A unique method of learning and sharpening your Italian language skills
For the advanced beginner or intermediate-level learner, reading offers you the most convenient way to practice and sharpen your Italian and monitor your progress. "Better Reading Italian brings you short passages that reflect real-life, contemporary issues and situations taken from magazines, the Internet, books, and newspapers.
Covering such topics as cuisine, fashion and design, travel, the family, education, today's lifestyle, and Italian perceptions of America, each chapter features reading selections that become more challenging as the sections progress. You will find an article about designer Bruno Munari, a profile on Italian wines, a furniture maker's website, and more than fifty other selections to help you improve your reading speed and understanding.
Following each article is a set of exercises that help your comprehension and develop invaluable reading skills including: Skimming material for general meaning Scanning for details Using word formation, cognates, and context to determine meaning Understanding idioms and artistic expressions
An appendix provides suggestions for further reading.
"Better Reading Italian will not only help you improve or revive your language skills, it also will open up the enjoyable and exciting world of reading in Italian.
Season of the Sandstorms
Jack and Annie travel back in time to a desert in the Middle East at the behest of Merlin who has given them a rhyme to help on their mission. There they meet a Bedouin tribe and learn about the way that they live. From camel rides and oases to ancient writings and dangerous sandstorms, here's another Magic Tree House filled with all the mystery, history, magic, and old-fashioned adventure that kids love to read about.
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Community Space: How Land and Weather Shape Communities
This engaging, age-appropriate set is designed to meet the early childhood social studies curriculum, where students learn about themselves and their community and what makes their community similar to and different from communities across the United States. By taking a kid-friendly Who's Who approach to different kinds of communities, these books teach students about the people who work to make each community a success. Some communities are big and some are small. Some have farms and some are busy urban spaces. Why do these different types of communities develop? From mountain, desert, and island spaces to urban, suburban, and rural places, kids will learn about the things that shape the many different types of communities that exist in the world today.
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The Client by John Grisham, ISBN 038542471X
In the two years since The Firm first captured the imagination of America's readers, John Grisham, with three consecutive number-one bestsellers, has become one of the most popular authors of our time. Now, in The Client, he has written a novel so irresistible, so thoroughly entertaining and satisfying, that it is sure not only to please his millions of fans, but to win him new ones as well. This is the story of eleven-year-old Mark Sway, who, as the novel opens, witnesses the bizarre suicide of a New Orleans attorney. Just before he dies, the lawyer tells Mark a deadly secret concerning the recent murder of a Louisiana Senator, whose accused killer, Mafia thug Barry Muldanno, is about to go to trial. The police, the federal prosecutor and the FBI pressure Mark to tell them the attorney's last words, but he knows that with the mob watching his every move, revealing his secret will almost surely get him killed. So Mark, streetwise and old beyond his years, hires a lawyer: Reggie Love, a...
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Incredibles, The
From the Academy Award winning creators of "Finding Nemo" (2003 Best Animated Feature Film) comes the action-packed animated adventure about the mundane and incredible lives of a house full of superheroes. Bob Parr and his wife Helen used to be among the world's greatest crime fighters, saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. Fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they live "normal" lives with their three kids, Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack. Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.
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The Treasure on Gold Street / El Tesoro En La Calle Oro: A Neighborhood Story in English and Spanish
Hannah loves her friend Isabel because Isabel is big like a grownup, but she plays with Hannah like a friend. Hannah loves Isabel because Isabel doesn't criticize. She's never in a hurry. She's always ready to play any game Hannah wants to play. And-unlike other grownups and some bigger kids-she doesn't tell Hannah what to do.
And Hannah's not the only one who thinks that Isabel is wonderful. On Isabel's birthday, everyone on Gold Street recognizes that Isabel is the neighborhood's real treasure.
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Fanciful Furniture Decorating with Paint: Decorating with Paint by Anita Rosenberg, ISBN 1402705883
Handcraft unique pieces of furniture and accessories that make a big decorative statement and give any home that personal touch. It just takes paint and simple tools, plus these incredible, inspirational designs and projects. Every beautiful pattern and creative technique is broken down in detail, with information on finding furniture to personalize, discovering unusual motifs, and incorporating feng shui principles on color. Try a little fun with themes taken from magazines, dig for ideas in vacation...
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Art Deco House Style: An Architectural and Interior Design Source Book
Readers can discover how to re-create an restore authentic period architecture, furnishings and detailing in the elegant and sophisticated Art Deco style. Lavishly illustrated chapters cover every internal and external aspect of the home, including furniture, fabrics and decorative detail, and throughout there is discussion of the leading designers of the period. Filled with practical advice and sources of materials, as well as much additional related information, this masterful work is an invaluable...
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Fine Machine Sewing: Easy Ways to Get the Look of Hand Finishing and Embellishing by Carol Laflin Ahles, ISBN 1561584878
This beautiful reference book makes advanced finishing styles accessible to all levels of sewers. Hundreds of color photos and illustrations demonstrate tools, techniques, and tips, as well as completed garments. Fine Machine Sewing provides confidence and inspiration to home sewers looking to expand their repertoire.
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Tattered Treasures: Decorating Ideas Using Flea Market Finds
"Recommended."--"Library Journal"
Convert flea market finds into beautiful pieces, and show them off in fine style, with the help of inventive full-color photographs, creative tips, display ideas, and plenty of projects. Create crackle and distressed finishes to "age" furniture. Use an old chair as a display stand. Recycle broken pieces of treasured china into a mosaic table, embellish a basket to make an eye-catching centerpiece, and update a lamp with a fabric cover. An empty portrait frame...
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Shopping the North Carolina Furniture Outlets: How to Save 50-80% on Your Next Furniture Purchase by Ellen R. Shapiro, ISBN 1400046475
In the $40 billion furniture industry, 35 percent of all home furniture manufactured in the world is produced in North Carolina. More important, leading furniture manufacturers, such as Broyhill, Thomasville, and Henridon, sell their top-quality furniture at deep discounts straight from their factories in North Carolina. Shopping the North Carolina Furniture Outlets breaks down the door to this undiscovered world of North Carolina furniture and teaches you how to shop and save 50 to 80 percent on...
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