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Introduce your bitty babes to their first counting book that not only captures their attention and teaches them counting in two languages, but also celebrates Chinese culture!
"Extremely adorable cut-paper collage illustrations plate up the food, each piece with a cute face and unique expression...This sturdily constructed, irresistible board book is a must-purchase for any library serving a Chinese community."--Booklist, Starred Review
Counting in two languages is so much fun with our dim sum friends!
Dim sum is everyone's favorite late-morning-to-lunchtime meal shared between family and friends. Our counting book utilizes dim sum's little dishes, accompanied by a pot of tea, as the subject for children to practice their counting. Children and adults alike will be delighted to find their favorite snacks included in the book as they turn each page.
Our counting book squeezes in lots of extra learning opportunities and skills, such as encouraging one-to-one correspondence while practicing counting on a numberline, extra fun facts about Chinese language, and a non-fiction page with real-life pictures of dim sum items in the picture glossary.
Parents will adore this eye-catching bilingual Chinese-English read due to its effortless integration of Chinese culture through the introduction of everyone's favorite dim sum dishes. Children will love the vibrant colors and the expressive faces in the artwork which help to make learning so much fun for everyone!
The most widely used introduction to Haitian Creole.
A simple guide to Haitian Creole for English speaking people.
The basic elements of Creole grammar and vocabulary in sixteen easy lessons.
In less than an hour a day the short lessons will have you speaking basic Creole in about a week. You will learn key Creole words, how to pronounce those words, and how to put those words together into useful sentences.
This book is ideal for those who will visit or work in Haiti and desire to communicate with her people.
"Creole Made Easy gets everything right. It's exactly the vocabulary and concepts you need, clearly explained, in just enough depth." -Carlo Diy, HaitiHub.com
An audio pronunciation guide is available separately as MP3 files or a 2 CD set.
Things put underground in New Orleans don't often stay there. Even things that should - like bodies, and secrets.
How do you fight an enemy you can't see that can kill on a whim? In 1820s New Orleans, on the eve of her twenty-first birthday, Zéolie Cheval discovers the mangled body of her father murdered in his bed and a maniacal voice haunting the recesses of her mind. When the priest sent to comfort her is killed while the house is swarming with police, Zéolie becomes entangled in a web of mystery that takes her from the French Quarter, to the Ursuline Convent in the Ninth Ward, and deep into the Louisiana swamps.
Officer Louis Saucier, who is losing his heart to Zéolie and his grip on logical reality, helps her find the pieces to her puzzle. The mother superior of the Ursulines offers assistance from a mediumistic nun and a voodoo priestess, blurring the lines between the spiritual and the supernatural.
After opening the family crypt to find it uninhabited, Zéolie realizes that her father lied about her mother's death - amongst other things. Now, Zéolie must come to terms with magic she inherited from her grandmother and the price that comes with it.
Step inside the magic and mystery of the 1820s French Quarter to see if an unlikely menagerie can help Zéolie take down a murderous maniac while she shields the officer she loves. Can she harness powers she didn't know she had? Or, will she make the ultimate sacrifice?
The crew of a French reconnaissance plane during WW1 consisted of just two men: a pilot and an observer. Two such men are Jean Herbillon and Claude Maury. Herbillon's dreams of glory as an air ace have been dashed after only a few months at the front; Maury suffers from a broken heart--his only hope is that his exploits as a pilot will win back his lost love. Together the two form one of the best crews in the air, fighting in the first aerial conflict in history--one in which a combatant can count his life expectancy in weeks. The pressure of war forges a strong bond between the two flyers, but can it survive the discovery that they are both in love with the same woman? Joseph Kessel's autobiographical novel is a staggering tale of courage, brotherhood and loss.
Todo el mundo en Athena, Misisipi, conoce a Charlie Harris, el amable bibliotecario dueño de un gato llamado Diesel al que pasea con correa. Ha regresado a su ciudad natal para sumergirse en los libros, pero pronto la vida real lo envuelve en una novela de misterio... Godfrey Priest, famoso, arrogante y manipulador autor de bestsellers gore y antiguo compañero de clase de Charlie, aparece muerto. A pesar de los resentimientos Charlie, con la ayuda de Diesel, deciden resolver el misterio de la muerte del desagradable novelista a quien no le faltan enemigos. Everyone in Athena, Mississippi knows Charlie Harris -- the kind librarian who walks his cat on a leash. He has returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but soon real life engulfs him in a mystery novel. Godfrey Priest, a famous, arrogant, and manipulative bestselling author who also happens to be one of Charlie's former classmates, is found dead. Despite Charlie's hard feelings and with the help of his cat, they decide to solve the mystery of the death of the novelist who has no shortage of enemies.
