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The Street Lawyer
by John Grisham
Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm's plush offices. When it is all over, the man's blood is splattered on Michael's face--and suddenly Michael is willing to do... (more)
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A House Is a House for Me
by Mary Ann Hoberman
Where does everyone—and everything—live? A House Is a House for Me is a rollicking rhyme about houses. Some of the houses are familiar, such as an anthill and a dog kennel, while others are surprising, such as a corn husk and a pea pod. This longtime favorite is filled with pictures that parents and children will want to look at again and again in a beautifully produced, deluxe fullsized edition.
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Getting Around (Social Studies Emergent Readers)
by Betsey Chessen, Susan Canizares
Photographs and simple text describe some of the different kinds of structures that people call home, from houseboats and clay huts to farmhouses and apartment buildings.
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Have You Found Her: A Memoir
by Janice Erlbaum
And every week, there was the unspoken question, the one I didn’t know enough to ask myself : Have you found her yet? The one who reminds you of you? Twenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice Erlbaum went back to volunteer. Now thirty-four years old and a successful writer, she’d changed her life for the better; now she wanted to help someone else–someone like the girl she’d once been.... (more)
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All Our Sisters:: Stories of Homeless Women Across Canada
by Susan Scott
Though they account for only a small portion of the formal homeless statistics, there are many more women living on insufficient funds, with violent partners, in unacceptable dwellings, or in other fragile circumstances that are too often overlooked. They are our mothers, our daughters, our aunts, our nieces, our wives--they are all our sisters--and they remain largely invisible compared to homeless men.... (more)
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The ABC Book of American Homes
by Sarah S. Brannen, Michael Shoulders
A is for Apartment. B is for Beach House. C is for Cajun Cottage. This alphabetical survey spans over three centuries of architecture, highlighting the diversity of American homes. Whether your house is made of wood, snow, or even junk, and whether you live on land, on water, or in a tree, a house becomes a home when you share it with people you love.
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The Fate of the Earth
by Terry Tempest). SCHELL, Jonathan (WILLIAMS
Mathematics in buildingsVincent F. O'Connor
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Mathematics in buildings
by Vincent F. O'Connor
Color pictures use structures and buildings to relate mathematics to the child's everyday world.
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The Silent Gift
by Michael Landon Jr., Cindy Kelley
The 1930s were a decade of enormous uncertainty--for the world, for America, and in particular for one lonely, struggling mother and her disabled son. Their story is one of love and enormous sacrifices in the face of circumstances horrendous beyond belief. When her husband leaves her for someone whose time isn't wrapped up in a silent, handicapped kid, Mary and little Jack are out on their own in a world that has... (more)
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Walking Homeless
by Al Lamanda
John Tibbets is a homeless, amnesia victim, living a quiet life of desolation in a Manhattan shelter. One night, he saves the life of a policeman and becomes the toast of the town. John’s fame is short-lived, however, when a group of mysterious men show up to kill him for reasons he can’t remember.
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The Interrogation of Gabriel James
by Charlie Price
Eyewitness to two killings, fourteen-year-old Gabriel James relates the shocking story behind the murders in a police interrogation interspersed with flashbacks. Step by step, this Montana teenager traces his discovery of a link between a troubled classmate's disturbing home life and an outbreak of local crime. In the process, however, Gabriel becomes increasingly confused about his own culpability for the... (more)
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The Journey: A Story of Success and Homelessness from Self to Christ
by Robbyne D. Sudduth
The Journey: A Story Of Success And Homelessness From Self To Christ is a book of redemption, courage and hope. It is the story of one woman's choice to follow her passion and risk all to achieve it; her journey begins with the loss of a high-income career in professional sales with a Fortune 500 company, to the joy of following her newly found passion of ministering and writing, before the downturns that include... (more)
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Switching Well
by Peni R. Griffin
Two twelve-year-old girls in San Antonio, Texas, Ada in 1891 and Amber in 1991, switch places through a magic well and try desperately to return to their own times.
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Homes Around the World
by Bobbie Kalman
Young readers will discover that the word "home" can mean much more than just the house in which they live. Colorful photos highlight this subject close to any child's heart -- their home.
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Wonderful Houses Around the World
by Yoshio Komatsu
Fascinating and unique, Wonderful Houses Around the World gives children a welcome entrée into other places and other lives throughout the world. Glorious two-page photographic spreads capture families outside their homes, be they simple or imposing. Detailed cutaway illustrations reveal the inside of each house, showing the various family members engaged in typical daily activities. Captions explain where each... (more)
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Maggie and the Pirate (A Blue Ribbon Book)
by Ezra Jack Keats, Murat Isaku
When Maggie's pet cricket is stolen, she andher friends embark on a search for the "pirate" thief which ends in a small tragedy, but the making of a new friend.
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If You Lived With The Hopi Indians (If You.)
by Anne Kamma, Linda Gardner
The history of the Hopi (meaning "wise and beautiful people") is explored through a series of questions and answers, such as "Would you live in a teepee?" and "What did girls have to learn?"
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Building a House
by Byron Barton
A machine digs a big hole. A cement mixer pours cement. Carpenters put up walls. Bricklayers, electricians, plumbers, and painters do their part. Through brilliantly simple words and pictures we follow each step, and before our eyes a house is built.
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Our Natural Homes: Exploring Terrestrial Biomes of North and South America (Our Perfect Planet)
by Sneed B. Collard III
Defines the earth's land ecosystems through the characteristic plants and animals found in each.
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Houses and Homes (Around the World Series)
by Ann Morris
The world is full of houses. Big houses and little houses. Houses that stay in one place and houses that move from place to place. Some houses are made of wood or stone; others are made from mud or straw. But all of them are made for families to live in.

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