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  Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Red Mountain: Birmingham, Alabama, 1965 is the coming of age story of Eddie and Chrissy, young white...
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Listening
  Enlightenment, it can be said, is a stringing together of momentary blissful connections. Each of these poems is indeed such a moment. As a book they string...
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  A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony,...
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Extraordinary Evil
From best-selling author Barbara Coloroso comes a timely and essential book about genocide. Through an examination of three clearly defined genocides — the...
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Just Because It's Not Wrong Doesn't Make It Right
We live in a world where children so often are given the message that the ends justify the means; where harmful, even violent behavior in families, in communities,...
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Parenting Through Crisis
In this companion to her bestselling Kids are Worth It!, parenting educator Barbara Coloroso shows how parents can help children find a way through grief and...
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Kids Are Worth It!
(This synopsis describes the 2002 revised version.) The parenting classic, now revised with new chapters, checklists, and information about today's most pressing...
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Veratarts (Return)
Veratarts (Return) is a collection of poems dedicated to the emotional and spiritual rollercoaster associated with returning to a lost and then rediscovered...
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Jaguar Fever
Jaguar shifter Maya Anderson learns about a secret jaguar society through underground social networking sites. She wanted to discover others like her, but now she's...
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A SEAL Wolf Christmas
They start out in the Amazon on a mission with hot SEAL Bjornolf ghosting the mission. When they return, Hunter's got another for them--all to do with Christmas--...
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Naked Pictures of Famous People
He's the MTV generation's master of modern humor, a star of film, TV, and the comedy stage. This sultan of savvy serves up a whip-smart, utterly original collection...
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"It was the end of summer, a summer during a two-year nightmare. African American children around Atlanta were vanishing, and twenty-nine would be murdered by...
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In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why...
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A Twisted Faith by Gregg Olsen
On December 26, 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge Island off the coast of Seattle, a house went up in flames. In it was the shy, beloved minister’s...
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Hardcover
by Amy Tan
Ruth is a self-sufficient woman who makes her living as a ghostwriter for self-help books. She lives with her long-term boyfriend, Art Kamen, and acts as a step-...
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes takes Maya to Ghana, where she joins a community of black Americans. In a vivid celebration of the sights, sounds, and...
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Books by Geling Yan in Mainland China in various editions, plus books to which she has contributed stories or essays and books that write about Geling Yan as one of...
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There are communities in America that have been closeted away since the earliest European explorers arrived. They brought their families and they brought their...
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The Kanshi Poems of Taigu Ryokan
100 poems by Buddhist monk Taigu Ryokan (1758-1831) from his Kanshi (journal) poems. Revered worldwide for his simplicity, wit, and carefree spirit, Ryokan is...
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A Tale of Three Cities
Nineteen sixty-two—it’s been called “the end of innocence,” as America witnessed the Cuban Missile Crisis and the following year saw the Kennedy assassination and...
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