Un hombre regresa al pueblo donde ocurrió un asesinato desconcertante 27 años atrás, con la determinación de descubrir la verdad. Todos parecen estar de acuerdo en que Bayardo San Román, sólo unas horas después de su matrimonio con la bella Angela Vicario, la devuelve por deshonrada a la casa paterna. La atribulada familia fuerza a la novia a revelar el nombre de su primer amante; y los hermanos gemelos de ella anuncian su intención de matar a Santiago Nasar por haber deshonrado a su hermana. Sin embargo, si todos sabían que se iba a cometer un asesinato, por qué nadie trató de impedirlo? Cuanto más se sabe de este asunto, menos se comprende, y cuando la historia al fin se precipita a su inesperada conclusión, una sociedad entera --no sólo un par de asesinos-- está siendo enjuiciada. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers--is put on trial.
In sixteen ferocious short stories, French author Luc Lang encapsulates the brutality of everyday life. Each tale is an admixture of tragedy, comedy, ridicule, and pain. Compassion lurks somewhere, perhaps, but pity is conspicuous by its absence. Lang's curt, agitated prose disassembles daily life with a swift, unflinching hand and examines it with a sharp, analytic eye. Skinning quotidian moments to bare, raw impulses, confusions, and the agonies underneath, the stories in Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor show the mundane grind of the everyday forces that are fueled by cruel calculation and amoral happenstance and shot through with bizarre surprise. The results are at once coldly comic and powerfully tragic. Interpreting human interactions as a series of precise jabs and desperate flailings, Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor tells truths about the darker sides of our potential and our well-meaning urges dimmed by chance. Luc Lang is an award-winning French author of many works, including Voyage sur la ligne d'horizon; Furies; and Les Indiens. He has also published the startling autobiographical work 11 septembre mon amour. He teaches aesthetics at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris et Cergy. Donald Nicholson-Smith has translated noir or noirish fiction by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Thierry Jonquet, and, with Alyson Waters, Yasmina Khadra's Cousin K (Nebraska, 2013). Born in Manchester, England, he is a longtime resident of New York City.
Este animado libro bilingüe proporcionará una lectura en voz alta encantadora para los pequeños de gran imaginación. Si es la noche antes de Halloween y tus padres contratan una nueva niñera que viste un sombrero negro mientra ríe como un cuervo...¡debe tratarse de una bruja! Y de seguro, tú eres su nueva víctima. Pero sé valiente. No temas. Después de todo, tienes algunos trucos bajo la manga. Y sabes muy bien cómo lidiar con brujas. Se necesitará más que eso para arruinar la mejor noche de tu vida. Este divertido y rítmico relato es perfecto para niños que se deleitan en lo fantástico y que saben que las brujas--¡y la magia!--son reales.
A humorous and heartwarming middle-grade graphic memoir about fitting in, facing bullies, and finding the right pair of glasses.El sexto grado no es tan genial como Rex pensó que sería. Es el único chico que no ha dado el estirón, y los abusones se lo recordarán a cada instante. Ya no puede confiar en su mejor amigo, y no puede dejar de pensar en una linda chica de su clase, que es posible esté interesada en él. Con tantas cosas sucediendo, a Rex todo le resulta borroso, ¡hasta su visión! Entonces descubre que necesita usar gafas, y su familia solo puede comprarle el par más feo de la tienda. Cualquier esperanza que Rex tuviera de encajar se desvanece por completo.En esta historia real sobre la adolescencia, Rex tiene la vista puesta en sobrevivir el sexto grado, pero ahora tiene que encontrar la manera de hacerlo con gafas, sin amigos y con una familia que simplemente no lo entiende.Sixth grade isn't as great as Rex thought it would be. He's the only kid who hasn't had a growth spurt, and the bullies won't let him forget it. His closest friend is unreliable, at best. And there's a cute girl in his class who he can't stop thinking about. With so much going on, everything is a blur -- including Rex's vision! So when he discovers that he needs glasses, and his family can only afford the ugliest pair in the store, any hope Rex had of fitting in goes completely out of focus.In this true coming-of-age story, Rex has his sights set on surviving sixth grade, but now he's got to find a way to do it with glasses, no friends, and a family that just doesn't get it!
