Robison's thoughtful and thoroughly memorable account of living with Asperger's syndrome is assured of media attention...
(02/09/09) Robison's thoughtful and thoroughly memorable account of living with Asperger's syndrome is assured of media attention (and sales) due in part to his brother Augusten Burroughs's brief but fascinating description of Robison in Running with Scissors. But Robison's story is much more fully detailed in this moving memoir, beginning with his painful childhood, his abusive alcoholic father and his mentally disturbed mother. Robison describes how from nursery school on he could not communicate effectively with others, something his brain "is not wired to do," since kids with Asperger's don't recognize "common social cues" and "body language or facial expressions." Failing in junior high, Robison was encouraged by some audiovisual teachers to fix their broken equipment, and he discovered a more comfortable world of machines and circuits, "of muted colors, soft light, and mechanical perfection." This led to jobs (and many hilarious events) in worlds where strange behavior is seen as normal:...See less
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Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended the local schools and studied law at the University of...
(02/09/09) Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended the local schools and studied law at the University of Alabama. For some years she spent most of her time in New York City, where, until she began writing, she was employed in the reservations department of an international airline. "Aside from writing," says Miss Lee, "my chief interests in life are collecting memoirs of nineteenth-century clergymen, golf, crime and music."See less
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This 40th anniversary edition of Shel Silverstein's classic, The Giving Tree, is here and ready for a new generation of...
(02/09/09) This 40th anniversary edition of Shel Silverstein's classic, The Giving Tree, is here and ready for a new generation of fans. The book comes packaged with a cd featuring Silverstein reading his beloved tale, along with a commemorative 40th anniversary sticker on the front.See less
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Amazon.com In all Mildred D. Taylor's unforgettable novels she recounts "not only the joy of growing up in a large and...
(02/09/09) Amazon.com In all Mildred D. Taylor's unforgettable novels she recounts "not only the joy of growing up in a large and supportive family, but my own feelings of being faced with segregation and bigotry." Her Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry tells the story of one African American family, fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s. Nine-year-old Cassie Logan, growing up protected by her loving family, has never had reason to suspect that any white person could consider her inferior or wish her harm. But during the course of one devastating year when her community begins to be ripped apart by angry night riders threatening African Americans, she and her three brothers come to understand why the land they own means so much to their Papa. "Look out there, Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain't never had to live on nobody's place but your own and long as I live and the...See less
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In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the...
(02/09/09) In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur?See less
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It's gettin hot in here, November 21, 2006 A Kid's Review Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, focuses on Guy Montag. Montag...
(02/09/09) It's gettin hot in here, November 21, 2006 A Kid's Review Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, focuses on Guy Montag. Montag is working fireman, but his job is to do the exact oppisite of taking down fires, instead he makes the fires. All is well, until he meets a professour who tells him about the dreaded future with new and advanced technology. It's up to Montag to dispose the new future, that could be tomorrow, where burning a building gets him into big mess. In my opinion Fahrenheit 451 has a very unique and compelling plot that is dearly recommended to fantasy and science fiction novel fans. Fahrenheit 451 is also recommended to readers who focus on challenging themselfs because of some of the language and transitions the novel makes. Comment | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)See less
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by George Orwell (Author), Erich Fromm (Afterword) "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking...
(02/09/09) by George Orwell (Author), Erich Fromm (Afterword) "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen..." (more) Key Phrases: voice from the telescreen, three superstates, chinless man, Thought Police, Inner Party, Ministry of Love (more...)See less
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Noble (The Reading Group) hits her stride in her tearjerker fourth novel. Before Barbara Forbes, a mother of four,...
(02/09/09) Noble (The Reading Group) hits her stride in her tearjerker fourth novel. Before Barbara Forbes, a mother of four, succumbs to terminal cancer, she leaves words of wisdom for her four daughters in the form of letters to each of them. In the year following Barbara's death, her daughters draw strength from her words and from each other as they move forward with their lives. Lisa, the eldest, is advised to "let someone look after [her]" for a change. Jennifer, "fragile and hard to reach," struggles with an unraveling marriage. Free-spirited Amanda is thrown for a loop by a family secret, and teenaged Hannah, experiencing her first taste of rebellion, is reminded that she still has a lot of growing up to do. Though Barbara's life-is-short aphorisms are nothing new, her sharp wit and distinctive voice is a nice complement to the four nuanced stories of coping with death. (Apr.)See less
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The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. ...
(02/09/09) The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. "You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything -- as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative." It all began with an idea Frank Warren had for a community art project. He began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places -- asking people to write down a secret they had never told anyone and mail it to him, anonymously. The response was overwhelming. The secrets were both provocative and profound, and the cards themselves were works of art -- carefully and creatively constructed by hand. Addictively compelling, the cards reveal our deepest fears, desires, regrets, and obsessions. Frank calls them "graphic haiku," beautiful, elegant, and small in...See less
At the beginning of 2005, Frank Warren launched a new blog called PostSecret as an experiment in community art, inviting...
(02/09/09) At the beginning of 2005, Frank Warren launched a new blog called PostSecret as an experiment in community art, inviting strangers to mail him anonymous postcards that made art out of their innermost secrets and then posting a selection of the cards every week on his blog. Within a year, his blog was one of the five most popular in the world, and his first book, PostSecret, was one of the surprise bestsellers of 2005. My Secret is his second book, a collection of cards from teens and college students--none of which has been shown on the website--that carries the same emotional power and creativity that have made Warren's project a phenomenon. We are featuring seven postcards from the book here: see two of them on this page, and click on the numbers below to see five more. Click on the numbers below to see five more postcards from My Secret [ 1 ] [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ]See less
* Paperback: 264 pages * Publisher: Justin, Charles & Co. (November 25, 2004) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 1932112367...
(02/09/09) * Paperback: 264 pages * Publisher: Justin, Charles & Co. (November 25, 2004) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 1932112367 * ISBN-13: 978-1932112368 * Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches * Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) * Average Customer Review: (11 customer reviews) * Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,585 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in this category: (What's this?)See less
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Do you want to get to know yourself better? Or would you like to open up to someone special? All About Me is a...
(10/29/07) Do you want to get to know yourself better? Or would you like to open up to someone special? All About Me is a fill-in-the-blanks book to answer questions about your fears, memories, dreams and beliefs. * Hardcover, 82 pagesSee less
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