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Charlesbridge
Top Ten ALA Best Fiction for Young AdultsJunior Library Guild SelectionStarred Reviews in Publishers Weekly and School Library JournalBookPages Top Ten Middle Grade NovelsA refugee and child soldier challenge the rules of war in this coming-of-age novel set against the …
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
A stunning debut novelits power and prose evocative of such diverse writers as Faulkner, Ondaatje, Nabokov, and Coetzeeabout a young Africans international odyssey of self-discovery. Kwasi Edward Michael DankwaEddie Signwriter to his clientsis a twenty-year-old painter of murals and billboards …
Random House Children's Books
The Saddle Club is taking part in a big Pony Club rally being held at Pine Hollow. Riders from all the local Pony Clubs are there, including Stevie's boyfriend, Phil Marsten. For once Stevie and Phil aren't being too competitive …
The Crown Publishing Group
A house shrouded in time. A line of women with a heritage of loss.As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the …
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Volume II: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
North Atlantic Books
The second of a planned 10 volumes that will reprint all Sturgeon's short fiction covers his prolific output during 1940 and 1941, after which he suffered five years of writer's block. Showcasing Sturgeon's early penchant for fantasy, the first six …
Tundra
An informative and powerful novel, The World Outside explores the life of a teenage girl in a fundamentalist Hasidic community who dreams of a different future. Seventeen-year-old Chanie Altman lives the protected life of a Lubavitcher Hasidic girl in Crown …
Soho Press
Etsuko has fallen in love with the shy young university lecturer who clumsily courts her. But her family objects to his past: his father was a war criminal; his deceased younger brother, a murderer. When Etsuko lies to force the …
Random House Children's Books
Some might think Jay was cheated. By his mother, who walked out when he was 9. By his dad, who took a job a couple thousand miles away and let him stay above a bar in a one-room apartment. By …
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
A highly original and convincing book by one of our best-informed China specialists, offering an entirely new perspective on the nature of democracy as the Chinese practice itand, incidentally, as we practice it too.What do the Chinese mean by the …
Random House Children's Books
Its a cold December night and Fancy, the Stegner familys cow, is about to give birth. Out pops Little Joe, a huge bull calf, and with him comes nine-year-old Elis first chance to raise an animal to show at next …
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The Ethics of Coexistence
Smithsonian
The great apes -- gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans -- are known to be our closest living relatives. Chimpanzees in particular share 98 percent of our DNA, and scientists widely agree that they exhibit intellectual abilities long thought to be …
Random House Children's Books
"The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)" Midwest Children's Book Review It's Sammy's birthday, which should be a good thing, except that Dorito, Sammy's cat, is missing, and while Sammy's searching for him, she …
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Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives
Beacon Press
Foreword by Jane GoodallA former student and colleague of Jane Goodall shares stories of chimps and their heroes, and takes readers on a journey to save mans closest relative. Unbeknownst to much of the public, chimps are in trouble: censuses …
Random House Children's Books
Help Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve mysteries from A to Z! Kids love collecting the entire alphabet and super editions! With over 8 million copies in print, the A to Z Mysteries have been hooking chapter book readers on …
Shambhala
The classic Buddhist text and essential guidebook on the ideal of compassion and the methods of attaining it (Pema Chodron, author of When Things Fall Apart)Treasured by Buddhists of all traditions, The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide …
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A Documentary Study of an American Chinatown
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Beginning with the immigrants who left poverty-ridden villages in China to try for a better livelihood in America, the narratives and extensive interviews of Longtime Californ tell the true story of the Chinese in America. A young Chinese girl tells …
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Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment
Shambhala
The true nature of our minds is enlightened and peaceful, as the depth of the ocean is calm and clear. But when we mentally grasp and emotionally cling to our wants and worries with all our energy, we lose our …
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And Other Stories
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Selected and translated by the distinguished scholar Denys Johnson-Daivies, these stories have all the celebrated and distinctive characters and qualities found in Mahfouz's novels: The denizens of the dark, narrow alleyways of Cairo, who struggle to survive the poverty; melancholy …
Random House Children's Books
From the author of Rickshaw Girl and You Bring the Distant Near, a National Book Award Longlist title, comes a story about the magic of Indias monsoon seasonmonsoon madnessand all the change it brings to a teenage girl and her …
Random House Publishing Group
THE SPECIAL OPS HERO FEARED NOTHINGUNTIL HE MET A WOMAN TOO HOT TO HOLD....Lieutenant Jake Hansen has survived some of the riskiest missions known to man. But now the wounded Navy SEAL faces his toughest job yet: smuggling Dr. Isabelle …
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The Strange and (Sometimes) Terrible Life of Lorne Campbell, Satan's Choice and Hells Angels Biker
Random House of Canada
In this explicit first-hand account, a biker who spent 46 years as a member of the Hells Angels and Satan's Choice invites bestselling author Peter Edwards into the story of life lived as we've only imagined it. A kid raised …
Crown/Archetype
The highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Lies. Charged with relentless intensity and kinetic action, and playing out with unnerving suspense on the streets of New York and London, Sliver of Truth delves deep into the …
View book details for Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs (LOA #219)
In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians) / Can Such Things Be? / The Devil's Dictionary / Bits of Autobiography / selected stories
Library of America
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated …
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The tumultuous alley of this rich and intricate novel (first published in Arabic in 1959) is inhabited by a delightful Egyptian family, but is also the setting for a second, hidden, and more daring narrative: the spiritual history of humankind. …
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The Top 25 Censored Stories
Seven Stories Press
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media …
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