The Vocabulary Builder program uses a systematic approach to building students' vocabulary by presenting words in context or information about word parts to help students unlock word meanings independently, and by requiring tudents to apply their knowledge of new words in reading and writing exercises.
Each book in this series is designed for a specific reading level and features readings from the humanities, social studies, and sciences, vocabulary from Greek and Latin roots, assessment after each writing assigment, and a section on taking standardized tests.

Why Women Should Rule the World

English for Telephoning

English for Telephoning is the ideal quick course for anyone who needs to make effective telephone calls in a business context.
English for Telephoning can be completed in 25-30 hours, so students make progress quickly. Hands-on tasks allow students to use new language immediately.

Blood Groove

Blood Groove by Alex Bledsoe

First published by Night Shade in 2006, this dark tale of vampires in 1970s Memphis is marred by racial stereotypes and grim perversions. Baron Rudolfo Vladimir Zginski, stabbed with a crucifix in 1915, reanimates 60 years later when pathologist Patricia Johnson withdraws the cross from his mummified corpse. The racist and self-absorbed

Unnatural History of Cypress Parish

Unnatural History of Cypress Parish by Elise Blackwell

Louis Proby is an old man now, sitting in his study in New Orleans awaiting what they say is a huge storm, Hurricane Katrina. As he watches the skies darken, he remembers his earlier life, as a watchful, curious young man filled with hunger and desire in Cypress Parish, the life that was washed away when the Mississippi River flooded in 1927. He remembers exactly how the Parish was sacrificed to those waters--because the city fathers said it was expendable.