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Frida (English Language Edition)
When her mother was worn out from caring for her five sisters, her father gave her lessons in brushwork and color. When polio kept her bedridden for nine months, drawing saved her from boredom When a bus accident left her in unimaginable agony, her paintings expressed her pain and depression - and eventually, her joys and her loves. Over and over again, Frida Kahlo turned the challenges of her life into art. Now Jonah Winter and Ana Juan have drawn on both the art and the life to create a playful, insightful tribute to one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Viva Frida! .
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Don't Mention Pirates
Scarlet Silver is a little girl who wants to become a pirate—just like her aunt, Long Joan Silver. But there is one rule in the Silver house: Don’t mention pirates. That rule has been in effect ever since the day that bad luck befell Grandma Silver. She was accidentally eaten by a giant shrimp. But Scarlet still wants to be a pirate. What she loves to do best is to go treasure hunting with her treasure detector. Most of the time she doesn’t find anything valuable, but one day she discovers something that looks very much like real gold! The adventure that follows is complemented with color illustrations that are every bit as hilarious as the Silver family’s story..
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Honorable Mention
Now in command of the steamer U.S.S. Hunt, Lt. Peter Wake quickly plunges into action, chasing a strange vessel during a tropical storm off Cuba, confronting death to liberate an escaping slave ship, and encountering the enemy's most powerful ocean warship in Havana's harbor. After the war he tracks down a colony of former Confederates in Puerto Rico..
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Did They Mention the Music?: The Autobiography of Henry Mancini
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Tanuki's Gift
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Coolies (Asian Pacific American Award for Literature. Children's and Young Adult. Honorable Mention (Awards))
When Shek and little Wong journey to America in 1865, they have work! Along with hundreds of other Chinese, the brothers are going to help build a great railroad across the West. But as days grow into months, Shek and Wong endure more than they could have imagined-bleeding hands, blasting dynamite, and treacherous avalanches. For very little pay. Are they being treated this way because of their almond-shaped eyes-because they are coolies? Inspired by actual events in the history of the American railroad, Coolies reveals the harsh truth about life for thousands of Chinese laborers, while it celebrates the love and loyalty between two brothers who were determined not only to survive, but to succeed..
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Don't Mention the Score: A Masochist's History of England's National Football Team
Seldom has the gap between national expectation and actual achievement been so wide as in the case of England's hapless football team..."Don't Mention the Score" is the tragic-comic story of how one small nation tried and failed to dominate world football. Littered with fouls, sendings-off, and more than a handful of off-the-ball incidents, "Don't Mention the Score" is a hilarious and often exasperating journey through England's 135-year history of footballing underachievement. It features a cast of cheating Argentinians, phenomenally boring but metronomically reliable Germans, and dreamily gifted Brazilians - all of them itching to hand out a technical masterclass in one-touch football to the recreation-ground clodhoppers of Olde Englande...In November 1872 England played Scotland in Glasgow in the world's first official international football match. The game ended in a 0-0 draw. Home internationals excepted, England remained haughtily aloof from international football for decades. When they finally deigned to compete in a World Cup they were stuffed one-nil by ...the USA.Four years later, in a match described by one England player as 'like playing people from Outer Space', they were beaten 6-3 by Hungary. In 1966 a Soviet linesman who'd had it in for the Hun ever since he copped a bullet at Stalingrad took pity on England and helped them win the World Cup. But since then it has been downhill all the way. In the rumbustious style of his bestselling "Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps", Simon Briggs charts England football's rare highs and all-too-frequent lows. Embellished with some 75 black-and-white photographs, and incorporating more than 100 of the wittiest and most wounding quotations about footballers past and present, "Don't Mention the Score" is the perfect gift for any football fan, from eighteen to eighty..
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Why Do African Americans Call Themselves the N...Word?: Myths You Believe and Questions You Want to Know About Blacks but Are Afraid to Mention
This book is an effort to promote more cross cultural dialogue between African Americans and other cultures. It also attempts to discourage the use of the N...Word by exploring its history in european and world culture. Approximately 20 questions regarding Black culture,history,and race relations are also covered. The title question being the last one covered. Each chapter begins with a quote on race from a famous member of the white community,followed by a sensitive question on Blacks,then a brief response and ending with written out references. Tips are provided on how to effectively engage in discussions on race,improving race relations, avoiding police harrassment, etc..
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