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The mother of one of the children killed in the Newtown massacre discusses how the tragedy led her to a path of promoting peace and forgiveness, and counsels readers on how to deal with the unimaginable in their own lives.

"Jesse Hand was little more than a boy the first time he used a gun. He saw two strangers wantonly kill old Charlie Two Horses. Now, Charlie was the town drunk, but he has harmless and didn't deserve his fate. So young Jesse shot both men in a burst of fury. From that day forw...

"From 1953 to 1959, Edward R. Murrow informally welcomed television viewers into the homes of the twentieth century's most well-known stars. Utilizing perhaps the simplest set in television--a chair, a table, an ashtray and a picture window--, Murrow greeted two guests a week in ...

Allie helps Jesse, her older, mentally disabled brother on his way to school and endures the taunts of other children, but she does not understand why God made Jesse the way he is until she takes the time to "walk in his shoes" for a while.

Text and illustrations introduce eighteen finger games with music.

"In the aftermath of the "Big Killing," which culminated in the Lincoln County War, rancher Wes Bracken must rebuild life for himself and his family amid the lingering animosities from the deadly feud. The conflagration has destroyed his livelihood, strained his family, and turne...

"With Lincoln County teetering on the edge of lawless turmoil, small rancher Wes Bracken avoids taking sides, but his goal is complicated by his devotion to what he sees as justice and by his friendship with William H. Bonney, who's developing a reputation as Billy the Kid. As Li...

Meet Zack and Cody, 11-year-old identical twins and the newest residents of Boston's swanky Tipton Hotel. Living in a suite with their mom Carey, the boys treat Tipton like their own personal playground, often taking their new friends along for the ride.

Michael Lewis offers a critical look at the financial collapse of 2008 and reveals how the American economy shot itself in the foot. With cynical wit and humor, Lewis exposes the bungling villains who steered the economy toward a recession and chronicles the harrowing attempts of...

"Saddle up for a wild ride through those thrilling days of yesteryear. In Stories of the Old West, Steven Price serves up a heapin' helpin' of tales of America's frontier days: ranches and rodeos, lawmen and desperadoes, saloons and gunslingers, wilderness exploring and range war...

"Take a front-row seat, and relive history's greatest sports moments as they happened."-- Publisher.

Covers the Civil War from January 1862 to January 1863, describing the events of that year through messages, proclamations, newspaper articles, letters, diaries, and poems from people who lived through it.

An analysis of five financial upheavals in recent history includes coverage of the 1987 stock market crash, the 1998 Russian default (and the consequent collapse of U.S. hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management), the Asian currency crisis of 1999, the Internet bubble of 1995-2001,...

Inspired by the Jesuit saying, "Give me a child until he is 7 years old, and I will give you the man," in 1964 Granada Television commissioned a short documentary wherein producers profiled 14 7-year-old children, and loosely speculated on what sort of lives they might lead. It w...

"An act of cruel violence puts Deputy Sheriff Jesse Marks into the most difficult conflict he has ever had to face in this authentic Western tale of vengeance versus law. When Jesse's fiancée is brutally attacked and she and her kid sister left for dead by two unknown drifters, ...

Shelter from the Storm by Patricia Davids: Secretly pregnant and unwed, Gemma Lapp has a difficult choice--face her Amish community or raise her baby alone. But when a storm strands Gemma in the wilderness with her former crush, Jesse Crump, she knows her secret won't be safe for...