (My Weird School Ser. #8)
By Dan Gutman. 2005
The new lunch lady at Ella Mentry School, Ms. LaGrange, writes secret messages in the mashed potatoes and tries her…
best to get A. J. and the other students to eat healthy foods. For grades 2-4. 2005Can you hear me?: how to connect with people in a virtual world
By Nick Morgan. 2018
Guide to effective online communication addresses problems inherent in the virtual world, including the lack of feedback, empathy, control, emotion,…
and connection and commitment. Discusses specific techniques for emails, conference calls, webinars, chat sessions, and sales. 2018Conspiracy: Nixon, Watergate, and Democracy's Defenders
By P. O’Connell Pearson. 2020
Author of Fighting for the Forest: How FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps Helped Save America (DB 98293), explores President Nixon's contentious…
time in office, the Watergate scandal, and the people who helped protect our Constitution. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2020Forgive for good: a proven prescription for health and happiness
By Fred Luskin. 2002
Based on scientific research, this study offers new insight into the powers of healing. Provides a nine-step guide for overcoming…
the negative effects of anger, bitterness, and resentment by gaining control of our feelingsHaben: the deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law
By Haben Girma. 2019
The autobiography of the first deaf-blind graduate of Harvard Law School. Girma describes her childhood, world travels, development of a…
text-to-braille communication system, and time at Harvard Law, as well as the ways she uses her talents to advocate for those with disabilities. 2019The journey: a spiritual roadmap for modern pilgrims
By Peter Kreeft. 1996
This allegory attempts to introduce readers to the moral dilemmas and philosophical impasses that arise along life's path. Readers are…
guided largely by Socrates (Moses and C.S. Lewis appear late in the book) in a trek from Plato's cave to the cross of Christ. Some might find this good fun, others good allegory, but it certainly isn't good philosophyThe autobiography of Malcolm X
By Malcolm X. 1992
The African American religious leader and activist (1925-1965) describes his boyhood in Lansing, Michigan; street life in Harlem; conversion to…
the Black Muslim movement while imprisoned for robbery; and evolution into a high-profile spokesman for black dignity, power, and separatism. Foreword by Alex Haley. 1964Firsts: coming of age stories by people with disabilities
By Belo Cipriani. 2018
Eleven essays by authors with disabilities recounting various first experiences. In "Life with Lexie," Heidi Johnson-Wright recalls going off to…
college and dealing with her first non-family member caregiver. Cathy Beaudoin shares her challenges as a newly blind PhD candidate in "I Did It. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2018My heart is not blind: on blindness and perception
By Michael Nye. 2019
Profiles of forty-five people who are blind or have low vision, including Larry Johnson, a longtime DJ in Mexico, and…
Michael Hingson, a 9/11 survivor who wrote about his lifesaving guide dog in Thunder Dog (DB 73300). Natalie Watkins, who has retinitis pigmentosa, is profiled twice, six years apart. 2019The way of the wiseguy: the FBI's most famous undercover agent cracks the mob mind
By Joseph D. Pistone. 2004
Donnie Brasco was the name assumed by FBI agent Joseph Pistone in order to infiltrate the mafia. He describes what…
the gangsters he worked with were really like -- a depiction very different from that seen in movies and on television. Strong language. 2004Child of our time: a young girl's flight from the Holocaust
By Ruth L. David. 2003
Ruth Oppenheimer was living a comfortable life in Germany in the 1930s. Then Hitler came to power. The family's cigar…
factory was taken over; the children forced out of school. After Ruth's father is arrested, the ten-year-old is sent to England as part of the Kindertransport. In England, Ruth still faced prejudice and oppression. 2003