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A harrowing exploration of one of the countrys most troubling hidden shames: the widespread neglect of disabled children by the institutions that have sworn to protect themFour-fifths of American children with serious mental health problems receive no professional treatment whatsoever. They are the product of an overextended and often neglectful system that, as Lee Gutkind writes, has reached the level of insanity. Following the stories of three childrenDaniel, Meggan, and TerriStuck in Time chronicles the tragedies and injustices wrought not only by the deficiencies of the mental healthcare system, but by government policymakers who have failed to address the problem. Through these children and their families, Gutkind explores mental illness as both a scientific and social issue, from the harsh economic realities of supporting a disabled child to the immense difficulty of finding a suitable counselor.Written with passion and piercing detail, Stuck in Time is a poignant examination of three families fighting against impossible circumstances, and of a system too inflexible to accommodate the helpless victims it is meant to support.

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The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!

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A fascinating and revealing look inside the lives of umpires, from the godfather of creative nonfictionIn 1974, Lee Gutkind walked into Shea Stadium, then home of the New York Mets, with an unusual proposal. He wanted to chronicle one of the least celebrated cadres in professional baseball: the umpires. Gutkind spent one exhilarating season traveling with the officiating crew he found that dayDoug Harvey, Nick Colosi, Harry Wendelstedt, and Art Williams, the first African American umpire in National League history. Gutkinds narrative reveals much about the peculiarities of the men charged with the thankless and impossible task of invoking ordertheir work ethic, fallibility, and perhaps most strikingly, their pride.As resonant today as when it was first published, The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand! is an engrossing story of the men who work on one of the nations biggest stages, their victories and their failures, and their inner worlds that are rarelyif everexplored.

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In this New York Timesbestselling thriller, a martial artists past returns to haunt himin the form of a murderous ninja.   Raised in Japan by a British father and a Chinese mother, young Nicholas Linnear felt at home only in the dojo, where he gave himself over to mastering ninjutsuthe ancient art of the ninja. Over years of training, he ascended to the highest ranks imaginableuntil a confrontation over the very meaning of ninjutsu changed his approach to martial arts forever, sending him on a journey that would take him across the globe.   Now, after years of success in the advertising business, Linnear quits his job abruptly when he feels himself yearning for the life he led in Japan. Searching for direction, he meets a striking beauty named Justine, but just as he is beginning to fall in love, something chilling draws him back into his past: the corpse of a coworker, murdered by a Japanese throwing star. There is a ninja loose in New York City, and as the body count rises, it becomes clear that people close to Linnear are being targeted. Only he has the skill to stop a twisted killer with a personal vendetta.   The first in a riveting series by the #1 New York Timesbestselling author who currently writes the Jason Bourne novels, this is as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read . . . Superb (News & Record).  

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Twelve-year-old Alexandra stumbles upon the key to a hidden worldbut is it a gift, or a nightmare?Twelve-year-old Alexandra Hobson feels ignored and unloved in her family of annoying, self-absorbed overachievers. One day in the woods she hears a shot, and is horrified to see a large, beautiful bird fall to the ground. She takes the injured egret home, hiding it in the basement behind the furnace, where it joins the other wounded creatures Xandra cares for unbeknownst to her parents.The next morning, the bird is gone. But it has left something behind: a quivering white feather. Convinced the feather is enchanted, Xandra brings it to school, where a weird, uncool seventh-grader named Belinda tells her its a key to an unseen world. As Xandra enters a strange and scary realm, she confronts a magic thats all too real. Can she figure out how to stop the key from becoming a curse?This ebook features an extended biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

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Summer is just a teenager, but sometimes she feels like the parentFifteen-year-old Summer McIntyre lives with her mother, Oriole, and seven-year-old sister, Sparrow, in a trailer in Alvarro Bay City, overlooking the Pacific. Oriole is a Northern California flower child who fantasizes about being at one with nature and forgets about needing money. Even though shes only fifteen, Summer is good at being Mom.That is, until Orioles new boyfriend upsets the precarious balance in their lives. Suddenly Summer has to protect her family as she copes with the dangers of drug-smuggling, blackmailing, and even terrorism.Set during the 1980s, The Birds of Summer is the story of a teenager with the responsibilities of adulthood thrust upon her shoulders, who learns how to adapt . . . and how to survive. Winner of the PEN Literary Award and the Parents Choice Award.This ebook features an extended biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

