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|  | Inside the Criminal Mind by Stanton E. Samenow
Long-held myths defining the sources of and cures for crime are shattered in this ground-breaking book--and a chilling profile of today's criminal emerges. AUTHOR: Stanton E. Samenow
PUBLISHER: Crown Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | A Matter of Dignity by Andrew Potok
A MATTER OF DIGNITY is proof that actions are more powerful than words. Tens of millions of Americans have disabilities that affect their minds of bodies, and a revolution is taking place that we all need to know about. It goes beyond our routine awareness of ramps, wheelchair lifts, and accessibility symbols on bathroom doors--it's a fundamental change in how we think about disability. It cuts to the heart of the old stereotype of disability as damage, as a problem that needs to be fixed. It's a revolution about the disabled themselves, who want not to be helped but to have as a matter of right the same entitlements and opportunities as the ablebodied. Author Andrew Potok--himself blind--bring this revolution alive through portraits in action of the men and women who have helped make it happen. We see them train guide dogs, make computers speak, create astounding prostheses, bring awareness to minds frozen in dementia. We also meet those who have legislated revolutionary changes about disability itself, the teachers and lawyers who used the template of the civil rights movement to create new laws, culminating in the remarkable Americans With Disabilities Act. AUTHOR: Andrew Potok
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | A Tale of Two Cities by Andrew Sanders, Brendan Lynch, Charles Dickens, Emily Hutchinson, Harry Shefter
Dickens's one serious, un-comic novel, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, is set during the French Revolution and tells a story of unselfish devotion. The beautiful Lucy Manette marries Charles Darnay, the descendant of an aristocratic French family denounced by the revolutionaries, among whom are the memorably evil fanatic Mme. Defarge. When Darnay is arrested and condemned to death, his place is taken at the guillotine by Sidney Carton, who loves Lucy himself and is willing to die to secure her happiness (and who happens to resemble Darnay). His last words-- 'Tis a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done... --have become nearly as famous as the novel itself, one of Dickens's most beloved works despite its sober subject matter. It is also, with BARNABY RUDGE, one of his only two historical novels. AUTHOR: Andrew Sanders, Brendan Lynch, Charles Dickens, Emily Hutchinson, Harry Shefter
PUBLISHER: Audio Partners Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Bubblevicious by Laura Dower, Cartoon Network Staff
Description not available.Tired of being treated like a baby because of her squeaky voice and slight fear of the dark, Bubbles strikes out to fight crime on her own, not realizing that Mojo set a trap for the supercharged Bubbles. AUTHOR: Laura Dower, Cartoon Network Staff
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon by Janie Jaehyun Park
Description not available.When a hungry tiger overhears a mother calming her baby with the offer of a dried persimmon, the tiger mistakenly assumes that a dried persimmon is a wild and fierce beast, and when a thief jumps on the tiger's back, the tiger thinks the dried persimmon is after him! AUTHOR: Janie Jaehyun Park
PUBLISHER: Groundwood Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Icebound by Leonard F. Guttridge
Description not available.Describes the fates of crewmembers after the small sailing ship Jeannette, trapped in the ice for two years, finally broke apart and sank, and recounts the congressional investigations that followed the expedition's failure to reach the North Pole. Reprint. AUTHOR: Leonard F. Guttridge
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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