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If Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »

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Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk

by Marc Parent

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Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets--and his heart--for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR

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ISBN:
9780449912355
Subtitle:
My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
Foreword:
Quindlen, Anna
Foreword:
Quindlen, Anna
Author:
Marc Parent with Anna Quindlen
Afterword:
Parent, Marc
Author:
Parent, Marc
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
Child welfare
Subject:
Social Services & Welfare
Subject:
Social Work
Subject:
Teaching Methods & Materials - Social Science
Subject:
Abused children
Subject:
Social conditions
Subject:
Sociologists
Subject:
Child welfare workers
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
New york (n.y.)
Subject:
Parent, Marc
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
1st Ballantine Books ed.
Series Volume:
79-11 SF.
Publication Date:
January 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
400
Dimensions:
8.28x5.51x.90 in. .70 lbs.
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