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|  | Adelita of the Kitchen by Tomie dePaola
Description not available.Offers a twist to the classic Cinderella tale as Adelita has her wish granted for one evening and finally meets the man of her dreams, Javier, who soon falls in love with her and changes her life forever, enhanced with full-color illustrations and simple Spanish words introduced throughout. AUTHOR: Tomie dePaola
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Rise & Fall of Jim Crow by Richard Wormser
Jim Crow (originally a black character in a Southern folk song) came to mean laws and practices that supported discrimination against African Americans. In this dramatic and important book, the seldom looked-at subject of the African-American struggle against institutionalized prejudice is clearly presented, through primary source and other historical materials. AUTHOR: Richard Wormser
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Serpentine by Thomas Thompson
Description not available.Reconstructs the bizarre, bloody journey of a mesmerizing but sinister young man named Charles Sobhraj, the subject of an international man hunt, who swept the globe leaving as many as twenty-four murders in his wake. Reprint. AUTHOR: Thomas Thompson
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Kingdom of Children by Mitchell L. Stevens
More than one million American children are schooled by their parents. As their ranks grow, home schoolers are making headlines by winning national spelling bees and excelling at elite universities. The few studies conducted suggest that homeschooled children are academically successful and remarkably well socialized. Yet we still know little about this alternative to one of society's most fundamental institutions. Beyond a vague notion of children reading around the kitchen table, we don't know what home schooling looks like from the inside. Sociologist Mitchell Stevens goes behind the scenes of the homeschool movement and into the homes and meetings of home schoolers. What he finds are two very different kinds of home education--one rooted in the liberal alternative school movement of the 1960s and 1970s and one stemming from the Christian day school movement of the same era. Stevens explains how this dual history shapes the meaning and practice of home schooling today. In the process, he introduces us to an unlikely mix of parents (including fundamentalist Protestants, pagans, naturalists, and educational radicals) and notes the core values on which they agree: the sanctity of childhood and the primacy of family in the face of a highly competitive, bureaucratized society. KINGDOM OF CHILDREN aptly places home schoolers within longer traditions of American social activism. It reveals that home schooling is not a random collection of individuals but an elaborate social movement with its own celebrities, networks, and characteristic lifeways. Stevens shows how home schoolers have built their philosophical and religious convictions into the practical structure of the cause, and documents the political consequences of their success at doing so. Ultimately, the history of home schooling serves as a parable about the organizational strategies of the progressive left and the religious right since the 1960s. KINGDOM OF CHILDREN shows what happens when progress AUTHOR: Mitchell L. Stevens
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | What If Someone I Know Is Gay? by Eric Marcus
Kids have questions about gay and lesbian people, whether those questions concern a friend, a beloved aunt or uncle, or themselves. But there are few places children and teenagers can go to find the age-appropriate information they need, and few people they can turn to for honest, straightforward answers they won't find in the schoolyard. Eric Marcus offers the no-nonsense answers kids are looking for and also provides suggestions for adults who are faced with questions that leave them struggling for the right thing to say. AUTHOR: Eric Marcus
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Stories from the Couch by Linda Mintle
Despite the plethora of self-help books, seminars, conferences, TV talk shows, radio call-in shows and cyber chats, women continue to find themselves depressed and stressed. From the vantage point of the therapy couch, Dr. Linda Mintle takes us into the personal lives of real women dealing with everyday life. Her twenty years of experience in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient practice provide rich insight into the struggles we face for identity and relationship. Convinced that the popular voices of today lead women away from righteous living, Dr. Linda Mintle fights back with hope and biblical truth. Dr. Mintle offers practical advice and no apology for our desperate need of intimacy with the one true God. She believes that it is time to recognize the healing power of a timeless God who empowers us to be all that He intended us to be. AUTHOR: Linda Mintle
PUBLISHER: Creation House
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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