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Still I Miss You

Ines Pedrosa · Amazon Crossing
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of In Your Hands comes a heartrending novel about the struggle to hold on to what you've lost, and knowing when it's time to let go.In this keenly observant dissection of a love affair in limbo, award-winning author Inês Pedrosa masterfully draws readers...
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Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners, Third Edition

Torres-Gouzerh, Robin · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Get the expert instruction and practice needed to take your English skills to the next level!Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners helps you take your English grammar skills to a higher level and gives you the confidence to speak and write in your new language....
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La Commedia Sotterranea della Macchina da Scrivere : a first folio from the Typewriter Underground (Collection of Swizzle Felt)

Marc Zegans; Eric Edelman · Pelekinesis
Pages: 76
Format: Paperback

"Verse fragments and collages describing and illustrating the life of the Typewriter Underground, an imaginary collective"--
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Voces Sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth

Latin American Youth Center Writers · Shout Mouse Press, Inc.
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback

During a time of heated immigration debate and unrest, this book is an opportunity to hear directly from youth who are often in the headlines but whose stories don't get told in full. Sixteen young people from the Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) in Washington, D.C. came together...
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

McCulloch, Gretchen · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured...
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Translation and the Untranslatable: Paragraph Volume 38, Number 2

Michael Syrotinski · Edinburgh University Press
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Founded in 1983, Paragraph is a leading journal in modern critical theory. It publishes essays and review articles in English which explore critical theory in general and its application to literature, other arts and society. This special issue of Paragraph is the first sustained criticalreflection...
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A Reference Grammar of Chinese

Chu-Ren Huang · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 611
Format: Paperback

A Reference Grammar of Chinese is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the linguistic structure of Chinese, covering all of the important linguistic features of the language and incorporating insights gained from research in Chinese linguistics over the past thirty years. With contributions...
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Un nuevo hogar

de Regil, Tania · Candlewick
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

As a girl in Mexico City and a boy in New York ponder moving to each other's locale, it becomes clear that the two cities - and the two children - are more alike than they might think.But I'm not sure I want to leave my home.I'm going to miss so much.Moving to a new city...
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Lola quiere un gato

Anna McQuinn · Charlesbridge
Pages: 28
Format: Hardcover

¡Ahora disponible en español! Lola, la famosa amante de los libros, vuelve a aparecer con mascota en la quinta aventura de la serie Lola lee.Su mamá le explica que un gato da mucho trabajo, entonces Lola practica cuidando a sus gatitos de juguete y leyendo muchos libros sobre gatos....
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The Illustrated Dictionary of Snark: A Snide, Sarcastic Guide to Verbal Sparring, Comebacks, Irony, Insults, and Much More

Dorfman, Lawrence · Skyhorse
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

What do Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, H. L. Mencken, Oscar Wilde, Robert Benchley, George Bernard Shaw, Jules Feiffer, Bill Hicks, Bill Maher, Phyllis Diller, Édith Piaf, W. C. Fields, Mark Twain, Voltaire, Charles Bukowski, and countless others have in common? Not a thing, other than...
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