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Tall Story - Candy Gourlay
Andi is short. And she has lots of wishes. She wishes she could play on the school basketball team, she wishes for her own bedroom, but most of all she wishes that her long-lost ha... -
Sweet Like Sugar - Wayne Hoffman
With eloquence and wit, Wayne Hoffman explores the unlikely camaraderie between a young Jewish man and an Orthodox rabbi, in this rich, insightful novel about love, honesty, faith,... -
Practicing History_ Selected Es - Barbara W. Tuchman
Review"Persuades and Enthralls...I can think of no better primer for the nonexpert who wishes to learn history." -- Chicago Sun-Times"Provocative, Consistent, and Beautifully ... -
More Blazing Bedtime Stories_ O - Julie Leto; Leslie Kelly
Product DescriptionInto the Woods by Julie LetoTatiana Starlingham is a frustrated fairy godmother. She grants sexy wishes for others--but all that hot loving is off-l... -
Lucky Child - Thomas Buergenthal
Thomas Buergenthal was not quite six years old when he and his parents were forced into a Jewish ghetto in Poland. Four years later, they were placed on a train bound for Auschwitz... -
Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly; Martin Dugard
Review"As a history major, I wish my required reading had been as well written as this truly vivid and emotionally engaging account of Lincoln's assassination. And as a former comb... -
Kalooki Nights - Howard Jacobson
SUMMARY: Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. G... -
Just One Wish - Janette Rallison
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Seventeen-year-old Annika Truman knows about the power of positive thinking. With a little brother who has cancer, it’s all she ever hears about. And in order to ... -
Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett
"May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much... -
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
SUMMARY: Here there be dragons . . . and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco...