Barron: 263 books

You were born in a hospital? Hilde says as she lays down her black bread and cheese sandwich. She sits opposite me at my kitchen table. Looking up from my salad, I nod. Yes, I thought everyone by the 1940s was born in a hospital. Hell no. Hilde stares at me. In Germany I was born at...

Digital content creation supports the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and 21st-century learning skills by helping students use their knowledge to analyze, create, solve problems, communicate, collaborate, and innovate. This update of the popular Multimedia Projects in Education, Fourth Edition...

In recent years, there has been a tremendous development in the area of quantitative and statistical analysis of linguistic and literary data, generated, no doubt, by extensive advances in computer technology and their relatively easy availability to scholars. However, except for a few rather specialized...

Taking a different perspective to traditional case studies on one bilingual child, this book discusses the whole family and the realities of life with two or more children and languages. What do we know about the language patterns of children in a growing and evolving bilingual family? Which languages...

Un dragon est sorti de son sommeil et menace l’île enchantée de Fincayra. Seul Merlin peut l’arrêter. Mais le jeune homme vient tout juste d’accepter ses étranges pouvoirs, et il ne les maîtrise pas encore. Confronté aux flammes du terrible dragon, il comprend que ce sont les zones les...

Il 28 marzo 1941 Virginia Woolf si recò sulle rive dell'Ouse, non lontano dalla sua casa nel Sussex, dove viveva col marito, si riempì le tasche del soprabito di pietre e si gettò nelle acque del fiume, togliendosi la vita. Sessant'anni più tardi, l'architetto del paesaggio Jo Bellamy giunge a...

When young Monica Winters Borrero loses her luminous mother in an accident at sea, she is exiled from the tropical paradise that was her home. Grieving and cut off from a life among El Salvador's elite, Monica and her American father move to Connecticut, vowing never to look back. Years later,...

Exiled to the Western Reach Duchy for heresy, Prentice lives the harsh and bitter life of a convict soldier; but his fortunes will rise when two events change everything for the Reach and for the Grand Kingdom as a whole. The Duke is dead and now Duchess Amelia, his young and inexperienced bride, must...

This work reflects the journey of a poet from the everyday to the sublime. It captures the texture of New York City as well as the underbody of the complexity of family life,divorce, illness and the pursuit of the spiritual journey.

Fruit d'une enquête collective, réalisé à partir d'observations directes, de la collecte d'archives et de documents mais aussi d'une centaine d'entretiens, ce livre exceptionnel raconte au plus près les péripéties de ce mouvement, et en analyse les enjeux politiques, syndicaux et économiques. Le...

Et si Virginia Woolf ne s'était pas suicidée le 28 mars 1941 ? En octobre 2008, Jo Bellamy, jeune paysagiste américaine, arrive à Sissinghurst, dans le Kent, pour étudier le célèbre jardin blanc créé par l'amie de Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West. Un jour après l'annonce de son...