Ambitious, sensuous, filled with intriguing characters, panoramic settings, and high drama, "Red Poppies" opens a window on preoccupation Tibet. Set in the 1930s, it is the story of the wealthy Maichi family: its powerful chieftain, his Han Chinese wife, his first son and heir, and his second, "idiot" son, the novel's narrator and unlikely hero.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman, ISBN 006051048X
The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring.... In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one window and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close, The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's different.... At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman, ISBN 006051048X
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Hyperactive Children Grown Up: ADHD in Children, Adolescents, and Adults by Gabrielle Weiss, ISBN 0898625963
Long considered a standard in the field, the first edition of HYPERACTIVE CHILDREN GROWN UP explored what happens to hyperactive children when they grow to adulthood. Based on the renowned McGill prospective studies--research that now spans more than 30 years--the volume reports findings on the etiology, treatment, and outcome of attention deficits and hyperactivity at all stages of development.
Updating and expanding upon a classic, this second edition includes entirely new chapters that describe:
* New developments in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD)
* Current psychological treatments for ADHD
* Contemporary perspectives on the use of medications
* Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of ADHD adults
Providing complete developmental analysis of symptoms as they are displayed from infancy through adolescence, the book shows how the disorder is manifested and what happens during treatment at different stages. It examines the adult lives of the study's...
Hyperactive Children Grown Up: ADHD in Children, Adolescents, and Adults by Gabrielle Weiss, ISBN 0898625963
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The Rainmaker by John Grisham, ISBN 0385424736
In his first courtroom thriller since A Time to Kill, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America - and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam. In his final semester of law school Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first "clients", Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments. While Rudy is at first skeptical, he soon realizes that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company, and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone's ever seen - and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation. The problem is, Rudy's flat broke, has no job, hasn't even passed the bar, and is about to...
The Rainmaker by John Grisham, ISBN 0385424736
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Journey Through East and South Africa: Some African Highways
Originally published in 1908, "Two American Women Journey Through East and South Africa" desribes a trip made by two American women to Uganda and the Transvaal in the hopes of inspiring other Americans to do the same. This fascinating tour of Africa opens the eyes of any traveller, in particular those that enjoy a more comfortable journey. Caroline Kirkland points out that it is possible to see the plains of Africa, rich with zebras, gnus, giraffes, and even lions, from a railway carriage window. Though only claiming to have touched the surface of the vast continent, she describes the African landscape as "dark, mysterious, violent and enchanting.
Journey Through East and South Africa: Some African Highways
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Curtains window treatments Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet by Alai, ISBN 0618340696 
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