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5001) Nursery rhymes
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A collection of familiar nursery rhymes. Each rhyme contains a highlighted word that is shown in English, Spanish, and French, along with a pronunciation guide. Suggested activities are also included.
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, "the complex confluence of identities--race, class, gender, and sexuality--systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.""
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Pub. Date
1991
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As a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and trace their movements from London to Yorkshire-and from spiritualist seances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany-an extraordinary counterpoint of passions & ideas emerges. An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives...
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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Explores the truth behind the epic legend of Beowulf, the famous Viking warrior who battled bloodthirsty invaders, barbaric monsters, and a fire-breathing dragon, to emerge as Norse mythology's greatest hero. Features comments from historians and scholars and information about archaeological finds in England, including unearthed burial mounds and anicent carvings, that suggest that the story of Beowulf may be more than just a myth.
5008) Il postino: The postman
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
The life of the fisherman Mario changes dramatically when the famous Chilean writer Pablo Neruda settles on his little Italian island. Living in exile because of his political beliefs, Neruda needs a postman to deliver the huge quantities of mail sent to him by his admirers and Mario takes the job since he hates fishing anyway. The two become friends and Neruda helps the shy and clumsy Mario to win the heart of Beatrice, the beautiful waitress at...