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CD/Spoken Word:
9781511308281 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, September 1, 2015), cover price $9.99
9781455826919 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, October 4, 2011), cover price $14.99
9781455847815 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, October 4, 2011), cover price $14.99
Product Description: Iâm here to see my daughter. Merrilee Daniels Davenport never thought sheâd see John Davenport again. Her former husband has returned from fighting in the Pacific, bearing a letter from the little girl he didnât know he had...read more
Hardcover:
9781410471680 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 20, 2014), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Iâm here to see my daughter.
Paperback:
9780373282524 | Steeple Hill, February 4, 2014, cover price $5.99
This gem of a novel takes place in Pittsburgh in 1952. Franny Katzenback, while recovering from polio, reads and falls in love with the brand-new book Charlotteâs Web. Bored and lonely and yearning for a Charlotte of her own, Franny starts up a correspondence with an eloquent flea named Fleabrain who lives on her dogâs tail. While Franny struggles with physical therapy and feeling left out of her formerly active neighborhood life, Fleabrain is there to take her on adventures based on his extensive reading. Itâs a touching, funny story set in the recent past, told with Rocklinâs signature wit and thoughtfulness.Awards Bank Street Children's Books "Best Books of the Year," Fiction Ages 9-12 Sydney Taylor Notable Book for Older ReadersPraise for Fleabrain Loves Franny "Heartwarming and endlessly funny, Fleabrain Loves Franny will delight readers of all ages. Rocklinâs sharp wit and exuberant writing style are refreshing. This book is not to be missed." --VOYA "Frannyâa compassionate, thoughtful and sympathetic protagonistâis believably erratic in her emotions and reflections on her illness and its effects on her previously carefree life." --Publishers Weekly "Rocklin perfectly captures the era of 1952 and creates a sympathetic, realistic character in Franny, who begins to accept her condition, rejoin her friends and even protest her schoolâs inaccessibility." --Kirkus Reviews "Comedic and philosophical, readers will find multiple levels to enjoy." --School Library Journal Â
Hardcover:
9781419710681 | Harry N Abrams Inc, August 12, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This gem of a novel takes place in Pittsburgh in 1952.
9780321031013, titled "The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography" | 8th edition (Longman Pub Group, September 1, 1998), cover price $72.45 | also contains The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography
Paperback:
9781419716768 | Harry N Abrams Inc, August 11, 2015, cover price $8.95
CD/Spoken Word:
9780553396638 | Unabridged edition (Listening Library, August 26, 2014), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This gem of a novel takes place in Pittsburgh in 1952.
Product Description: A girlâs imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentineâs gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital...read more
Hardcover:
9780385733762 | 1 edition (Delacorte Pr, November 10, 2009), cover price $16.99
Paperback:
9780440239710 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, January 10, 2012), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A girlâs imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.
Library:
9780385903936 | Delacorte Pr, November 10, 2009, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A girlâs imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.
En el «calor sofocante de la Newark ecuatorial» una espantosa epidemia causa estragos y amenaza con dejar a los niños de la ciudad de Nueva Jersey mutilados, paralizados o minusválidos, e incluso con matarlos. Este es el sorprendente tema de la nueva y desgarradora obra de Roth: una epidemia de polio que tiene lugar en un tiempo de guerra, el verano de 1944, y sus efectos sobre la comunidad de Newark, regida por la cohesión y los valores de la familia, y sobre sus niños.El protagonista de Némesis es Bucky Cantor, un joven de veintitrés años responsable de las actividades al aire libre de los alumnos de una escuela, lanzador de jabalina y levantador de pesas, que vive volcado en sus pupilos y frustrado por no haber podido ir a la guerra con sus coetáneos a causa de un defecto de visión. Cuando la polio empieza a asolar el patio de recreo, Roth se concentra en los dilemas de Cantor y en las realidades cotidianas a las que este se enfrenta, y nos conduce a través de todas las emociones que una plaga semejante puede engendrar: el miedo, el pánico, la cólera, el desconcierto, el sufrimiento y el dolor.Alternando el escenario de las sofocantes y malolientes calles de la Newark asediada y el de Indian Hill, un inmaculado campamento infantil sito en lo alto de las montañas Pocono, donde «el aire estaba exento de toda polución», Roth retrata a un hombre bueno, enérgico y armado con las mejores intenciones que libra su particular guerra contra la epidemia. El autor se muestra en todo momento delicadamente preciso al abordar la transición de Cantor hacia la tragedia personal, y no menos preciso al tratar el tema de la infancia.En esta novela volvemos a encontrar el sombrÃo interrogante que recorre las últimas cuatro novelas de Roth, ElegÃa, Indignación, La humillación y ahora Némesis: ¿qué decisiones determinan fatalmente la vida? ¿Hasta qué punto somos impotentes ante las circunstancias?
Hardcover:
9780547318356 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, October 5, 2010), cover price $26.00
9788439723332 | Italian edition edition (Random House Mondadori, March 1, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: En el «calor sofocante de la Newark ecuatorial» una espantosa epidemia causa estragos y amenaza con dejar a los niños de la ciudad de Nueva Jersey mutilados, paralizados o minusválidos, e incluso con matarlos.
Paperback:
9780099555339 | Vintage Uk, October 6, 2011, cover price $9.80 | About this edition: Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, "Nemesis" is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives.
9780307745415 | Int edition (Random House, October 6, 2011), cover price $7.99
9780307475008 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 4, 2011), cover price $15.95
CD/Spoken Word:
9781441893116 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, November 2, 2010), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In the âstifling heat of equatorial Newark,â a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, lifelong disability, and even death.
9781441893130 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, November 2, 2010), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In the âstifling heat of equatorial Newark,â a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, lifelong disability, and even death.
Library:
9781602858985 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, November 1, 2010), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: A terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of a New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, even death.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781455826926 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, October 4, 2011), cover price $59.97
9781441893123 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, November 2, 2010), cover price $69.97
9781441893147 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, November 2, 2010), cover price $39.97
Paperback:
9780972743976 | Aj Cornell Pubns, February 18, 2010, cover price $12.95
The eighth edition of this text portrays the cultural geography of the world. Organized according to a thematic framework, the text encourages students to consider a wide range of topics and view them from five different perspectives: culture region, cultural diffusion, cultural ecology, cultural integration, and cultural landscape. Balancing traditional human geography with the current insights, this edition includes expanded and thoroughly updated coverage, as well as new pedagogy.
Hardcover:
9780321031013 | 8th edition (Longman Pub Group, September 1, 1998), cover price $72.45 | also contains Fleabrain Loves Franny
9780716738015 | 8 edition (W H Freeman & Co, September 1, 1998), cover price $99.40 | About this edition: The eighth edition of this text portrays the cultural geography of the world.
9780060434816, titled "Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography" | 5 stu sub edition (Harpercollins College Div, January 1, 1990), cover price $56.80
Paperback:
9780716778813 | Pck edition (W H Freeman & Co, September 1, 2005), cover price $129.80
9780716706052 | 9 pck edition (W H Freeman & Co, April 30, 2003), cover price $108.25
9780716739067, titled "Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography" | W H Freeman & Co, August 1, 2002, cover price $139.90 | About this edition: The new edition of the bestselling human geography text enhances its unique thematic approach with new chapters, expanded coverage and pedagogy, a stronger art program, and new integrated media and supplements.
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