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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
Language
English
Description
Created by an unparalleled board of experts led by renowned ASL linguist and poet Clayton Valli, The Gallaudet Dictionary of American Sign Language contains over 3,000 illustrations. Each sign illustration, including depictions of fingerspelling when appropriate, incorporates a complete list of English synonyms. A full, alphabetized English index enables users to cross-reference words and signs throughout the entire volume. The comprehensive introduction...
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful...
Author
Language
English
Description
From classic poetry to pop lyrics, from Charles Dickens to Dolly Parton, even from Jesus to James Bond, Mark Forsyth explains the secrets that make a phrase--such as "O Captain! My Captain!" or "To be or not to be"--Memorable. In his inimitably entertaining and wonderfully witty style, he takes apart famous phrases and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare or quip like Oscar Wilde. Whether you're aiming to achieve literary immortality or just...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Victoria Jones starts working for a florist, she realizes her talent with flowers helps her change the lives of the people who buy her creations. But when she must confront her painful past, she has to decide how much she is willing to change.
Series
Language
English
Description
Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
12) Eragon
Author
Series
Inheritance volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
Español
Description
LNo te pierdas la nueva y pica fantasa de Christopher Paolini-Eragon, prximamente 12.5.23! Un joven. Un dragn. Un mundo de aventuras. Eragon es el primer ttulo de la serie de Ciclo Inheritance, que tiene como protagonista a un valiente joven y a su indomable dragona Shapira. En el reino legendario de Alagasia la guerra se est gestando. Los Jinetes protectores de la paz del Imperio y los nicos capaces de controlar a los inteligentes dragones, se han...
13) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Find yourself pretending to work? That's fudgelling. And this could lead to rizzling, if you feel sleepy after lunch. Though you are sure to become a sparkling deipnosopbist by dinner. Just don't get too vinomadefied; a drunk dinner companion is never appreciated. The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour...
17) Gremlins
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy Peltzer's father buys him a new cuddly pet. But heed these three warnings: Don't ever get him wet. Keep him away from bright light. And the most important thing, the one thing you must never forget: no matter how much he cries, no matter how much he begs ... never, never feed him after midnight.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A group of soldiers, scientists, and civilians fleeing an attack find themselves stranded billions of miles from Earth on an ancient ship known as the Destiny. Locked on an unknown course, they must fight to survive and find a way home. Through the danger and adventures, some will become heroes, some will become villains, and some won't make it out at all.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An audiobook for anyone who wants to make fewer (not less) grammar mistakes, a lively, effective, and witty guide to all the ins and outs of the English language. The language is changing, literary levels are declining, and our grasp of grammar is at a crisis point. From commas to colons, apostrophes to adverbs, there are countless ways we can make mistakes when writing or speaking. But do not despair! Great Britainb2ss most popular grammar guru...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Multiple
Description
Acompañado de su animada e independiente ex-novia Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), los dos arqueologos se embarcan en una emocionante busqueda para localizar el mistico Arca de Covenant. Indy debera encontrar el Arca antes de que los nazis lo hagan. Para eso tendra que sobrevivir a veneno, trampas, serpientes y traiciones. Explora las mas obscuras selvas de America del Sur, los apresurados mercados del Cairo y una base de submarinos supersecreta....