CHAPTER TWO: CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Brooks, Geraldine Nine Parts of Desire (305.48 Bro)
In this captivating book, award-winning journalist Geraldine Brooks offers an intimate, often
shocking portrait of the lives of modern Muslim women, and shows how male pride and power
have warped the original message of a once-liberating faith.
Colman, Penny Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts (393 Col)This comprehensive
volume examines the compelling subjects of death and burial across cultures and societies.
Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts includes photographs and descriptions of famous people, a
collection of literary quotes, images of death and burial in the arts, interesting epitaphs,
and gravestone carvings.
Mahmoody, Betty and William Hoffer Not Without My Daughter (305.4
Mah) The true story of Betty Mahmoody's escape from Iran with her daughter after her
Iranian husband attempted to turn a two-week vacation into a permanent relocation and a
life of subservience for Betty and her daughter.
Oufkir, Malika Stolen Lives (363.45 Ouf)
On August 15th, 1972, Malika Oufkir was probably the most privileged teenager in all
Morocco. The eldest daughter of King Hassan II's top aide, she had been raised in the
opulent seclusion of the monarch's harem. But within 24 hours, her father would be tried
and summarily executed for treason, and she and her entire family would be arrested and
imprisoned in a remote desert penal colony. For the next 20 years, her accommodations
would only grow worse.
Roach, Mary Stiff (611.21 Roa)
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies
postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been
involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account,
Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing
story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
Sasson, Jean Princess (305.42 Sas)A true story of life behind the veil in
Saudi Arabia, Princess delivers a gripping account of the horrors and degradations suffered
by actual modern-day Saudi women.
CHAPTER THREE: CULTURAL CONFORMITY AND ADAPTATION
Haber, Barbara From Hardtack to Home Fries (394.1 Har)
Barbara Haber, one of America's most respected authorities on the history of food, has
spent years excavating fascinating stories of the ways in which meals cooked and served by
women have shaped American history. As any cook knows, every meal, and every diet, has a
story -- whether it relates to presidents and first ladies or to the poorest of urban
immigrants. From Hardtack to Home Fries brings together the best and most inspiring of
those stories, from the 1840s to the present, focusing on a remarkable assembly of littleknown or forgotten Americans who determined what our country ate during some of its
most trying periods.
Von Drehle, David Triangle (974.7 Von)
On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in
the Triangle shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. This harrowing yet
compulsively readable book is both a chronicle of the Triangle shirtwaist fire and a vibrant
portrait of an entire age. It follows the waves of Jewish and Italian immigration that
inundated New York in the early years of the century, filling its slums and supplying its
garment factories with cheap, mostly female labor. It portrays the Dickensian work
conditions that led to a massive waist-worker's strike in which an unlikely coalition of
socialists, socialites, and suffragettes took on bosses, police, and magistrates. Von Drehle
shows how popular revulsion at the Triangle catastrophe led to an unprecedented alliance
between idealistic labor reformers and the supremely pragmatic politicians of the Tammany
machine.
CHAPTER FOUR: SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Hine, Thomas The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager (305.23
Hin) In the groundbreaking work, Thomas Hine examines the American teenager as a social
invention shaped by the needs of the twentieth century. With intelligence, insight,
imagination, and humor he traces the culture of youth in America—from the spiritual trials
of young Puritans and the vision quests of Native Americans to the media-blitzed
consumerism of contempory thirteen-to-nineteen -year-olds. The resulting study is a
glorious appreciation of youth that challenges us to confront our sterotypesm, rethink our
expectations, and consider anew the lives of those individuals who are blessing, our bane,
and our future.
Wiseman, Rosalind Queen Bees & Wannabes (649.12 Wis)
In her groundbreaking book, Queen Bees and Wannabes, Empower cofounder Rosalind
Wiseman takes you inside the secret world of girls' friendships. Wiseman has spent more
than a decade listening to thousands of girls talk about the powerful role cliques play in
shaping what they wear and say, how they respond to boys, and how they feel about
themselves. In this candid, insightful book, she dissects each role in the clique: Queen Bees,
Wannabes, Messengers, Bankers, Targets, Torn Bystanders, and more. She discusses girls'
power plays, from birthday invitations to cafeteria seating arrangements and illicit parties.
She takes readers into "Girl World" to analyze teasing, gossip, and reputations; beauty and
fashion; alcohol and drugs; boys and sex; and more, and how cliques play a role in every
situation.
