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Who are the Kids Who Kill? Charles Ewing takes readers behind the headlines and reveals a side of contemporary life that is horrifying--a landscape of abuse, violence and neglect, revealing what is currently known about the psychology and personal histories of these kids, but raising the hardest question of all: how should society deal with this problem? AUTHOR: Charles P. Ewing
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Who Stole Feminism? by Christina H. Sommers
The author argues against what, in her view, are the tendentious uses of evidence in many contemporary feminist debates on the status of women. AUTHOR: Christina H. Sommers
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan
A collection of five folktales from Nigeria. Illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Ashley Bryan
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Call of Service by Robert Coles
Psychologist Robert Coles examines voluntarism through his own experiences and the oral history of others. He seeks the roots of altruism in religious and social service. AUTHOR: Robert Coles
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Village of Round & Square Houses by Ann Grifalconi
A picture book version of a folktale about how the women of an African village came to live in round houses while the men live in square ones. Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Ann Grifalconi
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | A Different Day by Greta de Jong
Examining African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice in rural Louisiana during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, Greta de Jong illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance that black people pursued in the early twentieth century and the mass protests that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. Using evidence drawn from oral histories and a wide range of other sources, she demonstrates that rural African Americans were politically aware and active long before civil rights organizers arrived in the region in the 1960s to encourage voter registration and demonstrations against segregation. De Jong explores the numerous, often-subtle methods African Americans used to resist oppression within the confines of the Jim Crow system. Such everyday forms of resistance included developing strategies for educating black children, creating strong community institutions, and fighting back against white violence. In the wake of the economic changes that swept the South during and after World War II, these activities became more open and organized, culminating in voter registration drives and other protests conducted in cooperation with civil rights workers. Deeply researched and accessibly written, A Different Day spotlights the ordinary heroes of the freedom struggle and offers a new perspective on black activism throughout the twentieth century. AUTHOR: Greta de Jong
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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