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Baby Sign Language: More than 150 Signs Baby Can Use and Understand

Diane Ryan - Alpha; Repacking of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Baby Sign Language, 2E edition
Format: Paperback

Your baby has many wants and needs. Some you can figure out. Others need a little more patience. While your baby learns to make their requests verbally, you can teach them gestures and signs that will help bridge the gap of understanding. Baby Sign Language offers the tools and techniques...
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6-Language Visual Dictionary

Editors of Thunder Bay Press - Thunder Bay Press
Format: Flexibound

Broaden your language skills with this easy-to-use multilingual illustrated dictionary.. The 6-Language Visual Dictionary offers you an efficient way to learn and memorize thousands of terms common in six widely spoken European languages. This highly illustrated compendium is divided thematically...
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Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them

Raphel, Adrienne - PENGUIN PR

A delightful, erudite, and immersive exploration of the crossword puzzle and its fascinating history from a brilliant young writer

The crossword is a feature of the modern world, inspiring daily devotion and obsession from not just everyday citizens looking to pass the time but icons...

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Promises of Gold

José Olivarez - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love -- self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural -- is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on.. Love is at the heart of everything we do, and yet it is often...
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Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six

Maya Payne Smart - Avery
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning journalist and literacy advocate provides a clear, step-by-step guide to helping your child thrive as a reader and a learner.When her child went off to school, Maya Smart was shocked to discover that a good education in America is a long shot, in ways that few parents fully...
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Writing in the Dark

Tim Waggoner - Guide Dog Books
Format: Paperback

In this comprehensive textbook devoted to the craft of writing horror fiction, award-winning author Tim Waggoner draws on thirty years' experience as a writer and teacher. Writing in the Dark offers advice, guidance, and insights on how to compose horror stories and novels that are original,...
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

Silvia Ferrara - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Silvia Ferrara's The Greatest Invention is a code-cracking tour around the globe, sifting through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention -- writing.The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair's...
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The Word Gobblers: A Handbook for Parents Working With Children Struggling to Read

Catherine Matthias - Square One
Format: Paperback

Millions of children and adults around the world cope with reading, writing, or depth perception problems, such as dyslexia. For one in every six, this problem is a result of a condition called Irlen Syndrome--the inability of the brain to process certain light waves or colors. Symptoms...
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Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems

Ntozake Shange - Atria / 37 INK
Format: Hardcover

From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and celebrated Broadway play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, comes an evocative and moving bilingual collection of new and beloved poems.In this stirring collection of more than...
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To the Boy Who Was Night: Poems: Selected and New

Rigoberto González - Four Way Books
Format: Paperback

The capstone of a quarter-century career in poetry, To the Boy Who Was Night collects the poetry published by Rigoberto González since 1999, including selections from five previous books as well as new work. Mirroring González's personal trajectory, the arc of this work articulates...
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