CHAPTER FIVE: SOCIALIZING THE INDIVIDUAL
Hayden, Torey Ghost Girl (362.1 Hay)Jadie never spoke. She never laughed,
or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her
own troubled world--until one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her self-imposed
silence. Nothing in all of Torey Hayden's experience could have prepared her for the shock
of what Jadie told her--a story too horrendous for Torey's professional colleagues to
acknowledge. Yet a little girl was living in a nightmare, and Torey Hayden responded in the
only way she knew how--with courage, compassion, and dedication--demonstrating once again
the tremendous power of love and the relilience of the human spirit.
CHAPTER SIX: THE ADOLESCENT IN SOCIETY
Blanco, Jodee Please Stop Laughing at Me (305.23 Bla)
While other kids were daydreaming about dances, first kisses, and college, Jodee Blanco
was just trying to figure out how to get from homeroom to study hall without being taunted
or spit upon as she walked through the halls.
Browning Smith, Chelsea Diary of an Eating Disorder (362.1 Bro)
Chelsea relates how her parents' divorce and sexual abuse by a neighbor resulted in a deeprooted negative personal image and low self-esteem. Her diary reveals the surprising and
shocking ideas and beliefs she held about herself, her obsession with food and eating, her
desire to recover and become healthy, and her despair that her eating disorder could cause
her to lose the people she loved and prevent her from achieving her goals. She recounts her
days in an eating disorder rehab center and her long road to recovery. Throughout the book,
the author's mother, Beverly Runyon, describes Chelsea's life and the difficulties of
watching a beloved child starve herself until she finally asks for help.
Coloroso, Barbara The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander (Pro 371.7
Col)Drawing on her decades of work with troubled youth and her wide experience with
conflict resolution and reconciliatory justice, bestselling parenting educator Barbara
Coloroso offers a unique, practical, and compassionate book destined to become a
groundbreaking guide to this escalating problem.
Coloroso helps readers recognize the characteristic triad of bullying: the bully who
perpetrates the harm; the bullied who is the target (and who may become a bully); and the
bystander — the peers, siblings, or adults who don't act to defuse the situation.
Eliot, Eve Insatiable (616.85 Eli)
Insatiable is an astonishingly moving story of four teenage girls whose shame, fear and
confusion compel them to binge, purge and refuse to eat in misguided attempts to feel safe
and in control of their lives.
Hersch, Patricia A Tribe Apart (305.235 Her)
For three years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our
own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture - the world of adolescence. As a silent,
attentive partner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston,
Virginia, listening to their stories, observing their rituals, watching them fulfill their dreams
and enact their tragedies. Without prejudice or stereotype, Hersch set out with the goal of
seeing adolescents as they see themselves.
Michener, Anna Becoming Anna (B Mic)
"My grandmother says I destroyed my mother before I was even born." What does it mean
for a child to hear sentiments like this from the family that is supposed to love her? What
does it tell her about what kind of woman she can become? In Becoming Anna, a poignant and
painful memoir of her first sixteen years, Anna Michener describes the effect of words like
these and deeds even worse. At the age of sixteen she finally found a new family, and she
found her own voice. Changing her name to Anna and adopting the last name of her new legal
guardians, she wrote Becoming Anna as an early step toward recovery, a self-affirmation,
and a powerful plea on behalf of all the other children who still suffer.
Runyon, Brent The Burn Journals (362.28 Run)
After a bad day at school, eighth grader Brent Runyon comes home, plays a little basketball
with his brother, then goes inside, soaks his bathrobe in gasoline, and set himself on fire.
Thus begins the real-life odyssey of a 14-year-old boy struggling first to survive and then
to retrieve a place in the universe.
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE ADULT IN SOCIETY
CHAPTER EIGHT: DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL
Larson, Bob Exreme Evil: Kids Killing Kids (371.7 Lar)
America is shocked by the senseless terror that has swept through our schools. We are
victims of brutal murders carried out, not by hardened criminals, but by our very own
children. The names of the crime scenes are all too familiar. They are quiet towns. Pearl,
Mississippi. Paducah, Kentucky. Jonesboro, Arkansas. Littleton, Colorado. Americans are
trying desperately to make sense of this horrible trend while wondering, Is there anything
we can do to prevent future atrocities to our children? Bob Larson gets us to the root of
these evils and brings us some of the answers we are looking for.
Sebold, Alice Lovely Bones (Mys Seb)
In the weeks following her death, Susie watches life on Earth continuing without her -- her
school friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her family holding out hope that
she'll be found, her killer trying to cover his tracks. As months pass without leads, Susie
sees her parents' marriage being contorted by loss, her sister hardening herself in an
effort to stay strong, and her little brother trying to grasp the meaning of the word gone.
