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1) Cold souls
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Souls can be extracted and traded as commodities. An actor named Paul Giamatti agonizes over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya.' Paralyzed with anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by deep-freezing souls. Paul enlists their services, intending to reinstate his soul once he survives the performance. Complications ensue when a mysterious, soul-trafficking mule borrows...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Marko the Pencil helps students boost math skills and score high on tests. Students learn how to read word problems carefully, identify relevant information, use pictures and diagrams, and look for patterns. Covers multiplication, division, and other operations; place value; number sentences and fact families; time passage and clocks; counting money and making change; graphs, charts, number lines, and coordinates; units of measurement; estimation;...
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Let's go to school: With Tad and Lily nervous about starting school tomorrow, their magical firefly Edison shows them their classroom, where they find that the room is more nervous than they. Preschool skills: Phonics skills, counting, animals. Talking words factory: Join Leap, Lily and Tad on a journey to the Word Factory and see how letters are made into words!