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Includes Spanish words or phrases.

Challenges mainstream news stories with comical parodies that share reassuring facts about real risk factors associated with such pop culture favorites as Harry Potter, comic books, and texting.

Examines the history of the city of Timbuktu, or Tombouctou, from its time as a camping site for nomadic Tuaregs through its prominence in the sixteenth century to the current decline it faces.

An "old buckaroo" tells how he became a cowboy, what the work was like in the past, and how this life has changed.

''This Top Five Classics edition of GREAT EXPECTATIONS Includes: • More than 30 black and white and color illustrations • The original ending, included as an addendum at the end of the book • Author biography and bibliography • Introduction GREAT EXPECTATIONS is Charles Dickens's beloved, autobiographical tale of a poor boy haunted by a dark secret and harboring grand hopes for his future as a gentleman. Pip, the story's narrator, takes...

An overview of the country of Germany that includes information on geography, history, government, the economy, people, and lifestyles.

A would-be writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits.

The story of French author Colette, who fought to make her talents known after she found success while being pressured to write novels under her husband's name.