Sebold, Alice Lucky (346.15 Seb)
Fifteen years ago, at the age of eighteen, Alice Sebold was raped. In the days just
following, she made herself a promise, the promise that one day she would write a book
about her experience. And now, on the other side of heroin addiction, post-traumatic stress
disorder, and a decade and a half of recovery, that book has arrived: a starkly honest,
grippingly detailed narrative of violence and healing, suffused with poignancy, pain, and a
natural wit.
Tarbox, Katherine Katie.com (B Tar)
Katie.com is far more real than any front-page tabloid tale of Internet deception. Katherine
Tarbox, now 17, bravely spills her guts in these pages, carefully outlining the events leading
up to her meeting with Mark in Texas. She even admits to feeling guilty, describing at
length what she feels responsible for, even though she was just a young girl when she met a
man in a chat room. But Tarbox doesn't end her memoir with the Texas meeting. She writes
about the ensuing depression, anger, and shame. Katie's parents, severely disappointed in
her, pressed charges against Mark, and Katie had to spend hours with the police and the
FBI. She felt ostracized, ashamed, gossiped about. She went through many therapists and
had to work hard to regain her family's trust.
CHAPTER NINE: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
Ehrenreich, Barbara Nickel and Dimed (305.56 Ehr)
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara
Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding
welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- could be the ticket to a better life.
But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out,
Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever
jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce.
So began a grueling, hair-raising, and darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working
America.
Kennedy, Michelle Without a Net (306.874 Ken)
Michelle Kennedy had a typical middle class American childhood in Vermont. She attended
college, interned in the U.S. Senate, married her high school sweetheart and settled in the
suburbs of D.C. But the comfortable life she was building quickly fell apart. At age twentyfour Michelle was suddenly single, homeless, and living out of a car with her three small
children. She waitressed night shifts while her kids slept out in the diner's parking lot. She
saved her tips in the glove compartment, and set aside a few quarters every week for truck
stop showers for her and the kids. With startling humor and honesty, Kennedy describes
the frustration of never having enough money for a security deposit on an apartment-but
having too much to qualify for public assistance. Without A Net is a story of hope.
Kotlowitz, Alex The Other Side of the River (977.4 Kot)
Separated by the St. Joseph River, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor are two Michigan towns
that are geographically close, yet in every sense worlds apart. St. Joseph is a prosperous
lakeshore community, 95 percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and 92
percent black. When the body of Eric McGinnis, a black teenage boy from Benton Harbor, is
found in the river, relations between the two communities grow increasingly strained as
long-held misperceptions and attitudes surface. As family, friends, and the police struggle
to find out how McGinnis died. Alex Kotlowitz uncovers layers of both evidence and opinion,
and demonstrates that in many ways, the truth is shaped by which side of the river you call
home. Thoughtful and affecting, The Other Side of the River proves once again that Alex
Kotlowitz is one of our foremost writers on the ever-explosive issue of race. In an
afterword to this Anchor edition, Kotlowitz discusses the reaction to the book in the
communities it deals with.
Kotlowitz, Alex There Are No Children Here (305.23 Kot)
This is the moving account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry
Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
Register, Cheri Packinghouse Daughter (977.6 Reg)
The daughter of a Wilson & Company millwright, Cheri Register recalls the 1959
meatpackers' strike that divided her hometown of Albert Lea, Minnesota. The violence that
erupted when the company replaced its union workers with strikebreakers tested family
loyalty and community stability. Register skillfully interweaves her own memories, historical
research, and oral interviews into a narrative that is thoughtful and impassioned about the
value of blue-collar work and the dignity of those who do it.
CHAPTER TEN: RACIAL AND ETHNIC RELATIONS
Griffin, John Black Like Me (B Gri)
He trudged southern streets searching for a place where he could eat or rest, looking vainly
for a job other than menial labor, feeling the "hate stare." He was John Griffin, a white man
who darkened the color of his skin and crossed the line into a country of hate, fear, and
hopelessness--the country of the American Black man.
Harrington, Walt Crossings (305.896 Har)
A white man married to a black woman, Walt Harrington has two mixed-race children. A
racist joke made in the dentist's office one afternoon provoked first anger, then anguish
and fear for his children as Harrington, a Washington Post Magazine staff writer, realized
that the butt of the joke was not simply "those people" but his son and daughter. Crossings,
which grew out of this incident, is the eye-opening story of Harrington's twenty-fivethousand-mile excursion through black America, a personal journey that is also a
documentary look at African Americans today.
Jacob, Iris My Sisters' Voices (305.23 Jac)
My Sisters' Voices is a passionate and poignant collection of writings by teenage girls of
African American, Hispanic, Asian American, Native American, and biracial backgrounds.
