A groundbreaking work on the psychodynamics of bigotry and anti-Semitism.As a child, Ted Rubin could not understand why some people hated him and his family only because they were Jews. He soon discov
When William Beebe was born in 1877, scientists had only begun to explore the natural world, a world that fascinated Beebe even as a child. He studied migratory birds, rain forest canopies, and ocean
Keeping Your Adoptive Family Strong: Strategies for Success was developed not only for parents, but also for anyone who connects with a child when the child is in foster care or after he or she has be
Colonial Childhoods is about the politics of childhood in India between the 1860s and the 1930s. It examines not only the redefinition of the 'child' in the cultural and intellectual climate of coloni
Charming Coraline is hired as the private tutor to the young son of rich landlords. Her mission is to entertain her too studious pupil, Vernre. He is only a child, but one with a brilliant and indefa
Vincent, a bastard child and nephew of the gamekeeper of the count's estate, and Nicole, the count's daughter, return from school only to find Vincent's uncle murdered, and the annual deer hunt underw
As a child, he was raised in an unstable and violent home by a mother struggling with mental illness. An absent father with a firm belief in tough love left him with only his sister to understand or c
It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang,
- In a village of the frozen north, a child is born possessed by a strange and alien spirit, only to be cast out by her tribe and taken in by the mysterious winter witches of Irrisen, a land locked in
Siren's Seduction - Written by Jax Cassidy - Niko Chow craves solitude. Only fate won't leave him in peace. After losing his wife and unborn child in a car crash, he slips into the dark worl
Narrates the interior monologue of Christopher Westall, the only child of an eccentric mother and distant father who struggles to deal with his mother's suicide and tries to find peace when he meets a
This book is the first to give a detailed and comprehensive account of all the children of Richard III, covering his only legitimate child, Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, his illegitimate child
After an apocalypse sends Japan into a pretechnological desert wasteland, the only hope for the country is when Tatara, the "Child of Destiny" is born.
This first pony guide will appeal to both owners and their parents. The author is the mother of a horse-crazy child and a riding instructor to many, and is only too aware of the pitfalls of finding th
Charlotte Daley is the daughter of the newly elected POTUS. An only child, she’s both spoiled rotten and entirely neglected by her powerful family. She’s been forced to eat with the right forks, smile
In Moldova, the orphanages were packed and on June 1 of the year a child turned 16, they were sent away. Nowhere to go and no one waiting for them and only a ninth grade education. Sex Traffickers kno
Riding on Comets is the true story of an only child growing up in a working-class family during the 1950s and ‘60s.As the family storyteller, Cat Pleska whispers and shouts about her life growing up a
When he was a child, Keitaro made a promise to the one and only girl who ever liked him. When they both grew up, they'd go to Todai (university) together and live happily ever after. Now, at age 19,
*Won the Caldecott Medal awarded by the American Library Association Born on a faraway island, an imaginary dragon patiently waits his turn to be chosen by a real child only to be overlooked repeatedl
It seemed, at times, an act of profound selfishness, to have a child so that I might become a parent; but selfish, too, to have a child and stay the same, or not to have one - unless the only honest c