social life and customs

"Brazil, a warm country in South America, is home to the Amazon rain forest. Sesame Street friends help explain the Carnival celebration, Brazil's love of soccer, and more about the world's fifth-largest country"--.

"Afghanistan is a country in South Asia known for its beautiful landscape. Friends from Sesame Street introduce readers to the country, from its tall mountains to its plentiful food markets"--.

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

"Tommy Siegel's debut book collection includes . . . comics, essays, and extremely helpful guides to coping with 21st-century panic. With comics titled 'Choose your social anxiety coping mechanism' and 'What your coffee drink of choice says about you,' 'I Hope This Helps' offers clever and sardonic commentary on our phone-obsessed, social media-driven culture, as well as a series of . . . relationship comics starring his popular Candy Hearts characters"--Provided by publisher.

"[A] true story of a woman's quest to Africa in the 1900s to find her missing fianc?, and the adventure that ensues"--Provided by publisher.

"Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, TASTES LIKE WAR is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history to understand herself and the cultural roots of her mother's condition"--Provided by publisher.

"Join Miguel and his dog, Dante, as they solve a family mystery"--Back cover.

A bilingual introduction to colors as seen in the firecrackers, gifts, foods, dancers, and flowers of Chinese New Year. Includes information the traditional items in the backmatter.

Chuck Klosterman chronicles his fascination with heavy metal music.

Presents the nineteenth-century novel of Regency England that centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.