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This Is Not My Hat
by Jon KlassenWINNER OF THE 2013 CALDECOTT MEDAL! From the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling and award-winning I Want My Hat Back comes a second wry tale. When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper (which happens to fit him perfectly), trouble could be following close behind. So it’s a good thing that enormous fish won’t wake up. And even if he does, it’s not like he’ll ever know what happened. . . . Visual humor swims to the fore as the best-selling Jon Klassen follows his breakout debut with another deadpan-funny tale.
This Is Graceanne's Book
by P. L. WhitneyThe story is told by a nine-year old boy, Charlie, who observes with an encompassing awe a pivotal year in the life of his older sister Graceanne. She's loud, intellectual and a ruthless physical and psychological daredevil, a girl whose ferocious exploits are the stuff of local legend and the stuff of all that Charlie aspires to be. He narrates Graceanne's painful passage into teenage, a passage made tempestuous by their violent mother.
This House is Haunted: The True Story of a Poltergeist
by Guy Lyon PlayfairA full-length true account of a poltergeist case, written by an experienced investigator of the paranormal on the spot right from the start.
This Boy's Life
by Tobias WolffAutobiography of Wolff as a boy in the 1950s, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move. As he fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical, and Wolff masterfully recreates the frustrations, cruelties, and joys of adolescence.
Thirteen Against the Bank
by Norman LeighTrue story of how a young English clerk and 12 others won methodically and consistently at Nice, breaking the bank. His simple, easy to understand system is fully explained.
Third and Indiana
by Steve LopezSomeone is painting bodies on Philadelphia's Broad Street--one more boldly drawn chalk outline every time another life is lost to the violence of the drug wars. A sixteen-year-old dealer; a priest; a nine-year-old girl. The images pile through the summer and fall, moving closer each day to the doorstep of City Hall. Ofelia Santoro rides her bicycle over the bodies and through the dark, decaying streets of the neighborhood known to police as the Badlands. She is looking for her fourteen-year-old son, Gabriel, who disappeared a month earlier. His father skipped two years ago, and she's been losing her boy ever since. Gabriel got his first job when he was twelve, as a lookout, spotting cops for the coke sellers working the car trade. Now he's a dealer himself, the youngest guy in the Black Cap gang, holding down the most dangerous corner and hiring his own lookouts. He feels guilty getting kids involved the same way he got involved, but he needs them, or he'll be caught. Gabriel tries to outrun the neighborhood, taking cover with a drifter who is the father he might have had. But Gabriel is already trapped, at the mercy of Diablo, the ugliest of the dealers, a man who kills for fun. Steve Lopez's plot, dialogue, and pacing are masterful. With searing precision, he portrays a world of evil so routine that its seems inevitable. Yet Lopez endows his characters with such humanity that redemption and radiance lighten this darkness. Third and Indiana is an extraordinarily compelling and powerful debut.
Thinking Like an Anthropologist
by John OmohundroThis exciting text teases out the common core of the cultural anthropological way of thinking, makes it explicit in a set of eleven questions, and uses those questions to enhance learning. Each question receives treatment in a brief chapter, accompanied by several exercises and classroom demonstrations. The textbook is intended to be accompanied by--and applied to--a reader, a few ethnographies, or a monograph with topical focus such as language, globalization, technology, art, or gender. The eleven questions that organize the text can be applied singly and cumulatively to address the cultures presented in the ethnographies or case studies chosen by each instructor. A comprehensive guide written by John Omohundro assists instructors who adopt this novel approach and suggests numerous examples of ethnographies and readers that would be effective companions for the text.
Things No Longer There: A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision
by Susan KriegerEven before the author lost her sight, she was interested in how things are never as we recall them.
Thimbleberry Stories
by Cynthia RylantFour stories about Nigel the Chipmunk and his friends, who live on Thimbleberry Lane.
They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
by Barbara HollandThroughout history there have been women, endowed with curiosity and abundant spirit, who stepped out of the cave, cast off the shackles of expectation, and struck out for new territory. In this ode to bold, brash, and sometimes just plain dangerous women, Barbara Holland reanimates those rebels who defied convention and challenged authority on a truly grand scale: they traveled the world, commanded pirate ships, spied on the enemy, established foreign countries, scaled 19,000-foot passes, and lobbied to change the Constitution. Some were merry and flamboyant; others depressive and solitary. Some dressed up as men; others cherished their Victorian gowns. Many were ambivalent or absentminded mothers. But every one of them was fearless, eccentric, and fiercely independent. Barbara Holland evokes their energy in this unconventional book that will acquaint you with the likes of Grace O'Malley, a blazing terror of the Irish seas in the 1500s, and surprise you with a fresh perspective on legends like Bonnie Parker of "Bonnie and Clyde" fame. With wit, wisdom, and irreverent flair, They Went Whistling makes a compelling case for the virtue of getting into trouble.
They Went That-a-way ...
by Malcolm ForbesHow the famous, the infamous, and the great have died. Here are the exits made by 175 people famous sometime during the past 3000 years.