Los cuentos de Bolaño condensan en el breve espacio que caracteriza las obras del género todo su universo literario, uno de los más rupturistas y personales de la literatura contemporánea en español: la literatura que lo impregna todo; la sexualidad; las vidas de seres que pese a ser comunes, transcurren entre lo cotidiano y lo extraordinario; la rebeldía de aquellos que viven en la estrecha frontera que separa el sistema de la marginalidad; el viaje como huida pero también como forma de vida; la necesidad desevelar lo incierto; la juventud; la violencia y las tramas policiales; el arte como obsesión, y la búsqueda continuada de un espacio propio en un lugar ajeno. Pertenencientes a los títulos Putas asesinas, El gaucho insufrible, Llamadas telefónicas y El secreto del mal, y escritas durante toda su vida, las piezas narrativas que componen este libro se enriquecen y adquieren un significado diferente en el diálogo que establecen entre ellas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In the brief space of his short stories, Bolaño manages to condense his entire literary universe, one of the most disruptive and personal of contemporary Spanish literature: the literature that permeates everything; sexuality; the lives of characters that despite being common, live amongst the everyday and the extraordinary; the rebellion of those who live on the narrow border that separates the system from marginality; travel as an escape but also as a way of life; the need to reveal the uncertain; youth; violence and police plots; art as an obsession, and the continued search for one's own space in a foreign place. Belonging to the collections: Murdering Whores, The Insufferable Gaucho, Last Evenings on Earth, and The Secret of Evil, the pieces that make up this book become more enriched and acquire a different meaning as they establish a dialogue amongst them.
Cuentos de buenas noches para niñas rebeldes reinventa los cuentos de hadas. Elizabeth I, Coco Chanel, Marie Curie, Frida Kahlo, Serena Williams y otras mujeres extraordinarias narran la aventura de su vida, inspirando a niñas ―y no tan niñas― a soñar en grande y alcanzar sus sueños; además, cuenta con las magníficas ilustraciones de sesenta mujeres artistas de todos los rincones del planeta. Un libro que debe estar en la mesa de noche de todas las niñas o mujeres jóvenes que conozcas. --Geri Stengel, Forbes Estos cuentos para antes de dormir no son protagonizados por princesas, sino por mujeres que cambiaron el mundo. --Taylor Pittman, The Huffington Post Cuentos de buenas noches para niñas rebeldes es una colección de historias protagonizadas por «princesas» reales de los más diversos entornos y épocas.
Para todos aquellos que siguen siendo niños aunque los adultos les obliguen a disimularlo. «DURANTE ESTOS años los lectores me habéis dado tanto que me sentía en deuda con vosotros. Por eso he decidido yo también entregaros una parte de mí. Estos textos que os traigo han modelado de alguna manera mi forma de ser. Son pequeños cuentos, ya casi perdidos, de grandes autores que he decidido adaptar a los tiempos que corren. He modificado personajes, situaciones, el lenguaje... pero la esencia sigue siendo la misma: esa que nos ayuda a entender el mundo.» Eloy Moreno ENGLISH DESCRIPTION For all those who still have an inner child but adults force them to hide it. "Through these years, you readers have given me so much that I felt indebted to you. That is why I have decided to also give you a part of me. These texts that I now offer here have somehow modeled my way of life. They are short stories, almost forgotten, of great authors that I have decided to adapt to the times in which we live. I have modified characters, situations, language ... but the essence remains the same: that which helps us understand the world." -Eloy Moreno
Encore aujourd'hui, il m'est difficile d'expliquer comment notre relation s'est developpee si rapidement, et de quelle maniere L. a pu, en l'espace de quelques mois, occuper une place dans ma vie.
L. exercait sur moi une veritable fascination.
L. m'etonnait, m'amusait, m'intriguait. M'intimidait. (...) L. exercait sur moi une douce emprise, intime et troublante, dont j'ignorais la cause et la portee.
D. de V.
Une autofiction prenant progressivement des allures de thriller, explorant l'ambivalence entre la fidelite aux faits et l'invention, dans une atmosphere oppressante. Raphaelle Leyris, Le Monde des livres.
Delphine de Vigan joue de la porosite des frontieres qui separent le reel et la fiction avec une conviction qui donne par instants le vertige. Nathalie Crom, Telerama.
Une oeuvre d'une puissance emotionnelle infinie. Christine Ferniot, Lire.
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L. exercait sur moi une veritable fascination.
L. m'etonnait, m'amusait, m'intriguait. M'intimidait. (...) L. exercait sur moi une douce emprise, intime et troublante, dont j'ignorais la cause et la portee.
D. de V.
Une autofiction prenant progressivement des allures de thriller, explorant l'ambivalence entre la fidelite aux faits et l'invention, dans une atmosphere oppressante. Raphaelle Leyris, Le Monde des livres.
Delphine de Vigan joue de la porosite des frontieres qui separent le reel et la fiction avec une conviction qui donne par instants le vertige. Nathalie Crom, Telerama.
Une oeuvre d'une puissance emotionnelle infinie. Christine Ferniot, Lire.
Prix Renaudot
Prix Goncourt des lyceens
