The Fourth of July, or Independence Day, is a special day in the United States. In 1776, the British colonies in North America declared their independence from Great Britain. Some Americans celebrate Independence Day by having cookouts, watching fireworks, and having parades. Other people choose to celebrate by taking a vacation. This book shows some American traditions for the Fourth of July through eye-catching illustrations. Manageable text makes this book perfect for young readers and listeners.

The Fourth of July, or Independence Day, is a special day in the United States. In 1776, the British colonies in North America declared their independence from Great Britain. Some Americans celebrate Independence Day by having cookouts, watching fireworks, and having parades. Other people choose to celebrate by taking a vacation. This book shows some American traditions for the Fourth of July through eye-catching illustrations. Manageable text makes this book perfect for young readers and listeners.

Halloween is an exciting time of year. People decorate their houses and lawns with pumpkins and scary figurines. On the night of Halloween, some kids dress up in costumes and go out trick-or-treating for candy. Other people throw a Halloween party. This fun book shows children some American Halloween traditions through eye-catching illustrations. Age-appropriate language makes this book an easy read for emerging readers and enjoyable for children still in the listening stage.

Christmas is an important Christian holiday, but it has become special to many people all over the world. It's a time when people see their family members and eat special foods. Some people are happy because Christmas has become a time of year when people give their time, money, or gifts to others. This book explores why people love Christmas. Brightly colored illustrations and manageable text make this book perfect for young listeners and emerging readers alike.

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.

The Fourth of July, or Independence Day, is a special day in the United States. In 1776, the British colonies in North America declared their independence from Great Britain. Some Americans celebrate Independence Day by having cookouts, watching fireworks, and having parades. Other people choose to celebrate by taking a vacation. This book shows some American traditions for the Fourth of July through eye-catching illustrations. Manageable text makes this book perfect for young readers and listeners.

The Fourth of July, or Independence Day, is a special day in the United States. In 1776, the British colonies in North America declared their independence from Great Britain. Some Americans celebrate Independence Day by having cookouts, watching fireworks, and having parades. Other people choose to celebrate by taking a vacation. This book shows some American traditions for the Fourth of July through eye-catching illustrations. Manageable text makes this book perfect for young readers and listeners.

For fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection. Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Just as he fears that the end is near, a young woman peers down at him, this fateful encounter changing their lives forever. So begins the first story in She and Her Cat, a collection of four interrelated, stream-of-conscious short stories in which four women and their feline companions explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication. With clever narration alternating between the cats and their owners, She and Her Cat offers a unique and sly commentary on human foibles and our desire for connection. A whimsical short story anthology unlike any other, it effortlessly demonstrates that even in our darkest, most lonesome moments, we are still united to this wonderous world—often in ways we could never have expected.

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pèrez and Norma Cantú. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experiences growing up near the U.S./Mexico border, BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remaps our understanding of borders as psychic, social, and cultural terrains that we inhabit and that inhabit us all. Drawing heavily on archival research and a comprehensive literature review while contextualizing the book within her theories and writings before and after its 1987 publication, this critical edition elucidates Anzaldúa's complex composition process and its centrality in the development of her philosophy. It opens with two introductory studies; offers a corrected text, explanatory footnotes, translations, and four archival appendices; and closes with an updated bibliography of Anzaldúa's works, an extensive scholarly bibliography on Borderlands, a brief biography, and a short discussion of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Papers. "Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pèrez's meticulous archival work and Norma Elia Cantú's life experience and expertise converge to offer a stunning resource for Anzaldúa scholars; for writers, artists, and activists inspired by her work; and for everyone. Hereafter, no study of Borderlands will be complete without this beautiful, essential reference."--Paola Bacchetta

This inspired novel, Christopher Unborn, is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel. A playfully savage masterpiece by Carlos Fuentes.