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I'm not the same person I was when you last saw me. I've seen my first dead body - scads of them, in fact. You can't gaze at a corpse, or at the faces of the bereaved, without feeling like your own problems don't matter all that much. Dang - I got a bad grade on my paper. How tragic! Oh no! Melissa's eyes glazed over when I started talking to her. It's the end of the world! I also narrowly escaped getting hacked to death by a large sword. By a large person with a large sword. I even disarmed my opponent and prevailed in the fight. My last scuffle before this one was against Kenny Mahoney on the playground in third grade, and I most certainly did not prevail that time. Other than that, I grew a beard, shrank several inches, and turned into some sort of elf-like creature, all in one day. Like I said, not the same person ... So how did I end up in another world? Me, of all people! I'm not Mr. Adventure ... Mr. Excitement ... Mr. Exploration. I'm Mr. Hide-Out-From-Parents-In- My-Room-With-Cookies-And-Soda-In-Front-Of-The-PC Guy. The only times I've ever swung swords were via pointing and clicking a mouse.

Lucy doesn't understand why the new boy in Miss Reed's class doesn't like her. "I said hi and he ignored me," she said. "Lucy, that's Daniel. He has autism," Miss Miller responded. "What's autism?" asked Lucy. From that moment on Lucy works to make friends with Daniel in this bright, upbeat book about autism. Once she succeeds, Lucy becomes determined that the other kids in the class learn to accept Daniel as well. With an estimated 1 in 68 children now falling somewhere on the autism spectrum, "Lucy's Amazing Friend" is just the right book to help children understand that we are all different, and while those differences can be challenging, they also make us each special.

This revealing memoir of a single woman's journey to deliver justice as a Parole Commissioner in the macho world of the criminal justice and parole systems uncovers shocking questionable ethics, introduces us to notorious lawbreakers, and sheds her light on the darkness that exists behind bars.

They couldn't hurt Aaron anymore, but he couldn't move on. He lingered, watching over the weak, visiting his mourning family. There would always be victims; Aaron knew this. As long as the gym teachers and cafeteria monitors conveniently turned their backs on what they were well aware of was happening; the abuse of the vulnerable would never end.

Born behind the Iron Curtain in 1955, Thomas Schardt had very little say in how his life would be. The government dictated his every move with little resistance from Thomas or his family: work, home, career, and schooling were all in the hands of the East German republic. As Thomas developed from a boy into a man his discontent grew as well. Was his future to be a tiny insignificant cog in the giant wheel of the overbearing Communist machine? Little by little, Thomas took control of his own destiny. In the face of threatening government officials, the scorn of his family, his own crippling self-doubt and the sexual and emotional abuse of his lover, Klaus, Thomas escaped a harrowing relationship and fought his way to a dream career and a life of personal freedom. Against the backdrop of war, poverty, the gay sexual revolution and the terrifying onset of the AIDS epidemic, Thomas Schardt tells a coming-of-age story that you'll never forget.

Russell Buker recently retired from Shead High School where he taught English and Creative Writing. He has also coached for many years: football, baseball, basketball and tennis. Russell has had numerous poems accepted in many publications in the U.S. and in Canada: The Antigonish Review, The Windrow Anthology, The Cape Breton Collection, Pottersfield Press, Goose River Anthology, Portland Press Poetry Section, The Aurorean, Felt Sun, and The Aputamkan Review. Russell has also served on the board of editors and written book reviews for Off the Coast Review. He can be reached at: rbuker39@hotmail.com

It's a "pun" time in the ocean in this inventive, colorful UNDERSEA ADVENTURE for young explorers.