NONFICTION
Released: May 6, 2003
"A memoir as elemental as its subject: pulsing, fetching, leaving a strong afterglow. (20 photos)"
Glock debuts with a lovely, blue memoir of her maternal grandmother, a vital square peg in the poor, round hole of a hard-baked West Virginia town.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2001
"Sharp, empathetic, astute, Ehrenreich speaks loudly and eloquently for a group of workers who are often too tired and too manipulated to speak for themselves."
With wit and anger, a celebrated social commentator paints a brutal portrait of the world of low-wage work during the 1990s, when "welfare as we know it" was about to end and America was at the crest of its biggest economic wave in history.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2001
"They'll think that, after all he's been through, Ricky deserves all the breaks he can get. (Fiction. 10-13)"
Many readers will want to give 11-year-old Ricky Gordon, the protagonist of this fast-paced novel, a reassuring hug.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 7, 2001
"But she has learned to hope, and that is no small thing for her—and the reader—to carry away. (Fiction. 10-14)"
The twin challenges of loving and being loved form the theme of another Southern gem from the author of Me and Rupert Goody (1999).
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