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The Interpreter : a novel / by Robinson, Brooke,author.(CARDINAL)879772;
"Thanks to a nomadic childhood, Revelle Lee is fluent in ten languages, which she puts to use at crime scenes and in courtrooms across London. Being a court interpreter is a stressful job, one that makes her privy to the most personal and often dark details of others' lives. In the meantime, she's close to adopting a six-year-old boy named Elliot from foster care. Revelle is determined to be the mother she never had, and to make up for a terrible mistake she made years ago. Though the sweet, loving little boy is learning to trust her, she's begun receiving disturbing messages which she suspects are from his birth family. When one of her cases involves a murder victim she knew slightly, Revelle fears she's seeing a miscarriage of justice play out. Putting both the adoption and her career at risk, she deliberately mistranslates a Polish man's alibi to put his accused friend behind bars, even though he insists he's innocent. Revelle thinks she's gotten away with it free and clear. But someone seems to know what she's done--and about her long-ago error and its terrible consequences. And they intend to destroy Revelle's life, piece by piece. . ." --
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Political fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Translators; Multilingual persons; Foster parents; Foster parents.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 11
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Exophony : voyages outside the mother tongue / by Tawada, Yōko,1960-author.(CARDINAL)683548; Hofmann-Kuroda, Lisa,translator.(CARDINAL)872745;
"Yoko Tawada's first essay collection in English presents an electrifying new side of the National Book Award-winner as she dives deep into her lifelong fascination with cross-hybridizing languages"--Back cover.
Subjects: Essays.; Travel writing.; Language and languages.; Multilingual persons.; Linguistics.; Translating and interpreting.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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Bilingüe, Superhéroe = Bilingual, superhero / by Argueta, Jorge,author.(CARDINAL)349837; Gómez, Elizabeth,illustrator.(CARDINAL)660728; Bell, Elizabeth(Translator),translator.(CARDINAL)609416;
"Award-winning author Jorge Argueta once again pens a poetic story for kids that touches on ordinary lives that are extraordinary, in this case a boy known as "Bilingual" with super-hero skills in both English and Spanish who loves to help those around him"--Grades K-1
Subjects: Bilingual books.; Picture books.; Superheroes; Multilingual persons; Superheroes; Multilingual persons; Spanish language materials; Superhéroes; Libros de laminas.; Libros de láminas para niños.; Libros bilingües.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Languages are everywhere/ by Sims, Nandi,author; Malaski, Catherine,editor;
What is language and why is it important with how we communicate with each other? Learn about different languages, forms of language, and other ways people communicate with one another -- from publisherInterest Grade Level: K-2Rourke Guided Reading Level
Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Language and languages; Written communication; Sign language; Multilingual persons; Linguistics; Contrastive linguistics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Memory speaks : on losing and reclaiming language and self / by Sedivy, Julie,author.(CARDINAL)865668;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Death -- Dreams -- Duality -- Conflict -- Revival -- Home."As immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage languages, alongside her own moving story of language loss and accompanying personal crisis"--"As a child Julie Sedivy left Czechoslovakia for Canada, and English soon took over her life. By early adulthood she spoke Czech rarely and badly, and when her father died unexpectedly, she lost not only a beloved parent but also her firmest point of connection to her native language. As Sedivy realized, more is at stake here than the loss of language: there is also the loss of identity. Language is an important part of adaptation to a new culture, and immigrants everywhere face pressure to assimilate. Recognizing this tension, Sedivy set out to understand the science of language loss and the potential for renewal. In Memory Speaks, she takes on the psychological and social world of multilingualism, exploring the human brain's capacity to learn--and forget--languages at various stages of life. But while studies of multilingual experience provide resources for the teaching and preservation of languages, Sedivy finds that the challenges facing multilingual people are largely political. Countering the widespread view that linguistic pluralism splinters loyalties and communities, Sedivy argues that the struggle to remain connected to an ancestral language and culture is a site of common ground, as people from all backgrounds can recognize the crucial role of language in forming a sense of self. Distinctive and timely, Memory Speaks combines a rich body of psychological research with a moving story at once personal and universally resonant. As citizens debate the merits of bilingual education, as the world's less dominant languages are driven to extinction, and as many people confront the pain of language loss, this is badly needed wisdom."
