Stories from El Barrio, Paperback - Piri Thomas

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Piri ThomasIn this collection of short stories, Piri Thomas (author of the bestselling autobiography, Down These Mean Stree...

Contributor(s): Author: Philippe BourgoisPhilippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical accla...

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Reducere. Society is rife with inspirational teachers who have taken on seemingly insurmountable challenges and wrestled victory from the jaws of defeat. Suc...

The stories and poems in my book tell of my life growing up in a small Mexican barrio, or neighborhood, in Modesto, California, during the 1940s, 1...

Reducere. Black Boy from the Barrio is a series of books about Cornelius "Neo" Wright. It's an ongoing saga about an African American man who is living two d...

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HOME AGAIN tells twelve moving tales of homecoming, centred around VE Day. With a foreword by Forces Sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn. Produced in partner...

Foreign Cinema opened its doors in 1999 in the Mission District of San Francisco, pioneers in transforming the neighborhood into a culinary destina...

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Reducere. Written one hundred years ago, this collection of rich tales follows the lives of six young children living in rural Maine after the Civil War. "So...

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Reducere. Open this book to all the joys and troubles, the triumphs and disappointments, of being an American girl. Here is the chance to read selections fro...

Publisher: Angel City Press, U.S.Author(s): Benno HerzIllustration(s): 4/c illustrations t/oNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 2...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen a contemporary writer turns her imagination loose inside the images of an iconicartist of the past, the result is storytelling magi...

Reducere. Manhattan medium Thomas John has been hailed as "the Hollywood psychic with the highest batting average" by The Hollywood Reporter, and as a psychi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The forty prayers in this book were originally inspired by the Munajat -- "whispered prayers, " or "intimate conversations with God" -- of the 12th...

Reducere. No una ni dos, sino que fueron diez las veces que el Senor se le presento a Choo Thomas en un mes, y la llevo a un viaje impresionante. He aqui una...

Reducere. Award-winning picture-book author Tony Johnston presents the poignant story of a loving Mexican-American family in East L.A. in her first novel for...

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Reducere. This anthology, first published in 2000, explores EL Education's roots in the educational philosophy of Kurt Hahn. Hahn, the founder of Outward Bou...

Este encantadora historia, para ni os de 4 a 8 a os, sigue las aventuras del h roe, El Ni o, mientras huye de los ruidos y del ajetreo de la vida, ...

When Marcia and David Pirie abandoned their careers and sailed off in their home-built ketch Moongazer, They embarked on a journey that took them a...

When Marcia and David Pirie abandoned their careers and sailed off in their home-built ketch Moongazer, They embarked on a journey that took them a...

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Pavitte combines the fun of connect-the-dots with the thrill of the best comic book characters. Get ready to draw 19 Marvel super...

Reducere. These brief Bible stories allow parents to spend precious time with their little ones before bedtime, naps, or meals. With their to-the-point wordi...

Reducere. This book is a requiem. The original title of this book was The World Is a Barrio. The idea was to pay homage to the band, WAR. The song, "The Worl...

Atunci cand o pisica iti iese in cale si nu se mai dezlipeste de tine, de parca te-ar fi ales dinadins, cu siguranta incearca sa-ti arate un alt dr...

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For the first time ever, fans of Minecraft and the hit series Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior can enjoy these fun and fully illustrated graphic novels. T...

Grab your pickaxes and jump back into the action in this second installment of the Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior graphic novel series. The pixelated ad...

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Reducere. Piri Fibel- Einstiegskapitel zum Umgang mit der Schreibtabelle und der Silbenmethode- 6 nachfolgende Kapitel mit gleichbleibender Struktur: Kapitel...

Reducere. HOW HAD MRS. OLINSKI CHOSEN her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But were any of them true? How had she really chosen N...

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Reducere. Every firefighter who has served a career in a professional department has stories. These stories are personal to me. The first 12 are those storie...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The day Angela Thomas sold the only thing she had, the diamond from her engagement ring, to take care of her kids was the day she began to believe ...

Reducere. In Sport Shorts, meet three different student athletes struggling to navigate their busy lives and reach their individual goals while dealing with ...

An imaginative means of looking at the city of Barcelona and its modern history from a new perspective; a series of drawings injected within the te...