With candor and grace, these young women speak out on topics that are relevant not only to
themselves and their peers but to anyone who is raising, teaching, or nurturing girls of
color.
McBride, James The Color of Water (974.7 McB)
Around the narrative of Ruth McBride Jordan, a.k.a. Rachel Deborah Shilsky, the daughter
of an angry, failed Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the South, her son James writes of the inner
confusions he felt as a black child of a white mother and of the love and faith with which
his mother surrounded their large family. The result is a powerful portrait of growing up, a
meditation on race and identity, and a poignant, beautifully crafted hymn from a son to his
mother.
McCall, Nathan Makes Me Wanna Holler (305.38 McC)
An explosive, true-life Native Son for the 1990s--a black Washington Post reporter who
served time recounts his life and brilliantly shows why prison has become a rite of passage
for many young black men. McCall's accounts of the hidden prejudice encountered in
seemingly liberal, integrated bastions of the newsroom are eye-opening.
Nam, Vickie Yell-Oh Girls! (305.23 Nam)
In this groundbreaking collection of personal writings, young Asian American girls come
together for the first time and engage in a dynamic converstions about the unique
challenges they face in their lives. Promoted by a variety of pressing questions from editor
Vickie Nam and culled from hundreds of submission from all over the country, these
revelatory essays, poems, and stories tackle such complex issues as dual identities, culture
clashes, family matters, body image, and the need to find one's voice.
Tatum, Beverly Daniel "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in
the Cafeteria?" (305.8 Tat)
Anyone who's been to a high school or college has noted how students of the same race
seem to stick together. Beverly Daniel Tatum has noticed it too, and she doesn't think it's
so bad. As she explains in this provocative, though not-altogether-convincing book, these
students are in the process of establishing and affirming their racial identity. As Tatum
sees it, blacks must secure a racial identity free of negative stereotypes. The challenge to
whites, on which she expounds, is to give up the privilege that their skin color affords and
to work actively to combat injustice in society.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: GENDER, AGE, AND HEALTH
Broaddus, Cindi A Random Act (617.110 Bro)
Cindi Broaddus didn't realize that her life was about to be forever altered as she sat in the
passenger seat of a car on a lonely highway, speeding toward the airport in the early
morning hours of June 5, 2001. A single mother of three and a delighted new grandmother,
she was thinking only of her well-earned vacation when a gallon jar of sulfuric acid, tossed
from an overpass by an unknown assailant, came crashing through the windshield. In a
heartbeat, Cindi was showered with glass and flesh-eating liquid, leaving her screaming in
agony and burned almost beyond recognition.
Brumberg, Joan Jacob The Body Project (305.235 Bru)
Girls today are in crisis -- and this book shows why. Drawing on a vast array of lively
historical sources, unpublished diaries by adolescent girls, and photographs that conjure up
memories of the past, The Body Project chronicles how growing up in a female body has
changed over the past century and why that experience is more difficult today than ever
before. Girls' bodies have certainly changed -- they mature much earlier -- but at the same
time traditional social supports for girls' growth and development have collapsed. The media
and popular culture exploit girls' normal sensitivity to their changing bodies, and many girls
grow up believing that 'good looks' -- rather than 'good works' -- represent the highest
form of female perfection. With an eye for the humor in as well as the pain of female
adolescence, Joan Jacobs Brumberg shows how American girls came to define themselves
increasingly through their appearance, so that today the body has become their primary
project.
Featherstone, Liza Selling Women Short (331.413 Fea)
On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality
is another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a fifty-two-year-old black woman in Pittsburg,
California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, a class action,
representing 1.6 million women. In her explosive investigation of this historic lawsuit,
journalist Liza Featherstone reveals how Wal-Mart, a self-styled "family-oriented,"
Christian company:
Deprives women (but not men) of the training they need to advance.
Relegates women to lower-paying jobs like selling baby clothes, reserving the more lucrative
positions for men.
Featherstone goes on to reveal the creative solutions that Wal-Mart workers around the
country have found, like fighting for unions, living-wage ordinances, and childcare options.
Selling Women Short combines the personal stories of these employees with superb
investigative journalism to show why women who work these low-wage jobs are getting a raw
deal, and what they are doing about it.
Gregory, Julie Sickened (616.858 Gre)
From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated, and operated on in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother's mind. Munchausen by proxy
(MBP) is the world's most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse, in which the caretaker
- almost always the mother - invents or induces symptoms in her child because she craves
the attention of medical professionals. Many MBP children die, but Julie Gregory not only
survived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mother's madness and rebuilt her identity
as a vibrant, healthy young woman.
