Eric Weiner

Dora and Boots find all sorts of items in Backpack that help them on their adventure to get eight books back to the library before it closes.

Retraces the journeys of forefront intellectuals from Epicurus and Gandhi to Thoreau and Beauvoir to illuminate how their practical and spiritual lessons can be applied in today's unsettled world. We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a difƯferent perspective, to unearth hidden beauty, and to find new ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face regrets. Sustain hope. Eric Weiner combines his...

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, this book takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore...

Get ready for an egg-citing Easter adventure as kids help Dora and Boots save the Hip-Hop-Bunny's basket of eggs! Plus, a troll wedding and a trip to Troll Land!

Dora and Boots invite their friends to have some fun in the sun. Help save Baby Crab, work with a Snowman and Jack-O-Lantern to fix the mixed up seasons, and more.

World adventure: When Swiper swipes all the special glowing friendship bracelets from friendship parades all over the world, Dora needs his help (and yours) to bring them back to France, Tanzania, Russia, and China.

A present for Santa: Dora and Boots want to bring Santa some holiday cheer. Rápido, Tico!: Boot's toy firetruck is atop Snowy Mountain, and he and Dora need to get it before Swiper does! School pet: Dora is showing her classroom to Boots when she discovers her school pet, Mimo, is missing. Quack! Quack!: Jump into a coloring book for one colorful adventure. Preschoolers learn: Spanish language skills; math and logic skills; interpersonal skills;...

Features the never-before-seen episode La Maestra de Música. Help Boots' teacher get to school on time to greet her students with a song, learn Spanish words, cheer up the Grumpy Old Troll, and help Dora and Boots deliver the mail.

Daisy, la quinceañera": Dora needs to bring the special crown and shoes to her cousin Daisy's 15th birthday party. "The big piñata": Step right up to the Carnival with Dora and Boots and help them win the Big Piñata by collecting ten yellow tickets. "Surprise!": Dora is throwing a surprise birthday party for Boots. "The fix-it machine": There's a hole in Boots's boot, Tico's tire, Benny's boat, even the Grumpy Old Troll's pants, the fix-it machine...