Alamosa Public Library

Rachel is a dedicated teacher who forms a deep bond with her boyfriend's young daughter, loving the family she's found but yearning for one of her own in this soulful, sexy, resolutely grown-up story of the elusive quest for belonging.

"Gail and Jon Durbin moved to the Chicago suburbs to set up house as soon as Gail got pregnant. But then she miscarried - once, twice, three times. Determined to expand their family, the Durbins turn to adoption. When several adoptions fall through, Gail’s desire for a child overwhelms her. Carli is a pregnant teenager from a blue-collar town nearby, with dreams of going to college and getting out of her mother’s home. When she makes the gut-wrenching...

Examination of schools across the country whose children are from poor families in the inner city and the less affluent suburbs.

And so you've reached that time in life when you're starting to pick investments over adventure, clean over scenic, comfortable over intense; when, even though in your heart of hearts you're only seventeen, the rest of you is (how did it happen?) forty. The wise and witty lady of It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty is here to get you through those forty-ish years with poems that reflect our common shared experience. So let her help you take a look at...

Inside kit: 1 Storytime Elements Guide, 1 wooden abacus, CD: 3 Steve Weeks CD's Books: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Now I Eat My ABCs, ABC Touch Think Learn, ABC Yoga, The Alphabet Tree Storytime to go kits are each developed around a single theme and contain books and other fun interactive pieces for preschool kids. This kit emphasizes the alphabet.

Inside kit: 1 Storytime Elements Guide, 1 wooded train (18 pieces)CD: Dan Zanes and Friends: Catch That Train!Books: Peek-a Choo-Choo board book, Freight Train/Tren de Carga bilingual board book, Choo Choo board book, Trains board book, Freight Trains, The Winter Train, Chugga Chugga Choo Choo, My Big Train Book, Train! Storytime to go kits are each developed around a single theme and contain books and other fun interactive pieces for preschool kids....

Storytime to go kits are each developed around a single theme and contain books and other fun interactive pieces for preschool kids. This kit emphasizes nursery rhymes.

Inside kit: 1 Storytime Elements Guide, 1 tambourine with wand, one clapper, one pair of cymbals, one triangle, one set of maracas, one set of tone blocksCDs: Jazz for Kids, Jim Gill Makes it Noisy in Boise, Idaho, Wee Sing Children's Songs and FingerplayBooks: Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplay song book, Hiccupotamus, What a Wonderful World, Keith Richard's Gus & Me, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Nighty-Night, Cooper, Are You Sleeping? (includes...

Inside kit: 1 Storytime Elements Guide, 1 wooden fish puzzle (9 pieces), 6 different color scarves: red purple, green, yellow, orange, blueCD: Jim Gill sings Do Re MiBooks: Planting a Rainbow, Color Dance, Green Is a Chile Pepper. Mix It Up!, Colors, Where is the Green Sheep? Storytime to go kits are each developed around a single theme and contain books and other fun interactive pieces for preschool kids. This kit teaches about colors.

"Emily Charlton (from The Devil Wears Prada), first assistant to Miranda Priestly, returns as a highly successful image consultant who's just landed the client of a lifetime. Welcome to Greenwich, CT, where the lawns and the women are perfectly manicured, the Tito's and sodas are extra strong, and everyone has something to say about the infamous new neighbor. Let's be clear: Emily Charlton, Miranda Priestly's ex-assistant, does not do the suburbs....