The Shooting: A Memoir
In 1987, Kemp PowersQa good kid raised by a single mother in Brooklyn oblivious to the violence around himQaccidentally shot his best friend. Forgiven by everyone but unable to forgive himself, Kemp promised to never make a mistake againQa promise naively made by a child that the adult couldn't keep.
The Shooting: A Memoir
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The Kids' Book of Questions
First published in 1988, this collection contains questions specially designed to challenge, provoke, entertain and expand young minds. Discovery and controversy lurk in every question, whether discussed kid to kid, in class, or with the whole family.
The Kids' Book of Questions
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A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me by Jon Katz, ISBN 0375502971
"Change loves me, defines and stalks me like a laser-guided smart bomb. It comes at me in all forms, suddenly and with enormous impact, from making shifts in work to having and raising a kid to buying a cabin on a distant mountaintop. Sometimes, change comes on four legs."
In his popular and widely praised Running to the Mountain, Jon Katz wrote of the strength and support he found in the massive forms of his two yellow Labrador retrievers, Julius and Stanley. When the Labs were six and seven, a breeder who'd read his book contacted Katz to say she had a dog that was meant for him--a two-year-old border collie named Devon, well bred but high-strung and homeless. Katz already had a full canine complement, but instinct overruled reason, and soon thereafter he brought Devon home.
A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me is the story of how Devon and Jon--and Julius and Stanley--came to terms with each other. It shows how a man discovered a lot about himself through one dog (and...
A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me by Jon Katz, ISBN 0375502971
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Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch by Haywood Smith, ISBN 0312989393
Welcome to Mimosa Branch, Georgia.
Check your sanity at the door.
Linwood Breedlove Scott's life has officially hit rock bottom. Her husband of thirty years has run off with a stripper. The IRS has taken everything but her coffee table. And her hot flashes are four-alarmers. The only thing that could make being flat-broke and fifty any worse is having to crawl home to her parents' house in Mimosa Branch, Georgia...which is exactly where she's headed.
Lin's barely prepared for the loony bin that greets her, from her controlling, eighty-year-old mother and shockingly blunt father to her long-suffering Aunt Glory and her deranged Uncle Bedford who is convinced a cannibal lives under the furniture. Nor is she ready for the instant love-hate attraction she feels for her handsome new next-door neighbor. Trying to navigate her way through the second act of her life with nothing more than a prepaid calling card, a broken heart, and plenty of Prozac, Lin's about to discover that it's...
Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch by Haywood Smith, ISBN 0312989393
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Who Was Harry Houdini? by Tui T. Sutherland, ISBN 0448426862
Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician, but do they know that he was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a plane in Australia? This well-told biography is full of the details of Houdini's life and illustrated throughout with beautiful black-and-white drawings.
Who Was Harry Houdini? by Tui T. Sutherland, ISBN 0448426862
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