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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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 | You & Your Aquarium by Dick Mills
A guide to 120 species of aquarium-suitable fish, how to set up an aquarium and the proper care you need to keep your fish healthy. AUTHOR: Dick Mills
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Pets & Animals
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 | The Fabric of This World by Lee Hardy
This is an historical, philosophical, theological--and practical--exploration of work from an evangelical perspective, highlighting the Christian concept of vocation as articulated by Luther and Calvin, and making relevant applications for today. AUTHOR: Lee Hardy
PUBLISHER: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Managing the Windows 2000 Registry by Paul Robichaux, Robert Denn
The Windows 2000 Registry is the repository for all hardware, software, and application configuration settings. MANAGING THE WINDOWS 2000 REGISTRY is the system administrator`s guide to maintaining, monitoring, and updating the Registry database. A must-have for every 2000 system manager or administrator, it covers what the Registry is and where it lives on disk, available tools, Registry access from programs, and Registry content. AUTHOR: Paul Robichaux, Robert Denn
PUBLISHER: O'Reilly & Associates, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Fat Cat on a Mat by Stephen Cartwright
Created in consultation with a language expert, this book is from the engaging phonics-based series, Easy Words to Read, and has been specially written to help young children learn to read. Not only is the story of Fat Cat on a Mat great fun, it also takes into account recent research on the most effective ways of teaching reading. Both children and adults will be delighted by Stephen Cartwright?s wonderful illustrations and the book?s fold-out pages. AUTHOR: Stephen Cartwright
PUBLISHER: Usborne Publishing, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | I Read Signs by Tana Hoban
Thirty familiar signs fill the pages of this handsome book and invite the reader to come in! This combination easy reader/concept book will have children looking and reading before they are aware of it. Full-color illustrations. AUTHOR: Tana Hoban
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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