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GROWING UP, KATHERINE SCHNEIDER struggled to find accessible books, not to mention ones with decent disability representation. Blind since birth, Schneider was the first child who was blind to attend [...]

The 1947 Partition of India led to one of the largest migrations in human history, radically changing Southeast Asia's landscape. The area that was India under nearly 90 years of [...]

NO ONE SETS OUT to write an insensitive book, says Jen Malia, author of the 'Infinity Rainbow Club' chapter book series. 'Yet many do so unintentionally.' Classic children's books are [...]

While COVID-19 precautions and technological advances have enabled more disabled writers to attend children's literature conferences, conventions, festivals, and other events--often thanks to virtual options--many organizers still treat accessibility as [...]

Normalizing physical disabilities can begin in childhood. These creators are doing just that. AT THE PLAYGROUND with his young children, UK author James Catchpole often finds himself fielding questions from [...]

Koontz, Dean. Quicksilver. Brilliance Audio. Jan. 2022.10:08 hrs. ISBN 9781713626176. $29.99. THRILLER The latest stand-alone novel by perennial favorite Koontz (77 Shadow Street) combines the elements of a classic mystery [...]

Sullivan, Rosemary. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation. HarperAudio. Jan. 2022.10:41 hrs. ISBN 9780063067066. $26.99. HIST Sullivan (Stalin's Daughter) offers a fascinating overview of a six-year cold [...]

* Lutz, Liz. The Accomplice. Penguin Random House Audio. Jan. 2022.11:38 hrs. ISBN 9780593149393. $20. SUSPENSE Lutz (The Spellman Files) reminds readers of how little any of us can truly [...]

Frederick, Jen. Seoulmates. Penguin Random House Audio. (Seoul, Bk. 2). Jan. 2022.9:13 hrs. ISBN 9780593456644. $20. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE Frederick's sequel to Heart and Seoul is a lovely, warm, and satisfying [...]

* Radiant Truths: Essential Dispatches, Reports, Confessions, & Other Essays on American Belief. Yale Univ. Apr. 2014. 424p. ed. by Jeff Sharlet. notes. ISBN 9780300169218. $30; ebk. ISBN 9780300206968. LIT [...]

Frankopan, Peter. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World. 19 CDs. 24:30 hrs. HighBridge. Feb. 2016. ISBN 9781681680521. $54.99. HIST Frankopan (director, Centre for Byzantine Research, Oxford Univ.; [...]

Castor, Helen. Joan of Arc: A History. 7 CDs. 8:29 hrs. Tantor. 2015. ISBN 9781494513054. $39.99.1 MP3-CD. HIST Though many listeners may be familiar with the later life of Joan [...]

* Cisneros, Sandra. A House of My Own: Stories from My Life. Knopf. Oct. 2015. 400p. photos. notes. ISBN 9780385351331. $28.95; ebk. ISBN 9780385351348. LIT Cisneros, author of The House [...]

Oates, Joyce Carol. The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age. Ecco: HarperCollins. Sept. 2015. 352p. ISBN 9780062408679. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062408693. LIT Oates (Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor of [...]

* Hughes, Langston. Selected Letters of Langston Hughes. Knopf. Feb. 2015. 480p. ed. by Arnold Rampersad & others, photos. notes. index. ISBN 9780375413797. $35; ebk. ISBN 9780385353564. LIT This title, [...]

Marshall, Megan. Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast. Houghton Harcourt. Feb. 2017.368p. photos, notes, index. ISBN 9780544617308. $30; ebk. ISBN 9780544618428. LIT Marshall, whose earlier works include Margaret Fuller (winner [...]

Zacharias, Lee. The Only Sounds We Make. Hub City. May 2014. 215p. notes. ISBN 9781938235009. pap. $16. LIT Zacharias, who is best known for her fiction--Helping Muriel Make It Through […]

Ava's Man by Rick Bragg 4 cassettes. abridged. 6 hrs. Random Audio. 2001. ISBN 0-375-41889-X. $25.95. BIOG After the publication of Bragg's best-selling memoir All Over but the Shoutin', readers [...]

Despres, Loraine. The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc. Morrow. Nov. 2001. c.352p. ISBN 0-688-17389-6. $24. F While most readers may not immediately recognize the author's name, many will be familiar [...]

Rick Bragg may be a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, but perhaps his most lasting contribution to our understanding of American society will be the family stories he has written down--stories that [...]

Mairs, Nancy. A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories. Beacon, dist. by Houghton. Oct. 2001. c.240p. permanent paper. ISBN 0-8070-6248-0. $23. LIT In her thoughtful and provocative collection of unabashedly [...]

Vivian, Robert. Cold Snap As Yearning. Univ. of Nebraska. Sept. 2001. c.168p. ISBN 0-8032-4670-6. $24.95. LIT Poet and playwright Vivian, whose work has been included in Best Women's Stage Monologues [...]

Walter, Eugene as told to Katherine Clark. Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet. Crown. Aug. 2001. c.304p. photogs. LC 00-064530. ISBN 0-609-60594-1. $24. LIT Walter [...]

Oliver, Julia. Music of Falling Water. Blair. Jun. 2001. 302p. ISBN 0-89587-238-2. $21.95. F Set in Alabama in the early 1900s, Oliver's second novel (after Goodbye to the Buttermilk Sky) [...]

* Bragg, Rick. Ava's Man. Knopf. Sept. 2001. c.304p. ISBN 0-37541062-7. $25. BIOG Bragg, national correspondent for the New York Times and author of the best-selling memoir All Over but [...]

Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood. Seven Stories. 2001. 272p. ed. by Moyra Davey. LC 00-050954. ISBN 1-58322-072-0. pap. $18.95. LIT Davey, a photographer whose work has appeared in the [...]

Back to Basics by Iyanla Vanzant ISBN 0-7435-0409-7. ea. vol: 1 cassette. unabridged. 60 min. S. & S. Audio. (Iyanla Live). 2001. $12. SELF-HELP Vanzant's good will is infectious. Her [...]

Transformation by Iyanla Vanzant ISBN 0-7435-0407-0. ea. vol: 1 cassette. unabridged. 60 min. S. & S. Audio. (Iyanla Live). 2001. $12. SELF-HELP Vanzant's good will is infectious. Her ability to [...]

Gingher, Marianne. A Girl's Life: Horses, Boys, Weddings, and Luck. Louisiana State Univ. Jun. 2001. c.224p. permanent paper, photogs. ISBN 0-8071-2685-3. $24.95. AUTOBIOG In her acknowledgments, Gingher quotes Michael Vincent [...]

Hoffman, Roy. Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile. Univ. of Alabama. Apr. 2001. c.380p. permanent paper. photogs. LC 00-010633. ISBN 0-8173-1045-2. $29.95. SOC SCI Hoffman (Almost Family), who had left his [...]

Out on a Limb by Shirley MacLaine 4 cassettes. 5 hrs. ISBN 0-7435-1027-5. $25. ea. vol: abridged. S. & S. Audio. 2000. REL In Going Within, MacLaine asks tough questions [...]

Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation by Shirley MacLaine 2 cassettes. 2 1/2 hrs. ISBN 0-7435-1026-7. $18. ea. vol: abridged. S. & S. Audio. 2000. REL In Going Within, [...]

Abounding Grace: An Anthology of Wisdom. ed. by M. Scott Peck 2 cassettes. abridged. 3 hrs. Audio Renaissance. 2000. ISBN 1-55927-622-3. $17.95. REL Like Peck's previous work, this series will [...]

* Willis, Jan. Dreaming Me: An African American Woman's Spiritual Journey. Riverhead: Putnam. Apr. 2001. c.336p. permanent paper. ISBN 1-57322-173-2. $23.95. REL Destined for the same shelf as Anne Lamott's [...]

Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul: Stories To Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit by Jack Canfield & others 1 cassette. abridged. 90 min. Health Communications. 2000. ISBN [...]

Battle, Lois. The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle. Viking. Mar. 2001. c.358p. ISBN 0-670-89469-9. $24.95. F In this eighth novel from Battle (Bed & Breakfast), Bonnie Duke Cullman, a [...]

Kimmel, Haven. A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana. Doubleday. Mar. 2001. c.240p. photogs. ISBN 0-385-49982-5. $21. BIOG In this first book, Kimmel has written a love [...]

MacLeish, William H. Uphill with Archie: A Son's Journey. S. & S. Feb. 2001. c.256p. ISBN 0-684-82495-7. $24. LIT William MacLeish (The Day Before America) was a privileged child who [...]

Orlean, Susan. The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People. Random. Jan. 2001. c.320p. permanent paper. ISBN 0-679-46298-8. $24.95. COMM In the introduction to this collection of profiles [...]

My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. 2 cassettes, abridged. 3 hrs. S. & S. Audio. 2000. ISBN 0-7435-0007-5. $18. REL As a [...]

* Walker, Rebecca. Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography Of a Shifting Self. Riverhead: Putnam. Jan. 2001. c.336p. permanent paper. LC 00-035292. ISBN 1-57322-169-4. $23.95. AUTOBIOG Walker's parents, Mel Leventhal, a [...]

The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit by Shirley MacLaine 4 cassettes. abridged. 6 hrs. S. & S. Audio. 2000. ISBN 0-7435-0029-6. $25. REL MacLaine's eighth book confirms her gift [...]

Rekdal, Paisley. The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In. Pantheon. Oct. 2000. c.224p. LC 00-020636. ISBN 0-375-40937-8. $22. SOC SCI Born and reared in Seattle, [...]

How To Know God: The Soul's Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries by Deepak Chopra 3 cassettes. abridged. 5 hrs. Random Audio. 2000. ISBN 0-375-40949-1. $25. REL Chopra, best-selling author [...]

Tannenbaum, Judith. Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin. Northeastern Univ. Sept. 2000. c.217p. ISBN 1-55553-453-8. $42.50; pap. ISBN 1-55553-452-X. $15.95. LIT In the spring of [...]

Ethics for the New Millennium by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2 cassettes, abridged. 3 hrs. S. & S. Audio. 1999. ISBN 0-671-04541-5. $18. REL In Ethics for the New [...]

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 2 cassettes, abridged. 3 hrs. Random Audio. 1999. ISBN 0-679-43419-4. $18. AUTOBIOG Kaysen's tell-all memoir received an immense amount of media attention and critical praise. [...]

Bilger, Burkhard. Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts. Scribner. Sept. 2000. c.256p. ISBN 0-684-85010-9. $24. SOC SCI Odd, regional Southern cultures seemingly fascinate readers in the [...]

Crowther, Hal. Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the South. Louisiana State Univ. Aug. 2000. c.192p. permanent paper. illus. ISBN 0-8071-2594-6. $24.95. SOC SCI Crowther, a former editor and [...]