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Cover of "Soledad Sigh-Sighs, Soledad Suspiros" featuring an illustration of a girl opening a door


Soledad Sigh-Sighs, Soledad Suspiros
Rigoberto Gonzalez

Eight-year-old Soledad dreads coming home to her lonely house. One solution might be to invent an imaginary sister to keep her company. But a much ...




How to Build a Time Machine
Paul Davies

With his unique knack for making cutting-edge theoretical science effortlessly accessible, world-renowned physicist Paul Davies now tackles ...


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Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland
Takeyuki Tsuda

Since the late 1980s, Brazilians of Japanese descent have been "return" migrating to Japan as unskilled foreign workers. With an immigrant ...


Cover of "Smokechasing" featuring a blurred image of a firefighter


Smokechasing
Stephen J. Pyne

Among this new collection are 32 original articles that address many issues that have sparked ...


Centuries of Decline book cover


Centuries of Decline During the Hohokam Classic Period at Pueblo Grande
David Abbott

In the prehispanic Southwest, Pueblo Grande was the site of the largest platform mound in the Phoenix basin and the most politically ...


Cover of "Clarence and the Purple Horse Bounce into Town" featuring a pig riding on the back of a purple horse


Clarence and the Purple Horse Bounce into Town
Jean Ekman Adams

Clarence the pig and his horse return home after many travels.


Cover of "One Girl Babylon" featuring an image of the corner of a room with a window on one wall


One Girl Babylon
Ruth Ellen Kocher

"This versatile poet blinks at nothing under the stars," said Al Young. "Speaking and singing in the many voices and key signatures of ...


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Inevitable Weather
Poems
Paul Cook

The ancient Chinese poet Han Shan used to write his poems on Cold Mountain and make little paper boats of them. He'd float them downstream and ...

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