Dora's Variety


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The setting is a Massachusetts mill town in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor. Events in North Eliot revolve around a small variety store operated by Dora Brennan and her husband. The Brennans have a son, Freddie, from whose 10-11-year-old perspective some of the foibles and more serious transgressions of the adults around him are viewed. In one instance, he accidently views his cousins wife nude on a bed with a man she met only hours before. He manages a stealthy retreat and keeps the discovery to himself. One of the major disappointments of Freddie's young life comes when one of the mills in town sells at auction all of the houses it owns on two streets. Freddie is devastated when his parents have insufficient resources to follow through on plans to buy a building in which to combine




The Annual Big Book of Dora


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Fans of the enormously popular Dora the Explorer will love this new book of games, stories, puzzles, and more. Readers are encouraged to use their imaginations as Dora engages in all sorts of play-along adventures and tries to stop Swiper from swiping! Children will join Dora and Boots, Backpack, Map, and Dora's animal friends as they explore new places through games, puzzles, and stories just like the TV show! Also sprinkled throughout are simple Spanish phrases to learn. This book is packed with a variety of stories and activities, and makes for an educational and entertaining holiday gift for all of Dora's fans.




Dora's Big Book of Stories


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Now Dora fans can enjoy reading their favorite bestsellers all in one book! This collection includes seven stories: Dora's Book of Manners Dora Goes to School Dora's Fairy-Tale Adventure Dora's Chilly Day Show Me Your Smile! Dora's Pirate Adventure Big Sister Dora!




Dora's Super Silly Coloring Book


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Little girls ages 3-7 will love this 224-page activity book that features some of Dora the Explorer's best-loved adventures and over fifty stickers.




Dora and Diego Let's Cook


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Dora and Diego teach kids to make awesome (and healthy!) recipes-and learn Spanish along the way Just in time for the tenth anniversary of Dora the Explorer-the top-rated preschool program on commercial television-comes Dora and Diego Let's Cook, a cookbook from Nickelodeon that gets kids safely exploring and learning in the kitchen. Guided by Dora and Diego, kids will help measure, stir, shape, and decorate 50 exciting and super-tasty recipes like Pirate Adventure Pizza Coins and Incan Quinoa Pudding-all while learning Spanish words and phrases. These simple, delicious recipes emphasize healthful ingredients children need fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy and include a range of Latin dishes, like Benny's Breakfast Burritos and Fiesta Trio Frittata. The book includes 50 recipes featuring Dora, Diego, and their friends plus 50 full-color photos Spanish words and phrases that let kids learn a new language while they learn about cooking "Kids Help" icons flagging steps in every recipe where kids can lend a hand with tasks like washing fruit or mixing batter Useful intro material on health and nutrition for preschoolers, plus the basics of how to get kids involved in the kitchen, including kitchen safety Dora and Diego Let's Cook turns getting kids involved in the kitchen into an exciting-and educational-adventure.




Metalinguistic Communities


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This edited volume brings together ten compelling ethnographic case studies from a range of global settings to explore how people build metalinguistic communities defined not by use of a language, but primarily by language ideologies and symbolic practices about the language. The authors examine themes of agency, belonging, negotiating hegemony, and combating cultural erasure and genocide in cultivating meaningful metalinguistic communities. Case studies include Spanish and Hebrew in the USA, Kurdish in Japan, Pataxó Hãhãhãe in Brazil, and Gallo in France. The afterword, by Wesley L. Leonard, provides theoretical and on-the-ground context as well as a forward-looking focus on metalinguistic futurities. This book will be of interest to interdisciplinary students and scholars in applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology and migration studies.




Varieties of Exile


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Isolation, remoteness from one's native land, and the loss of language are but a few of the themes that recur in the literature of exile written over the centuries. In this book, the first study of the theme of exile in Canadian literature, Hallvard Dahlie brings together a broad spectrum of Canadian writers -- writers from the Old World who have become exiles to Canada, but also Canadians who have exiled themselves for varying periods from Canada.




Dora: A Headcase


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Ida has a secret: she is in love with her best friend. But any time she gets close to intimacy, Ida faints or loses her voice. She needs a shrink. Or so her philandering father thinks. Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, Siggy, Ida - and alter-ego Dora - hatch a plan to secretly film him. But when the film goes viral, Ida finds herself targeted by unethical hackers. Dora: A Headcase is a contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freud's famous case study, retold and revamped through Dora's point-of-view. Yuknavitch's Dora is radical and unapologetic - you won't have met a character quite like her before.




The Technologist


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Gardening Illustrated


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