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Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home
by
Henry Cole (Author, Illustrator) (Hardcover
- Feb 23, 2010) Others:
Kindle Edition,
Library Binding ~ A beautifully illustrated novel about a mouse, her
friendship with Audubon's apprentice, and her search for home. Beneath the crackled
and faded painting of a horse, underneath the worn and dusty floorboards of the
dining room, lives Celeste, a mouse who spends her days weaving baskets, until one
day she is thrust into the world above. Here Celeste encounters danger—and love—unlike
any she's ever imagined. She dodges a hungry cat and witnesses the brutality of
hunting for the first time. She makes friends with a singing thrush named Cornelius,
a talkative osprey named Lafayette, and Joseph, Audubon's young apprentice. All
the while, Celeste is looking for a new home. Is her home in the toe of a worn boot?
Nestled in Joseph's pocket? Or in the dollhouse in the attic, complete with mouse-size
furniture perfect for Celeste? In the end, Celeste discovers that home is really
the place deep inside her heart, where friendships live. |
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 The Night Before Christmas Has Come and Gone...Now What? by
Linda Beecham (Author) (Paperback
- Jan. 29, 2010)
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Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by
Wes Moore ~ Hardcover - Apr. 27, 2010)
Other Editions:
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Paperback,
Audio Download,
Audio CD ~ Starred Review. Two hauntingly similar boys take starkly
different paths in this searing tale of the ghetto. Moore, an investment banker,
Rhodes scholar, and former aide to Condoleezza Rice, was intrigued when he learned
that another Wes Moore, his age and from the same area of Greater Baltimore,
was wanted for killing a cop. Meeting his double and delving into his life reveals
deeper likenesses: raised in fatherless families and poor black neighborhoods,
both felt the lure of the money and status to be gained from dealing drugs.
That the author resisted the criminal underworld while the other Wes drifted
into it is chalked up less to character than to the influence of relatives,
mentors, and expectations that pushed against his own delinquent impulses, to
the point of exiling him to military school. Moore writes with subtlety and
insight about the plight of ghetto youth, viewing it from inside and out; he
probes beneath the pathologies to reveal the pressures—poverty, a lack of prospects,
the need to respond to violence with greater violence—that propelled the other
Wes to his doom. The result is a moving exploration of roads not taken. |
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Willis: From Diff'rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted
by
Todd Bridges and
Sarah Tomlinson (Hardcover - Mar. 16,
2010) Other Editions:
Kindle Edition,
Unknown Binding - 2010 ~ The former child star—best known as Willis
Jackson on
Diff’rent Strokes—shares the shocking
but inspirational details of his struggles with addiction, brushes with the
law, and fierce fight to carve a path through the darkness and find his true
identity. For
Todd Bridges early stardom was no protection
from painful childhood events that paved the road to his own personal hell.
One of the first African-American child actors on shows like
Little House on the Prairie,
The Waltons, and
Roots,
Bridges burst to the national forefront
on the hit sitcom
Diff’rent Strokes as the subject of
the popular catchphrase, "What’chu Talkin About Willis?" When the show ended,
Bridges was overwhelmed by the off-camera
traumas he had faced. Turning to drugs as an escape, he soon lost control.
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 Foxy:
My Life in Three Acts by
Pam Grier (Author), and
Andrea Cagan (Contributor) (Hardcover - Apr 28,
2010) Other Editions:
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Hardcover,
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race
of a Lifetime by
John Heilemann (Author) and
Mark Halperin (Author) ~ Hardcover Jan 11, 2010),
other Editions:
Paperback ~ "This shit would be really interesting if we
weren't in the middle of it."—Barack
Obama, September 2008. In 2008, the presidential election
became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the
White House unfolded like
something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph
of
Barack Obama. The shocking fall of
the House of Clinton—and the improbable resurrection of
Hillary Clinton as Obama's
partner and America's face to the world. The mercurial performance of
John McCain and the
mesmerizing emergence of
Sarah Palin. But despite the
wall-to-wall media coverage of this spellbinding drama, remarkably little of
the real story behind the headlines has yet been told. |
 Have You Heard of Purple Pastures by
Raymon Reed and
Esther Arce Reed ~ Illustrated by
Chad Thompson (Author) (Paperback
- Jan 13, 2010) Reading level: Ages 9-12. Product Description:
This book has been inspired by family folklore. For many years, my mother told the
original version to hold the attention of students in her physical education classes.
Used to illustrate the necessity of establishing authority, this transformative
work has been modified to inspire and empower young people to ask, explore, and
discover the answers to life's questions. Readers of all ages will identify with
Lil Ray's persistence, determination, and eminent reward! Enjoy this cliffhanger
and hidden treasure! |
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