Kettlewell, Caroline Skin Game: A Memoir (616.8 Ket)
Caroline Kettlewell’s autobiography reveals a girl whose feelings of pain and alienation led
her to seek relief in physically hurting herself, from age twelve into her twenties.
Levenkron, Steven Cutting (616.85 Lev)
Known as the illness of the 1990s, close to two million Americans and possibly more suffer
from the psychological disorder of self-mutilation. The most prominent public admission was
that of Princess Diana. Written for the self-mutilator, parents, friends, and therapists,
Levenkron unravels step by step the mindset of the self-mutilator, explains why the
disorder manifests in self-harming behaviors, and, most of all, describes how the selfmutilator can be helped.
Pipher, Mary Reviving Ophelia (305.23 Pip)
A therapist who has worked extensively with young girls reveals firsthand evidence of the
damage that can be caused by growing up in a "girl-poisoning culture, " raises a call to arms,
and offers parents compassion and strategies for survival.
Pollack, William Real Boys' Voices (305.23 Pol)
What are boys today saying about drugs, sex, sports, violence, ambition, school, parents?
The author of the bestseller REAL BOYS now lets us listen directly to boys speaking out
about their lives and many hot topics, and he offers advice on how boys and adults can speak
with one another more effectively.
Shandler, Sara Ophelia Speaks (305.235 Sha)
At age sixteen, Sara Shandler read Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, the national bestseller
that candidly explored the unique issues that challenge girls in their struggle toward
womanhood. Moved by Pipher's insight yet driven to hear the unfiltered voices of today's
adolescent girls, Shandler yearned to speak for herself, and to provide a forum for other
Ophelias to do so as well.
Snyderman, Nancy L. and Peg Streep Girl in the Mirror (306.87 Sni)
Girl in the Mirror is the book we've all been looking for. It teaches us that our daughters'
adolescence isn't a time to be gotten through or survived; instead, it's a tremendous
opportunity not just to foster social, emotional, and intellectual growth, but to forge new
connections between us and our daughters. Drawing on the latest research and interviews
with experts in different fields, Girl in the Mirror sheds new light on the journey of
adolescence, the crucial interaction between mother and daughter, and the ways in which
our own parenting skills must evolve as our daughters move into a new stage of growth.
Filled with practical wisdom and sound advice, with stories drawn from Snyderman's own
experience as the mother of two adolescent girls and from the experiences of women
around the country, Girl in the Mirror offers readers a bold and reassuring vision.
CHAPTER TWELVE: THE FAMILY
Bradley, James Flags of Our Fathers (940.54 Bra)
To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death
at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our
Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and
the men of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has
written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island—an island
riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last
man.
Clark, Mary Jo On the Home Front (973.93 Cla)
Mary Jo's distinctive style animates these touching and sometimes lighthearted stories of
family and friends, love and war, school and work. Through her words and images, we are
transported to a sun-warmed living room, where we sip tea while sifting through a box of old
photos, as our own past plays itself out, sprung from memory like a much-loved song.
Arranged thematically and accompanied by family photos of the people and places she
recalls, On the Home Front captures unforgettable moments in American history and a
mother's cherished memories.
Frost, Jo Supernanny (649.64 Fro)
Meet Supernanny Jo Frost, a modern-day Mary Poppins here to rescue today's beleaguered
parents by offering up her practical, road-tested methods of childrearing in an
indispensable new book based on her ABC-TV series. With over 15 years of experience, Jo
has seen it all -- from meals where food ends up all over the floor and tantrums at bedtime,
to just plain stressed-out parents.
Greene, Bob Duty (940.54 Gre)
When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be with his dying father, it set off a chain
of events that led him to knowing his dad in a way he never had before, thanks to a quiet
man who lived just a few miles away and changed the history of the world. In 1945, Paul
Tibbets had piloted a plane called Enola Gay to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where he
dropped the atomic bomb. On the morning after the last meal Greene ever ate with his
father, he went to meet Tibbets. What developed was an unexpected friendship that
allowed Greene to discover things about his father, and his father's generation of soldiers,
that he had never fully understood before.
McCourt, Frank Angela's Ashes (B McC)
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all.
It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth
your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable
Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."
So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent
Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has
no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he
does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling -- does
nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his
father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who
brings his mother babies.
McGraw, Phil Family First (649.1 McG)
Families seldom have just one problem; trouble runs in packs. With over a quarter century
of experience in family counseling, TV's "Dr. Phil" McGraw has learned that good parenting
isn't a quick fix; it's a constant day-by-day tuning job that requires a thorough rethinking
and reordering of priorities. In Family First, he delineates a realistic plan for changing
family dynamics. Using examples, including many from his own life, he describes how you can
make decisions now that will create a home environment that ultimately empowers every
member of your family.
