Cross-cultural Approach To Advanced Spanish Puntos de encuentro: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Advanced Spanish is an innovative task- and content-based textbook that rethinks advanced Spanish instruction. Based on research on second language acquisition in the classroom, it combines language-as-discourse instruction with content-based learning. This text emphasizes the analysis of spoken and written texts drawn from…
Yerba Buena When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as…
Teach Me Spanish Spiritual Songs Kindergarten-Grade 6 -- Native Spanish speakers, including a childrens choir, make this an authentic and effective way for children to learn Spanish with a complete immersion approach using Christian songs, Bible stories, and prayers. Two characters, Maria and Pedro, talk to each other in Spanish to transition between songs and…
Una 2a Ración De Sopa De Pollo Para El Alma De La Mujer This latest collection of stories celebrates the shared experiences of being a woman in a 101 new ways. You will be moved by these true accounts of how women like you have embraced lifes defining moments by finding love, dealing with loss, overcoming obstacles and achieving their dreams and goals.…
La Joya The Jewel means wealth and beauty, but for Violet, it means submission. She grew up in the Marsh and was brought up to serve royalty. She finds works at the estate of the Duchess of the Lake, where she discovers that behind the glittery facade lies a brutal, violent reality.…
Terremoto A beautiful and tender story of a young woman in Puerto Rico. Growing up very poor within a large and loving family, she learns that all the earthquakes in a persons life teach strength and stamina, and she takes those emotional earthquakes and turns them into the the stepping stones…
