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Do you want to become more fluent in English?Do you want to understand everyday language and not just 'textbook' English?I taught English for many years and saw that many students get stuck at the high beginner/intermediate stage. They learn the basics and then can't move forward. This problem used to really frustrate me because I had lots of excellent students who were just stuck and eventually they would give up.I thought for a long time about what was wrong and th...

The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith’s classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most dazzlingly seductive writing. Strangers on a Train, transformed into a legendary fil...

How to master EnglishLots of intermediate English speakers tend to get trapped using the same vocabulary over and over again. They often only speak about subjects they know the words for and avoid anything outside of their 'comfort zone'. The problem with this is that even though they sound ok, they never really get any better.If you really want to improve, you need to be able to speak about a wide range of topics. For this, you will need to learn the special vocabulary con...

English Greek children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or Greek as their second language. Jimmy, the little bunny, likes to eat candy. He sneaks into the kitchen to find a bag with candies that was hidden inside the cupboard. What happens right after Jimmy climbs up to reach the bag of candy? You will find out when you read this illustrated children's book. Since that day, he starts to develop healthy eating habits and even likes to eat his fruits and vegetables.Ο Τζίμυ, ...

“Fabulous, in all senses of that word . . . combining the best features of the suspense genre with the best of existential fiction—a thrilled reflection.”—Paul TherouxElsie Tyler turns heads wherever she goes. After leaving her hometown upstate for Greenwich Village, the charming young waitress soon finds herself surrounded by admirers, including Jack and Natalia Sutherland, a married couple who invite Elsie into their bohemian inner circle and help her launch a ca...

Ripley is back. This new publication of Patricia Highsmith's classic inaugurates the complete Ripley series at Norton.Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley beco...

Candis Skye had been attending Hampton High School for six months. In spite of that, Molly was still her only friend. Candis didn’t mind the situation at all. However, fate was about to play some nasty tricks on her. At the first school football game, The Crabbers lost against the Indian Rivers.Such a thing had never happened before, and the home team wasn’t taking it lightly, especially Logan Sherman, their team captain.Unfortunately, several players from both teams got into...

Now a major motion picture starring Ben Affleck and Ana de ArmasIn Deep Water, set in the quiet, small town of Little Wesley, Patricia Highsmith has created a vicious and suspenseful tale of love gone sour.Vic and Melinda Van Allen's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Eventua...

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Unlock the more straightforward side of Strangers on a Train with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, which tells the story of two men whose lives become intertwined as a result of a chilling pact. Charles Anthony Bruno strikes up a conversation with the young architect Guy Haines and tells him that he can kill his wife, who he wants to divorce s...

English Hebrew Bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids learning English or Hebrew as their second language.This children's book can motivate the kids to take responsibility and keep their room organized. Follow along as little bunny Jimmy and his brothers learn their lesson in this picture book. They learn to work together, clean up their room, and organize their toys.

When Matt McCormick, a promising intern architect, is driven by personal tragedy and professional frustration to eavesdrop on a secret meeting of his profession's powerbrokers, a web of corruption, deceit and post-9-11 geopolitics forever changes his life.After McCormick's old friend, colleague and kindred spirit commits suicide, he embarks on a dangerous and suspenseful odyssey to expose his profession's widespread regulatory corruption. In doing so, he taps into a far deeper and ...