Johnson, Dirk, Meth: America's Home-Cooked Menace, Hazelden, 2005.

Johnson provides an overview of the social, environmental, and personal impact of methamphetamine on the United States.

Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island, Signet Classics, 1998, originally published in 1883.

Both a classic among coming-of-age stories and pirate yarns, Stevenson's Treasure Island features a map on which "X" marks the spot, a one-legged pirate, and a talking parrot in a teenage boy's high-stakes and perilous adventure that takes him far from home.

Talbot, Kay, What Forever Means After the Death of a Child; Transcending the Trauma, Living with the Loss, Brunner-Routledge, 2002.

This guide offers advice to parents suffering such a loss and the people who support them.

The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs, edited by Joseph M. Flora, et. al., Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

This reference includes more than five hundred entries to explain Southern history...