Now the complete ESV Bible comes alive in audio format! The new ESV Hear the Word Audio Bible provides more than 75 hours of Bible reading, conveniently captured on 59 CDs for listening at home, in your car, or for loading on an MP3 player. Each disc is fully searchable, helping you easily locate the exact Bible chapter you are looking for. Packaged in a sturdy zipper pack, the ESV Hear the Word Audio Bible is ideal for busy commuters, people on the go, and for the visually impaired-anyone who prefers to listen to as well as read the Bible.

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Christians who have longed for a more readable literal Bible translation will find much to praise in the English Standard Version. The ESV's translation team of over 100 members has admirably attempted to preserve the stylistic variety of biblical authorship and ease of reading (at the eighth-grade level) despite the word-for-word translation, which historically has resulted in a choppier text flow. Bible study aficionados will appreciate the short introductions to each book, an extensive center column cross-reference system, full-color maps, and a 14,500-entry concordance. The hardcover edition includes the basic Bible frills: a presentation page, as well as marriage, birth, and death registries. --Cindy Crosby

See and Spell Alphabet Words A to Z is a fun guessing and spelling game for young children ages 4 to 8 years old. Your child can practice spelling aloud by using the clues given on the page. The game starts with the alphabet letter given in capital form then a picture of the word the child must guess. A cursive font is used to start the fill in the blank of the vocabulary word given. Your child will have the opportunity to practice word, font, and picture recognition throughout this game. Kids will have fun as they gain confidence in their ability to spell words aloud.

See and Spell Alphabet Words A to Z is a fun guessing and spelling game for young children ages 4 to 8 years old. Your child can practice spelling aloud by using the clues given on the page. The game starts with the alphabet letter given in capital form then a picture of the word the child must guess. A cursive font is used to start the fill in the blank of the vocabulary word given. Your child will have the opportunity to practice word, font, and picture recognition throughout this game. Kids will have fun as they gain confidence in their ability to spell words aloud.

This popular series of readers has now been completely revised and updated, using a new syllabus and new word structure lists. Readability has been ensured by means of specially designed computer software. Words that are above level but essential to the story are explained within the text, illustrated, and then reused for maximum reinforcement.

In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas.

Because children love to use technology, this version was created to be viewed on a Kindle or any Smartphone with a Kindle application. Just one more tool in the parent’s toolbox to help their children master reading!

This fourth part of The Big Book of Sight Words series contains 46 Sight Words on the Dolch List for 2nd Grade students. The Dolch List is named after Dr. Edward Dolch who in 1948 compiled the 220 most common “service words” found in children’s reading books at the time. These are words that cannot be phonetically sounded out and should be memorized.

The 46 words in this edition (Vocabulary Words for 2nd Grade) make up 50 to 70 percent of the text in books preschools are reading. It is recommended that most students learn to recognize all 220 Dolch Words and the 95 nouns by the end of First Grade.

Fluency in reading the 220 Dolch Words and the 95 nouns is essential to literacy. Teachers and parents use a variety of techniques to teach them. Repetition and practice are key to making recognition of Sight Words automatic. Once this core of basic sight words has been memorized, children read more fluently, with greater comprehension.

Because children love to use technology, this version was created to be viewed on a Kindle or any Smartphone with a Kindle application. Just one more tool in the parent’s toolbox to help their children master reading!

This fourth part of The Big Book of Sight Words series contains 46 Sight Words on the Dolch List for 2nd Grade students. The Dolch List is named after Dr. Edward Dolch who in 1948 compiled the 220 most common “service words” found in children’s reading books at the time. These are words that cannot be phonetically sounded out and should be memorized.

The 46 words in this edition (Vocabulary Words for 2nd Grade) make up 50 to 70 percent of the text in books preschools are reading. It is recommended that most students learn to recognize all 220 Dolch Words and the 95 nouns by the end of First Grade.

Fluency in reading the 220 Dolch Words and the 95 nouns is essential to literacy. Teachers and parents use a variety of techniques to teach them. Repetition and practice are key to making recognition of Sight Words automatic. Once this core of basic sight words has been memorized, children read more fluently, with greater comprehension.

This popular series of readers has now been completely revised and updated, using a new syllabus and new word structure lists. Readability has been ensured by means of specially designed computer software. Words that are above level but essential to the story are explained within the text, illustrated, and then reused for maximum reinforcement.

This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."

Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler

"Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime. The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of falsifying records and political literature, thus effectively perpetuating propaganda, who grows disillusioned with his meager existence and so begins an ultimately futile rebellion against the system. The novel has become famous for its portrayal of surveillance and society's increasing encroachment on the rights of the individual. Since its publication the terms Big Brother and Orwellian have entered the popular vernacular.

Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.

Chosen is a fantasy adventure - location; Hell, Purgatory, the Demon’s Lair, and Hell is everything it’s cracked up to be. Sixteen-year-old Dynan Telaerin finds himself on a corpse-strewn hillside, uncertain if he's dead or alive, charged with saving the soul of his ancestor, the most powerful telepath to ever exist. Dynan has telepathic powers of his own, only he doesn’t know how to use them. With monsters and minions trying to eat his soul, the demon’s lair isn’t the place to learn anything - except how to run and how to hide. Will courage alone be enough to face the greatest evil to exist? Will he lose his soul to save everyone else? The running starts, and doesn't stop to the end of this action packed adventure of a young man coming to terms with his life while he's barely a spirit, through horrors he thought existed only in dreams. Chosen is the first book of the series, The Guardians of the Word. The next book, Myth, has just been released.

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