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Setting Right: What Went Wrong?
by Bedi, Kiran
Synopsis: Setting Right: What Went Wrong? is a collection of first-hand, volunteered accounts by individuals who had nothing to declare but their disturbed past-- each one an ocean of painful experiences.
Copyright Date: 2001
Indian Police . As I See
by Bedi, Kiran
Synopsis: What a national revolution it would be if each one of us were to self police!
Copyright Date: 2008
Empowering Women . As I See
by Bedi, Kiran
Synopsis: Being a woman is both an asset and a liability. A lot depends on what she makes of herself or becomes. She is a huge asset when she is self-dependent and possesses the awareness and choice of being interdependent.
Copyright Date: 2008
Leadership And Governance . As I See
by Bedi, Kiran
Synopsis: Kiran Bedi, in her usual bold and candid style, shares wide ranging issues which have angered, inspired, or fascinated her.
Copyright Date: 2008
It’s Always Possible: Transforming One Of The Largest Prisons In The World
by Bedi, Kiran
Synopsis: Located in India's capital, New Delhi, is Tihar, one of the largest prisons in the world. Within the prison complex of over 200 acres are housed over 9,700 inmates - men, women, adolescents, children; both Indians and foreigners.
Copyright Date: 2002
I Dare (Revised And Enlarged Edition)
by Bedi, Kiran
Synopsis: Throughout her life, Kiran has dared to swim against the current and explore new grounds. This book deals with what makes Kiran Bedi say "I Dare!"
Copyright Date: 2009
All The People (A History Of Us #10)
by Hakim, Joy
Synopsis: People call it "post-war," but All the People covers a period in U.S. history that features battles of another kind-- from Cold War combat overseas to struggles for equality at home to learning to live with the threat of terrorism on U.S. soil.
Copyright Date: 2005
An Age Of Extremes (A History Of Us #8)
by Hakim, Joy
Synopsis: For the captains of industry men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford, the Gilded Age was a time of big money.
Copyright Date: 2005
War, Peace, And All That Jazz (A History Of Us #9)
by Hakim, Joy
Synopsis: From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history.
Copyright Date: 2005
The New Nation (A History Of Us #4)
by Hakim, Joy
Synopsis: Beginning with George Washington's inauguration and continuing into the nineteenth century, The New Nation tells the story of the remarkable challenges that the freshly formed United States faced.
Copyright Date: 2005
War, Terrible War (A History Of Us #6)
by Hakim, Joy
Synopsis: Riveting, moving, and impossible to put down, War, Terrible War takes us into the heart of the Civil War, from the battle of Manassas to the battle of Gettysburg and on to the South's surrender at Appomattox Court House.
Copyright Date: 2005
Adventure According To Humphrey
by Birney, Betty G.
Synopsis: Humphrey the classroom hamster has adventures going to the library, learning about the ocean, and sailing across a pond on a sailboat.
Copyright Date: 2009
I Will Survive
by Kemp, Kristen
Synopsis: Poor Ellen. Her boyfriend is cheating on her ... with her best friend. Her other (male) best friend is in love with her when he really shouldn't be. Her beauty queen sister is on a rampage. And her mom is having an affair with one of her teachers.
Copyright Date: 2002
Saving Grace
by Cummings, Priscilla
Synopsis: When Grace's family is evicted from their Washington, D.C, apartment just before Christmas 1932, and she and her younger brothers are sent to a mission, Grace wonders what will become of her brothers, her pregnant mother, and her out-of-work father.
Copyright Date: 2003
Scars Of Sweet Paradise: The Life And Times Of Janis Joplin
by Echols, Alice
Synopsis: Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar America. With her incredible wall-of-sound vocals, Joplin was the voice of a generation.
Copyright Date: 1999
Peter And The Sword Of Mercy
by Barry, Dave and Pearson, Ridley
Synopsis: It's been twenty-three years since Peter and the Lost Boys returned from Rundoon. Since then, nobody on the island has grown a day older, and the Lost Boys continue their friendship with the Mollusk tribe, and their rivalry with Captain Hook.
Copyright Date: 2009
Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? (Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson #10)
by Rennison, Louise
Synopsis: A bit early to get swoony knickers but I have got them on. For Georgia, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Copyright Date: 2009
Away Laughing On A Fast Camel (Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson #5)
by Rennison, Louise
Synopsis: The saga of teenager Georgia Nicolson continues in diary entries about her life after her boyfriend goes off to Kiwi-agogoland, leaving her to make do without him.
Copyright Date: 2004
Startled By His Furry Shorts (Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson #7)
by Rennison, Louise
Synopsis: On the rack of romance. And also in the oven of "luuurve." And possibly on my way to the "bakery of pain." And maybe even going to stop along the way to get a little "cake" at the cake shop of agony.
Copyright Date: 2006
Stop In The Name Of Pants! (Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson #9)
by Rennison, Louise
Synopsis: Time to gird the loins and pucker up. Blimey O'Reilly's trousers! Three maybe-boyfriends is a lot for any girl to handle-- red-bottomed or not. What with Robbie the Sex God back from Kiwi-a-gogo land wanting to "get coffee" and what sit.
Copyright Date: 2008
The Champion
by Gee, Maurice
Synopsis: In 1943 twelve-year-old Rex sees his quiet New Zealand village dramatically changed by the arrival of a black American soldier on leave from the war.
Copyright Date: 1993
Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee
by Beatty, Patricia
Synopsis: In 1865 with the war recently over, fourteen-year-old Hannalee and her recently reunited family decide to start a new life in Atlanta where, because of the need to rebuild the devastated city, jobs are plentiful. Sequel to "Turn Homeward, Hannalee."
Copyright Date: 1988
Bloods: An Oral History Of The Vietnam War By Black Veterans
by Terry, Wallace
Synopsis: "Simply the most powerful and moving book that has emerged on this topic." UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL. The national bestseller that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective.
Copyright Date: 1984
No More Cornflakes
by Horvath, Polly
Synopsis: With a new baby coming, Hortense's parents have a lot on their minds, but their outrageous behavior proves humiliating for this fifth-grader and her 14-year-old sister Letitia.
Copyright Date: 1990
Brothers: The Hidden History Of The Kennedy Years
by Talbot, David
Synopsis: For decades, books about John or Robert Kennedy have woven either a shimmering tale of Camelot gallantry or a story of runaway ambition and reckless personal behavior. But the real story of the Kennedys in the 1960s has long been submerged until now.
Copyright Date: 2007