Thereby Hangs A Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins
by Charles Earle FunkHave you ever wondered why there's a bed in bedlam or why politicians utter so much bunk before elections? This book answers such questions in a readable and informative way. charity Saint Jerome, who translated the New Testament into Latin in the fourth century, sought to avoid the use of the ordinary Latin word for "love," amor, because of the distinctly worldly associations attached to that word. It did not agree with his interpretation of agape, in the original Greek, which denotes more nearly brotherly love or the deep affection between close friends. So he substituted, wherever the Greek text would naturally have required amor, one or another rather colorless word, one of them being caritas. Its meaning is "dearness," but, being colorless, it was capable of taking the color of its biblical surroundings and thus came to mean, specifically, Christian love of one's neighbor, and especially of the poor. The English word charity, derived from it, perhaps owes its sense particularly to the great passage in I Corinthians, chapter 13, which begins: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." c
There's Something in a Sunday (Sharon McCone Book #8)
by Marcia MullerAfter returning from a routine surveillance job, Sharon McCone finds her kindly old client lying in a pool of blood.
Theoretical Archaeology
by K. R. DarkAn introduction to the central concepts of archaeological theory and its competing schools of thought, including processual, post-processual, culture-historical, and Marxist viewpoints.
Then There Were Five
by Elizabeth EnrightThe Melendy children discover a mysterious house and a boy who needs a friend desperately.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-third Annual Collection
by Gardner Dozois[from the book jacket] "In The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Third Annual Collection, our very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world with such compelling stories as: "Beyond the Aquila Rift": Critically acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds takes readers to the edge of the universe, where no voyager has dared to travel before-or so we think. "Comber": Our world is an ever-changing one, and award-winning author Gene Wolfe explores the darker side of our planet's fluidity in his own beautiful and inimitable style. "Audubon in Atlantis": In a world not quite like our own, bestselling author Harry Turtledove shows us that there are reasons some species have become extinct. The twenty-nine stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright .new talents, including: Neal Asher Paolo Bacigalupi Stephen Baxter Elizabeth Bear Chris Beckett David Gerrold Dominic Green Daryl Gregory Joe Haldeman Gwyneth Jones James Patrick Kelly Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold Ken MacLeod Ian McDonald Vonda N. McIntyre David Moles Steven Popkes Hannu Rajaniemi Alastair Reynolds Robert Reed Chris Roberso Mary Rosenblum William Sanders Bruce Sterling Michael Swanwick Harry Turtledove Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy Liz Williams Gene Wolfe Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart."
The Wounded Jung: Effects of Jung's Relationships on His Life and Work
by Robert C. SmithShows how Jung's interest in the healing of the psyche was rooted in the conflicts of his own childhood. Explores his relationships with his parents, with Freud, and with the various women in his life and showing how they influenced his ideas on religion, alchemy, psychology as myth, and the reinterpretation of evil. Based on archival sources, interviews with Jung's intimates, and correspondence. For those interested in the connection between psychology and religion. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
The Worst Is Over: What to Say When Every Moment Counts
by Judith Acosta Judith Simon PraegerA detailed explanation of the Verbal First Aid used to calm people, relieve pain, promote healing, and save lives
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
by Robert HeilbronerAdam Smith, Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and more...
The World's Largest Plants: A Book About Trees
by Susan BlackabyHear the wind rustling through the maple? See the rings on the old tree trunk? Come along on a vivid introduction to the majestic giants of the plant world.
The World of Ptavvs
by Larry NivenNothing quite prepared telepath Larry Greenberg for mind-to-mind contact with an alien. Larry tapped the mind of Kzanol and that was his first mistake!
The World According to Me
by Jackie MasonFrom the book: The pages you are about to read come directly from a performance of my one-man show at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City. Picture yourself in the audience, in the first row center . . . unless you can't afford that kind of seat ... so, the balcony. But wherever you are seated and ready to enjoy this book, it is important that you read this preface, because during the course of the book I'm going to ask you questions, just like I did to my live audiences. . . . And you better be prepared to give me answers because I have a way of checking up on you. On the printed page I might sound somewhat arrogant. However, if you see me in person when I say these things you will realize that I say them without disdain, but with love and compassion. So, if you're not a schmuck you won't take it personally. If you are, it won't bother you either because you won't know the difference. To tell you the truth, I not only call a person names but get applause as well, and even a standing ovation, which in all modesty I am getting on the stage every night. When you finish this book, if you don't stand up and applaud you have either missed the humor in it or you don't appreciate it when a person gives you such big laughs for such a small price. Anyway, sit back in your seat, wherever you are . . . try to be normal, and enjoy yourself.
The Wonderful World of Books
by Alfred StefferudArticles on the pleasures of reading, reading among friends, reading more effectively, reading toward wider horizons, choosing and using books, and more.
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
by Randall StrossA bold reassessment of Edison, telling the story of how he came upon his most famous inventions as a young man and spent the remainder of his long life trying for similar success.