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"From SoulCycle to Scientology, we're all obsessed with cults. Linguist Amanda Montell examines the language cults use to draw us in"-- What causes people to join-- and more importantly, stay in-- extreme groups? The answer, Montell believes, has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. She argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to language. In both positive ways...

During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.

Un hombre regresa al pueblo donde ocurrió un asesinato desconcertante 27 años atrás, con la determinación de descubrir la verdad. Todos parecen estar de acuerdo en que Bayardo San Román, sólo unas horas después de su matrimonio con la bella Angela Vicario, la devuelve por deshonrada a la casa paterna. La atribulada familia fuerza a la novia a revelar el nombre de su primer amante; y los hermanos gemelos de ella anuncian su intención de matar...

The further adventures of the Quimby family as Ramona enters the third grade.

An eye-opening and courageous memoir that explores what learning a new language can teach us about distant worlds and, ultimately, ourselves.

After miraculously surviving a serious illness, Katherine Rich found herself at an impasse in her career as a magazine editor. She spontaneously accepted a freelance writing assignment to go to India, where she found herself thunderstruck by the place and the language, and before she

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A Aarón Soñador le encanta escuchar historias y sueña con, algún día, escribirlas él mismo. Pero cuando intenta leer, todas las letras se mezclan y le parecen unos garabatos, así que no tarda en darse cuenta de que tiene más dificultades para aprender que sus compañeros. El día que su maestra pide que cada niño de la clase escriba una historia, Aarón no logra hacerlo. Justo cuando pensaba que ser un gran escritor estaba fuera de su alcance,...

Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary...

Meet Isadora Moon! She's half-fairy, half-vampire and totally unique! Isadora Moon loves sunshine and nighttime. She loves her magic wand and her black tutu. She loves spooky bats and Pink Rabbit. Isadora is half-fairy, half-vampire, and she's special because she is different! Now Isadora's parents want her to start school, but she's not sure where she belongs: fairy school or vampire school?

Alma quiere saber por qué su nombre es tan largo, así que Papi le cuenta a su pequeña la gran historia.

Traces the lives of twenty-two immigrant teens throughout the course of a year at Denver's South High School who attended a specially created English Language Acquisition class and who were helped to adapt through strategic introductions to American culture.