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Air is All Around You

Harpercollins Publishers; Franklyn Mansfield Branley; John O'Brien

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2006, Hardcover - 2005

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Brand-New Pencils, Brand-New Books

Harpercollins Publishers; Diane Degroat

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2005

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Snakes!

Harpercollins Publishers; Lisa Jo Rudy

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Other editions: Softcover - 2005

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New York, New York!: The Big Apple from a to Z

Harpercollins Publishers; Laura Krauss Melmed; Frane Lessac

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Welcome to New York City, the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, the crossroads of the world! This city has something to offer everyone, from A to Z. Come visit the American Museum of Natural History and see prehistoric Animals, get a Bird's-eye view of the Brooklyn Bridge, and Check out Central Park in this alphabetical tour from best-selling duo Laura Krauss Melmed and Frané Lessac, who brought us Capital! Washington D.C. from A to Z.

Fascinating details about the many neighborhoods and historic places of New York City accompany Melmed's lively, informative verse, and Lessac's vibrant folk-art paintings capture the essence of this unique and rich place that was once called the melting pot of America.

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Two Times The Fun

Harpercollins Publishers; Beverly Cleary

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Jimmy and Janet are twins, but that doesn't mean they are just alike.

When we first meet Jimmy, he wants to dig a real hole. He likes to use a real, grown-up shovel. While he's working, his sister, Janet, pretends to be a bird!She likes to use her imagination. But the twins both like silly jokes, brand- new boots, and talking to Mr. Lemon, the mailman.

As Beverly Cleary writes about Jimmy and Janet's doings, the unique understanding of children that she brings to all of her beloved books is coupled with a keen awareness of duo dynamics that comes from raising twins herself.

Originally published as four separate picture books (The Real Hole, Two Dog Biscuits, The Growing-Up Feet, and Janet's Thingamajigs), these are stories that a Jimmy would like because they are so true-to-life, and that a Janet would love because they are so believable.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2005

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The Giant Surprise: A Narnia Story

Harpercollins Publishers; Hiawyn Oram

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A brand new Narnia adventure based on characters originally featured in C.S. Lewis's The Silver Chair.

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Comparative Guide to American Colleges 16th

Harpercollins Publishers

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Parenting Through Crisis: Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief, and Change

Harpercollins Publishers; Barbara Coloroso

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"Suffering is a natural part of life and we cannot eliminate it. What we can eliminate are the things we do to unnecessarily compound our own suffering, and the things we do to unnecessarily cause others to suffer. . . . When we offer our children our time, our affection, and our sense of optimism, we help them find a way through their own adversity, grief, and sorrow. They learn that they too can take an active part in determining what they will do with what life has handed them."

-- From Parenting Through Crisis

In this companion to her bestselling kids are worth it! parenting educator Barbara Coloroso shows how parents can help children find a way through grief and sorrow during the difficult times of death, illness, divorce, and other upheavals that strike families or others we care about. She offers concrete, compassionate Ideas for supporting children as they navigate the emotional ups and downs that accompany loss, assisting them in developing their own constructive ways of responding to life's challenges.

At the heart of' her approach is what she calls the T.A.0. of Family--time, Affection, and Optimism--coupled with her deep understanding of how people move through grief. Barbara Coloroso's clear answers to difficult questions are illustrated through Uplifting humor and insightful anecdotes from her own experiences as a franciscan nun, mother of' three,, and her thirty years as a parenting educator and leader of workshops and seminars worldwide. With this guide in hand, parents can feel assured that they are parenting with both head and heart, responding with wisdom and love when children need them most.

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Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey

Harpercollins Publishers; Lao Tzu; Stephen Mitchell; Harper Collins; Lao-Tzu

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A lavishly illustrated new edition of the bestselling classic, with ancient Chinese artwork selected by Dr. Stephen Little, Pritzker Curator of Asian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Full color.

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Chirping Crickets, Stage 2

Harpercollins Publishers; Melvin Berger

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Chirrrp, chirrrp, chirrrp -- that's the sound of crickets on a summer evening. A male cricket makes this sound by rubbing his legs against a bumpy vein on his wing. Find out more about crickets, including how they hear with their knees, in this stunningly illustrated introduction to the cricket.

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Pickin' Peas

Harpercollins Publishers; Margaret Read MacDonald; Pat Cummings

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Pickin peas. Land on my knees! sings a pesky rabbit as he merrily eats his way through the pea patch Little Girl has planted. But when Little Girl snatches him up and takes him home to put in a box until pea season is over, the rabbit is soon singing a new tune as he plans his escape. With a nod to Brer Rabbit, Pickin Peas is based on two folktales collected in Alabama and Virginia at the end of the last century. The lively storytelling voice of Margaret Read MacDonald, matched with Pat Cummingss bright, bold pictures, makes this funny battle-of-wits tale perfect to tell out loud, letting everyone share in the fun ofchanting its rhymic refrain!

