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Peter Brazaitis chronicles his life-long love of wild animals and recounts some of the more hair-raising adventures he has had while working with them.

Presents the complete text of the nineteenth-century novel about Maggie, a beautiful tenement girl whose life takes a downward spin when she becomes involved with Pete; and includes background information, a chronology of author Stephen Crane's life, and a selection of essays that explore the cultural contexts of the novel.

Looks at several nineteenth century American women who married into the British aristocracy.

Widowed FBI agent June Lyons returns to her hometown in the rust belt of upstate New York to take a job with the local police department; when she discovers a body in the frozen river, the investigation unmasks a sordid maze of politics, drugs, and an outlaw motorcycle gang, and June finds that still waters run deep in this small town.

Drawn from his private correspondence, a biography of the spiritual leader, scholar, counselor, and controversial advocate for women's rights and community openness details his achievements and his profound impact on the world.

Chronicles how, before changing his name and becoming a Hollywood icon, Rudolph Valentino was involved in a couple's messy divorce which ultimately ended in death.

Contains a biography of Keith Haring's life and career as an artist. Contains many photographs and reproductions of his work along with commentary.

Matt Long recounts how he fought through the fear, despair, loneliness, and intense physical and psychological pain he endured after being struck by a bus and nearly losing his life, and chronicles his efforts to train for the New York City Marathon.

""There are two Harlems," observes Patrick J. McCloskey in this engrossing narrative. "One bursts with new hope, while the other has remained marooned on the edge of the mainstream for generations." The problem, he asserts, is the enormous difficulty urban minority children face in getting a quality education. The Street Stops Here offers a deeply personal and compelling account of this struggle in a controversial setting, a Catholic high school in central Harlem, where mostly disadvantaged (and often non-Catholic) African American young men graduate on time and get into college. Interweaving vivid portraits of day-to-day school life with clear and even-handed analysis, McCloskey takes us through an eventful year at Rice High School, as staff, students, and families make heroic efforts to prevail against society's negative expectations. McCloskey's riveting narrative brings into sharp relief an urgent public policy question: whether (and how) to save these schools, which provide the only educational hope for thousands of poor and working-class students - and thus fulfill a crucial public mandate. Just as significantly, The Street Stops Here offers invaluable lessons for low-performing urban public schools."Powerful, eloquent, candid, McCloskey's account should be required reading for those who seek to remedy the academic woes of our troubled urban schools.