Someday, we hope to have a lending library set up at the Community Bridges office, but for now, you can find these books at most public libraries and commercial book sellers, including the following local independent bookstores.

In Warner:
Main Street BookEnds-16 E. Main Street
Tel: 603/456-2700
email: bookends@conknet.com
web: www.mainstreetbookends.com

In New London:
Morgan Hill Bookstore-170 Main Street
Tel: 603/526-5850

In Concord:
Gibson's Bookstore-27 South Main Street
Tel: 603/224-0562
web: www.gibsonsbookstore.com
email: gibsons@totalnetnh.net

Title Index:
All My Life's a Circle
Changes in Latitude/Attitude
The Careless Society
From Behind the Piano
What's Really Worth Doing And How to Do It
Safe and Secure
WHO CARES? Rediscovering Community
We're People First
Circles of Friends
A Good Life
Building Communities from the Inside Out
PATH: Planning Positive Possible Futures
Learning to Listen
It's OK To Be Different
Lost In a Desert Worldaudio-tape
Lost in a Desert World

By M. Falvey, M. Forest, J. Pearpoint and R. Rosenberg
Inclusion Press-110 pages, paperback
ISBN 1-895418-26-7

This popular book captures the essence and spirit of three creative and exciting tools used by many schools and organizations who want to build innovative and quality education or human service systems that truly meet the needs of the people being served. The book gives a glimpse of the three tools: Circles, Maps and PATH, and outlines the key points for each. Stories and graphics illustrate the text and add depth to the tools described.
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Changes in Latitude/Attitude

By Carol Tashie, Susan Shapiro-Barnard, Ann Donoghue Dillon, Mary Schuh, Cheryl Jorgenson, Jan Nisbet. Photographs by Gary Samson
Institute on Disability, NH

As schools work to include all students in regular education classes, and the doors of special education classrooms close, a new professional role emerges...the role of the inclusion facilitator. The purpose of this book is to provide guidance to inclusion facilitators. Each chapter includes anecdotal stories, discussion and strategies. There are pages on strategies for advocating for inclusion, for facilitating family involvement, for facilitating peer supports and friendships, for modifying curriculum, for collaboration and for coordinating supports. This short book of 50 pages, reflecting the experience and wisdom of many inclusion facilitators in New Hampshire, is chock full of both information and inspiring photos.

Audience: Anyone in the role of being an inclusion facilitator. Families who want to help their school systems. Every elementary and middle school.
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The Careless Society; Community and its Counterfeits

By John McKnight
Published by Basic Books. (194 pages)

A remarkable collection of essays by John McKnight that provoke us to think - and act to rebuild our communities now! This is a must read for all John McKnight fans. The chapters of the book were written over the last two decades (l974-94) when human service systems overwhelmed communities. Four counterfeiting aspects of society are analyzed: professionalism, medicine, human service systems, and the criminal justice system. The last two sections are on authentic citizenship and communities of care. This book of essays will provoke you to think and reflect. It is a book that celebrates the ability of neighborhoods to heal themselves from within. McKnight shows how competent communities have become colonized and invaded by professional services, often with devastating results. McKnight's belief is that the basis for resolving many of today's social problems lies in the capacity of every community, the gifts of the local citizens. Whether you agree or disagree, it is an excellent and thought provoking book.

Audience: Anyone interested in the world in which we live, and particularly in the social issues that face communities, schools, workplaces, and human service organizations.
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From Behind the Piano
by Jack Pearpoint
and
What's Really Worth Doing And How to Do It
by Judith Snow

From Behind the Piano: Building Judith Snow's Unique Circle of Friends by Jack Pearpoint; afterword: John O'Brien This is the story of Judith Snow & her Joshua committee, and how love, determination and hard work conquer challenges. An inspiration for anyone struggling to make a difference, this 136 page book (in the first edition) has become one of our best sellers (15,000 copies). It is used around the world, and is a textbook in many human service programs. It is used by high schools teachers, college professors and as a great human interest story. The book details the personal story of helping Judith Snow move out of an institution and into the community. In the process, a circle of support was born that not only helped Judith, but changed the lives of all involved. The message is powerful and simple: none of us can deal with a crisis alone. The book explains the formation of the "Joshua Committee" as Judith Snow named her Circle of Support. John O'Brien's ten page afterward is a brilliant essay about the message of hope embedded in the book.