Pelzer, Richard A Brother’s Journey (362.76 Pel)
In this gripping, deeply troubling memoir, a follow-up to his brother David's bestselling A
Child Called It, Pelzer reveals the unyielding suffering he says he experienced at the hands
of his depraved mother growing up in the 1970s. Once David, the elder of the two, was
removed from the household, the author, by this account, became the target of their
mother's alcohol-induced rage. As Pelzer details his outward struggle to survive-learning to
fall asleep with his eyes open, for example-and his internal efforts to understand and rise
above his circumstances, he assaults readers with the graphic facts, told in surprisingly
matter-of-fact language, about being beaten bloody for falling asleep when he was supposed
to be awake, and being forbidden to bathe and forced to eat scraps from a dog bowl.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE ECONOMY AND POLITICS
Moore, Michael Downsize This! (320.97 Moo)
Nothing but the truth is sacred in Michael Moore's hilarious screed on the state of
America, Downsize This! With the same in-your-face tenacity that has made him everyman's
hero, Moore gets under the skin of corporate giants, politicians, lobbyists, and the media anyone who has made life tougher for the millions of Americans who are working longer
hours for less pay and have had enough. Moore brings his wit and working-class voice to an
American public desperate to save what's left of their American dream. His take-noprisoners attitude is brutally funny, insightful, irrepressible.
Moore, Michael Dude, Where's My Country? (320.97 Moo)
If Moore's earlier work Stupid White Men didn't shake up the Bush administration, this
latest exposé is another shout for attention. Moore, whose credits include the bestseller
Downsize This! and the award-winning documentary "Bowling for Columbine," challenges
Dubya to either step down or explain his 25-year involvement with the bin Laden family, his
relationship to the Saudi royal family, the Taliban's visit to Texas, and the Saudi connection
to 9/11. He also attempts to sort out Bush's web of tall Texas tales regarding Saddam
Hussein and the war in Iraq. In addition to pages of notes and credits, Moore includes a
helpful chapter called "How to talk to your conservative brother-in-law."
Moore, Michael Stupid White Men (320.97 Moo)
Michael Moore's mission is to ruffle as many feathers as possible, and with his latest
manifesto, Stupid White Men, he's done an admirable job. Moore, known as both a
filmmaker and a bestselling author, takes on our current and former presidents, corporate
America, and the judicial system in this irreverently witty, no-holds-barred look at the
state of the nation.
O'Reilly, Bill The No Spin Zone (973.92 O'Re)
The No-Spin Zone cuts through all the rhetoric that some of O'Reilly's most infamous
guests have spewed to expose what's really on their minds, while sharing plenty of his own
emphatic counterpoints along the way.
O'Reilly, Bill Who's Looking Out For You? (973.93 O'Re)
Who's Looking Out for You? is a book that confronts our worst fears and biggest problems
in a post-9/11, post-corporate-meltdown world. Its sage, candid advice on regaining control
and trust in these troubled times will resonate with the millions of readers and viewers who
have come to believe in Bill O'Reilly as the man who speaks for them.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: EDUCATION AND RELIGION
Bernall, Misty She Said Yes (373.1 Ber)
When 17-year-old Cassie Bernall walked into the library of her suburban high school around
11:00 on the morning of April 20, 1999, she had little more on her mind than her latest
assignment for English class: another act of Macbeth. How could she know that by the end
of the hour, two classmates would storm the school, guns blazing, and kill as many people as
they could, including her? As the wounded were carried from the bloody scene, several
stories of bravery emerged, but one spread faster and farther than the rest. Confronted
by her killers, Cassie was asked, "Do you believe in God?" She answered, "Yes."
Burnham, Gracia In the Presence of My Enemies (B Bur)
Soon after September 11, the news media stepped up its coverage of Martin and Gracia
Burnham, the missionary couple held hostage in the Philippine jungle by terrorists with ties
to Osama bin Laden. After a year of captivity and a violent rescue that resulted in Martin's
death, the world watched Gracia Burnham return home in June 2002.
Corwin, Miles And Still We Rise (371.95 Cor)
Author and journalist Miles Corwin spent the entire 1996-97 school year with a remarkable
group of individuals: the students in the senior Advanced Placement English class at
Crenshaw High School—-young ghetto scholars who have managed to excel despite living in
the hostile world of South Central Los Angeles. This book is a moving account of their
courage, achievements, strength, and resilient spirit—-their personal crises, setbacks,
catastrophes, and triumphs. It is an unforgettable ten-month visit to the dynamic,
electrically charged classroom of Toni Little, an inspiring but volatile and wildly
unpredictable white educator determined to imbue her minority students with a passion for
great literature. Corwin also spent the year with Anita "Mama" Moultrie, a flamboyant black
teacher whose Afrocentric teaching style was diametrically opposed to Little's traditional
approach. These exceptional students—-all classified as gifted—-provide a ground zero
perspective on the affirmative action debate and will remain with the readers always. .
