College Reading

Modern society moves at an incredible speed. If you’re not careful, it is easy to feel like you are falling behind while your friends, coworkers, and close family seem to be learning and growing. Perhaps you have always struggled to read quickly, which has put you off reading and educating yourself. Or maybe you can read quickly but struggle to comprehend much of the content you consume and therefore struggle to retain it. Well, not for much longer! Modern Speed Reading is a must-read for anyone interested in learning how to inhale and absorb written content and improve their speed, ...

Conquer the SAT Reading and Writing: Your Key to Academic Success is a comprehensive guide designed to help students excel in the Reading and Writing section of the SAT. The book covers essential strategies for mastering the exam, from understanding the test format to improving grammar, sentence structure, and reading comprehension. It emphasizes critical reading skills, inference-based questions, and evidence-based answers, teaching students how to tackle various types of passages, including literary, historical, and scientific texts. The guide also focuses on building clarity in writing, ...

For fans of Raymond Chandler, Sunset Boulevard, and all things noir... It’s Los Angeles. Michael is a brilliant seventeen-year-old with a mind for numbers and a habit of staying out late. Jake Logan, a struggling actor, is his private tutor. Curious, he follows the boy across the city one night—and discovers the unexpected. A team of teenagers is learning how to count cards in blackjack. They’re led by an elderly but devious mastermind, Father McCauley. He’s a Jesuit priest who’s spent thirty years helping kids finance their college educations by teaching them how to fleece ...

Conquer the PSAT/NMSQT Reading and Writing Exam: Your Key to Academic Success is a comprehensive guide tailored to help students excel in the Reading and Writing portion of the PSAT/NMSQT. This book covers critical skills such as reading comprehension, grammar essentials, sentence structure, and vocabulary in context, equipping students with tools for effective test preparation. Each chapter explores essential concepts with clear explanations, from identifying main ideas and supporting details in passages to mastering inference and evidence-based questions. Practical time management tips ...

This book is for the millions of parents of all races who are not born into the silver spoon crowd; who know enough to want their child to earn more to have a better life than they did, who seek practical advice regarding how to get academic and economic liftoff for their children. The author, David M. Ramirez, J.D. has the credentials and the real life experience to give no baloney “road tested” “no fluff” expert advice on this subject that really works. The author just finished [2016-2017) turning around the adult prison school at Folsom State Prison which was truly floundering, ...

For fans of Raymond Chandler, Sunset Boulevard, and all things noir... It’s Los Angeles. Jake Logan, a struggling young actor with a Harvard background, hasn’t gotten a part in months. A chance meeting with an old friend leads to an unusual new gig—as a private tutor for April Kim, a highly intelligent seventeen-year-old from a wealthy Asian family. Her life goal: to attend Harvard. But there’s a big problem. Jake soon discovers that April is a devious, manipulative, backstabbing overachiever who will stop at absolutely nothing to get what she wants. It’s a battle of wills, and ...

Enemies can make the best lovers. Introducing Grant Donovan. Brash. Bulging muscles. Chiseled abs. Millions in the bank. I get to have this hottie as my protector and roommate? Well then, welcome to Chez Donovan’s to me. “You’re my responsibility,” he told me. Witnessing a murder that involved your shady boss is never a smart career move. Now here I am in a mansion with this cocky stud who is giving me the dirtiest thoughts. How did things get so crazy? The police want to arrest me for a murder I didn’t commit. My boss—well, ex-boss—wants me dead. Grant’s got a secret past ...