Daily public transit ridership

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Peter Felton

Picking up from where other San Francisco public transit historians have left off, Peter Felton's book gives readers an acute internal perspective as to the routine external operations of the late 20th-, early-21st-century-era San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (or "Muni" as it is more commonly nicknamed). Ranging from vehicular characteristics to urban development above and below ground level, Felton provides intricate details into the life and times of the "average Joe" public transit rider traveling around the City of San Francisco by bus or subway train. With a majority of the information taken strictly from a young lifetime of permanent public custom, Felton colorfully outlines the awe and wonder arising from riding this means of public service day-in-and-day-out, acknowledging realities and comparing-contrasting past, present, and future transit modalities drawn completely from personal experience and observation-yet portrayed entirely on a "general basis." - Amazon.com

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Elizabeth Yates

Man's best friend -- over time, seven of them belong to Tom Wilson. Each comes in its turn with its own gift -- comfort when Tom feels life's deepest wound, purpose when it is time to move ahead. Bre'er: chief consort; Tag: a mystery; Laird: an aristocrat; Dawn: a healer; Victor: take charge; Nell: knows no strangers; Una: the future. - Back cover.

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Emil Ostrovski

Westing is not your typical school. For starters, you have to have one very important quality in order to be admitted you have to be dying. Every student at Westing has been diagnosed with PPV, or the Peter Pan Virus, and no one is expected to live to graduation. What do you do when you go to a high school where no one has a future or any clue how to find meaning in their remaining days?

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Ezekiel Nieto Benzion

When Ezekiel Nieto Benzion's grandfather handed him the journals written by Dr. Judah Halevi, he pleaded, "Before I die, tell me about the men in these books. For 200 years, our family in the old country kept the stories safe. I want to know why." The writer of the journals, Judah Halevi, was a doctor, an engineer, a musician, and a family man, who lived in Bohemia during the Napoleonic Wars. But that was all he chose to say openly. Everything else he buried in codes and puzzles. Then, after years of writing, he hid the journals, hoping that someday the truth would be told. What is the truth? Who was he really? What was the terror that he said "jabbed its bony finger into my heart?" What deeds "stained my soul with blood?" And who was the Hawk who led him both into danger and out of his own terrors? You Shall Know Our Names is the first tale from the Judah Halevi journals. Guided by Judah Halevi's clues, Ezekiel Nieto Benzion traced the tales from an old cemetery in Prague to its glory on a Bohemian farm. By the journey's end, two men separated by two centuries become connected by name, heritage and their dream of a better future.