Dean Robbins

Dean Robbins

Dean Robbins is the author of Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing, Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women’s Right to Vote, and Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. A lifelong student of jazz, he lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

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!Mambo mucho mambo!
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!Mambo mucho mambo!
  • By: Dean Robbins
  • Narrator: Eduardo Ruales
  • Length: 12 minutes
  • Publisher: Dreamscape Media
  • Publish date: November 02, 2021
  • Language: Spanish
  • (130 ratings)
(130 ratings)
Era la decada de 1940 en la segregada cuidad de Nueva York. Ya sea que bailaras al sonido de las trompetas y los saxofones en un salon en el barrio italiano o en la calle al son de maracas y congas en el barrio puertorriqueno, generalmente bailabas... Read more
!Mambo Mucho Mambo!
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!Mambo Mucho Mambo!
  • By: Dean Robbins
  • Narrator: Ron Butler
  • Length: 11 minutes
  • Publisher: Dreamscape Media
  • Publish date: November 02, 2021
  • Language: English
  • (130 ratings)
(130 ratings)
Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together… until, first, a band and, then, a ballroom broke the... Read more

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Bloodfire Quest NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The adventure that started in Wards of Faerie takes a thrilling new turn, in the second novel of Terry Brooks’s brand-new trilogy—The Dark Legacy of Shannara! The quest for the long-lost Elfstones has drawn the leader of the Druid order and her followers into the hellish dimension known as the Forbidding, where the most dangerous creatures banished from the Four ... Read Book
Here the Dark From the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to fishermen lost off the islands of Honduras, to the Canadian prairies, where a teenage boy’s infatuation reveals his naivete and an aging rancher finds himself smitten, the short stories in Here the Dark explore the spaces between doubt and belief, evil and good, obscurity and light. Following men ... Read Book
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naive but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the contemporary craze for Gothic literature who is ... Read Book
Paws for Alarm A whisker away from death … A summer in England sounds like a great idea for the Harper family–and the house exchange makes it so affordable. Now they’ve swapped their New England home for a lovely cottage in a village near London. Why, the house even comes with a cat, a shy marmalade named Esmond. Everything seems purrfect … until someone tries to kill Mr. Harper. Now the genteel village ... Read Book
The Duchess Diaries As headmistress of the Scarfield Academy for Young Ladies, Miss Charlotte Boscastle is tasked with keeping her charges free from notoriety. But when Charlotte’s diary goes missing, she can’t imagine having her most intimate secrets fall into the wrong hands.Although the confessions in the diary he found spark his interest, the Duke of Wynfield has every intention of returning the journal. But ... Read Book
Not You It’s Me Gemma Summers is unlucky in love. She’s known it since third grade, when her first crush blew a spitball into her hair, and a decade-long string of bad dates, boring sex, and abysmal morning-afters has done nothing to improve her prospects. But when a random radio call-in contest lands her courtside tickets to the hottest playoff game of the season, Gemma’s luck may finally be on the upswing, ... Read Book
Entangled Minds Is everything connected? Can we sense what’s happening to loved ones thousands of miles away? Why are we sometimes certain of a caller’s identity the instant the phone rings? Do intuitive hunches contain information about future events? Is it possible to perceive without the use of the ordinary senses?Many people believe that such “psychic phenomena” are rare talents or divine gifts. ... Read Book
The Poop Diaries “Disgusting, hilarious, and scary . . . “-Chicago Tribune“Stories from plumbers that will make you smile, giggle, and laugh out loud.”-Arizona News IndependentThey come into our homes. They see us in our most fragile moments. Plumbers are a fixture in our lives. When a toilet clogs, a faucet leaks, or a sewer line plugs, we call those unsung heroes, desperately seeking help. They scoop ... Read Book
The Battle for God In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of people. In The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong brilliantly and sympathetically shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came ... Read Book
You’re Not the Boss of Me “Save me! My child is acting like a brat!”What parent hasn’t thought her child was a brat at one point or another? Whether your child really is a brat, is at risk of becoming one, or is simply trying to grow up in a world filled with temptations and distractions, you’ll love this book! It’s the ultimate hands-on guide to cultivating character traits that are tried-and-true ... Read Book
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