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True stories of hope, heart, and happiness presented by the editors of Reader's Digest.

Page, my younger brother by four years, has been brain damaged from birth. He does not speak, cannot hear, and sees poorly through his remaining eye. A wall of autism shuts him away from the outside world, and he spends most of his time lost in his own musings, nodding, laughing, clucking, and crying at a pageant only he can see. But for all the grief it brings, Page's condition is also a remarkable and precious gift.

In this third novel in Gabriel Cohen’s Edgar Award-nominated Jack Leightner crime series, the Brooklyn homicide detective investigates the serial killing of prostitutes in Crown Heights and the murder of a friend who ran afoul of Russian gangsters in Brighton Beach.

A floating coffin draws Brooklyn homicide detective Jack Leightner into a murder investigation in hidden parts of New York Harbor and the old Brooklyn Navy Yard in this second novel in Edgar Award nominee Gabriel Cohen’s acclaimed crime series.

Celaphais tells the story of a man who is the sole survivor of his family and just a nameless face among the other inhabitants of London. Depressed and fed up with life, he begins to favor the alternate reality he discovers while dreaming and even creates a new identity for himself, Kuranes. While "living" as Kuranes, he discovers his dream utopia of Celaphais in the Valley of Ooth-Nargai. Much to his disappointment, Kuranes is continually pulled away from Celaphais and begins to try harder and harder to find it again and live there forever.

Best-selling author Daniel Kirk’s children’s books include Library Mouse—which Booklist called a “showstopper.” In the library, Sam meets a fellow mouse named Sarah, who is quite an explorer. Scurrying along the tops of the bookshelves and scampering around in the darkest corners are some of her favorite pastimes. How different from Sam, who is too frightened to climb! Sam would much rather spend his time learning about new things. In the end, the two can do just about anything if they work together.

Best-selling author Daniel Kirk's Library Mouse was praised by Booklist as a "showstopper." In A Museum Adventure, Sam the library mouse and his friend Sarah visit a museum so that Sam can sketch in his explorer's journal. Sarah doesn't understand how explorers can possibly have the time - or the desire - to keep a journal. So Sam shows her how a journal can contain so much more than just writing. As the friends search the museum, they see many new things - and make an unexpected friend.

"Our jobs are gone," one worker said after the fire destroyed three of Malden Mills' century-old, red-brick factories. But his employer had another idea.

Helen Perley lived up to her nickname. First and last, the "Animal Lady" was a teacher, giving innumerable tours through the farm and nature walks in the woods and bringing animals with her to schools and nursing homes. If a young person had a special passion for animals, she would spot it instantly, calling it "the spark".

Dave didn't like school, and it showed. As a consequence, his teachers didn't always like Dave. They accused the dark-haired, outgoing, and popular youth of "acting out". But that was before Dave met Frank, a 20-year-old with Down syndrome.

With flames in her hair, her nostrils filled with smoke, eight-year-old Rona Mahilum grabbed the first child she could and rushed down the ladder steps to safety. She then ran back into the smoke, squinting and holding her breath.

Jeanne Szuber's body tightened as her mind held on to an image of her daughter, Patti, an effervescent, bright­-eyed 22-year-old, the youngest of their six children and one of only two still living at home. "I'm so sorry," the voice on the phone said gently. "I have to tell you that death may be moments away. I'm so very sorry." Jeanne looked at her husband of 37 years. "It's Patti," she whispered, though she knew that Chet knew. "They don't think there's a chance."

"You are fond of Bach?" asked a gentle but surprisingly penetrating voice on my right. I knew as much about Bach as I know about nuclear fission. I did, however, know one of the most famous faces in the world, with his renowned shock of untidy white hair and an ever-present pipe between his teeth.

When my father said work, he meant work. I dug post holes every morning, slamming that digger into the ground until I had tough calluses on my hands. I had hated hole digging, but it seemed to release some knot inside me, as if the anger I felt went driving into the earth, and I slowly started to feel I could get through this rotten time.

Although poverty and violence persisted, I witnessed the dismantlement of the legal architecture of segregation and a rise in the fortunes of Americans of all races. But I saw something else evolve, too - something disturbing. Despite our great advances, people of different races simply don't talk candidly to each other about race. There is no genuine communication about our differences or our shared values, and, even more sadly, there seems to be a growing lack of interest in trying.

For American children raised exclusively in wartime - that is, a Cold War containing monolithic communism turned hot in the jungles of Southeast Asia - and the first to grow up with televised combat, Vietnam was predominately a mediated experience. Walter Cronkite was the voice of the conflict, and grim, nightly statistics the most recognizable feature. But as involvement grew, Vietnam affected numerous changes in child life, comparable to the childhood impact of previous conflicts - chiefly the Civil War and World War II - whose intensity and duration also dominated American culture.

Prey: A young, homeless man arrested for a gruesome crime; a respected politician bound for higher office; detective Shane Calvin finds himself caught in the middle as two seemingly disparate lives collide, the weight of their secrets threatening to destroy them all.

Brooklyn South homicide detective Jack Leightner is at home enjoying a quiet day off when a stranger appears at his door and completely overturns his understanding of his own past. The following day, what looks like a mundane killing in a Brooklyn deli takes a bizarre turn when a crew of Homeland Security agents suddenly show up wearing anti-radiation gear.

This is the tale of a 228 year old man, born in 1690, telling about his interactions with Dr. Samuel Johnson. A large part focuses on their belonging to a literary club and the other men who also participated in the club. It is a simple observance of social interactions, as put forth by a very old man and his dated voice.

Ever since his father went missing, Eddie Edison has suspected that Lake Mohawk held dark secrets. But when he and his friends fish a strange, mechanical device from its murky depths, Eddie’s suspicions are confirmed. Pursuing the device’s origin, Eddie stumbles upon a mysterious, fantastical stranger who might have answers about his father’s disappearance as well as his own remarkable connection to the long lost Mad Scientists of New Jersey. With the imagination of Rick Riordan and the zaniness of Roal Dahl, this tale is sure to please.