Dumbstruck


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Ten-year-old Aldo lives with his family in Colorado. He's not athletic like his older brother; he's not a rock hound like his best friend; and he is none too fond of the outdoors—but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a passion. Aldo is passionate about bacon. Back at school adjusting to life in the 5th grade, Aldo is embarrassed about his artistic abilities. He has always underplayed his creative talent at school; but when he is around his cute new art teacher he suddenly finds himself behaving strangely. He loses the ability to speak when she’s around, volunteers to skip recess so he can clean paintbrushes, and finds himself working harder than ever before in a daring attempt to win the school art contest. The humorous plot and lively drawings in this book will captivate both enthusiastic and reluctant young readers who will identify with Aldo's all-too-familiar predicaments. This fourth installment in an A-to-Z alphabet series features a vocabulary-building glossary of fun and challenging words starting with the letter D, such as debacle, doofus, and defenestrate.




Love Stuck Dumb Struck


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ROUGE BLUSH


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Mock Papers on General Paper – I (General paper on Teaching & Research Aptitude)


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Welcome to "Mock Papers on Paper – I," a comprehensive and indispensable resource designed to aid aspiring candidates of the UGC NTA NET JRF General Paper on Teaching & Research Aptitude examination. This book has been carefully crafted to cater to the needs of individuals preparing for this competitive examination and seeking to enhance their knowledge and performance. The UGC NTA NET JRF is a highly regarded examination that evaluates the teaching and research aptitude of candidates aspiring to become Assistant Professors or qualify for Junior Research Fellowships. This challenging exam requires a deep understanding of various aspects of teaching methodology, research techniques, communication skills, and general awareness. To succeed, candidates must demonstrate proficiency in these areas and possess the ability to think critically and apply their knowledge effectively. "Mock Papers on Paper – I" has been meticulously developed with the primary objective of providing aspiring candidates with a comprehensive set of mock test papers that mirror the actual examination pattern. These mock papers are designed to assess and enhance your aptitude in teaching and research while familiarizing you with the exam format, question types, and time constraints. By practicing with these papers, you will gain invaluable insights into the exam structure, build confidence, and refine your test-taking strategies. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all those who contributed to the development of this book. I extend my special thanks to the editorial team for their diligent efforts in reviewing the manuscript and ensuring that it meets the highest standards of quality. I also acknowledge the valuable feedback received from subject matter experts, which has helped us refine the content. In conclusion, I am confident that this book will prove to be a valuable resource for candidates preparing for competitive exams in the education sector.




The First Husband


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"A fresh, funny take on the search for a soulmate." —People A savvy, page-turning novel about a woman torn between her husband and the man she thought she'd marry by the author of the New York Times Bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick, The Last Thing He Told Me Annie Adams is days away from her thirty-second birthday and thinks she has finally found some happiness. She visits the world's most interesting places for her syndicated travel column and she's happily cohabiting with her movie director boyfriend Nick in Los Angeles. But when Nick comes home from a meeting with his therapist (aka "futures counselor") and announces that he's taking a break from their relationship so he can pursue a woman from his past, the place Annie had come to call home is shattered. Reeling, Annie stumbles into her neighborhood bar and finds Griffin-a grounded, charming chef who seems to be everything Annie didn't know she was looking for. Within three months, Griffin is Annie's husband and Annie finds herself trying to restart her life in rural Massachusetts. A wry observer of modern love, Laura Dave "steers clear of easy answers to explore the romantic choices we make" (USA Today). Her third novel is packed with humor, empathy, and psychological insight about the power of love and home.




Who Killed Customer Care?


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Entrepreneur and Customer Service Guru Redman Folgate is mysteriously found dead in his mountain retreat. Has been journalist Rock Hardstuff is coincidentally on the scene and decides to solve the murder to redeem his career. Rock must weave his way through a myriad of bizarre characters before he can solve the Who Dunnit with a How Dunnit and so much more. Who Killed Customer Care? uses a comedy murder mystery allegory to explain the secrets of Customer and Client Communication.




Clare's Lyric


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This book considers the lyric poems written by John Clare and three twentieth-century poets—Arthur Symons, Edmund Blunden, and John Ashbery—who turned to him at pivotal moments in their own development. These writers crafted a distinctive mode of lyric, 'Clare's lyric', that emphatically grounds its truth claims in mimetic accuracy. For these writers, accurate representation involves not only words that name objects, describe scenes, and create images pointing to a shared reality but also patterns of sound, the syntactic organization of lines, and the shapes of whole poems and collections of poems. Their works masterfully investigate how poetic language and form can refer to the world, word by word, line by line, and poem by poem. Written in a lively and accessible style, Clare's Lyric sheds light on a richly diverse body of poems and on enduring questions about how literature represents reality. Weiner's attentive close readings bring the writings of Clare, Symons, Blunden, and Ashbery to life by revealing precisely how they captured a vital, arresting, and complex world in their poems. Their unique approach to lyric is traced from Clare's poems about birdsong, his sonnets, and his later poems of loss and absence to Symons's efforts to make 'amends to nature' Blunden's vivid depictions of a European and English countryside scarred by the First World War, and Ashbery's unbounded and bountiful landscapes. This inventive study refines our understanding of the aesthetic of Romanticism, the genre of lyric, and the practice of literary representation, and it makes a compelling case for the ongoing importance of poems about nature and social life.




Loving Whiskey


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Tired of dating, Willow Lawson gives up on love and focuses on the expansion of Martini Girl Bar. She is officially on a man-strike – until she meets Colt. Colton Royce has his hands full raising his four-year-old niece and seventy-two-year-old grandmother. But when a chance encounter to play music again knocks on his door, he takes it. Lightning strikes when Willow and Colt are around, proving love enters when they least expect it.




Champagne on Vice


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Mattie Logan is gonna live her life on her own terms, even if it means leaving her loveless marriage. When a good deed lands her an aces job slinging drinks at a speakeasy, she's thrust into the glittering, magical underbelly of New Orleans. Who better to show her the ropes (and the pleasure she's been craving) than the fella with the gray eyes and mischievous smile? Daniel prides himself on not having a gargoyle's overprotective instincts, but Mattie's curiosity, top rate curves, and lust for experiences of all varieties might have him breaking his own rules and melting his heart of stone. Her new life is the bee's knees—at least until Mattie's husband waltzes in.




Legends of Demon Supreme


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As the first Demon Sovereign in the history of the demon beast world, he would go for the heavenly tribulation, and as long as he endured the ninth heavenly tribulation, he would ascend to the legendary Demon Ancestor. Unfortunately, standing on the flying platform, he had acted too arrogantly. His luck was poor when he encountered the talking Nine Layered Heavens, and he was chased for ninety-one days and eighty-one days before being chopped into an immortal demon essence. From then on, he was at odds with the Nine-Layered Heavens. He swore that he would find a suitable carrier and return to life. He would shatter this Nine-Layered Heavens and recover his lost face!