DescriptionFor a young adolescent, David Curry has a lot to contend with. He loves and fears Reuben, his troubled father. His older brother, Ty, is turning into someone David doesn't know anymore, or trust. And his mom is struggling to hold everything together. But then David meets Mr. Moses, an elderly man who tells him that dreams are the key to understanding reality. And with Mr. Moses' gift of dreams, David begins to see the world through his father's eyes. Printz Award-winner Walter Dean Myers weaves a richly layered tale of a boy's journey of self-discovery and the acceptance and compassion he learns along the way.
DescriptionThis anthology of short fiction represents some of the most significant and enjoyable work from the most influential women authors of the 19th and 20th centuries. You'll hear "On the Divide" and "The Garden Lodge" by Willa Cather; "A Point at Issue", "The Story of an Hour", "Desiree's Baby", and "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin; "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Three Thanksgivings" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; and "The Pelican" and "The Fullness of Life" by Edith Wharton. These brilliant authors each speak for a woman's experience, about lives defined by relationships and lives of frustration and satisfaction, sorrow and joy, oppression and self discovery.
DescriptionNew York Times best-selling author Joan Anderson gives women practical advice and inspiration for building creative, independent, and fulfilling lives through discovering who they truly are and who they can be. Joan Anderson's best-selling A Y…
DescriptionWhen Amy Hawkins, a young dot-com executive from California who has made her fortune at the top of NASDAQ, overhears a pair of elderly and thus much wiser socialites decry the new generation for their incompetence in all things worldly, she sets off for E…
