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School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Gr 7-10?What happens when you die? Where do you go? What do you do? Zevin provides answers to these questions in this intriguing novel, centering on the death of Liz Hall, almost 16 years old and looking forward to all that lies ahead: learning to drive, helping her best […]
Ordinary Heroes
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Moving away from legal thrillers (Reversible Errors) and nonfiction (Ultimate Punishment), Turow has penned a searing story of World War II interwoven with a personal family drama. Stewart Dubinsky is not especially close to his father, David Dubin. Even their names are different, yet David's death prompts Stewart to try […]
Circle of Quiet
Hidden Child
After more than 50 years of keeping his story to himself, Isaac Millman reveals his personal experience as a child in France during World War II–and how his life was changed forever–in spare prose, vivid composite paintings, and family photos that survived the war.
Under the Persimmon Tree
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband’s return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Divided by God : America\’s Church-state Problem– and What We Should Do About It
Library Journal Review : Starred Review. Feldman (NYU Law School; What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building) traces the evolution of the role of religion in American political life from the Colonial period to the present, paying particular attention to the development of legal doctrines. The First Amendment stipulates that Congress […]
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
FROM THE PUBLISHER When future scholars write the history of the world and come to the chapter \