 | The Away Place
Publication Date: August 19, 2009The Away Place by author Ruth Tiger is the poignant story of a special bond between a man with Down Syndrome and an idealistic doctoral student. Sarah Richardson becomes an activist for protecting the rights of mentally challenged adults in the turbulent 1970s.A deathbed confession from her mother spurs Sarah to found an experimental group home and five institutionalized adults move into her start-up facility.She finds herself drawn to one especially sensitive and gentle man, John, who grew up in an institution never knowing his family. When tragedy strikes o...
 |  | Christopher And His Kind
Publication Date: September 18, 2001Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life-from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels-who appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret.What most impressed t...
|  | On the Trail Made of Dawn: American Indian Creation Myths
Publication Date: September 2001| Age Level: 9 and up When knowledge was passed from generation to generationthrough story, early peoples in North America gathered to hear of howtheir world came to be. Their elders spoke of fundamental oncerns of alife lived close to the earth: the origin of the winds, or the stars,or the seasons; where night and day came from; how the first human, oranimals, took breath and a rightful place in the world.This book contains thirteen such creation stories retold simply andpowerfully for young children. The Eskimo, Tlingit, Maidu, Makah,Cree, Navajo, Hopi, Osag...
|  | A History of the Book in America: Volume 2: An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840
Release Date: June 24, 2010| Series: History of the Book in America Volume Two of A History of the Book in America documents the development of a distinctive culture of print in the new American republic.Between 1790 and 1840 printing and publishing expanded, and literate publics provided a ready market for novels, almanacs, newspapers, tracts, and periodicals. Government, business, and reform drove the dissemination of print. Through laws and subsidies, state and federal authorities promoted an informed citizenry. Entrepreneurs responded to rising demand by investing in new technologies and...
|  | Summit at Sunset (Sunset Vampire Series, Book 3)
Publication Date: January 31, 2012| Series: Sunset Vampire Series The third, and most exciting, novel in the Sunset Vampire Series has finally arrived! Powerful vampire Katrina Rawlings and her human mate, Caleb Taylor, are once more drawn into dangerous circumstances. Representatives of the most powerful and influential vampires from around the world converge upon a scenic mountain retreat located in Slovenia's Upper Bohinj Valley for a summit of historic proportion. Mystery leads to treachery, and events quickly spiral out of control. With the fates of both vampires and humans in jeopardy,...
|  | Cults Utopia 1Q84 An Enterprise Architecture Review
Publication Date: August 26, 2011This literature is NOT real. It is all IMAGINATION. This is an exercise to describe cults’ irrational behaviors using enterprise architecture.Cult violence is a form of collective behavior characterized by progressive escalation of conflict, internal radicalization, and the impossibility of escape or retreat from the inevitability of extreme violence (Bromley & Melton 2002,O'Connor 2011.).There have been several attempts modeling cults, sects, but none of them can successfully describe all the gist of the beast in a simplistic manner.Moreover, cults ha...
|  | LEGO Ninjago Chapter Book: Jay, Ninja of Lightning
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Listen and Color: Native American Legends Book and CD (Listen & Color)
Publication Date: November 3, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up...
|  | FamilyFun Cooking with Kids
Release Date: September 2, 2006| Grade Level: P and up A cookbook from the editors at FamilyFun magazine. ...
|  | Going to Town (My First Little House)
Release Date: April 26, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Beatrix Potter's Nursery Rhyme Book
Release Date: September 1, 2000| Age Level: 1 and up...
|  | Alexis Cool as a Cupcake (Cupcake Diaries)
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Look Baby (Disney Baby)
Release Date: November 9, 2010| Age Level: 1 and up...
|  | Alcohol (Your Call)
Publication Date: September 10, 2009 ...
|  | What Are Uncles For?
Publication Date: January 1, 1984| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Through Michael's eyes he could see the familiar world reflected as a fantastic, often hilariously distorted place, and fortunately he had the time and sensitivity to capture the magic of these childhood perceptions in a heartwarming series of poems. Illustrated in kindred spirit by two small boys, What Are Uncles For? will prove equally entertaining for uncles, aunts, parents - and children. ...
|  | Fabulous Fashions of the 1920s (Fabulous Fashions of the Decades)
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|  | Ancient Hawaii Coloring Book
Publication Date: October 1992Gods, goddesses and scenes of life when Europeans first reached the Hawaiian Islands are illustrated; the pictures are based on original art and artifacts. ...
|  | Everyday I Sing the Blues: The Story of B.B. King (Impact Biography)
Publication Date: September 1995 ...
|  | John F. Kennedy (Childhood of the Presidents)
Publication Date: September 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
|  | Badge Of Valor: Natl. Law Enf. (Great American Memorials)
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