Berlitz Schools of Languages of America Staff

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Tennessee

Teddy Berlitz introduces basic phrases, the alphabet, numbers, and colors in Spanish accompanied by a cassette that incorporates music, sound effects, and the voices of native speakers.

Berlitz Jr. Spanish

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Jane Parker

Frances A. Dipper

Explore the World's Most Fragile Ecosystem

Explore the world's most fragile ecosystems, from vanishing rainforests to disappearing coral reefs.

Oceans and Rain Forests

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Editors of YES Mag

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Astronauts on Apollo 13 averted disaster with the help of duct tape. The design of the Sydney Opera House was based on the segments of an orange. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge swayed so much it was nicknamed ?Galloping Gertie.? From genius designs to deadly design-flaws, the story of engineering is full of oddities and surprises. Fantastic Feats and Failures includes bridge and dome-building projects, and other activities to test your engineering know-how.

Fantastic Feats and Failures

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Science

Usbourne Science & Experiments

The World of the Microscope

Reading & Language Arts

Let’s Learn Together

Reading

Favorite Things Old and New 

Alastair Smith

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Activities include testing your eyes, making electricity, bending light and weather watching.

The Usborne Big Book of Experiments

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Rosie Dickins

Mary Cartwright

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Art, music, drama/theater

Introduction to Art - Internet Linked

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Robert A. Divine

T. H. Breen

George M. Fredrickson

R. Hal Williams

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

History

Chapters 14-24

With its careful balance of the social and political dimensions of the American past, "America Past and Present, Sixth Edition, Volume B" helps readers grasp the scope and the complexity of American history from 1848 to 1920. This book integrates political, diplomatic, social, cultural and economic history into one rich narrative that tells the story of all Americans-whites, blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, women, politicians, business leaders, and the everyday person on the street. For anyone interested in American history from 1848 to 1920.

America, Past and Present

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John K. Bollard

This groundbreaking thesaurus defines each headword and synonym and then provides sample sentences for each. Over 500 headwords, 2,500 synonyms, and an extensive cross-referencing index are presented in a contemporary, user-friendly design.

Scholastic Children's Thesaurus

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Ivan Moscovich

Ian Stewart

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1,000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics and Science

About the original 1000 PlayThinks,Will Shortz of The New York Times said it best: "The most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining, gigantic collection of brainteasers since Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of Puzzles almost a century ago." Inside The Big Book of Brain Games, you will find an obsessive collection of 1,000 challenges, puzzles, riddles, illusions--originals as well as must-do classics--it's like salted peanuts for the brain. With jampacked pages and a full-color illustration for each entry, the book, opened anywhere, is a call to action. (And it's guaranteed to make you smarter.) Twelve basic categories include Geometry, Patterns, Numbers, Logic and Probability, and Perception. An easy-to-read key at the top of each game ranks its difficulty on a scale of 1 to 10, while indices in the back cross-reference the puzzles. (You'll find the answers back there, too.)

The Big Book of Brain Games

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E. Richard Churchill

Louis V. Loeschnig

Muriel Mandell

730 Easy Science Experiments with Everyday Materials

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Debbie Strayer

Learning Language Arts Through Literature

Children learn reading, grammar, vocabulary, spelling, writing, research, study skills, and more.

The Purple Book

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Stephen Biesty

Richard Platt

Text and cross-section illustrations present inside views of a variety of subjects including a space station, airport, and windmill.

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Explosions

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Elizabeth George Speare

The Sign of the Beaver

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Vincent Douglas

Introduces readers to important developments in world history, from the appearance of the first human beings to the global concerns of the 21st century.

