An extraordinary personal testament to the life and times of one of America s great naturalists and literary figures less a biography than an essay in defense of Thoreau by one of his closest friends. A moving, sensitive and charmingly...

Renowned African-American poet Sonia Sanchez explores the pain, self-doubt, and anger that emerge in women's lives: an unfaithful life partner, a brutal rape, the murder of a woman by her granddaughter, the ravages of drugs. Sanchez transforms the unspoken and...

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With the widespread call for tolerance and acceptance of gay rights, many young people have questions about homosexuality. Those wanting to be a faithful witness for Christ wrestle with how to relate to their friends who are gay. With real-life...

Meet the men in Diana Joseph's life: “The boy,” Diana's fourteen-year-old son, who supports the NRA and dreams of living in a house with wall-to-wall carpeting; Diana's father, who's called her on the telephone twice, ever, and who sat her...

First came a boy and his dog. Then they found a frog. Can a new turtle be a good friend too?...

Praise for Marcia Willett"A must for women fiction readers."- Booklist on The Children's Hour"Like Rosamunde Pilcher and Maeve Binchy, Willett creates such fully dimensional characters that readers feel as if they should phone or e-mail them to keep in touch."-...

In this board book reissue, a cute little hedgehog finds and rejects a series of intimate objects (hairbrush, pincushion, and prickly seedpod) until he finally finds another hedgehog to be his friend. Full color.Children's LiteratureA very cute porcupine is searching...

A reassuring, cheery book about going to the doctor by the highly successful team that gave us I’m a Big Brother and I’m a Big SisterTwila Cumberledge - Children's LiteratureA young girl named Hannah went to her first doctor's appointment...

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