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|  | Holes by Kerry Beyer, Louis Sachar
Following a miscarriage of justice, the ever-unlucky Stanley Yelnats is sentenced to imprisonment at a boys' juvenile detention center known as Camp Green Lake. There's just one thing about Camp Green Lake--there's no lake, just a dried-up lake bed. Every day, each boy must dig a hole in the dried-up lake bed: a hole five feet deep and five feet across. The sadistic warden claims that digging the holes helps the boys build character but Stanley soon discovers the real reason for all the digging--the warden and his cohorts are using the prisoners to search for a long-lost buried treasure. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. AUTHOR: Kerry Beyer, Louis Sachar
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Tuesdays with Morrie by Catherine Coulter, Mitch Albom
In TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, sportswriter and best-selling author Mitch Albom chronicles his weekly conversations with his former college professor and mentor, Morrie Schwartz, in the months before the Brandeis University sociologist succumbed to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig`s disease. Their Tuesday conversations ranged widely over basic human concerns--love, money, commitment, spirit, how people spend their days thinking and doing, and what really matters in the world. In what the publisher is calling spirituality literature for grown-ups, the author recounts his mentor`s final, lasting gift: the wisdom to see his own life as something different than the accretion of fame, money, and success. AUTHOR: Catherine Coulter, Mitch Albom
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Ethics in Pastoral Ministry by Richard M. Gula
A review of the literature on ministerial ethics reveals scant reflection on it among Catholics. So this book is a modest attempt to make a Catholic contribution to stimulate a conversation within the Catholic Church on professional ethics in pastoral ministry. AUTHOR: Richard M. Gula
PUBLISHER: Paulist Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Women in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell
To read the history of ancient Greece as it has been written for centuries is to enter a thoroughly male world. This book, a comprehensive history of women in the Archaic and Classical Ages, completes our picture of ancient Greek society. Largely excluded from any public role, the women of ancient Greece nonetheless appear in various guises in the art and writing of the period, and in legal documents. These representations, in Sue Blundell's analysis, reveal a great deal about women's day-to-day experience as well as their legal and economic position - and how they were regarded by men. Here are women as portrayed in Homer, in Greek lyric poetry, and by the playwrights; the female nature as depicted in medical writings and by Aristotle; representations of women in sculpture and vase paintings. This is evidence filtered through a male view: Sappho is the only female writer of antiquity much of whose work survives. Yet these sources and others such as legal regulations and law court speeches reveal a great deal about women's lives and about their status as defined by law and by custom. AUTHOR: Sue Blundell
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Why Didn't I Think of That? by Charles McCoy
The keys to personal success are to enhance your powers of observation, not take anything for granted, and improve your ability to think creatively, says a Los Angeles Judge and Professor at Pepperdine University. His guide includes case studies and mental exercises. AUTHOR: Charles McCoy
PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Chilton's Import Car Repair Manual 1988-92 by Chilton Automotive Editorial Staff
Description not available.Covers all major cars imported into the U.S. and Canada and includes specifications, a troubleshooting guide, and maintenance and repair instructions AUTHOR: Chilton Automotive Editorial Staff
PUBLISHER: NP/Chilton
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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