This book is a short, lovely memoir of the authors childhood, based on the song/poem written by David Mallett, I Knew This Place. A place that was unique, very historic, and very loving, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, was a hustling and bustling community in the 1950s. All predictions were it would become the next Chicago. The Sounds and Smells of My Childhood is a nostalgic journey. It brings the reader back in time to that place of their own youth,...

From the depths of despair, her adventures bring to life curious mysteries, rising the Phoenix in Bronagh's life. A brainy young woman, she needs her questions answered, like she needs gold dust. Finn's life is barren. Does he believe romance applies to him? No he does not. Rich Celtic culture in Ireland and beyond has underlying secrets. We are lured in and want to know more. Weaving through the mazes and baffling laid down codes unlocks the doors...

The kids in these humorous short stories each have a minor superpower they're learning to live with. One can shape-shift--but only part of her body, and only on Mondays. Another can always tell whether an avocado is perfectly ripe. One can even hear the thoughts of the animals in the pet store! But what these stories are really about is their young protagonists "owning" a power that contributes to their individuality, that allows them to find their...

"In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination...

"Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can't afford to pay. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood and the loss of Shane's father and her grandparents. They don't think they'll ever get their home back. Then Shane's mother and a local boy go missing, after a strange interaction with a fairy ring. Shane, her brother, her friends,...

"The knobbiest town in the world"--so Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) described Jerusalem in The Innocents Abroad, a travelogue of his visit to the Holy Land in 1867 (Fig. 0.7). He was struck by the Old City's small size; the small white domes protruding like knobs from the flat roofs of the tightly-packed houses; the narrow, crooked, uneven stone-paved streets; the poverty and filth; and the throngs of beggars: "To see the numbers of maimed, malformed...

"Sarah Chinn, Naomi Kaufman, Rivky Segal, and Melissa Farber are inseparable. At least they were until Rivky got moved into the other fourth grade class in the Bais Yaakov of Bloomfield. Will the Treehouse Kids be able to stay friends? Rivky misses her friends. Sarah is too involved with her birthday to come to the treehouse. Can Melissa's secret plan patch things up? Join Sarah, Rivky, Naomi, and Melissa as they learn about Growing up."--Page 4 of...

Leah and her family are packing everything they own, and along with their close-knit Jewish community, leaving the coast of India for their new home in Israel. Leah is torn between the two treasured places until she realizes that her heart is big enough to hold many things.

"This series (available in separate volumes or as a complete set) presents stories of tzadikim past and present that will enrapture and transport readers to faraway eras and places. In time, they will incorporate the invaluable mussar lessons as they develop their own midos. The Eternal Light Volume #11 includes stories of The Chozeh of Lublin, Reb Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, The Shpola Zeida, Reb Tzvi Hirsch of Riminov, Reb Yisrael of Ruzhin, Reb...