Betty Suorez has just got her frst job. She is the assistant tothe editor at Mode,a top -fashion magazine in New York. But there'sone problem - she doesn't careabout-fashion and she's not cool - atatl! What will life be like.for her in a worldwhere.fashion tseverything?

Following the death of her husband, Mrs Dashwood and her threedaughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, are forced to leave theirfamily home and move to a small cottage in Devon. There, Mariannemeets and falls in love with the charismatic Mr Willoughby but sheis left distraught by his inconsistent behaviour. And whilstconsoling her younger sister, Elinor is forced to confront her ownfeelings towards Edward Ferrars, an old family friend …

Limerick, 1934. It's cold and it's wet.Frank, his parents and three brothers have just come back fromAmerica to start a new life in Ireland. But life in Limerick iseven harder than life in 1930s' New York. Frank's `father, Malachy,is from the North of Ireland and people sag he has the "strangelook". He loves his family but he also likes to drink ... Seen through a child's eyes, Angela's Ashestells the true story of Frank's experiences with school, work,girls, death and the Catholic Church.

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Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need inthe ELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material thatwill instantly appeal to teenage students with a limited knowledgeof English. "Spooky Skaters" is a comic-strip style reader about agroup of skateboarders from the land of the living and the 'Land ofthe Dead'.

Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call meIshmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudicemust be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly whatMelville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing theintricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century Britishmating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual,Austen trains her sights on a country village and a fewfamilies--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases.Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune,and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, whomarried above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity tomarry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley iscomplaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane;Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet'svulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters,he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane andElizabeth. His