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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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I Want Candy
  I WANT   CANDY Bestselling Author Kim Wong Keltner Returns with a Dazzling, Humorous Coming-of-Age Novel Set in Adolescent Purgatory "Wong...
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Buddha Baby
No doubt at the end of The Dim Sum of All Things, the reader is left wondering, “What will happen to this daffy and robust heroine, Miss Lindsey Owyang...
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Editorial ReviewsFrom Library JournalHaving broken the single-season home-run record last year and gotten off to a charging start this season, Barry Bonds of the...
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Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics...
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In this powerful follow-up to Between Barack and a Hard Place, Tim Wise argues against "colorblindness" and for a deeper color-consciousness in both...
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As the practice of democracy becomes a lost art, Americans are increasingly desperate for a restored nation. Many have a general sense that the "system" is in...
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Night Swim
Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970 Boston. From the outside, her parents’ lifestyle appears enviable – a world defined by...
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In 1956, when divorced working-mom Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a Boston suburb, the neighborhood is less than welcoming. Lewis...
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The author of Waiting to Exhale checks in again with a fresh, exuberant novel. Stella Payne is a Superwoman who has everything—except a man to rock her world,...
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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the...
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