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From three-time Newbery Medal winner Zilpha Keatley Snyder comes the story of three desperate kids who just want to run awayDani ODonnell hates the dusty desert town of Rattler Springs and the ramshackle cabin where she lives with her widowed mother. On the eve of her thirteenth birthday, Dani hatches a plan to run away and return home to Sea Grove, California, with its palm trees and ocean breezes.But her scheme gets complicated when Stormy Arigotti, a dyslexic nine-year-old, decides he wants in. As if that werent enough, a big-city family just set up shop on the rundown ranch Danis mother inherited from her husbandand the daughter, Pixie Smithson, wants to join the runaway group. Pixies the strangest girl Dani has ever met, but now they have to think about practical things, like raising money for three bus tickets.For Dani, Stormy, and Pixie, running away might not turn out to be the great adventure they envisioned.This ebook features an extended biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder. 

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Its the girls against the boys when the fight for a baseball diamond erupts into an all-out warFifth graders Eddy Wong, Carlos Garcia, and Bucky Buckaroo Brockhurst all live in the Castle Court apartment complex. Theyre part of a special club called the PROs. They plan to build a baseball diamond on the site of the deserted Dragoman property and are already picking out balls, mitts, and bats.Kate Nicely and Aurora and Athena Pappas also live at Castle Court. They believe the vacant lot is a magical grove and a perfect haven for unicorns. No way are they letting those insensitive boys cut down their precious trees. The girls hold a council meeting in the Pappas gazebo to plot their next move. Families take sides. And the full-scale battle to claim the land begins.This ebook features an extended biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

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After her father dies, a lonely eleven-year-old finds a solution to her grief when she discovers a secret window into another lifeHallie Meredith is furious with God. First, her adored father died in a car accident. As if that werent horrible enough, Hallie had to move away, leaving school and all her friends behind. Now she and her mother live in a cramped apartment in a stuffy old mansion. The only bright spot is the crack in a boarded-up window in the attic that gives Hallie an unobstructed view of the apartment in the building next door. Hallie knows she shouldnt be up therethe attic is forbidden territory. And she shouldnt be spying on the beautiful teenage girl with the long blond hair who seems so tragic (and whom Hallie christens Rapunzel). And theres Rapunzels kid brother and their father, who seems unnaturally strict. Morphing into an amateur spy, Hallie is determined to solve the mysteries of this other family. But is the truth about the people next door different from how it appears?This ebook features an extended biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

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Who stole the buried treasure?Carlos Garcia, Eddy Wong, and Bucky Brockhurst are building a brand-new private clubhouse when they stumble upon buried treasure. No sooner have they hauled the old metal box out of the ground than Buckys irritating kid sister, Muffy, shows up and tells him he has to come home.Left alone with the box, Carlos and Eddy manage to pry it open. Its filled with hundreds of gold coins! Knowing Bucky will be furious that they opened it without him, the boys dump it back into the ground. But when the fifth graders return later that night to dig it up again, all they find is an old bone.What happened to the treasure? And who buried the bone? Was it Lump, the Garcias enormous Saint Bernard? Susie Garcia, Athena Pappas, and Muffy Brockhurst (the meanest girl in school) also want to know. As the search for the box heats up, turning everyone against one another, will the three PROs lose the treasureand their friendship?This ebook features an extended biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

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Abby doesnt want to be different, but she doesnt have a choiceshe has magic, and its not in her imaginationAbigail OMalley resents having the psychic powers that set her apart from other kids. Even though her kindergarten teacher assured her that her visions were just her imagination (which Abby heard as magic nation), Abby knows theyre very real. She just wants to be normal, like her best friend, Paige Borden, and grow up to be a lawyer or maybe an Olympic gold-medalist skier. If her powers are so special, why cant she find a way to bring her parents back together?But Abbys ability to read minds and find missing objects comes in handy when she helps solve cases at her moms private detective agency. The trouble starts when Abby accidentally reveals her special gift to Paige. Now that Paige knows her secret, she keeps trying to get Abby to use her magic to figure out everyday mysteries. But whenPaiges little brother Sky goes missing, Abby has to put her powers to the ultimate test.This ebook features an extended biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

