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White Boy

by Karl Helicher

This lively coming-of-age memoir tells why the author, a Jewish boy from Brooklyn, decides to spend his career teaching African-American studies, a discipline in which white males have often been regarded as curiosities. His biography is... Read More

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The Perfect Pet

“Hamlet, Pygmalion, and Podge wanted a dog more than anything else in the world. More than ice cream, more than chocolate. Even more than wallowing in mud on a hot summer’s day.” Wallowing in mud? Yes, these cleverly named... Read More

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Buenos Modales

by Gabrielle Shaw

It has been said that good manners are the grease that keeps the wheels of society going ‘round. That the “civilization” of children is the most important education they’ll receive; that an unsocialized child, no matter how... Read More

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Cada Nino / Every Child

“You may think vegetables lead a dull life. But here we find the garden vegetables having a wild party under a late night moon,” goes the introduction (in both Spanish and English) to “El Baile Vegetal” (“The Barnyard... Read More

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A Deeper Freedom

“Liberalism” has come to mean a government that supports a wide array of political and social programs. In this book, liberalism is defined according to its classical meaning: a system based on personal freedom and responsibility.... Read More

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For Solo Violin

More than three thousand memoirs by Holocaust survivors have been published. After a long silence, those who lived through the horrors of Nazi brutality now seem to be almost frantically rushing to preserve the dire tale of their... Read More

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