Freedman, Samuel G. Small Victories (373.11 Fre)
Small Victories is the story of one incredibly dedicated teacher and the struggles she and
her students face both inside the classroom and out. is a book with important lessons for
anyone concerned about the quality and state of education in America today.
Hayden, Torey Beautiful Child (371.9 Hay)
Seven-year-old Venus Fox's unresponsiveness was so complete that Torey Hayden initially
believed the child was deaf. Venus never spoke, never listened, never even acknowledged the
presence of another human being in the room with her. Yet an accidental playground bump
would release a rage frightening to behold, turning the little girl into a whirling dynamo of
dangerous malice.Of the five children in Torey's classroom that September, Venus posed
the greatest challenge — though the other four had serious problems of their own that
could not be overlooked. The six-year-old twins Shane and Zane suffered from fetal alcohol
syndrome and its accompanying mix of high agitation and low concentration. At nine, cocky,
aggressive Billy had already been expelled from school twice. Eight-year-old Jesse suffered
from Tourette's syndrome. And then there was Venus. Though all of the children had
different needs and afflictions, they had two things in common: a profound, sometimes
violent dislike of one another, and the desire to be almost anywhere other than Torey's
class. The school year that followed would prove to be one of the most trying, perplexing,
and ultimately rewarding of Torey's career, as she struggled to reach a silent child in
obvious pain and need and, at the same time, create an atmosphere of learning and
cooperation in a class bent on chaos.
Kozel, Jonathan Savage Inequalities (371.96 Koz)
National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the
American educational system in this stunning New York Times bestseller.
Stotsky, Sandra Losing Our Language (306.43 Sto)
A hard-hitting, well-researched expose showing why multiculturalism as the guiding
philosophy in the classroom is damaging to all children--and to minority children in
particular.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: SCIENCE AND THE MASS MEDIA
Nielsen, Jerri Ice Bound (616.99 Nie)
Most of us harbor a fear of falling ill while away from home, but Dr. Jerri Nielsen
experienced perhaps the ultimate sojourner's nightmare: While on a year's sabbatical to
provide medical care at Antarctica's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, she discovered a
lump in her breast. That's not a development ever to be welcomed, but especially not when
one is stranded in one of the most remote spots on earth. Nielsen was forced to perform
her own biopsy and to self-administer chemotherapy treatments for some four months until
weather conditions allowed for her to be rescued. Ice Bound recounts Nielsen's courage in
the face of overwhelming corporeal and climatic adversity.
Wolf, Naomi The Beauty Myth (305.42 Wol)
In this controversial national bestseller, feminist scholar Naomi Wolf argues that there is
one hurdle in the struggle for equality that women have yet to clear--the myth of female
beauty. She exposes today's unrealistic standards of female beauty as a destructive form
of social control and a reaction against women's increasing status in business and politics.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: POPULATION AND URBANIZATION
Kozel, Jonathan Amazing Grace (362.7 Koz)
The children in this book defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by
the media. Tender, generous and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and
honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them.
Kozel, Jonathan Ordinary Resurrections
(305.23 Koz)Jonathan Kozel returns to the South Bronx to spend another four years with
the children who have come to be his friends at P.S. 30 and St. Ann's. A fascinating
narrative of daily urban life seem through the eyes of children, Ordinary Resurrections
gives the human face to Northern segregation and provides a stirring testimony to the
courage and resilience of the young.
Kozel, Jonathan Rachel and Her Children (362.5 Koz)
There is no safety net for the millions of heartbroken refugees from the American Dream,
scattered helplessly in any city you can name. Rachel and Her Children is an unforgettable
record for humanity, of the desperate voices of the men, women, and especially children,
and their hourly struggle for survival, homeless in America
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT
Beamer, Lisa Let's Roll (973.93 Bea)
On September 11, 2001, Lisa Beamer was thrust into the public spotlight after her husband,
Todd, died a hero resisting terrorist hijackers on United Flight 93, which crashed in a
Pennsylvania field. In telling her story, Lisa explores the life of her husband, telling how and
why he was prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice and how she has found hope, courage,
and quiet personal strength. The phrase "Let's Roll" was a frequent expression of Todd's
and the last words the GTE Airfone operator heard from him before the crash.
