In the early 1940's, Clara Breed was the children's librarian at the San Diego Public Library. But she was also friend to dozens of Japanese American children and teens when war broke out in December of 1941. The story of what happened to these American citizens is movingly told through letters that her young friends wrote to Miss Breed during their internment. This remarkable librarian and humanitarian served as a lifeline to these imprisoned young...

The true story of the bond between a harried sales executive and an eleven-year-old boy who seemed destined for a life of poverty. It is the heartwarming story of a friendship that has spanned three decades and brought meaning to an over-scheduled professional and hope to a hungry and desperate boy living on the streets.

Chronicles a year in the life of four of the most famous men of the nineteenth century--psychologist William James, his novelist brother Henry, and their purported, troubled younger brothers, notorious outlaws Frank and Jesse James.

A beginning English language course for Chinese speakers.

From Robert Mazur, undercover agent and bestselling author of The Infiltrator, comes the riveting true story of grave corruption at the heart of one of the most explosive DEA missions of his career. Three years after undercover agent Robert Mazur infiltrated Pablo Escobar's Medelln¿¿ drug cartel, he reemerged, a half-million-dollar bounty still on his head, with a new identity for a risky new sting. He was now Robert Baldasare, money launderer and...

Analyzes the thirty-year relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud, discussing the association's impact on American foreign policy and national security, and the families' shared financial interests.

Documents the experiences of an extraordinary family whose seven sons and neighbors from a Mathews County, Virginia, community served as Merchant Marines and in 1942 defended the coastal United States against a U-boat assault.

Prenna, an immigrant who moved to New York when she was twelve, came from another time and she and the other travelers must follow strict rules to avoid destroying the new life they have worked so hard to get.

The owner of Martin Greenfield Clothiers in Brooklyn shares his story as a Holocaust survivor who learned tailoring skills during his incarceration before building a fashion empire in America.