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Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Learn all about the history and cultural significance that the exciting Taiwan Lantern Festival event holds around the world today. This title is complete with historical and modern illustrations and photographs, as well as a glossary and a look at the Chinese Zodiac.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"The country girls are Caithleen "Kate" Brady and Bridget "Baba" Brennan, and their story begins in the repressive atmosphere of a small village in the west of Ireland in the years following World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a survivor. Setting out to conquer the bright lights of Dublin, they are rewarded with comical miscommunications, furtive liaisons, bad faith, bad luck, bad sex, and compromise; marrying for the wrong...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When etiquette coach Ms. Picklepop teeters off her stool and spills a bucket of paint, a creature emerges. Not a scary one, or an evil one, or anything of the sort. Instead, what comes alive is ... BLURP! She'll have to carry on with her lesson, despite Blurp's many, messy distractions. But paint splotches and burps aren't all that disrupt Ms. Picklepop's decorous class. Perhaps through an unlikely friendship, Ms. Picklepop will learn a thing or...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is capable of anything and impossible to resist. He's a clear-eyed romantic, an aesthete but not a snob, self-indulgent yet wildly generous. As the son of one of the country's most powerful and deeply conservative families, the world could be his. But when he falls for Nate Reminger, an aspiring writer from a nice Jewish family in Piscataway, New Jersey, the results are passionate and catastrophic....
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
¡Ya casi es Navidad! Epoca de regocijo en compania de nuestros seres queridos. Este enriquecedor y detallado libro present las tradiciones navidenas de 13 paises del mundo.
Explore Christmas traditions from 13 different countries! Rhyming text and detailed illustrations make the book accessible to younger readers, while educational endnotes about the 13 celebrations add interest for older children.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When her husband's unexpected death bestows his fortune on a male heir, Sylvia tries to marry her daughter off to a wealthy husband to maintain their lifestyle, but is stopped by her mother-in-law, who wants more for her granddaughter.
10) Naming ceremony
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is time for her baby sister's naming ceremony, and Amira has a name picked out, but as friends and family pronounce the names they have brought, Amira starts to wonder if her chosen name is really the blessing she thought it was. Includes a note about West African tradition of the naming ceremony.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life. Many communal educators and rabbis contended that without educational interventions, Judaism as they understood it would disappear altogether. They pinned their hopes on residential summer camps...
Publisher
Montena
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Estás preparado para un viaje a través de la historia del ser humano? Descubre nuestra apasionante evolución con la increíble Enciclopedia Britannica, la enciclopedia más reconocida y rigurosa del mundo. ¿Sabías que los humanos y los chimpancés venimos del mismo antepasado? ¿O que no todas las personas tenemos el mismo número de huesos? ¿Y que podemos ver hasta 10 millones de colores? Curiosidades, datos interesantísimos, imágenes...
14) The swamp
Author
Series
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
April 2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most influential and acclaimed practitioners of literary comics in Japan. The Swamp collects work from his early years, showing a major talent coming into his own. Bucking the tradition of mystery and adventure stories, Tsuge's fiction focused on the lives of the citizens of Japan. These mesmerizing comics, like those of his contemporary Yoshihiro Tatsumi, reveal a gritty, at times desperate postwar Japan, while displaying...
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