Longman, Jere Among the Heroes (974.8 Lon)
Of the four horrific hijackings on September 11, Flight 93 resonates as one of epic
resistance. At a time when the United States appeared defenseless against an unfamiliar
foe, the gallant passengers and crew of Flight 93 provided for many Americans a measure of
victory in the midst of unthinkable defeat. Together, they seemingly accomplished what all
the security guards and soldiers, military plots and government officials, could not - they
thwarted the terrorists, sacrificing their own lives so that others might live.
Moose, Charles A. Three Weeks in October (364.15 Moo)
In a memoir that details his rise through the ranks of the Montgomery County Police
Department, Chief Charles Moose recounts the riveting story of the hunt for the serial
snipers who terrorized the Washington, D.C., area in October 2002.
Pearl, Mariane A Mighty Heart (072.092 Pea)
In this remarkable memoir, Mariane Pearl recalls the anguished five weeks between Danny's
disappearance and his violent death at the hands of fundamentalist fanatics. With
journalistic precision and great narrative power, she describes her seesawing emotions, as
the global search she initiated careened daily between promising leads and frustrating dead
ends, culminating tragically in the confirmation of Danny's "execution."
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: SOCIAL CHANGE AND MODERNIZATION
Crosby, David Stand and be Counted (781.5 Cro)
From the civil rights marches of the sixties to the Tibetan Freedom concerts of today,
musicians have dedicated themselves to social justice. In Stand and Be Counted, musician
David Crosby--for thirty years one of rock 'n' roll's many voices for change--chronicles the
causes, the events, and the musicians who made a difference. Drawing on firsthand accounts
of many of the era's most important musical events, Stand and Be Counted contains
revealing conversations with more than forty of his friends and fellow activists, including
Bonnie Raitt, Don Henley, Pete Seeger, Melissa Etheridge, Jackson Browne, Michael Stipe,
Elton John, Peter Gabriel, and Sting.
Fairclough, Adam Better Day Coming (323.1 Fai)
Beginning with the campaign against lynching launched by Ida B. Wells in the 1890s,
Fairclough examines the tradition of militant protest that in 1909 led to the formation of
the NAACP, which over the next fifty years formed a powerful foundation for civil rights
efforts. He focuses on the South, where white repression often inhibited open protest, and
also discusses the efforts of black women and teachers to promote racial equality through
education, self-help, and interracial cooperation. Offering a fresh interpretation of Booker
T. Washington, Fairclough emphasizes the tactical wisdom and political realism of the
gradualist strategy often condemned as "accommodationism."
Mason, Gilbert R. Beaches, Blood and Ballots (323 Mas)
This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's
eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred during the civil rights movement.
Newly opened by court order, documents from the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission's
secret files enhance this riveting memoir written by a major civil rights figure. He joined
his friends and allies Aaron Henry and the martyred Medgar Evers to combat injustices in
one of the nation's most notorious bastions of segregation." "His story recalls the great
migration of blacks to the North, of family members who remained in Mississippi, of family
ties in Chicago and other northern cities. Following graduation from Tennessee State and
Howard University Medical College, he set up his practice in the black section of Biloxi in
1955 and experienced the restrictions that even a black physician suffered in the
segregated South. Four years later, he began his battle to dismantle the Jim Crow system.
This is the story of his struggle and hard-won victory.
Pearson, Hugh Under the Knife (B Gri)
Hugh Pearson grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, encouraged by his parents to believe that
nothing was beyond his reach. If he needed any further inspiration, he could look to his
great-uncle, Dr. Joseph Griffin. Although Griffin had stayed in the Deep South, he managed
to become a pillar of his community at a time when Afro-Americans—then called Negroes—
rarely prospered. He became the first Negro surgeon in south Georgia, donating millions of
dollars to Afro-American institutions and building the largest private hospital for AfroAmericans in the state. Griffin inspired Louis Sullivan, who later became President Bush's
Secretary of Health and Human Services, to go into medicine and a young Hosea Williams,
who grew up to be one of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most trusted aides, to aspire to be
someone important. He served as a father figure to Donald Hollowell, the lawyer who
became a mentor to Vernon Jordan and earned the nickname Georgia's "Mr. Civil Rights" for
his legal battles on behalf of Martin Luther King, Jr., and other activists.
Schlosser, Eric Fast Food Nation (394.1 Sch)
Fast food has become a veritable American institution, with restaurants serving a quick bite
in every strip mall and roadside rest area across the country. But, according to Fast Food
Nation, the fast food establishment has been serving up much more than just cheap
hamburgers and greasy fries. In compelling fashion, author Eric Schlosser traces the
growth of fast food chains after World War II and condemns the industry for giving rise to
such cultural maladies as obesity, classism, American global imperialism, and environmental
devastation.