"Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, generations of library patrons...

Red fury: A lost 10-year-old Indian boy thrust into the bigotry of a white community early in the 20th century finds friendship with a neglectful rancher, a school teacher, and a wild stallion -- Captain Johnno : A frustrated deaf boy sets sail for a deserted island -- Lost in the barrens: an orphaned teen and a young tribal hunter get lost in the wilderness -- Rugged gold: Rugged Gold follows a widow's courageous journey in the Alaskan wilderness...

Presents the story of a Jewish American teacher, whose interaction with her adult Austrian students in Innsbruck affects her post-Holocaust attitude toward being Jewish and toward the children of Nazis, whom she was teaching. She frees herself from hate, while affecting her students, who begin to confront the Nazi past of their country and their parents. Includes details about the Nazi period in Innsbruck and the Nazi pasts of the parents-in-law of...