Mastering English isn't just about grammar, it's about understanding a living, ever changing language.In the United States, words and phrases change constantly. Expressions that once made perfect sense like "horseless carriage" fade into obscurity, while new slang and cultural references emerge with each new generation. For immigrants, this ever shifting landscape can make everyday communication, entertainment, and even citizenship feel more complex than it should be.This b...

Lenny Ray Johnson is a good man. He knows it. His wife Bertha Jean knows it. Everybody in Clarksdale, Mississippi knows it.Until they don't.All Lenny Ray wanted was a Friday night out with his best friend Beebo, a couple of drinks at the Hen & Rooster Lounge, and to make it home to his wife. What he got instead was one too many "Shotguns," a blackout he can't account for, and a visit four weeks later from Mabel Ann Williams — Beebo's girlfriend — parked sideways across his ...

From the quiet vantage point of a Camera Technician, this candid and engagingaccount takes readers behind the scenes of a film set to reveal the human stories oftenhidden from view. It's an insider's look at a culture in transition, one coping withsweeping changes from the rapid change in technology.Through sharp, honest observations, the author captures the tensions,vulnerabilities, and unexpected connections that emerge under the pressureof crea...

"English Grammar - Theory and Exercises" presents the most important elements of English Grammar in a clear and simple manner. The book addresses all those who want to learn English, regardless of age, offering, through clear explanations and algorithms, a better and faster understanding of English grammar. Each lesson is accompanied by examples and exercises. The book contains 900 exercises.

In the segregated South, a young girl’s life is changed forever: “A beautifully written literary novel [and] a real page-turner.” —Lee Smith, New York Times-bestselling author of Blue MarlinOn a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard along with Jubie are her three siblings, her mother, and the family’s black maid, Mary Luther. Fo...

The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around—fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he’s aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson—a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward—the news is served up all over town with that afternoon’s dinner. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major small-town scandal. Boggled by the sheer audacity of it all, an...

Your handy guide to one of the most important parts of speech: The Verb.

Join Father Tim on a profoundly personal journey back to his childhood home in this charming novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's Mitford series.Thirty-eight years have passed since Father Tim Kavanagh left his Mississippi hometown, determined not to return. Then he receives a handwritten note postmarked Holly Springs. Cryptic and unsigned, it says only Come home. These two words compel him to make the most challenging journey...

In this first-ever showcase of his work, Gregory Heisler, one of professional photography's most respected practitioners, shares 50 iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders, along with fascinating, thoughtful, often humorous stories about how the images were made. From his famously controversial portrait of President George H.W. Bush (which led to the revocation of Heisler’s White House clearance) to his evocative post-9/11 Time magazine cover of Rudolph Giulia...

Ashley Andrews has taken “shop till you drop” a little too much to heart, and finds herself facing a massive credit card bill. It seems like the perfect solution to get a part-time job as a Pleasure Party consultant, showing romance-enhancing toys and products to women.Lucas Manning is Ashley’s next-door neighbor and her younger brother’s best friend. When he accidentally opens a box outside his door addressed to Ashley, he’s a little startled to find an entire selection of neon co...

From New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe comes a powerful novel about the hopes, dreams, laughter--and limits--of six unique women surviving on the streets of San Francisco. . .They're about as different as six women can be--haughty and humble, beautiful and plain, young and not-so-young, black, white, Latina, and origins unknown. But aside from a gift for laughing hardship in the face, they have one very important thing in common--Clyde Brooks. You might say tha...

A humorous guide to grammar and punctuation through raunchy language and irreverent references.The truth about English is that it can get pretty boring. Dangling modifiers, gerunds, punctuation marks—it's enough to make you want to drop out of high school. Swearing and sex on the other hand, well, these time-honored pastimes warm the cockles of our hearts. Now, The Elements of F*cking Style drags English grammar out of the ivory tower and into the gutter, ...