Kowalski: 109 books

Rosario Gomez gave up gang life after his brother was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend shows up to ask him why he left the gang, Rosario realizes he was...

Revolutionary Spirits confronts many of the later myths about the religious views of America’s Founders, and brings to life their complex creeds and personalities. It offers clear and candid portraits of Franklin, Washington, Paine, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison as both religious reformers and political rebels, and reclaims their spiritual inheritance for today.

The natural world holds secrets under every rock and around every tree. If you've ever wondered what life is like through a microscope, telescope, or with the naked eye--you'll love this book! You will: Run with the antelope across the American plains and learn about the food chain. Climb...

Education has fought long and hard to gain acceptance as a profession and, since professionals by definition use data to shape the decisions they make, education has little choice but to continue moving in this direction. This 3-part handbook represents a major contribution to the literature of education....

Although the importance of communication in school administration has been recognized for some time, this facet of effective practice continues to receive limited attention. In the context of an information-based, reform-minded society, the value of communicative competence has been increased substantially....

Mythes amérindiens, ésotérisme, revolvers à barillet et grands espaces : le western fantastique de Corbeyran lève enfin le voile sur l'enfance de la taciturne Perla, son intrépide héroïne. En Oklahoma, Perla et ses compagnons partent à la recherche du shaman du Grand Serpent, qui lui ouvrira...

Mythes amérindiens, fantastique, grands espaces : un western hors-norme ! « L'Homme devint un guérisseur très puissant. L'Homme devint même un sorcier très puissant. Car les animaux lui avaient offert très spontanément une partie de leur pouvoir. » Winnebago Perla et ses compagnons poursuivent...

"UN WESTERN FANTASTIQUE À COUPER LE SOUFFLE ! « Son âme chemine maintenant dans le monde des esprits, élevée par le vent loin des splendeurs de la terre. » Yellow Wolf À la fin du XIXème siècle, Perla Ruiz-Tenguillo sillonne le sud de l’Amérique du Nord à la tête d’un petit groupe...

When Francie and Colt Hart drive past an abandoned 150-year-old farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania, they both fall head-over-heels in love with it -- but for entirely different reasons. Colt, an ambitious, hard-charging stock trader, sees it as a potential showcase for his wealth. Francie, long dependent...

I'd wondered about my mother all my life -- what she looked like, how she smelled and sounded and acted. Lately this wondering had grown to encompass a curiosity about the kind of people she herself came from, because they were my family, too, after all, even though I knew nothing about them. I'd...

Kat is a tough, independent woman who makes her living as a professional poker player. She is single, childless and happy about it. But when her best friend, Josie, commits suicide, she names Kat as the temporary guardian of her ten-year-old son, David, until his father can come for him. In the few...

Linda is a young, hardworking single mom struggling to get by from paycheck to paycheck. When she learns that her son Dre needs a kidney transplant, her family's already precarious financial situation takes a turn for the worst. Then she discovers that the only one who can help Dre is his half-brother...

The year is 2147. Chago, twenty-four, is a prisoner in a world made up only of prisoners and those who guard them. The only bright spot in Chago’s life is his son, Jim-Jim, whose mother is a guard. In an effort to resolve overcrowding in the prison, the warden introduces the Innocence Device, a...

Mother Anqelique runs a shelter for homeless mothers and their children in a run-down inner-city area, where drug addiction, prostitution and random acts of violence are facts of life. One day, newly orphaned Jamal and his sister Chantay arrive at the shelter, hungry and scared. As Angelique tries...