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.




Dumbstruck


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One night, two boys, and a lethal dose of puppy love. Brayden is traveling with his parents from Newhaven to Wakefield. What starts as a grueling journey for the 14-year-old turns into a time of transcendence when he meets another family at a camping site whose son is jaw-droppingly beautiful. Will the boys get to know each other? Will they grow a bond, or will the brief interaction be nothing more than passing at crossroads. Join Brayden for his first stumblings on the love scene, and see what becomes of his awkwardness. Dumbstuck is about all those times we are swept off our feet by a stranger in passing, but this time around what if we got to know them?




Dumbstruck


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When ten-year-old Ivy's parents disappear on the darkest night of the year, she tries to find them with the help of an orphan and her eccentric Aunt Zilpa.




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.




Freebird


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"Freebird is such a timely book. considering the current deep divisions between right and left. A new classic for the collapsing political landscape of America."--Kim Gordon, author of Girl in a Band The Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal from a venture capitalist seeking to privatize the city’s wastewater. Her brother, Ben, a former Navy SEAL, returns from Afghanistan disillusioned and struggling with PTSD, and starts down a path toward a radical act of violence. And Anne’s teenage son, Aaron, can’t decide if he should go to college or pitch it all and hit the road. They all live inside the long shadow of the Singer patriarch Grandpa Sam, whose untold experience of the Holocaust shapes his family’s moral character to the core. Jon Raymond, screenwriter of the acclaimed films Meek’s Cutoff and Night Moves, combines these narrative threads into a hard-driving story of one family’s moral crisis. In Freebird, Raymond delivers a brilliant, searching novel about death and politics in America today, revealing how the fates of our families are irrevocably tied to the currents of history.




Dumbstruck - A Cultural History of Ventriloquism


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Why can none of us hear our own recorded voice without wincing? Why is the telephone still full of such spookiness and erotic possibility? Why does the metaphor of ventriloquism, the art of 'seeming to speak where one is not', speak so resonantly to our contemporary technological condition? These are the kind of questions which impel Steven Connor's wide-ranging, restlessly inquisitive history of ventriloquism and the disembodied voice. He tracks his subject from its first recorded beginnings in ancient Israel and Greece, through the fulminations of early Christian writers against the unholy (and, they believed, obscenely produced) practices of pagan divination, the aberrations of the voice in mysticism, witchcraft and possession, and the strange obsession with the vagrant figure of the ventriloquist, newly conceived as male rather than female, during the Enlightenment. He retrieves the stories of some of the most popular and versatile ventriloquists and polyphonists of the nineteenth century, and investigates the survival of ventriloquial delusions and desires in spiritualism and the 'vocalic uncanny' of technologies like telephone, radio, film, and internet. Learned but lucid, brimming with anecdote and insight, this is much more than an archaeology of one of the most regularly derided but tenaciously enduring of popular arts. It is also a series of virtuoso philosophical and psychological reflections on the problems and astonishments, the raptures and absurdities of the unhoused voice.