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The Castle Court Kids are backand this time, theyre teaming up to fight the bad guysKate Nicely and her BFF, Aurora Pappas, havent told anyone about their top-secret science project thats going to win first place at the Annual Interschool Science Fair. Carlos Garcia, Bucky Brockhurst, and Eddy Wong are working on one, too, if they could just agree on an idea that isnt lame. But everyone could lose to Auroras kid brother, Carson, and Eddys younger brother, Web, who everyone at school knows is a genius. Does Webs secret project have something to do with the two sinister-looking men in a black van whove been lurking around Castle Court? The rumors spread like wildfire: Web is developing some kind of secret weapon and terrorists are trying to steal it. Thats when the Castle Court Kids decide to form the top-secret AT Club (thats Anti-Terrorist, of course). With the kidsand one enormous Saint Bernardoutnumbering the bad guys, all they have to do is wait for the perfect time to strike.This ebook features an extended biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

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Captain Jim Hollister returns for his third and final tour in Vietnam in the thrilling trilogy finale from the author of Long Range Patrol and Night Work. In the increasingly divided Juliet Company, racial tensions are running high and morale is at an all-time low. Combat readiness seems tenuous. Captain Jim Hollisters first order of business is to bring his company back into fighting shape. To survive hot LZs, sleepless nights, and a tireless enemy, the men of Juliet Company have to train hard and then fight harderand watch out for their brothers in arms. New commander Captain Jim Hollister makes extreme demands on his Rangers to enhance their combat expertise and survivability through rigorous training and preparations for each operation. As the US begins its withdrawal of troops, Hollister and his men are entrusted with gathering the critical intelligence needed to save American lives while attempting to eliminate or capture as many enemy soldiers as they can with their small teams of Rangers. From infiltration patrols into Viet Cong camps deep in Cambodia to critical oversight by a chain of command without much understanding of ranger patrol techniques, Hollister even has to protect his men from higher headquarters. The operations he oversees reveal the physical and psychological wounds of a war that can never be forgotten.Take Back the Night is the searing final chapter in Dennis Foleys acclaimed Jim Hollister Trilogy.

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A madcap tale of murder on an ocean liner that offers good mystery and lots of fun in the bargain (The New York Times).    The majestic ocean liner Queen Victoria is halfway through another uneventful transatlantic crossing when bad weather drives most of the passengers to their cabins. Only six have the iron stomachs necessary to take a seat at the captains table. Of those six, one will dieand the rest will make utter fools of themselves.   The theft of a reel of top-secret government film sets off a chase involving stolen jewels, massive marionettes, and a corpse that wont stay put. Murder has been committed, but the passengers cant be sure whos deadand are too busy boozing, fighting, and robbing one another to be bothered. They do embark on an inadvisable attempt at amateur detective workbut every clue they turn up drives them deeper into madness. It will take the timely intervention of Dr. Gideon Fell to cut through the insanity and unmask a killer.   John Dickson Carr wrote some of the most brilliant mystery novels of the golden age of detective fiction, and this book shows him at his funniest. As Anthony Boucher warned, Never was a reader more bedeviled with distractions from detection. Who observes clues while hes wiping his laughter-streaming eyes? The Blind Barber is the 4th book in the Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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The master of the Golden Age detective novel displays his expertise in the historical whodunit with this Gothic tale of passion and bizarre murder, which Newsday hailed as mystery fiction at its finest When headstrong young heiress Peg Ralston flees London for Versailles, her father sends dashing rake Jeffrey Wynne to bring her home from the court of Englands greatest enemy. But upon their return it appears that a mysterious portrait and a childs nursery rhyme link vivacious Peg to a bawdy old seamstress who resided near London Bridge and was quite literally scared to death. The old womans murder is but one thread in a web of conspiracy that includes blackmail, court intrigue, and an underground club that has made a hobby out of murder. With Pegs life at stake, Wynne will do everything he can to trace the diabolical connection between the two womenand resist falling in love.

