Product Description: Poems by Glenn Alan Cheney, many of them translated into Portuguese.

Product Description: Brazil's Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves that thrived throughout the span of the 17th century. As many as 20,000 or more people — among them Africans, Indians, and whites — lived in several cities in mountains surrounded by dense forest...read more

Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage. They bowed their heads to give thanks. The Pilgrims journey began as a joint venture of business and religion, but soon it became a matter of survival. With 102 men, women, and children packed into a dim, wet space below the main deck, the Mayflower set out on a terrifying 66-day crossing of the Atlantic. They dropped anchor well north of where they d intended, and just as the New England winter was setting in.With no choice but to spend the winter in the dank, frigid ship, they took ill. One by one, almost half of them died. The few individuals well enough to work rowed the dead into shore and buried them in graves left unmarked so the Indians wouldn't know how weak they were.Spring promised only a year of toil and difficulties as they attempted to settle new land in a place they called Plymouth. But then a miracle walked out of the woods...an Indian who had already crossed the Atlantic four times. He spoke English very well. He showed them how to catch the local fish and grow the local crops. He introduced them to the local people, and in an experience unique in colonial history, Europeans and Indians became friends and allies. And that autumn, the new and native Americans came together for a feast that lasted three days. Thanksgiving is a book of fact that all but breathes with the human drama of life, death, birth, hope, prayer, work, desperation, and thanks. Though these few dozen people were hardly the first Europeans to settle in North America, their values and beliefs grew into the American culture. We are what they were. Every American should read this book before bowing for grace on Thanksgiving Day.

Product Description: Ysa should have known better. She shouldn't have believed Kit. Shouldn't have gone up the Amazon with the Gumball King. Should haven't let a Mundurucu take up her up a river in a canoe. Shouldn't have ventured alone into mining camp...read more

Product Description: Frankenstein (not his real name) thumbs the nation's interstates, back and forth, up and down, here and there. He's lonely, desperate for affection, and slightly paranoid of a world too weird to grasp. The only thing Frankenstein does well is wonder...read more

Product Description: Glenn Cheney arrived in Kiev during those first days when the Soviet Union ceased to exist and Ukraine was reborn. Almost immediately he found himself talking with scientist, journalist, refugees, engineers, top-level government officials, doctors, environmentalists, parents of sick children and people living just a few kilometers from the Chernobyl complex...read more

Discusses current policies governing the spread of nuclear weapons along with potential problems and possible outcomes

Examines the American government's role in developing nuclear weapons and conducting atomic testing, focusing on the effects of radiation on humans and the victims' attempts to sue the government for compensation

Product Description: A novel for young adults.

Tells the stories of eight teenagers who have been disabled by diseases or accidents (view table of contents)

The 1986 explosion at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl was a human as well as environmental catastrophe, and this thorough account of the accident examines its causes, the response of the Soviet government, and the tragic aftermath of a horror that still lives on.

Tells the stories of seven teenagers who are recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction, and describes how drugs altered their lives

Examines the political and social situation in El Salvador, with an emphasis on the recent civil war and its impact on living conditions throughout the country

This discussion of the responsibilities and duties of good citizenship begins with a historical overview and discusses such duties as obeying laws, paying taxes, jury duty, and the importance of voting and community volunteerism

Discusses the characteristics of the various types of minerals, surveys their uses, and describes the mining of minerals

Traces the course of the world's longest river, looks at the dense tropical rain forest that surrounds it, and discusses the ecology and natural resources of the region

In examining America's enthrallment with television, such aspects of the 'ultimate mass medium' are explored as television and children, television and truth, television as business, and the future of television in the United States.

Describes briefly the colonial India into which Gandhi was born, his upbringing and education, including his stay in South Africa, and the nonviolent revolution he led to free India from English rule.