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Closing Time
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Joe Queenan |
A deeply funny and affecting memoir about a great escape from a childhood of povertyJoe Queenans acerbic riffs on movies, sports, books, politics, and many of the least forgivable phenomena of pop cu… |
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Improving access to oral health care for vulnerable and underserved populations
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Committee on Oral Health Access to Services (U.S.) |
"Access to oral health care is essential to promoting and maintaining overall health and well-being yet only half of the population visits a dentist each year. Poor and minority children are less lik… |
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Iqbal Masih and the crusaders against child slavery
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Susan Kuklin |
An account of the former Pakistani child labor activist whose life and unexplained murder has brought to the attention of the world the evil of child bondage. |
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Constructing social reality
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Loretta J. Brunious |
"This book examines how black children who grow up in an impoverished environment construct their social reality, and how this process influences their perception and creation of self. It argues that… |
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Mama Maggie
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Marty Makary |
Since 1997, Maggie Gobran and her organization Stephen's Children have been changing lives in Cairo's notorious zabala, or garbage slums. Her innovative, transformational work has garnered worldwide … |
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State of North Dakota end-of-year report
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Community Health Foundation (Evanston, Ill.) |
Report evaluates North Dakota's Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) Program. |
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American childhoods
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Richard Wormser |
Describes the many hardships America's children have had to endure from colonial times to the present. |
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Mr. Unforgettable
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Karina Bliss |
Luke Carter can never forget that he'd been abandoned as a child. And that's why the millionaire and former Olympian is driven to build his camp for underprivileged kids in Beacon Bay. If only the ru… |
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