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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
by Booker T. WashingtonHailed one of best American autobiographies ever written, Booker T. Washington recounts his life.
My Lesbian Husband
by Barrie Jean BorichBarrie Jean Borich's memoir of her 14-year marriage is a subtle exploration of gender and the intricacies of butch-femme desire. My Lesbian Husband describes Borich's attraction to her partner, Linnea, and the slow building of their life together in a decaying neighborhood in Minneapolis. Borich traces both the pleasures and the wrenching difficulties of trying to construct a long-term union in the absence not only of legal and social but of everything that our aunts and uncles and parents take for granted: "names for their union in every language, the weddings of a square-chested prince and a big-busted, cinch-waisted princess at the end of every Disney movie, every Shakespeare comedy, not to Mary and Joseph, Hera and Zeus, and those little bride and groom figurines they have saved from their wedding cakes." This is as sharply observed and well-written a memoir as Jan Clausen's and Oranges, but a valentine rather than a valediction.
Noah's Flood
by William Ryan Walter PitmanThe New Scientific Discoveries About the Event That Changed History
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth GrahameThe escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness
by Eugene H. PetersonIn Under the Unpredictable Plant respected pastor, author, and educator Eugene Peterson clarifies the pastoral vocation by turning to the biblical book of Jonah, in which he finds a captivating, subversive story that can help pastors recover their "vocational holiness". Using the Jonah story as a narrative structure, Peterson probes the spiritual dimensions of the pastoral calling and seeks to reclaim ground taken over by those who are trying to enlist pastors in religious careers. Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness is the third of three books on the work of pastors in North America. The three books together are designed to provide a biblical orientation and theological understanding in cultural conditions decidedly uncongenial to such orientation and understanding. This third volume uses the narrative of Jonah as a structure for recovering the spiritual dimensions of the pastoral vocation in an age that relentlessly secularizes it into career development. Holiness, the cultivated habit of responding to God word instead of fitting into the world's program, emerges as the vocational distinctive. The first two books in the series are Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work and Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity.
The Lives of Children: The Story of the First Street School
by George DennisonThere is no need to add to the criticism of our public schools. The critique is extensive and can hardly be improved on. The processes of learning and teaching, too, have been exhaustively studied. One thinks the books of Paul Goodman, John Holt, Greene and yan Nat Hentoff, James Herndon, Jonathan Kozol,Herbert Kohl; and of such researches as those of lBruner and Piaget; and of Joseph Featherstone's important Report. The question now is what to do. In the pages that follow, I would like to describe one unfamiliar approach to the problems which by now have become familiar. And since the crisis of the schools consists in reality of a great many ises in the lives of children, I shall try to make the children of the First Street School the real subject of this book.
If Loving You Is Wrong: The Shocking True Story of Mary Kay Letourneau
by Gregg OlsenThe true story of the elementary schoolteacher and mother of four who just couldn't keep her hands off a 13-year-old boy. Worse yet, Mary Kay Letourneau had become obsessed with the slight, Samoan teenager while he was still a student in her sixth-grade class--and he fathered two babies with her. Yet in the hands of true crime writer Gregg Olsen, If Loving You Is Wrong becomes a poignant profile of an emotionally stunted young woman tightly wound up in a web of lies too fragile to sustain the weight of her own compulsions.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2; British Edition)
by J. K. RowlingSequel to Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone. Harry, Ron and Hermione have returned to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their second year. Soon the threesome are immersed in the daily round of potions, herbology, charms, defence against the dark arts and quid ditch But then horrible things start happening. Harry hears evil voices. Sinister messages appear on the wall. But nothing can prepare the three friends for what happens next.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4; British Edition)
by J. K. RowlingIn Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry is midway through both his training as a wizard and his coming of age. He wants to get away from the malicious Dursleys and go to the Quidditch World Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about his crush, Cho Chang (and maybe do more than dream).<P><P> And now that he's gotten the hang of things at Hogwarts-he hopes-he just wants to be a normal fourteen-year-old wizard.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3; British Edition)
by J. K. RowlingHarry Potter is a very unusual boy. He cant wait to get back to school after the summer holidays! But that's not the only unusual thing about Harry; Harry's school is Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and Harry is a wizard!<P><P> When Harry, along with his best friends Ron and Hermione, go back for their third year at Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school... A brilliant new story featuring Harry and his friends, sequel to the award-winning Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian
by Clifford StollInteresting analysis of the use and misuse of technology in education.
Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts
by Jonathan L. Reed John Dominic CrossanJesus scholar and archeologist combine to look at life of Jesus.
Anne of Windy Willows
by L. M. MontgomeryThere are just two kinds of people in Summerside: those who are Pringles and those who aren't. Anne Shirley, the red-haired girl from Green Gables, has now grown into a young woman and her romance with Gilbert Blythe begins to flourish. There are important developments in her career too, for Anne is now Principal of Summerside High School. But life is not easy at the school, and it needs all Anne's courage, diplomacy and natural high spirits to overcome the prejudice of the locals and, more particularly, the Pringles the family that virtually rules the town and the surrounding countryside.