Phoning It In

Phoning It In
Author: Nicole Ciacchella
Publisher: Sweenix Rising Books
Total Pages: 372
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Genre: Fiction
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A sexy romantic comedy about breaking free of a comfortable rut. Contains mature content. Melinda can summarize her life in a few words: dead-end job, nonexistent love life, and a contentious relationship with her older sister—not exactly the rosy picture she had of life at 25. When Benoit enters the picture, she falls hard. Gorgeous, funny, and smart, he’s everything she’s ever wanted in a man and more, but she can’t fathom that he could possibly want a plus-sized girl like her. Tired of going through the motions, Melinda tries to find the courage to pursue her dream career, but working for a publishing company would mean moving away from everyone and everything she knows and loves. Is she content to remain in her comfortable rut, or is it time to strike out on her own and seize her chance at getting what she’s always wanted?

Phoning It In

Phoning It In
Author: A.J. Shay
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2023-08-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1685505309

To the public, Harper Miller is nothing more than a mild mannered, socially awkward English professor with a slight stutter and some control issues. She knows her public persona isn’t glamorous, but she doesn’t care if people see her as milquetoast. She prefers it that way because it means no one would ever suspect her secret. Harper never intended to run a phone sex line long term. It was meant to help her pay off her student loans before landing a job with a decent paycheck. Of course, Harper never intended to fall for a client either. After talking to a caller that goes by Em for six months, Harper can admit she’s thoroughly smitten, even though her mystery woman may not be who she seems. What happens when Em’s true identity is discovered? Will Harper be able to look past old grievances for a shot at true love?

Vocabulary Power for Business: 500 Words You Need to Transform Your Career and Your Life

Vocabulary Power for Business: 500 Words You Need to Transform Your Career and Your Life
Author: Dan Strutzel
Publisher: Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1722521155

The author of the best-selling 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, Dan Strutzel, now puts his focus on communicating successfully in the business world! Business is just like any sector or topic, with its own language, customs, codes, and terminologies. Different aspects of business can have their own distinctive terminology, which can also overlap. For instance, words and phrases from the realm of sales can also apply to management or finance under a variety of circumstances. In Vocabulary Power for Business, Dan presents 500 words and short expressions from a variety of different business categories. Each section introduces approximately 25 words. Dan discusses each word or phrase and its definition. He then, reinforces the word and its meaning with another example in a sentence. There are four sections on banking and finance, four on marketing, and four on negotiation. Other sections focus on sales, entrepreneurship, human resources, e-business, and leadership. The book's intention is to be entertaining, informative, and inspiring. As the world changes, language changes with it - and both are changing very fast. With Vocabulary Power for Business, you'll keep pace with those changes and watch your career benefit as a result!

The Lament of Captain Hook: Memoirs of a Life in Time

The Lament of Captain Hook: Memoirs of a Life in Time
Author: Layla Velasquez
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2016-02-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1329856686

Layla Velasquez is a writer/blogger that writes about life, God and Christianity. This collection of personal and reflective poetry articulates those themes in her signature style found at www.thevagrantwriter.com.

The Politics of Collecting

The Politics of Collecting
Author: Eunsong Kim
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2024-06-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1478059478

In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of expropriation—rather than merit or good taste—are responsible for popular ideas of formal innovation and artistic genius. In doing so, she details how Marcel Duchamp’s canonization has more to do with his patron’s donations to museums than it does the quality of Duchamp’s work, and uncovers the racialized and financialized logic behind the Archive of New Poetry’s collecting practices. Ranging from the conception of philanthropy devised by the robber barons of the late nineteenth century to ongoing digitization projects, Kim provides a new history of contemporary art that accounts for the complicated entanglement of race, capital, and labor behind storied art institutions and artists. Drawing on history, theory, and economics, Kim challenges received notions of artistic success and talent and calls for a new vision of art beyond the cultural institution.

Shelter in Place

Shelter in Place
Author: David Leavitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2022-04-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1526652331

'Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet' Rachel Cusk 'A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel' Jenny Offill It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, a group of New Yorkers has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. Liberal and like-minded, the friends have come to the countryside in the hope of restoring the bubble in which they have grown used to living. Moving through her days accompanied by a carefully curated salon, Eva Lindquist is a generous hostess with an obsession for decorating. Yet when, in her avidity to secure shelter for herself, she persuades her husband to buy a grand if dilapidated apartment in Venice, she unwittingly sets off the chain of events that will propel him to venture outside the bubble and embark on an unexpected love affair. A slyly comic look at the shelter industry, Shelter in Place is a novel about house and home, safety and freedom and the insidious ways in which political upheaval can undermine even the most seemingly impregnable foundations.

