Martin Luther King, Jr. SP

The Mi Mini Biografia series are Spanish language biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Rosa Parks in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a timeline and other informative backmatter.

In 1991, preparation for the construction of a new federal office building led to a startling discovery: a skeleton. Further excavation exposed the bones of 420 men, women, and children. This area of New York had been a burial ground set aside for both free and enslaved Africans during the 1600s and 1700s. It’s thought to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. This noteworthy book—which includes sidebars, fact boxes, a timeline, and maps—fills in the gaps of history books, exposing much about what life was like in colonial New York for Africans.

Sandra Brown is back with a spine-tingling story of murder, betrayal, and a homicide detective's struggle with his own rules. When Detective Sergeant Duncan Hatcher is summoned to the home of Judge Cato Laird in the middle of the night to investigate a fatal shooting, he knows that discretion is the key to staying in the judge's good graces and keeping his job.

An internationally renowned Mexican-born professor of investigative linguistics shows the humorous side of indigenous America with a delightful array of some of the most complicated and often longest words in Nahau as an introduction to a very unique daily life, culture, and mindset.

“Perdidos” aborda el problema de la Extinción de las Especies desde un enfoque singular. Se toman ejemplos seleccionados de animales extintos, maravillosos en muchos aspectos, que hemos perdido para siempre, y se analizan exhaustivamente los factores que condujeron a esa pérdida. En cada caso, se releva y actualiza toda la información disponible de las especies analizadas, incluso aquellas que surgieron de investigaciones posteriores a su desaparición, reconstruyendo los hechos para tratar de comprender la cadena de sucesos, poniendo en manos del lector los datos que nos permiten...