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1998

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Chirping Crickets: Stage 2

Harpercollins Publishers; Melvin Berger

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A cricket hear with its knees! You have ears on your head, but a cricket doesn't. Behind the knee of each of a cricket's front legs is a tiny hole with a tissue-thin cover. This is the cricket's ear. Read and find out more amazing facts about crickets and learn how they make the chirping sounds, too. Hint: They don't chirp with their mouths!

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I Have Heard of a Land

Harpercollins Publishers; Joyce Carol Thomas

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A National Book Award-winning author draws on family history for this lyrical account of America's little-known past. In the late 1880s, thousands of pioneers, many former slaves, raced to the Oklahoma Territory to stake their claim. "I Have Heard of a Land", a hymn to liberty and unity, commemorates the strength of the African-American pioneers. Full color.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1998

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Farewell Waltz

Harpercollins Publishers; Milan Kundera; Aaron Asher

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"It is hard to imagine anything more chilling and profound than Kunderas apparent lightheartedness."Elizabeth PochodaIN this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central Euroepean spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich Amrican (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an unillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country and his young woman ward.Perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and sheerly entertaining of Milan Kunderas novels, Farewell Waltz poses the most serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us see that the modern world has deprived us even of the right to tragedy.Written in Bohemia in 1969-70, this book was first published (in 1976) in France under the title La valse aux adieux (Farewell Waltz), and later in thirty-four other countries. This beautiful new translation, made from the French text prepared by the novelist himself, fully reflects his own tone and intentions. As such it offers an opportunity for both the discovery and the rediscovery of one of the very best of a great writers works."Kundera remains faithful to this subtle, wily, devious talent for a fiction of `erotic possibilities. "New York Times Book Review"Farewell Waltz shocks. Black humor. Farcical ferocity. Admirably tender portraits of women." Le Point (Paris)"After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul."L'Unit, (Paris)

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Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

Harpercollins Publishers; Shelby Steele

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In "A Dream Deferred", Shelby Steele identifies those who have turned back the clock on racial equality. With his challenging blend of passion and intellectual rigor, he questions the motives of those who promote failure and preach the gospel of black helplessness. His bold and often surprising ideas on such issues as affirmative action, ghetto poverty, and the failure of inner-city schools will set the agenda of the national discussion for many years to come.

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Roadster: How (And Especially Why) a Mechanical Novice Built a Sports Car from a Kit

Harpercollins Publishers; Chris Goodrich

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What does a man do on reaching midlife? Stereo-typically, he buys a red sports car. But that was too pat for Chris Goodrich; he decided to build one instead, hoping to understand a culture generally considered unsuitable for a prep-school, Ivy League graduate. A self-confessed "auto-idiot," he was soon in over his head--but that proved part of the fun, because this immersion in auto mechanics forced Goodrich to can-front new ideas, new people, and new perspectives. In fourteen months it took to build the roadster he learned to appreciate not only how cars work but also the role they have played in shaping American culture--in the evolution of mass production and the reduction of craftsmen to wage slaves, in making the nation almost totally dependent on a machine that seemed to promise freedom.Ultimately, Roadster is a celebration of the automobile, for Goodrich builds a Caterharn Seven. A 1957 Lotus design, its everything a sports car should be and more-noisy, drafty, uncomfortable, and absolutely thrilling. In completing the Seven, and finally driving it, Goodrich finds a completion of his own--a personal connection between theory and practice, the mental and the manual."As antidote to a virulent case of modern anomie, Chris Goodrich decided to build himself a car. The example he chose was a Lotus Seven--perhaps the most charming retro vehicle in history--and he succeeded not only in assembling a worthy roadster but in tossing off along the way a lighthearted look at the history of industrial ideas. I envied him the process of building it almost as much as the car--or the book--he ended up with." --John Jerome, author of Truck: On Rebuilding a Worn-Out Pickup, and Other Post-Technological Adventures When I told my friends I had decided, in my middle thirties, to build by hand a street-legal roadster, many suggested I was too young to be going through a midlife crisis. As time went on, I realized that the comment, intended humorously, held more than a grain of truth. It captured something I was loath to admit: that my working life was much less than I wanted it to be. I had held responsible positions, earned the respect of my peers, made a name for myself in (minor) professional circles ... and yet something was missing. That something? Joy. Of discovery, of open doors, of seeing the world in new ways; of living in the moment; of following your bliss, as mythologist Joseph Campbell put it. Surely you could do the work you loved without succumbing to its incidental baggage? Pursue a career without kowtowing to careerism; grow professionally without being professionalized? I would come across, years later, the perfect diagnosis of my work malaise. "In the beginners mind there are many possibilities," the Zen master Shunryu Suzuki told his students, "but in the expert's there are few." --From Roadster

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