Word Power for Business

Word Power for Business
Author: Dan Strutzel
Publisher: HBG
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2017-05-09
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1469066785

The author of the best-selling 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, Dan Strutzel, now puts his focus on communicating successfully in the business world! Business is just like any sector or topic, with its own language, customs, codes, and terminologies. Different aspects of business can have their own distinctive terminology, which can also overlap. For instance, words and phrases from the realm of sales can also apply to management or finance under a variety of circumstances. In Word Power for Business, Dan presents 500 words and short expressions from a variety of different business categories. Each session of the program introduces approximately 25 words. First there is an informal conversation between a male and female, seeing the vocabulary in context. Next Dan discusses each word or phrase and its definition. Finally, he reinforces the word and its meaning with another example in a sentence. There are four sessions on banking and finance, four on marketing, and four on negotiation. Other sessions focus on sales, entrepreneurship, human resources, e-business, and leadership. The program's intention is to be entertaining, informative, and inspiring. As the world changes, language changes with it-and both are changing very fast. With Word Power for Business, you'll keep pace with those changes and watch your career benefit as a result!

Dylan

Dylan
Author: Jon Bream
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1627886974

Listen to every side: “Gorgeously rendered. . . . a unique spin on the discography.” —Booklist Covering each of Bob Dylan’s thirty-six studio LPs, this book brings rock ‘n’ roll musicians, songwriters, and critics together to sound off about each release, discussing and debating not only Dylan’s extraordinary musical accomplishments but the factors in his life that influenced his musical expressions. Beautifully illustrated with LP art and period photography, as well as performance and candid backstage images, the book also contains liner notes-like details about the recordings and session musicians, and provides context and perspective on Dylan’s career—in a one-of-a-kind retrospective of the life and music of an American legend. Commentators include Questlove of the Roots and the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Rodney Crowell, Jason Isbell, Suzanne Vega, Ric Ocasek of the Cars, Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding), longtime Dylan pal Eric Andersen and Minnesota musicians Tony Glover and Kevin Odegard, both of whom have been in the studio with Dylan. Other well-known voices in Dylan: Disc by Disc include Robert Christgau, Anthony DeCurtis, Alan Light, Joe Levy, Holly George-Warren, Joel Selvin, Jim Fusilli, Geoffrey Himes, Charles R. Cross, and David Browne, among others.

30 Days to a More Powerful Business Vocabulary

30 Days to a More Powerful Business Vocabulary
Author: Dan Strutzel
Publisher: Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2020-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1722524286

“...A LEARNING EXPERIENCE THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER.” -BRIAN TRACY The author of the best-selling 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, Dan Strutzel, now puts his focus on communicating successfully in the business world! Business is just like any sector or topic, with its own language, customs, codes, and terminologies. Different aspects of business can have their own distinctive terminology, which can also overlap. In 30 Days to a More Powerful Business Vocabulary, Dan presents over 500 words and short expressions from a variety of different business categories. Each section introduces approximately 25 words. Each of the words are initially presented in a story or conversation, so you can experience the correct context in which the words are used. Dan then discusses each word or phrase and its definition. Finally, he reinforces the word and its meaning with another example in a sentence. And of course, Dan has you make all of the words a part of your permanent vocabulary by using his “30-day learning program” based on well-known super-learning principles. There are four sections on banking and finance, four on marketing, and four on negotiation. Other sections focus on sales, entrepreneurship, human resources, e-business, leadership, and an all-new section on remote learning! The book’s intention is to be entertaining, informative, and inspiring. As the world changes, language changes with it—and both are changing very fast. With 30 Days to a More Powerful Business Vocabulary, you’ll keep pace with those changes and watch your career benefit as a result!

Thank You, Teacher

Thank You, Teacher
Author: Brad Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2022-04-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000568830

Thank you, teacher, for making a difference! This uplifting book by motivational speakers Brad Johnson and Hal Bowman provides daily encouragement to keep you feeling inspired on your educational journey. It features 100 letters, written by teachers across the country and addressed to YOU. The letters highlight topics such as celebrating small successes, bringing out the best in your students, and knowing your worth. The book is perfect for teachers of all grade levels, and for principals to buy their teachers for schoolwide morale. Read one letter each morning to kick off your day, or use them to launch staff meetings or PD days. The comforting, affirming advice will remind you why you’ve chosen this profession, that you're not alone, that you can get through your toughest days, and that you're having a big impact!