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|  | Sharpe's Devil by Bernard Cornwell, William Gaminara
Description not available.Embarking on an odyssey to Chile to find an old friend who has disappeared, Sharpe and Patrick Harper are asked by Napoleon to deliver a seemingly harmless gift--one that plunges them into a world of danger and intrigue. Reissue. AUTHOR: Bernard Cornwell, William Gaminara
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Diary of a Junior Year
Description not available.This diaryformat book captures the real feelings, emotions, and happenings of eight teenagers as they experience their junior year in high school in their own individual ways. Original.
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Three Terrible Trins by Dick King-Smith, June Whitfield
After her third husband is killed by a cat, Mrs. Gray vows to raise her triplet sons to become brave fighters who, once and for all, will rid the farm where she lives of cats. When the mouse brothers grow up, they do manage to chase off the cats, but then they must contend with farmer Budge--the cranky man who owns the farm. Illustrated with b&w drawings. AUTHOR: Dick King-Smith, June Whitfield
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Sugar Gliders by C. MacPherson
These furry marsupials, native to Australia and New Guinea, are becoming increasingly popular among pet owners and animal hobbyists around the world. This profusely illustrated manual gives vital information and advice on caging, feeding, maintaining a proper environment, health care, and breeding. AUTHOR: C. MacPherson
PUBLISHER: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Pets & Animals
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 | Semites & Anti-Semites by Bernard Lewis
The Arab-Israeli conflict has unsettled the Middle East for over half a century. This conflict is primarily political, a clash between states and peoples over territory and history. But it is also a conflict that has affected and been affected by prejudice. For a long time this was simply the normal prejudice between neighboring people of different religions and ethnic origins. In the present age, however, hostility toward Israel and its people has taken the form of anti-Semitism-a pernicious world view that goes beyond prejudice and ascribes to Jews a quality of cosmic evil. First published in the 1980s to universal acclaim, Semites and Anti-Semites traces the development of anti-Semitism from its beginnings as a poison in the bloodstream of Christianity to its modern entrance into mainstream Islam. Bernard Lewis, one of the world's foremost scholars of the Middle East, takes us through the history of the Semitic peoples to the emergence of the Jews and their virulent enemies, and dissects the region's recent tragic developments in a moving new afterword. AUTHOR: Bernard Lewis
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Sugar's Life in the Hood by Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
All her life, Sugar Turner has had to hustle to survive. An African American woman living in the inner city, she has been a single mother juggling welfare checks, food stamps, boyfriends and husbands, illegal jobs, and home businesses to make ends meet for herself and her five children. Her life's path has also wandered through the wilderness of crack addiction and prostitution, but her strong faith in God and her willingness to work hard for a better life pulled her through. Today, Turner is off welfare and is completing her education. She is computer literate, holds a job in the local school system, has sent three of her children to college, and is happily married. In this engrossing book, Sugar Turner collaborates with anthropologist Tracy Bachrach Ehlers in telling her story. Through conversations with Ehlers, diary entries, and letters, Turner vividly and openly describes all aspects of her life, including motherhood, relationships with men, welfare and work, and her attachment to her friends, family, and life in the hood. Ehlers also gives her reactions to Turner's story, discussing not only how it belies the welfare queen stereotype, but also how it forced her to confront her own lingering confusions about race, her own bigotry. What emerges from this book is a fascinating story of two women from radically different backgrounds becoming equal witnesses to each other's lives. By allowing us into the real world of an inner-city African American mother, they replace with compassion and insight the stereotypes, half-truths, and scorn that too often dominate public discourse. AUTHOR: Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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