Alex Kotlowitz
This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect. Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here was more than a ... [... more]
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys ...
 From Amazon.com: There Are No Children Here, the true story of brothers Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, ages 11 and 9 at the start, brings home the horror of trying to make it in a violence-ridden public housing project. The boys live in a gang-plagued war [... more]
CDN$19.95
Amazon CA |
Being There
Das Wunschbild: A Fable for our Times: I first became aware of this book as the basis for the remarkable film starring Peter Sellers and Melvyn Douglas. Kosinski_s book, however, is just as remarkable in its own right. The hero of the book is Chance, a [... more]
CDN$16.50
Amazon CA |
Along Navajo
The E.C. Does It Again: As I have said before, some of the very best old-time singer's compilations come out of Europe, and this one from Naxos Nostalgia is no exception. This presents Roy's recordings between 1945 and 1947 while with RCA Victor, a [... more]
CDN$9.99
Amazon CA |
Almost There
Poor Follow-Up to the Great AYS: Nuala is a talented writer, but we knew that already. I found this book a bit, well, boring. It was like reading my own journal - too much stuff that would be of interest only to me and, possibly, my closest friends or [... more]
CDN$21.00
Amazon CA |
The Hidden Hitler
Possible but no real factual evidence..: Hitler is a true historic enigma. His was such a contradictory life that biographers can easily read just about anything into it. He was somehow both monstrous and banal at the same time but was he a homosexual? [... more]
CDN$27.50
Amazon CA |
The Thread That Runs So True
The Thread That inspires lives: I read this book while preparing to do the play based from it, and I must say that it is an amazing piece of literature..... each student in the book is so lifelike that when it came time for my friend and I to play the [... more]
CDN$26.05
Amazon CA |
Having It And Eating It
What a fun sassy read!: This is a fun book! It's a guaranteed read to take your mind off of your troubles! This is my first Sabine Durrant book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn't read it to pick at the moral issues ~~ I read it to have a break from [... more]
CDN$16.00
Amazon CA |
Handmaid's Tale (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: Set in a time when a buildup of toxic chemicals has made most people sterile, Volker Schlondorff's film offers a disturbing view of a society under martial law in which fertile women are captured and made into handmaids to bear children [... more]
CDN$14.95
Amazon CA |
Jennifer Jones Won't Leave Me Alone
SUCH a cute book!: This book is perfect for young children and the young at heart. Adults will love it as much as their children. I read it with first and second graders. They sympathized with the narrator's "Ewww, a girl LIKES me" feelings, [... more]
CDN$6.99
Amazon CA |
Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
From Amazon.com: While gun supporters use the nation's gun-toting history in defense of their way of life, and revolutionary enthusiasts replay skirmishes on historic battlefields, it now turns out that America has not always had a gun culture, and wide- [... more]
CDN$19.50
Amazon CA |
The Art of Maurice Sendak
From Amazon.com: In a nutshell, The Art of Maurice Sendak is simply stunning. Page after page of lavish full-color illustrations and black-and-whites from one of America's best-loved children's artists adorn this hefty volume. Sendak, best known for the [... more]
CDN$39.98
Amazon CA |