Kingdoms and Empires

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A. J. Baime

Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at le Mans

By the early 1960s, the Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Young Henry Ford II, who had taken the reins of his grandfather s company with little business experience to speak of, knew he had to do something to shake things up. Baby boomers were taking to the road in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort. Meanwhile, Enzo Ferrari, whose cars epitomized style, lorded it over the European racing scene. He crafted beautiful sports cars, "science fiction on wheels," but was also called "the Assassin" because so many drivers perished while racing them. " Go Like Hell "tells the remarkable story of how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young visionary named Lee Iacocca and a former racing champion turned engineer, Carroll Shelby, concocted a scheme to reinvent the Ford company. They would enter the high-stakes world of European car racing, where an adventurous few threw safety and sanity to the wind. They would design, build, and race a car that could beat Ferrari at his own game at the most prestigious and brutal race in the world, something no American car had ever done. " Go Like Hell "transports readers to a risk-filled, glorious time in this brilliant portrait of a rivalry between two industrialists, the cars they built, and the "pilots" who would drive them to victory, or doom. "

Go Like Hell

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Mickey Thompson The Fast Life and Tragic Death of a Racing Legend

Art Garner

Winner of the 2014 Dean Batchelor Award, Motor Press Guild "Book of the Year" Before noon on May 30th, 1964, the Indy 500 was stopped for the first time in history by an accident. Seven cars had crashed in a fiery wreck, killing two drivers, and threatening the very future of the 500. Black Noon chronicles one of the darkest and most important days in auto-racing history. As rookie Dave MacDonald came out of the fourth turn and onto the front stretch at the end of the second lap, he found his rear-engine car lifted by the turbulence kicked up from two cars he was attempting to pass. With limited steering input, MacDonald lost control of his car and careened off the inside wall of the track, exploding into a huge fireball and sliding back into oncoming traffic. Closing fast was affable fan favorite Eddie Sachs. "The Clown Prince of Racing" hit MacDonald's sliding car broadside, setting off a second explosion that killed Sachs instantly. MacDonald, pulled from the wreckage, died two hours later. After the track was cleared and the race restarted, it was legend A. J. Foyt who raced to a decisive, if hollow, victory. Torn between elation and horror, Foyt, along with others, championed stricter safety regulations, including mandatory pit stops, limiting the amount a fuel a car could carry, and minimum-weight standards. In this tight, fast-paced narrative, Art Garner brings to life the bygone era when drivers lived hard, raced hard, and at times died hard. Drawing from interviews, Garner expertly reconstructs the fateful events and decisions leading up to the sport's blackest day, and the incriminating aftermath that forever altered the sport. Black Noon remembers the race that changed everything and the men that paved the way for the Golden Age of Indy car racing.

Black Noon: the Year They Stopped the Indy 500

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Ken Ilgunas

On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom

In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook a three-year transcontinental journey, working in Alaska as a tour guide, garbage picker, and night cook to pay off his student loans before hitchhiking home to New York.



Debt-free, Ilgunas then enrolled in a master's program at Duke University, determined not to borrow against his future again. He used the last of his savings to buy himself a used Econoline van and outfitted it as his new dorm. The van, stationed in a campus parking lot, would be more than an adventure--it would be his very own "Walden on Wheels."



Freezing winters, near-discovery by campus police, and the constant challenge of living in a confined space would test Ilgunas's limits and resolve in the two years that followed. What had begun as a simple mission would become an enlightening and life-changing social experiment.



Walden on Wheels offers a spirited and pointed perspective on the dilemma faced by those who seek an education but who also want to, as Thoreau wrote, "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."

Walden on Wheels

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Provides diagrams and instructions for creating seventeen miniature quilts and includes additional information on fabric, techniques, and skill levels

Mini Quilts from Traditional Designs

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How to Paint Canvas Rugs for Decorative Home Use

How to paint canvas rugs for decorative home use.

Floorcloth Magic

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Sewing Companion Library

Learn to sew beautiful jackets easily, whatever your skill level. You'll discover the most current sewing techniques, including how to press as you sew, use fusible interfacings, make perfect patch pockets, set in professional-looking sleeves, insert linings, sew invisible hems, and much more.

Easy Guide to Sewing Jackets

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