Author: Holmes, Keith C., author. Published: 2008 Call Number: 609 HOLMES Format: Books Summary: Demographic study of Black inventors throughout the world with patents.
Author: Tatelbaum, Judy, author. Published: 2008 1980 Call Number: 155.937 Format: Books Summary: This unusual self-help book about surviving grief offers the reader comfort and inspiration. Each of us will face some loss, sorrow and disappointment in our lives, and The Courage to Grieve provides the specific help we need to enable us to face our grief fully and to recover and grow from the experience. Although the book emphasizes the response to the death of a loved one, The Courage to Grieve can help with every kind of loss and grief. Judy Tatelbaum gives us a fresh look at understanding grief, showing us that grief is a natural, inevitable human experience, including all the unexpected, intense and uncomfortable emotions like sorrow, guilt, loneliness, resentment, confusion, or even the temporary loss of the will to live. The emphasis is to clarify and offer help, and the tone is spiritual, optimistic, creative and easy to understand. Judy Tatelbaum provides excellent advice on how to help oneself and others get through the immediate experience of death and the grief that follows, as well as how to understand the special grief of children. Particularly useful are the techniques for completing or "finishing" grief--counteracting the popular misconception that grief never ends. The Courage to Grieve shows us how to live life with the ultimate courage: not fearing death. This book is about so much more than death and grieving it is about life and joy and growth.--Amazon.com.
Author: Walker, Sherrie. Published: 2008 Call Number: F WALKER Format: Books Summary: Elise, Aparis and LaKiesha have been best friends since their pre-teen years at St. Henry's Orphanage where, under the harshest circumstances, they forge a bond that is to last a lifetime. Upon their escape, the hard lessons and rules for survival learned at the orphanage set the stage for their entry and rapid success in a do-or-die game in the Cleveland streets. The girls try to forget the painful events that orphaned them as they rise to the top, but fate forces them to face the Ghosts of their haunted past. With Elise as the beautiful mastermind and brains behind the organization, the three women plunge into a ruthless battle against their faceless, relentless enemy in a winner-take-all war to the finish.
Author: Edelman, Hope. Published: 2006 Call Number: 155.937 Format: Books Summary: Examines the effects of maternal loss on the way in which adult daughters parent their own children, blending memoirs, interviews, research, and anecdotes to explore what happens to motherless women during the child-rearing years.
Author: Zusak, Markus, author. Published: 2006 2005 Call Number: ZUS Format: Books Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist -- books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. --Markus Zusak.
Author: Souljah, Sister. Published: 2006 1999 Call Number: FIC SOL Format: Books Summary: After a black drug dealer goes to jail in Brooklyn, his ruthless 17-year-old daughter takes over his empire. A look at the mores and manners of the black underclass, this one with money. First novel by a hip-hop artist, author of No Disrespect.
Author: Blum, Jenna. Published: 2005 2004 Call Number: F BLUM Format: Books Summary: For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph; a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuumlehrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life. Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation of life during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, Those Who Save Us is an exploration of what we endure to survive and the legacy of shame.
Author: Diggs, Anita Doreen. Published: 2005 Call Number: F DIGGS Format: Books Summary: Asha and Saundra, two sisters who share nothing in common, end up living under the same roof when Saundra's plans for her upcoming nuptials come to an abrupt halt when she makes a shocking discovery that shatters her trust in men, including her fianc
Author: Gregory, Philippa. Published: 2005 Call Number: F GREGORY Format: Books Summary: A fictional portrait of Henry VIII's first wife, Katherine of Aragon, follows her through her youthful marriage to Henry's older brother, Arthur, her widowhood, her marriage to Henry, and the divorce that led to Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn.
Author: Hayes, Hunter, 1970- Published: 2002 Call Number: PB HAYES Format: Books Summary: Best friends since elementary school, Shemone's and Darrell's lives have taken divergent paths--Shemone on the straight and narrow, and Darrell ending up in prison--until they find their friendship gradually growing into love.
