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Labeled illustrations of scenes of family life offer the Spanish equivalents for the names of familiar items.

Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.

Un mundo feliz es un clásico de la literatura de este siglo. Con ironía mordiente, el genial autor inglés plasma una sombría metáfora sobre el futuro, muchas de cuyas previsiones se han materializado, acelerada e inquietantemente, en los últimos años. La novela describe un mundo en el que finalmente se han cumplido los peores vaticinios: triunfan los dioses del consumo y la comodidad, y el orbe se organiza en diez zonas en apariencia seguras...

After years of wondering about his father's terrifying nightmares and strange tattoo, seventeen-year-old Tomaas discovers that Papi was not only deported as a child, he is a World War II veteran and Holocaust survivor. Includes facts about Anthony Acevedo, the first Mexican American to register as a concentration camp survivor, on whose life the story is based. "All his life, young Tomás overheard and was terrified by his father's nightmares, but...

Basics of chess for children.

This eBook offers targeted GED test practice in Spanish for all sections of the completely redesigned test. It features thorough practice for current question types as well as detailed answer explanations.

Originally published in an anthology collection called "Night Visions", this long novella was the basis for the film "Hellraiser". Considered by many Barker fans to be among his best, the story introduces Pinhead, the leader of a group of hell-spawned demons called Cenobites, as he (it?) tries to secure the soul of Uncle Frank, who foolishly thought that he could arrive at the gateway to ultimate pleasure without traveling a path of grisly torture...

Everyone in second grade seems set on breaking a world record and friends Ivy and Bean are no exception, deciding to become the youngest people ever to discover a dinosaur skeleton.