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You may have asked yourself whether there is some effective method that can make you speak English fluently, efficiently and with confidence.Well, there is such a method!Advanced English Conversations will first and foremost help you gain mastery and command of those tricky idioms and phrases that are so common in English. In this book you are going to be acquainted with 90 active dialogues that present the language functionally. I...

It’s midnight. Turn out the lights, cuddle with your true love, and shiver to fright-meisters Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. P. Lovecraft.Quicken your pulse with the elegant terror of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Guy de Maupassant. Chortle at the black glee of H. H. Munro and Ambrose Bierce.These fourteen tales, plays, and poems, gleaned from cultures around the world, range from wickedly comic to deathly serious, from New England reserv...

You may have asked yourself whether there is some effective method that can make you speak English fluently, efficiently and with confidence.Well, there is such a method!Advanced English Conversations will first and foremost help you gain mastery and command of those tricky idioms and phrases that are so common in English. In this book you are going to be acquainted with 100 active dialogues that present the language functionally. ...

Five guest rooms. Nine guests. A murder no one heard.At the Oasis Bed and Breakfast, the coffee was brewing, guests were gathering, and breakfast was almost ready. Upstairs, Gabriel was dying.No scream. No cry for help. Downstairs, the morning carried on.When longtime partners Frank Wright and Joe Morris buy the secluded lakeside property, they imagine a fresh start: a home of their own, a business together, and a peaceful escape from city life. The...

In the suffocating heat of a post-war summer, a local murder unearths an international conspiracy-and the truth could ignite a new world war.July 1946. As Winnipeg stews beneath a relentless prairie heatwave, the bloody aftermath of the Dominion Day celebrations takes a chilling turn. When a quiet, hard-working stable hand is executed in the dead of night at the Polo Park Race Track, Winnipeg Police Detective Gabriel O'Malley catches what looks like a senseless local homicide....

A woman starting over. A new house with an unexpected twist. A cape wearing butler acting as the world's worst life coach. "Happily Ever After" wasn't supposed to come with a do-over option. But when my husband of twenty years packs up and heads for greener pastures and my son leaves for college, that's exactly what my life becomes. Do-over. This time, though, I plan to do things differently.Age is just a number, after all, and at forty I'm ready to carve my own path. Eager for a f...

Winnipeg, 1940. The river is frozen solid. The truth is buried deeper.In the tradition of James Patterson, Robert Ludlum, and Greg Iles, Young delivers a relentless thriller where the only thing more lethal than the prairie winter is a secret hiding in plain sight.New Year's Eve, 1939. As a wind shrieks down Portage Avenue, the city's elite celebrate the end of a decade inside the warm, gilded mansions of Armstrong Point. But outside, on the frozen ice of t...

'Pirate Tales for Children (9 Books in One Edition)' presents a riveting anthology that sails across the tempestuous seas of literary history, encapsulating a treasure trove of narratives from the pens of some of the most celebrated authors in literature. This collection explores the adventurous allure and moral undertones of pirate tales, incorporating a diverse array of styles from gothic horror to whimsical fantasy. As these narratives unfold, readers are invited to a world where morali...

Education is a challenging subject for anarchists. Many are critical about working within a state-run education system that is embedded in hierarchical, standardized, and authoritarian structures. Numerous individuals and collectives envision the creation of counterpublics or alternative educational sites as possible forms of resistance, while other anarchists see themselves as “saboteurs” within the public arena—believing that there is a need to contest dominant forms of power and educati...

A collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories and featuring beloved character Jamie Fraser. BESEIGED: Protagonist is Lord John Grey, a secondary character in the Outlander novels and a main protagonist of the Lord John novels, Diana's related series (Never before published) A FUGITIVE GREEN: Protagonist is Hal Grey, John's brother (Never before published) VIRGINS: Protagonists are Jamie Fraser at age 19, a...

The Complete Works of Robert Burns gathers the poems, songs, and correspondence of Scotland's national bard into a capacious literary archive of vernacular brilliance, radical sympathy, and lyrical invention. Moving from rustic satire and devotional parody to love song, political epigram, dramatic narrative, and intimate letter, the volume situates such enduring pieces as Tam o' Shanter, To a Mouse, and Auld Lang Syne within the full range of Burns's expressive achievement. Burns's backgro...

Shadows In The Pool Of The Black Star: A Detective Gabriel O'Malley NovelWhere Sacred Geometry Meets Wartime Treason.January in Winnipeg is a sentence, not a season. At thirty-five below zero, a bitter, hunting wind strips the warmth from the limestone walls of the Manitoba Legislative Building. But inside the grand structure, the chill is trapped-along with a horrifying secret.When Detective Gabriel O'Malley is sum...