YA. Despite impoverishing his family because of his alcoholism, McCourt's father passed on to his son a gift for superb storytelling. He told him about the great Irish heroes, the old days in Ireland, the people in their Limerick neighborhood, and the world beyond their shores. McCourt writes in the voice of the child?with no self-pity or review of events?and just retells the tales. He recounts his desperately poor early years, living on public assistance and losing three siblings, but manages to make the book funny and uplifting. Stories of trying on his parents' false teeth and his adventures as a post-office delivery boy will have readers laughing out loud. Young people will recognize the truth in these compelling tales; the emotions expressed; the de*ions of teachers, relatives, neighbors; and the casual cruelty adults show toward children. Readers will enjoy the humor and the music in the language. A vivid, wonderfully readable memoir.?Patricia Noonan, Prince William Public Library, VA Copyright 19

If you're like most people, your life is so hectic that it'shard to imagine squeezing in time for daily exercise. The good newsis that you can get fit without an expensive gym membership orrigorous workout schedule. New research proves that you can "sneakup" on fitness by grabbing a little time here and there throughoutthe day so you total at least thirty minutes of moderateactivity on most days. The American Heart Association's Fitting inFitness guide will show you how to work spurts of activity into theway you live right now. Those few minutes can add up to hugerewards, including a stronger heart and bones, higher energylevels, better weight control, and more. You'll find hundreds of tips for fitting in fitness in thiseasy-to-use, inspiring guide. You'll even learn how to bring yourkids into the act and have a lifestyle program that works for allof you.

In Up from Slavery, Washington recounts the story of hislife—from slave to educator. The early sections deal with hisupbringing as a slave and his efforts to get an education.Washington details his transition from student to teacher, andoutlines his own development as an educator and founder of theTuskegee Institute in Alabama. In the final chapters of Up FromSlavery, Washington describes his career as a public speaker andcivil rights activist.

Geraldine Brooks is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March and Year of Wonders and the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Previously, Brooks was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha's V'meyard with her husband Tony Horwitz, their son Nathaniel, and three dogs.

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What do doctors do when they get sick? The editors ofPrevention Magazine Health Books asked more than 500 of the nationstop specialists to recommend their best doctor-tested andeasy-to-follow remedies for 138 illnesses and maladies. Thiscomplete, practical guide contains the distilled experience ofhealth professionals who offer more than 2300 accessible healingtips for the most common medical complaints. In this handy reference you will find curative techniques andsymptom-relieving treatments for bladder infections, depression,emphysema, headaches, premenstrual syndrome, toothaches, and muchmore. Here are invaluable at-home solutions for annoying afflictionssuch as canker sores, dandruff, and snoring as well as methods forcoping with more serious health problems such as high cholesterol,ulcers, and backaches. The Doctors Book Of Home Remedies is likehaving a doctor on call 24 hours a day. So treat yourself to thispre*ion for health and stay well.

Now offered to mass market, How to Make Love All the Timeteaches readers how to give and get the love they need, whetherthey are in a relationship or looking for one. Dr. DeAngelis is afrequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Hour Magazine, and TheSally Jesse Raphael Show.

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The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle. A brilliant work of dark fantasy inspired by Browning's romantic poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came". --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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Sniper is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the mostfrightening rampages to occur in U.S. history—and how it wasstopped. For more than three weeks, the nation watched in disbelief asWashington, D.C., and its surrounding suburbs were held hostage byanonymous gunmen shooting innocent civilians at random. Sniper isthe de?nitive account of those alleged gunmen, John Muhammad andLee Boyd Malvo, and the massive manhunt that ended with theircapture by a heavily armed SWAT team in an early-morning raid at aninterstate highway rest stop. Two Washington Post reporters, Sari Horwitz and Michael E. Ruane,retrace the steps of Muhammad and Malvo from their ?rst meeting onthe island of Antigua to Malvo’s de?ant confession in a Virginiajail. Drawing on exclusive reporting about that confession,internal police documents, and a wide range of law-enforcementsources, Horwitz and Ruane track in remarkable detail the murderoustrail Muhammad and Malvo are accused of having followed to theWashington area a

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In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services. He argued passionately in favor of free trade, yet stood up for the little guy. The Wealth of Nations provided the first--and still the most eloquent--integrated de*ion of the workings of a market economy. The result of Smith’s efforts is a witty, highly readable work of genius filled with prescient theories that form the basis of a thriving capitalist system. This unabridged edition offers the modern reader a fresh look at a timeless and seminal work that revolutionized the way governments and individuals view the creation and dispersion of wealth--and that continues to influence our economy right up to the present day.

For decades no law enforcement program has been as cloaked incontroversy and mystery as the Federal Witness Protection Program.Now, for the first time, Gerald Shur, the man credited with thecreation of WITSEC, teams with acclaimed investigative journalistPete Earley to tell the inside story of turncoats, crime-fighters,killers, and ordinary human beings caught up in a life-and-deathgame of deception in the name of justice. WITSEC Inside the Federal Witness ProtectionProgram When the government was losing the war on organized crime in theearly 1960s, Gerald Shur, a young attorney in the JusticeDepartment’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, urged thedepartment to entice mobsters into breaking their code of silencewith promises of protection and relocation. But as high-ranking mobfigures came into the program, Shur discovered that keeping hiswitnesses alive in the face of death threats involved more thaneradicating old identities and creating new ones. It also meantcutting off families from their

Examines the effectsof rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual,the family, and society.