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Johnnie Wickersham was fourteen when he ran away from his Missouri home to fight for the Confederacy. Fifty years after the war, he wrote his memoir at the request of family and friends and distributed it privately in 1915. Boy Soldier of the Confederacy: The Memoir of Johnnie Wickersham offers not only a rare look into the Civil War through the eyes of a child but also a coming-of-age story.

Edited by Kathleen Gorman, the volume presents a new introduction and annotations that explain how the war was glorified over time, the harsh realities suppressed in the nation s...

A touching story dealing with the loss of a grandparent and Mikey's question of why. Told in the simple terms of a conversation, his mother explains how to deal with one of the most difficult situations we will all have to encounter some day. Illustrated with wonderful water-color illustrations, "How Far is Heaven" offers a starting point in a parent-child discussion.

Timothy Thomas Taylor was afraid of only one thing. The Twisty Green Monster tormenting the school yard. With the help of special rock, Timmy battles the monster that puts fear in the hearts of his classmates and taunts him daily.

A touching story dealing with the loss of a grandparent and Mikey's question of why. Told in the simple terms of a conversation, his mother explains how to deal with one of the most difficult situations we will all have to encounter some day. Illustrated with wonderful water-color illustrations, "How Far is Heaven" offers a starting point in a parent-child discussion.

Traveling through China in 1989, not long after the Tiananmen Square massacre, Fanny hopes to make sense of her brother Bruno s death in a motorcycle accident by finding a woman with whom he had exchanged letters. On her journey Fanny s fate becomes entwined with a handsome British rogue, an American of Russian-Cuban descent returning to Tashkent, and two Chinese men one who loves Charles Dickens, the other a budding, entrepreneurial con man struggling to find their way in a country undergoing tumultuous transformation. Kathleen Lee s debut novel explores the tension between the allure of...