133 results for "Alex Discovery Book in City" between $5.00 and $75.00

Discover as you uncover with an adorable book for the bath! The pages are layered so that the reader gets a glimpse of what is ahead, but has to go page by page to discover what is at the end of the journey. Printed on soft, safe, Phthalate Free PVC

Audrey Snyder - In the City - 2-Part - Discovery Level 2 Music Book, scoring: Choral Ensemble;2-Part Choir, instruments: Choir;2-Part Choir

Astro City returns with "Eyes of a Killer," the second story arc in the 16-issue Dark Age epic. The mean streets of Astro City in the 1970s are getting meaner, and Charles and Royal Williams are drawn deeper into the darkness. Against the background of Astro City's most turbulent decade, featuring the Street Angel, Black Velvet, The Apollo 11, Jack-In-the-Box and more, one brother is targeted for death -- while the other makes a discovery that could change their lives forever.

Chicago is one of America’s most iconic, historic, and fascinating cities, as well as a major travel destination. For Alex Kotlowitz, an accidental Chicagoan, it is the perfect perch from which to peer into America’s heart. It’s a place, as one historian has said, of “messy vitalities,” a stew of contradictions: coarse yet gentle, idealistic yet restrained, grappling with its promise, alternately sure and unsure of itself.

Pages: 500, Paperback, Nabu Press

In 1991 in lower Manhattan, a team of construction workers made an astonishing discovery. Just two blocks from City Hall, under twenty feet of asphalt, concrete, and rubble, lay the remains of an eighteenth-century "Negro Burial Ground." Closed in 1790 and covered over by roads and buildings throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the site turned out to be the largest such find in North America, containing the remains of as many as 20,000 African Americans. The graves revealed to New Yorkers...

Pages: 624, Edition: Large type edition, Paperback, Nabu Press

Written by KURT BUSIEK Art by BRENT ANDERSON Cover by ALEX ROSS In the concluding volume of THE DARK AGE, collecting BOOK 3 #1-4 and BOOK 4 #1-4, two brothers, one good and one evil, must deal with family secrets and social upheaval, involving heroes from Jack-In-the-Box to the Blue Knight and the final fate of the mysterious Silver Agent

After her mother dies, 16-year-old Alex must live with her wealthy grandmother in Georgia. There, Alex is in for a shocking discovery: because of her lineage, she belongs to the Magnolia League—Savannah’s debutante society.

The century-old presence of Mexican Americans in Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach is an important, colorful part of the history of Los Angeles County’s South Bay region. This evocative pictorial history documents the ways in which this group left significant marks on the economic, agricultural, academic, religious, professional, and governmental fabric of both communities. World War II heroes, star athletes, lawyers, professors, teachers, city councilmen, a judge, an astrophysicist, and many other...

288 pp. Hardcover & Dust Jacket. Very Good. When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, an urgent priority was to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast system of conversion and intermarriage records was created in Berlin, the country's premier Jewish city. Deborah Hertz's discovery of these records, the Judenkartei, was the first step on a long research journey that has led to this compelling...

Novelist Alex Kotlowitz, originally a New Yorker, traveled to Chicago in search of a story. What he found was much more -- a city of people who he feels characterize the "real" in America. It's a place where he has now lived for 20 years (and counting). He interweaves history, anecdote and biography in this brief, street-level view of the city and its everyday people. A Crown Journeys book. (GLK35, $16.95)

This new two-in-one book features An Unlikely Blessing along with its sequel, Surprising Grace. In An Unlikely Blessing, Alex Armstrong is a former city dweller who has just accepted his first parish assignment to a small community in North Dakota. In Hilltop Township, Pastor Alex becomes familiar with the residents and their odd traditions, from julebukking to King Oscar's fish balls. And then there's the excitement the single pastor creates among the unmarried women in the community Alex soon discovers...

Confronting issues of race and ethnicity in literature, within classrooms and in a larger community. Helping students deal with neighborhood violence and conditions of poverty. Designing a multicultural curriculum. Creating an emotionally safe classroom. Fostering peer relations among faculty members.

Description Table of Contents Author Bios Drawing from in-depth fieldwork in the city and looking closely at events such as the Elian Gonzalez case, this text examines interactions between immigrants and established Americans in Miami to address fundamental questions of American identity and multiculturalism."This well-written and compelling story of immigrant resident relations in Miami will be read and enjoyed by lay people and scholars, and will no doubt produce stimulating discussions in classrooms...

Genre: Family + Relationships. Subgenre: Parenting / Child Rearing. Publisher: Sterling & Ross Pub Inc. Pages: 231. Language: English. Format: paperback. Release Date: April 1, 2010. Date Published: April 1, 2010.

The author divides the volume into "Book First" covering the state and "Book Second" for the city. In the section on the state, he describes the period of discovery and also has separate sections on each of the earliest settlements, including Manhattan, Albany, Schenectady, and Brooklyn, as well as a number of the Mohawk Valley towns, such as Rome, Schoharie and Canojoharie.

Quite the best book on heavy metal ever to come out of Fargo, North Dakota, FARGO ROCK CITY, Chuck Klostermann's extended meditation on growing up in that rock-forsaken town and finding his salvation through his brother's (admittedly awesome) Motley Crue tape of SHOUT AT THE DEVIL is a funny, acute, and sometimes almost touching voyage of discovery of one of hipster rock's most despised genres. From his unearthing of the aforementioned album that soon becomes his yardstick for all things rock, to...