Juvenile In Justice

10 best books like Juvenile In Justice (Richard Ross): The Age of Miracles, The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, A Hundred Summers, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, The Whistling Season, The President's Stuck in the Bathtub: Poems About the Presidents, One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season, Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling, A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars

The Age of Miracles

Author	Karen Thompson Walker
ISBN	0812983602

“It’s never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass—it’s the ones you don’t expect at all,” says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful...

The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology

Author	Lorne Ladner
ISBN	0060750529

Now in paperback, this practical guide to cultivating compassion delivers Buddhist and psychological insight right where we need it most—navigating the difficulties of our daily lives.

Compassion is often seen as a distant, altruistic ideal cultivated by saints, or as an unrealistic...

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Author	Maria Semple
ISBN	0316204277

Bernadette Fox has vanished.

When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox...

A Hundred Summers

Author

Beatriz Williams

Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that sustained her after heartbreak.

That is, until the...

Leadership: In Turbulent Times

Author	Doris Kearns Goodwin
ISBN	1476795924

Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader?

In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt,...

The Whistling Season

Author	Ivan Doig
ISBN	0151012377

"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting,...

The President's Stuck in the Bathtub: Poems About the Presidents

Author

Susan Katz

Playful political poems about the penchants and peccadilloes of the presidents!Sure, William Taft got stuck in his tub, but did you know that John Quincy Adams used to skinny-dip in the Potomac? Herbert Hoover spoke Chinese with his wife, and Gerald Ford had his name changed from Leslie Lynch King....

One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season

Author

Chris Ballard

"One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . . This isn't merely a book about baseball. It's a book about heart."
--Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The Bad Guys Won

In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois, playing...

Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling

Author	Sabrina Jones
ISBN	1595585419

"Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands."
—Michelle Alexander

More than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did this happen? As the director of The Sentencing Project,...

A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars

Author	Cristina Rathbone
ISBN	0812971094

“Life in a women’s prison is full of surprises,” writes Cristina Rathbone in her landmark account of life at MCI-Framingham. And so it is. After two intense court battles with prison officials, Rathbone gained unprecedented access to the otherwise invisible women of the oldest running women’s...

Cotton Tenants: Three Families

Author	James Agee
ISBN	1612192122

A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer

In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great...