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Two brothers end up on opposite sides of the law in post-Civil War Texas.

"This important book uses a rainbow of vibrant colors to illustrate how the wide range of emotions we experience can be managed by naming and understanding them as a young boy experiences overwhelming feelings when he's teased by his two older brothers"--

Presents a variety of brothers, some quiet and some wild, some who study bugs and some who eat them, some who look like you and some who do not.

- As the "New York Times puts it, "Sedans is the closest thing the literary world has these days to a rock star."- This immediate #1 hardcover bestseller--currently in its 14th week on the "New York Times list, with nearly 700,000 copies in print--propelled the paperback editions of Sedaris's "Me Talk Pretty One Day and "Naked back onto national bestseller lists.- David Sedaris's hooks have sold more man three million copies and have topped bestseller...

Jas, a girl whose brother's death punctures the routines of her devout farming family. In the vacuum of their parents' own unraveling, Jas and her siblings develop a curiosity about death that leads them into increasingly disturbing rituals and fantasies. "I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin...

In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.

After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.

Once, after a bountiful pumpkin harvest, as four brothers dispose of unneeded seeds, the seeds suddenly go flying with the wind and cover the town below, but the brothers think nothing more about it.

Detective brothers Frank and Joe investigate garden sabotage.

When a big wind blows her annoying little brother away, Flora decides to save him despite the many tempting offers she gets for him from, among others, a cloud, an eagle, the man in the moon, and the wind itself.