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Quick view Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison Robison delivers a moving, darkly funny memoir of growing up with Asperger's at a time when the diagnosis simply didn't exist. A born storyteller, Robison takes readers inside the head of a boy whom teachers and other adults regarded as defective. View Details
Quick view The Harlem Hellfighters by Max Brooks A graphic novel [presentation] about the first African-American regiment to fight in World War One View Details
Quick view Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane s child s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows... View Details
Quick view La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico by Jon Sack The Mexican border state of Chihuahua and its city Juaarez have become notorious the world over as hotbeds of violence. Drug cartel battles and official corruption result in more murders annually in Chihuahua than in wartorn Afghanistan. Thanks to a... View Details
Quick view Joan of Arc by Kathleen Kudlinski Filled with archival photographs and amazing fact boxes, this entry in DKs groundbreaking series tells the story of Joan, a young farm girl who became a Christian martyr after she heard voices encouraging her to secure the throne of France for its... View Details
Quick view The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped by Paul Strathern A meticulous account of Renaissance Italy during the turbulent decade around 1500, with emphasis on several important players: Alexander Borgia (also known as Pope Alexander VI) and his son Cesare, Machiavelli the philosopher-diplomat and author of The... View Details
Quick view Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugutive Slave by Virginia Hamilton A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts. View Details
Quick view Abraham Lincoln: From the Log Cabin to the White House by Lewis Helfand One of the most courageous and esteemed presidents of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln is known mainly for abolishing slavery and his leadership during the Civil War. He grew up in a single-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in... View Details
Quick view Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back from Brain Injury by Cathy Crimmins Humorist Crimmins has written a deeply personal, wrenching, and often hilarious account of the effects of traumatic brain injury, not only on the victim, in this case her husband, but on the family. View Details
Quick view Sigmund Freud by Kathleen Krull Before Freud, nobody discussed unconscious motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or Freudian slips. Freud was a complicated, often irascible man, who in 19th-century Vienna developed his still-controversial ideas and the new discipline of... View Details
Quick view We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love by Jim Wooten Nkosi Johnson, a South African boy born with AIDS, was given only a few years to live, but his ailing mother crossed her country's divisions of race and class to bring him to Gail Johnson who raised him for his last year of life. Nkosi, in Nelson... View Details
Quick view Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall by anita Silvey This biography for children will trace Goodall's life, but each chapter will also focus on two or more the chimpanzees that she observed, with information in sidebars about these particular animals. Along with biographical details, the book will explore... View Details
