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How to prevent your stroke
Par J. David Spence. 2006
Neurologist's guide to reducing the risk of stroke up to 75 percent. Discusses causes and warning signs of cardiovascular disease.…
Stresses the importance of quitting smoking, having a diet and exercise plan, taking medication to control blood pressure and cholesterol, and undergoing surgery to widen narrow arteries. Includes recipes. 2006Discusses Harriet Tubman's life (1820-1913), escape from slavery, heroic trips back into slave states to conduct others to freedom, and…
dangerous role as a spy for the Union during the Civil War. Explains her work in the context of the abolitionist movement. For grades 6-9. 2006Discusses the beginning of the space age, from the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957 to the American astronauts' moon…
landing in 1969, with comments on later developments. Examines the rivalry between the two superpowers and its influence on American society and government policy. For grades 6-9. 2007Summer at Tiffany
Par Marjorie Hart. 2007
Eighty-three-year-old author recalls the summer of 1945 when she and Marty, her best friend from the University of Iowa, worked…
as the first female pages at Manhattan's Tiffany & Co. Reminisces about her romance with a navy midshipman and the VJ Day celebration in Times Square. 2007Sisters: the lives of America's suffragists
Par Jean H Baker. 2005
Profiles the private and public lives of five women who championed women's right to vote: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony,…
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, and Alice Paul. Examines the histories and backgrounds that motivated their activism, including their families, friends, lovers, companions, education, and accomplishments. 2005Boom!: voices of the sixties : personal reflections on the '60s and today
Par Tom Brokaw. 2007
Author of The Greatest Generation (BR 13580), television anchorman Tom Brokaw conducted dozens of personal interviews with baby boomers to…
document the decade of the 1960s. Includes reminiscences about the political, cultural, and socioeconomic meaning of the era and the changes that occurred. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2007Zigzag: the incredible wartime exploits of double agent Eddie Chapman
Par Nicholas Booth. 2007
Biography of British spy Eddie Chapman (1914-1997), a career criminal imprisoned on a Channel isle when the Nazis captured it…
in 1940. Describes his training as a Nazi spy, his return to England, and his services as an agent for MI5. Some violence and some strong language. 2007The voice that challenged a nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights
Par Russell Freedman. 2004
Recounts the life of African American singer Marian Anderson and her "once-in-a-hundred-years" voice. Describes her Philadelphia childhood, intense training, successful…
career in Europe, triumphant return to America, and setbacks caused by racial discrimination. Highlights Anderson's successful 1939 Lincoln Memorial performance for 75,000 fans. Newbery honor winner. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2004Antiquity: the civilization of the ancient world
Par Norman F Cantor. 2003
Survey of major Mediterranean empires from the birth of the Sumerians around 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley to the…
fall of the Roman Empire in A.D. 453. Discusses principles of religion, philosophy, politics, health, and law developed in this period and their continuing influence on modern culture. 2003Describes the horrific events in Philadelphia in 1793 when citywide illness prevented Congress from convening. Thousands of people were dying,…
many unattended, and physicians of the time were unsure of the cause or treatment of the yellow-fever outbreak. For grades 6-9. 2003Dinosaur tracks (Let's-read-and-find-out Science 2 Ser.)
Par Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld. 2007
Explains that fossils of dinosaur footprints found today are the result of tracks made and preserved millions of years ago.…
Includes an activity for making your own fossil handprints or footprints. For grades 2-4. 2007The first scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the pursuit of genius
Par Joyce E Chaplin. 2006
Harvard professor highlights the scientific discoveries of American founding father Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) that enabled his involvement in political affairs.…
Describes the transatlantic community of Enlightenment scientists and Franklin's international renown due to his pathbreaking research on electricity, asbestos, the Gulf Stream, and other topics. 2006The innocent man: murder and injustice in a small town
Par John Grisham. 2006
Ada, Oklahoma. Chronicles the 1987 arrest and conviction of a former Oakland A's pitcher and his friend for the rape…
and murder of a twenty-one-year-old cocktail waitress five years earlier. Grisham examines the effect of DNA testing and a faulty original investigation on the men's eventual exoneration. Bestseller. 2006The World Series: great championship moments
Par Stephanie True Peters. 2007
Highlights some of the most exciting baseball games in the history of the World Series, from the first contest held…
in Boston in 1903 through the 2005 season. Describes the action by star athletes and their teams. For grades 4-7. 2007A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier
Par Ishmael Beah. 2007
The author recalls experiences as a war refuge and as a thirteen-year-old soldier forced to join the Sierra Leone army.…
Beah describes his participation in mass slaughters, rehabilitation, immigration to America, and involvement with UNICEF. Violence. 2007The true history of chocolate
Par Sophie D Coe. 1996
Traces the development of processed chocolate from its pre-Columbian origins to its modern forms. Explains the steps involved in turning…
the seeds of the cacao plant into a drink. Discusses chocolate's culinary transformation in Europe and its evolution from an elite luxury to food for the masses. 1996Putin's Russia: life in a failing democracy
Par Anna Politkovskai︠a︡. 2004
Award-winning journalist blames Russian president Vladimir Putin for the multiple ills threatening the country's stability at the beginning of the…
twenty-first century. Describes corruption in the government, the judicial system, the military, and in business. Charges that the war in Chechnya is producing--not fighting--terrorism. 2004Yellow jack: how yellow fever ravaged America and Walter Reed discovered its deadly secrets
Par John R Pierce. 2005
Traces yellow fever's history and impact in America since the seventeenth century. Chronicles the efforts of army major and physician…
Walter Reed and the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Board beginning in 1900 to research the cause, spread, and control of this acute viral hemorrhagic disease and ultimately banish it. 2005Perplexing people (Unsolved history)
Par Gary L Blackwood. 2006
Historical cases of pretenders, or people who claim to be a famous deceased person. Discusses people who claimed to be…
Joan of Arc, Louis XVII of France, the Romanovs of Russia, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Billy the Kid, and Kaspar Hauser. Uncontracted braille. For senior high and older readers. 2006The Shia revival: how conflicts within Islam will shape the future
Par Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr. 2006
Middle East scholar discusses the schism between Shias and Sunnis in the Muslim world. Provides cultural and historical context for…
their traditional hostility in order to explain the animosity between Iran and Saudi Arabia and the reasons each branch of Islam seeks dominance in the Middle East. 2006