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Brand New Readers - the right books at the right time!Based on what experts know about how children learn to read, Brand New Readers are short, funny stories with words and pictures that help children reading for the very first time succeed - and have fun!Brand New Readers are for children who are just cracking the reading code. Readers ages four to seven can master Brand New Readers immediately - even the first time through. Brand New Readers...

Constructing Early Childhood Science" provides early childhood education students with a comprehensive hands-on guide to science education. This is a contemporary, practical methods text that maintains student involvement as an integral part of the course. More than 100 open-ended activities are offered for children ages 3 to 8, most of which provide references to aid teachers in developing an interdisciplinary approach to instruction. Citing ...

Martin and Archambault evoke the beauty and the mystery, the sounds and the silences of rain. Their marvelous ear for the melodies and rhythms of language, combined with Endicott's spare, almost abstract paintings, creates a lyrical book with haunting power. Full-color illustrations.

A dozen suitably assorted five- or six-year-olds point out different parts of the body, each accompanied by half of a rhymed couplet".--Kirkus Reviews, pointered review.

Now available in paperback, a family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for 100 years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow the Doll Code of Honor. Illustrations.

By the bestselling author of Back Bay, this is a majestic multi-gnerational saga that brings to life the story of Cape Cod, from the landing of the Mayflower to the present. From its highly-charged opening to its shattering conclusion, Cape Cod is a novel as impressive and captivating as the land it portrays.

El mundo de lo paranormal comprende un inmenso abanico de fenómenos inexplicados, desde imágenes o voces de espíritus a la telequinesia, pasando por las visitas de extraterrestres o seres ya míticos como el monstruo del lago Ness o el Yeti.Además de recoger los expedientes X que suscitan más interés, este manual práctico expone las técnicas utilizadas por los más cualificados investigadores de lo paranormal, con numerosos consejos y propuestas...

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This is a timely and compelling account of the three-way, winner-take-all struggle for control of the first one-world government that could be our destiny, from Vatican insider and bestselling author Malachi Martin. "Provocative".-- Kirkus Reviews.

Analysing the rise of cultures of dissident sexuality in Taiwan during the 1990s, this volume approaches the queer sexualities represented in Taiwanese fiction, film and public culture as dynamic formations that combine local knowledge with globalizing discourses on gay and lesbian identity.

William Martin's poetry is inspired by the social, cultural, and religious life of Northumbria, past and present. He builds his world from myth, from Anglo-Saxon literature and art, children's games, ballads, and street songs, as well as, from the history and struggles of pit communities. His poems show both political anger and a wide concern for a society that is losing its common ground, its rituals, and rites of passage.

Acutely observed...charmingly old-fashioned."--"Los Angeles Times In Italian Fever, Valerie Martin redefines the Gothic novel in a compelling tale of one woman's headlong tumble into a mystery, art, and eros. Part romance, part gothic suspense story and wholly entertaining, Italian Fever is the story of the awakening of Lucy Stark, an American pragmatist. Lucy leads a quiet, solitary life working for a best-selling (but remarkably untalented) ...

Selected by Amy Bloom as the winner of the 1995 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction

Maybe the book could better be titled "Along the Road to Perdition I encountered some interesting situations". But, then that just cleans up the title and perhaps misleads the readers.

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This book argues that Confederate soldiers left their posts in significant numbers due largely to the prevalence of poverty on the home front. At the start of the Civil War in 1861, many men in Alabama enthusiastically enlisted. After these husbands, fathers, and brothers--all family breadwinners--marched off to duty, the number of indigent families in the state began to rise dramatically. Inflation, lack of transportation, a drastically decre...

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This collection of 65 art projects for crafty kids features activities that use natural materials, including twigs, vines, pine cones, shells, and much more. Includes simple step-by-step instructions. Full color.

In the years just after the American Revolution, London was the unlikely refuge for thousands of black Americans who had fought for the British in exchange for a promise of freedom, Incomparable World is their story, an unconventional debut novel that follows the adventures of three African-American rogues who have escaped their masters lash only to find themselves once again outcast, but this time on the harsh streets of London's West End.Aft...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...