A must-have for hardcore Gleeks and casual fans alike, this guide is packed with resources, photos, and inside stories about everybody's favorite glee club. Tracing the success of the show through its 70-plus awards and consistently sky-high ratings, Share the Glee takes a look back at the original cast and follows its evolution over four seasons, through celebrity guest stars Josh Groban, Britney Spears, and Gwyneth Paltrow, and up to the recent announcement that American Ido...

A Pulitzer Prize–winning author's "touching, funny and inspiring" true story of daily life in a New England nursing home ( The New York Times).Ninety-year-old Lou quit school after the eighth grade, worked for the rest of his life, and stayed with the same woman for nearly seventy years. Seventy-two-year-old Joe was chief probation officer in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, holds a law degree, and has faced the death of a son and the raising of a mentally chall...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's classic, "brilliantly illuminated" account of education in America ( The New York Times Book Review).Mrs. Zajac is feisty, funny, and tough. She likes to call herself an "old-lady teacher." (She is thirty-four.) Around Kelly School, she is infamous for her discipline: "She is mean, bro," says one of her students. But children love her, and so will the reader of this extraordinarily moving book by the Pulitzer Pri...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today“If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] inspires, discomforts, ...

Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry.Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “excellent and immersive” (The Wall Street Journal) story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains“I couldn’t put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to do better.”—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone**A...

A Cowman's Wife is the true account of the author's experience as co-owner of Old Camp Rucker Ranch, a 22,000 acre spread north of Douglas, Arizona that she purchased with her husband in 1919. It chronicles a woman's view of cattle ranching in Northern Arizona, with all the hardships of the 1920's and 1930's, Native Americans, Mexicans, wolves, and horse thieves. She also tells of the pleasures of ranch life: spectacular sunsets, mountain scenery, camaraderie of ranch people, and all-night...

Tracy Kidder's critically acclaimed adult nonfiction work, Mountains Beyond Mountains has been adapted for young people by Michael French. In this young adult edition, readers are introduced to Dr. Paul Farmer, a Harvard-educated doctor with a self-proclaimed mission to transform healthcare on a global scale. Farmer focuses his attention on some of the world's most impoverished people and uses unconventional ways in which to provide healthcare, to achieve real results and save liv...

"The Abenaki Indians" by Frederic Kidder is a comprehensive exploration of the Abenaki people, an Indigenous group from the northeastern United States. Kidder delves into their history, culture, and social structures, providing readers with a detailed account of their traditions and way of life. The book highlights the Abenaki's interactions with European settlers and the impact of colonization on their communities. Through meticulous research and engaging narrative, Kidder brings to life ...

The world is better with you in it—and it's time for you to believe that again.  Military retirement may be a momentous and honorable occasion, but many veterans experience a loss of identity when they hang up the uniform. Their sense of purpose falls away, and the sudden lack of structure doesn't feel freeing—it feels confining. As they delve into the civilian world, they often begin to feel lost. Disconnected. Invisible. Author Kevin Kidder knows exactly how that feels. That's why he cre...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:Los Angeles Times•San Francisco Chronicle•Chicago Tribune• The Christian Science Monitor • Publishers WeeklyIn Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testamen...

In "The Five Giants," Daniel P. Kidder deftly interweaves historical analysis and narrative storytelling to illuminate the social and economic struggles of modern society. Through a meticulous examination of the five critical challenges'Äîinequality, unemployment, insecurity, and lack of access to essential resources'ÄîKidder employs a clear, incisive prose style that bridges academic rigor and accessibility. This work not only fits within the contemporary discourse on welfare and social j...