Central Kansas Library System

Dennis Smith worked as a firefighter in the South Bronx of New York City, and the graphic detail and gripping prose of this firefighting classic drives the most important, accomplished, terrifying book ever published on firefighting. With over two million copies in print, this book struck a nerve within the nation when it was first published thirty years ago. Today it gains even greater resonance for those still trying to make sense of the deaths...

In a memoir of growing up in the Bronx during the Depression, the author recalls her father's death in 1939, her family's financial woes, and her mother's creation of a rooming house, bringing in tenants who would change their lives.

Three French hens outwit a hungry Bronx fox and show him the true meaning of Christmas.

This is the story of when I was boy, almost 100 years ago, when fire engines where pulled by horses, boys did not play with girls, kids went to libraries for books there was no TV, you could see a movie for a nickel and everybody wore a hat.