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|  | Families Are Different by Nina Pellegrini
Nico, a Korean girl adopted by an American couple, explores many different types of families: children living with one or both parents, with their grandparents, as well as interracial and blended families. Amid these differences, Nico realizes that all the families have one thing in common--they are all held together by love. Illustrated with color paintings. AUTHOR: Nina Pellegrini
PUBLISHER: Holiday House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay, Neil Ardley
Macaulay's enormously popular THE WAY THINGS WORK explains how a variety of mechanical items function through extremely detailed illustrations and helpful text. This updated version includes over 70 pages of new information. Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: David Macaulay, Neil Ardley
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Invisible Women by Margaret C. Harrell
Military manpower policy is often crafted by policymakers without an in-depth understanding of the life experiences and views of junior enlisted personnel. It is plausible to expect that some policymakers attribute the attitudes and experiences of these young soldiers to such features as youth or lack of an advanced education and may thus believe themselves able to empathize with this population group by recalling their own parallel life experiences. However, this approach oversimplifies the life experiences of these families and neglects the reality that most policymakers and professional managers have never experienced the compendium of problems these couples face, such as youth, lack of education, financial difficulties, emotional and physical distance from extended family, and invisibility in a large bureaucracy. At the center of this book are the personal stories of three junior enlisted spouses, told in their own voices and selected to emphasize the dilemmas numerous enlisted families face. The stories provide insight into the experiences and attitudes of other junior enlisted families. Those interested or involved in the military, or those who live a military lifestyle--at any pay grade--will find these stories both useful and engaging. AUTHOR: Margaret C. Harrell
PUBLISHER: Rand Corporation, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Answering Your Call by John P. Schuster
Description not available.A spiritual guide to discerning and answering the call urges readers to search for a higher purpose in life and offers tools for accomplishing this seemingly daunting task. Original. AUTHOR: John P. Schuster
PUBLISHER: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Perfect Season
The year 1998 was the greatest in baseball history. While Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa engaged in an epic duel for baseball's most coveted individual record - Roger Maris's sixty-one home runs - the New York Yankees set new standards for team excellence and established themselves as one of the greatest clubs in the history of the game. Tim McCarver broadcast the climax of each of these extraordinary achievements and is uniquely positioned as a former player, a commentator, and a writer to put 1998 into its proper perspective.
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Stonecutter by Gerald McDermott
Description not available.Tasaku the stonecutter is transformed by the spirit of the mountains into a prince, the sun, a storm cloud, and a mountain AUTHOR: Gerald McDermott
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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