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Read along with Disney! Elsa and Anna are going on a royal tour of the nearby kingdoms! They're exploring the kingdoms of Zaria, Chatho, and even Vakretta. Every time they make a stop someone asks to see Elsa's magical powers, but she's too nervous to show them. Can Anna help Elsa overcome her fears before their royal tour is over? Follow along with word-for-word narration to find out!
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It's Christmas Eve and Mrs. Claus needs help, so she pays a visit to Minnie, Mickey and the rest of the gang. Will Minnie and her friends be able to solve Santa's problem and save Christmas? Follow along with word-for-word narration, actual character voices, plus Mickey, Minnie, Santa and the rest of the gang singing Jingle Bells!
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Read along with Disney! Big Hero 6 features brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San Fransokyo. With the help of his closest companions and a robot named Baymax, Hiro joins forces with a reluctant team of first-time crime fighters on a mission to save their city. Follow along with word-for-word narration to find out if they can save the...
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Join eleven talented writers for a compelling journey through the intricate web of young hearts and complicated relationships. This spellbinding anthology of young adult literature, is a fusion of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction that explores the exciting heights of falling in love, the scorching pain of heartbreak, and the forever fight for identity.
All the Ways a Heart Burns brings together a diverse collection of voices that will...
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Transformative approaches to social work have been popular for some time. Most discussions of this perspective, however, focus on actual practice with clients or service users, not educational contexts. In addition, there is often a lack of clarity about what "transformative" really means, both in theory and in practice.
This book brings together a range of contributors to reconsider transformative social work, focusing on concrete examples in academic...
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Charles R. Kesler, an eminent scholar and prodigious editor, has exerted a profound influence on the study of American politics and the practice of American conservatism.
A precocious high-school student, he impressed a visiting William F. Buckley Jr. who, before becoming a life-long friend, wrote him a recommendation letter to Yale. Kesler asked for another-to Harvard, where he completed his undergraduate degree and earned a PhD under the legendary...
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A Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of the Year
"An embarrassment of riches." -The New York Times
An expansive collection of love letters to books, libraries, and reading, from a wonderfully eclectic array of thinkers and creators.
In these pages, some of today's most wonderful culture-makers-writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers-reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways...
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Read along with Disney! Belle has a new puppy, and the enchanted objects couldn't be happier . . . except for poor Ottoman, that is. Ottoman still remembers being a real dog, and he's jealous of the attention the puppy is getting. But when he runs away into the woods at night, will Belle and her puppy be able to save him before it's too late? Follow along with word for word narration to find out!
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A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America-including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more-with a foreword by Jelani Cobb
This anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision and artistic inspiration. It reaches back across...
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"There's something thrilling about seeing people invent new ways to tell their story. To me, it's proof that the art form of comics is healthy: it lives and grows and reinvents itself. It's alive!"
–Roz Chast, from the Introduction
FEATURING Lynda Barry, Kate Beaton, Cece Bell, Geneviève Elverum, Ben Katchor, John Porcellino, Joe Sacco, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Julia Wertz, and others
Roz Chast, guest editor, was born in Brooklyn,...
95) Runaway Rajah
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Read along with Disney! When Aladdin and Jasmine allow their tiger, Rajah, and Abu to join the parade, Rajah goes missing. Follow along with word-for-word narration as Aladdin, Jasmine, and Abu take off on an adventure to bring Rajah back.
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A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.
"Essays are restless literature, trying to find out how things fit together, how we can think about two things at once, how the personal and the public can inform each other, how two overtly dissimilar things share a secret kinship," contends Rebecca Solnit in her introduction. From lost languages and extinct species to life-affirming cosmologies and...
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Follow along with Disney's Moana in this English-Spanish bilingual storybook. Acompaña a Moana, quien navega con el semidiós Maui para salvar a su gente y descubrir quién es en verdad. ¿A dónde llegará Moana?¡ Set sail with Moana as she teams up with the demigod Maui to save her village and find her true calling. How far will Moana go?