Subjects: Informational works.; Language attrition.; Second language acquisition.; Language revival.; Language and languages; Psycholinguistics.; Multilingualism.; Multilingual persons.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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For single mothers working as train conductors / by Wolfson, Laura Esther,author.(CARDINAL)803462;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178).For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors -- The Husband Method -- Climbing Montmartre -- Proust at Rush Hour -- "Whose Mom Are You?" -- The Bagels in the Snowflake -- Haunting Synagogues -- The Book of Disaster -- Russian Afternoons -- On the Couch-- Infelicities of Style -- Losing the Nobel -- Other Incidents in the Precinct."Laura Esther Wolfson's literary debut draws on years of immersion in the Russian and French languages; struggles to gain a basic understanding of Judaism, its history, and her place in it; and her search for a form to hold the stories that emerge from what she has lived, observed, overheard, and misremembered. In "Proust at Rush Hour," when her lungs begin to collapse and fail, forcing her to give up an exciting and precarious existence as a globetrotting simultaneous interpreter, she seeks consolation by reading Proust in the original while commuting by subway to a desk job that requires no more than a minimal knowledge of French. In "For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors" she gives away her diaphragm and tubes of spermicidal jelly to a woman in the Soviet Union who, with two unwanted pregnancies behind her, needs them more than she does. "The Husband Method" has her translating a book on Russian obscenities and gulag slang during the dissolution of her marriage to the Russian-speaker who taught her much of what she knows about that language. In prose spangled with pathos and dusted with humor, Wolfson transports us to Paris, the Republic of Georgia, upstate New York, the Upper West Side, and the corridors of the United Nations, telling storiesthat skewer, transform, and inspire"--"Winner of the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Wolfson, Laura Esther.; Wolfson, Laura Esther; Divorced women; Jewish women; Multilingual persons; Women authors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Squeak chatter bark : an eco-mystery / by Fitzgerald, Ali,author.(CARDINAL)795959;
"Hazel and her parents live an idyllic life in a treehouse in the PAW (Perfect Animal Worlds) Biosphere among a series of ecologically controlled environments populated by genetically created and enhanced animals and flora. As scientists working for PAW, together with founder Dr. Henry Nimick, the McCrimlisk's mission is to create a world that will usher in an era of "good evolution", populated with animals and plants that can transform pollution and other environmental hazards to make the region clean and habitable. But one foggy night, Hazel's parents are suddenly kidnapped. With the help of her animal friends Chimi (a multilingual toucan), Nina (a pet-sized elephant who exhibits super-strength), and her human friend (comics lover and mythology expert) Alex, Hazel tracks clues throughout the various biodomes and climates uncovering what happened to her parents and leading her to... a monster?!?Author Ali Fitzgerald charmingly wrote, drew, lettered, and colored this book featuring an imaginative setting rich with detail and an expressive brush-pen style with a good sense of personality and motion. Her colorful, anthropomorphic characters are bright and funny sleuths alongside Hazel as they follow the clues together. Filled with puns and hijinks, readers will delight in this mystery with an ecological message."--11-14.06-09.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Fantasy comics.; Humorous comics.; Missing persons; Missing persons; Ecology; Ecology; Friendship; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bilingual visual dictionary. by DK Publishing, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)317714;
Informazioni sul dizionario: about the dictionary -- Come usare questo libro: how to use this book -- Le persone: people -- L'aspetto: appearance -- La salute: health -- La casa: home -- I servizi: services -- Gli acquisti: shopping -- Il cibo: food -- Mangiare fuori: eating out -- Lo studio: study -- Il lavoro: work -- I trasporti: transportation -- Gli sport: sports -- Il tempo libero: leisure -- L'ambiente: environment -- I dati: reference.Labeled drawings provide a wide range of everyday terms from the telephone to human anatomy in Italian and English.
Subjects: Picture dictionaries.; Multilingual dictionaries.; Dictionaries.; Picture dictionaries, Italian.; Picture dictionaries, English.; Italian language; English language; Bilingual books.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Italian English illustrated dictionary / by Booth, Thomas,author.(CARDINAL)629411;
How to use this book -- Le persone/People -- L'aspetto/Appearance -- La salute/Health -- La casa/Home -- La vita in città/City life -- Gli alimenti/Food -- Lo studio/Study -- Il lavoro/Work -- Andare in giro/Getting around -- Gli sport/Sports -- Il tempo libero/Leisure -- L'ambiente/Environment -- Il mondo naturale/Natural world -- Il riferimento/Reference -- Word list (English) -- Word list (Italian)."10,000 illustrated words and phrases make learning Italian fun and easy. Clear and attractive illustrations, organized by theme, help you understand new words and cement them in your memory. Covering a wide range of practical and everyday topics, the Italian English Illustrated Dictionary gives you all the vocabulary you need for work, study, travel, and leisure."--
Subjects: Multilingual dictionaries.; Picture dictionaries.; Dictionaries.; English language; Italian language;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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New bilingual visual dictionary : English-Farsi / by Turhan, Sedat,Author(DLC)no2004115858; Billings, Patricia,Author(DLC)no2017077771; Martinez, Anna,Illustrator(DLC)no2017077569;
Animals -- Human body -- Home -- Clothing & personal objects -- Tools -- Technology -- Food -- Transportation -- Plants -- Environment -- Space -- Sports -- Arts -- Musical instruments -- Time -- School -- Numbers -- Shapes -- Colors -- Punctuation marks -- Symbols."Milet's New Bilingual Visual Dictionary series provides an entertaining way for children to learn words in two languages. The dictionary features useful, everyday words that will help learners to build their vocabulary. The words are grouped by subjects, so children can focus on one set of related words at a time. The text is large and easy to read, and the vector illustrations are colourful, detailed and highly realistic"--.
Subjects: Dictionary; Dictionaries.; Picture dictionaries.; Multilingual dictionaries.; Literature.; Fiction.; Juvenile works.; Persian language; English language; Picture dictionaries, Persian; Picture dictionaries, English; Persian language materials;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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