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A Grand Master of the British-style detective story brings Victorian England to vivid life in this murder mystery, which critic Anthony Boucher hailed as a faultless formal puzzle in detectionIn 1865, novelist Clive Strickland is relaxing at his club when his friend Victor Damon comes to him in a panic, begging Clive to help him marry off his sister to a cash-poor marquis whose affections reek of gold-digging. Victor doesnt care. Something sinister lurks at High Chimneys and he wants his sisters out of the house before their lives are put in danger.Old Matthew Damon, their father, has long been dogged by scandalous rumors of solitary visits to the cells of women about to be hanged for murder. But when murder is done at High Chimneys, Strickland and private investigator Jonathan Whicher will have to sort out the rumors and look behind the discreetly drawn curtains of High Chimneys for a killer.

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Famed French detective Monsieur Bencolin comes out of retirement to solve a crime of passion in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carrs sophisticated and surprising novel London lawyer Richard Curtis is sent to Paris by one of the firms senior partners to handle a delicate case. Revelations about playboy Ralph Douglass former mistress, the stunning redhead Rose Klonec, threaten Douglass impending marriage. But upon Curtiss arrival in Paris, a body is discovered alongside not one but four different murder weapons. To save his client from the gallows, Curtis turns to the brilliant Monsieur Bencolin. Only this suave, devilish detective is ideally suited to unravel a case this strange with so many contradictory clues and passionately motivated suspects.The Four False Weapons is the 5th book in the Monsieur Bencolin Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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Golden Age mystery author John Dickson Carr displays his mastery of the historical mystery in this thrilling tale of courtship and punishment in Regency-era EnglandTo inherit her family fortune, beautiful Miss Caroline Ross must marry before her twenty-fifth birthday. But she has found only two breeds of husband: violent drunks and irresponsible dandies. To evade wedded agony, she chooses a spouse not long for this worlda convicted murderer with just a few hours left until his date with the hangman. But clever, cold-hearted Caroline does not yet realize it is her neck around which the noose is tightening and that she risks facing a life sentence far grimmer than one at Newgate jail.

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On the verge of a second marriage, a divorcee discovers her first husband has returned, and murder ensues in this chilling tale, which the New York Times Book Review hailed as one of the most ingeniously constructed mystery stories John Dickson Carr has ever toldAfter divorcing her husband, Ned, Eve Neill falls in love with banker Toby Lawes and quickly agrees to marry him. But news of the engagement brings Ned back, intent on reclaiming his bride, whatever the cost. The price of passion proves too high when a dead body is foundand beside it, the shattered fragments of a snuff-box that once belonged to Napoleon.These fragments tell two tales, one true and one false. And in order for Eve to know whether her future holds a white bridal gown or a black hangmans cloak, she will have to trust that an expert in criminology will be able to force the evidence to tell the truth and point out the real murderer.

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John Dickson Carr, one of the masters of the British-style detective novel, evokes the danger and delights of 1912 New Orleans in this puzzling murder mysteryJournalist and spy novelist Jim Blake takes an assignment for Harpers Weekly that puts him on a train to New Orleans, where congressional candidate James Claiborne Blake is being targeted by enemies who threaten to reveal that there is a glamorous Creole courtesan in his past. But in New Orleans, a sexual indiscretion is not enough to ruin a politician. That would require murder.When one of Clays supporters is found murdered, Jim Blake sets out to clear the candidates namea dangerous mission in a city that comes alive at night, where rumor can be as deadly as poison.

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Famed crime solver Dr. Gideon Fell attends a housewarming party in the English countryside, but a ghost spoils the fun in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carrs stylish, baffling mystery novel The house is called Longwood, and its history is wet with blood. It is closed up for good in 1920, when a massive chandelier falls, crushing an eighty-year-old butler. Oddly enough, the old chandelier was sturdy, and there was no way it could have fallen unless the butler leapt and swung on it. Was he mad? Suicidal? Or was he being pursued by something from beyond the grave? Seventeen years later, Longwood is purchased by Martin Clarke, a rakish young man with a taste for the supernatural. He invites his friends for a paranormal housewarming, but it is not long before the festivities turn gruesome. Chairs fly, guns fire on their own, and a mysterious fire threatens to engulf the whole mansion in flames. Clarke and his guests came for a ghost huntbut could it be that the ghost is hunting them? The Man Who Could Not Shudder is the 12th book in the Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. The Man Who Could Not Shudder is the 12th book in the Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.