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Bird by Zetta Elliott
by Tahira
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Mehkai, also known as Bird, struggles to understand the death of his brother and grandfather as he finds what his special something is. A sad and realistic look at life in the ghetto, and how our own special gifts can help us heal.
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Baby Bits - Happy Birthday NEW Year!
by ryanikoglu
The NEW YEAR is coming. Sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Here are some birthday books and songs you can enjoy with your baby.
STORIES: Little Gorilla
The Birthday Box
Oscar's Half Birthday
F Is For Fieasta
SONGS on CD: Birthday Party!
Birthday Party Songs
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Kid Bits - Visions of Sugarplums
by ryanikoglu
Sweet stories to go with Cookies And Milk. If you Give A Moose A Muffin; The Gingerbread Boy; The Gingerbread Baby; Ginger Bear; In The Night Kitchen; The Doorbell Rang; A Baker's Dozen; or The Woman Who Flummoxed The Fairies.
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DVD Bits - Searching For Debra Winger
by ryanikoglu
The idea started with "What ever happened to Debra Winger?" Rosanne Arquette went Searching For Debra Winger through interviews with "big name" actresses, exploring their life in the spotlight and the pressures they face in family relations, finding themselves, and finding work after 40. You never confront this insight in the tabloids or Hollywood PR!
Undiscovered is Winger's autobiography. She muses, "someone told me that when you age, you turn into the person you were all your life." The interviewed actresses would agree.
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Headed for Mecca
by ryanikoglu
Qanta Ahmed provides a dynamic feminine view inside Saudi Arabian culture as she left the USA and joined the Royal Hospital staff in Riyadh. Raised in Britain. Educated in the USA. A practicing Muslim, of Pakistani descent. In the land of invisible women : a female doctor's journey in the Saudi Kingdom tells her unforgettable experience.
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Baby Bits - Boynton Books
by ryanikoglu
When you are reading to Babies and Toddlers be sure to include board books by Sandra Boynton. They are fun ... even after you have read them over, and over, and over, and over .... =)
Doggies; Blue Hat, Green Hat; Barnyard Dance; Moo, Baa, La La La!; But Not The Hippopotamus!; Horns To Toes And In Between; and Pajama Time!.
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Baby Bits - What To Do With the BABY-O
by ryanikoglu
What do you do with the Baby-O ?
Start with Art ! FIRST ART: Art Experiences For Toddlers And Twos is packed with recipes and ideas for first art experiences anyone can do at home or in groups.
Then the Games ! The Baby's Game Book reminds you of plenty of lap games to count on and bounce on.
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Baby Bits - To Market To Market to Buy a Fat Pig !
by ryanikoglu
Home again Home again Jiggety Jig! My favorite rhythm-and-rhyme book for little folks is Piggy In The Puddle by Charlotte Pomerantz. It tells a piggy story with nursery rhyme rhythm. You can watch and listen to a claymation version of the story in the Reading Rainbow DVD Piggy In The Puddle, which includes "This House Is Made Of Mud" and the "Hippopotamus Song".
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Death of a musical legend Miriam Makeba
by tonyabreu
World lost one of Africa's greatest singer and true fighter against human rights. Haven gained another messenger of peace and an ambassadress of jazz music.
The legendary South African singer Miriam Makeba died early Monday 11/09/08 of a heart attack, after collapsing on stage Sunday night in Italy. She was 76 years old and well known as “mama Africa”. Her music inspired a powerful sense of hope in all South Africans during the time of apartheid. In her amazingly impressive career and glorious achievement, "Makeba performed with musical legends from around the world — jazz maestros Nina Simone and Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon — and sang for world leaders such as John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela". Her sudden death “plunged South Africa into shock and mourning”. Here is Makeba's Biography, Discography and additional References God bless her soul, rest in peace!
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Riding to Washington by Gwenyth Swain
by Tahira
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A young girl stands up against racism when she insists that a clerk allows her friend Mrs. Taylor to use the Whites Only restroom, during a bus trip to participate in the civil rights March on Washington.