Audience: Human service organizations, families, advocacy networks and anyone interested in understanding the depth of building circles of friendship or circles of support. Used by courses in high schools and universities in social science, social work, human relations and human service. The book is a good read for anyone interested in courageous people working together for change. It's a must for families, and an inspiration for people with disabilities attempting to get out of any kind of institutional setting.
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By Etmanski, Al with Jack Collins and Vickie Cammack
Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN)
104-3790 Canada Way, Burnaby, B.C. V5G 1G4
Tel: 604-439-9566 Fax: 604-439-7001

Safe and Secure presents a clear alternative to formal, professional and legal solutions to the concerns of families who have loved ones with a disability. It leads us on a journey toward security. It is a wonderful roadmap of the essential stopsfriends, families and neighbors.
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WHO CARES? Rediscovering Community

By David B. Schwartz
Westview Press, 5500 Central Avenue
Boulder, CO 80301-2877 (1997)
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We're People FirstA Celebration of Diversitybook and CD

By Jeff Moyer
Music from the Heart
670 Radford Drive
Cleveland, OH 44143-1905

Tel: 216-442-2779
Fax 216-449-4652
E-Mail: moyerjj@aol.com
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Circles of Friends

By Robert Perske, illustrated by Martha Perske
94 pages, softcover from Abingdon Press
(ISBN 0-687-08390-7)

In this warm, sensitive collection, Robert and Martha Perske offer true stories and issues to ponder concerning Circles of Friendsfriendships between people with disabilities and so-called normals. They show how these circles cut across age groups, generations, and races, and how the hearts and worldviews of everyone can be enriched. The emphasis here is on pure and simple friendship. Written in 1988, this book is still a fresh bouquet for the millennium.
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A Good Life

By Al Etmanski
328 pages, paperback
www.agoodlife.org

A Good Life is an essential resource for families, friends and caregivers of people with disabilities. It offers a step by step guide to creating a plan for the future which provides for the safety, security and well being of people with disability. It leads the reader to look beyond professional human services when creating a safe and secure future. It is designed to motivate readers to action.
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Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community Assets

by John P. Kretzmann, John L. McKnight
ACTA Publications
ISBN: 087946108X; (March 1997)
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PATH: Planning Positive Possible Futures

by Jack Pearpoint, Marsha Forest and John O'Brien
Inclusion Press

PATH is a creative planning tool that starts in the future and works backwards to an outcome of first (beginning) steps that are possible and positive. It is excellent for team building and has been used to mediate conflicts. It is loved by people who actually want to change the ways we currently work. Groups teaching PATH as a tool will hopefully have a copy for each student.
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Learning to Listen: Positive Approaches and People with Difficult Behavior

By Herbert Lovett, Ph.D.
Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc.

This nontechnical and absorbing text describes how the interactive process of "learning to listen" provides practical alternatives to overly controlling behavior modification techniques. Written for support and other service providers working with people with intellectual disabilities, this book includes compelling and detailed case studies that illustrate possible positive approaches and reveal how people with disabilities can take control of their lives.
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It's OK To Be Different

by Todd Parr
Little, Brown & Company, Boston, New York, London.

A picture book for children.
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Lost In a Desert World: The Autobiography Of Roland Johnson (as told to Karl Williams)audio-tape.

by Karl Williams, Roland Johnson
Speaking For Ourselves
ISBN: 0967225612; (June 25, 1999)

This unabridged version of Roland Johnson's Lost In a Desert World (as told to Karl Williams) includes Roland's voice in the introduction, as well as the speech he gave at the Third International People First Conference in Toronto, (June,1993) ("Who's In Control"). In addition, the appendix, "In Memory Of Roland," offers a recording of Karl Williams' song, "We'll Be Thinking Of You," from the 1998 CD RESPECT: SONGS OF THE SELF-ADVOCACY MOVEMENT by Karl Williams & Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE), which won a place on the Grammy ballot that year.
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Lost in a Desert World: the Autobiography of Roland Johnson (as told to Karl Williams)

Speaking for Ourselves, 1999.

"Roland Johnson has an important story to tell. In writing this truth-telling autobiography, he becomes a powerful witness to the cost of segregation and the hope of community," writes Joseph P. Shapiro, author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. Tia Nelis, Chair of the Board of Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE), writes "Roland is a man who accepted you for who you were. He was a friend to everyone and wanted to help people live their dreams and have control over their lives. It was an honor to have him as my friend."
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