“Don, writing the letter to my dad was very cleansing. I actually cried as I was finishing it. I have never cried emotionally over my father before. I actually felt closer to him than I have ever felt. Thanks for giving me that gift.” Wally “Famous” Amos. “Dear Dad, I wanted to always tell you that I hate you because you left me when I was only three…” Shameka—age 12. You will likely see yourself and your father in this book. Roberts’ unique idea of having the writer talk directly to his father, instead of just about him, makes the exercise very intimate. Each letter captures a moment in time in the writer’s life. Roberts asked them to sit down and, at that moment, write a letter to their father and say whatever they wanted to say to him as if he would read it TODAY.

Product Description: The author invites you to hike up your knickers, sleeve wipe your nose and trot along with Bud Pugh and his "Depression Era" street urchins. You might spin tops, play Indian Ball, smoke corn silk, or swipe a melon from a street huckster.

Product Description: The 175 bookplates that Rockwell Kent designed over the span of a half century are a hidden facet of his graphic arts career. Kent stands alone among twentieth-century American artists; he was not only a prolific painter, author and illustrator, but also an adventurer and political reformer...read more

Product Description: Refactoring is about improving the design of existing code. It is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code, yet improves its internal structure. With refactoring you can even take a bad design and rework it into a good one...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A collection of rap lyrics on such subjects as sharing, clothes, and careers. (view table of contents)

Explains how to program a microcomputer in the BASIC language for a variety of entertainment, educational, financial, mathematical, and business applications

Provides programs that balance checkbooks, calculate compound interest, solve business and math problems, and review facts in chemistry, math, geography, and science

Surveys the history of library vehicle services, noting issues and problems, and describes the activities of people involved with different types of bookmobiles and mediamobiles