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This book is specially designed for readers seeking to play and practice with tongue twisters developed with elevated levels of difficulty. This book contains numerous giant complex tongue twisters intending to put physical and mental strain while practicing or playing with the passages of the book. The objective is to present a formidable challenge for practitioners to enhance their oratory skills. This book is suitable for experienced users who...
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The animal kingdom is full of amazing critters with terrifically interesting tongues. Curly ones. Backward ones. Ones for smelling. Ones for cleaning. Even ones for eating ice cream! This book is packed with totally weird facts about those terribly unique tongues, including the flamingo tongue, which really isn't a tongue at all!Suitable for ages 4 to 8 years. REVIEWS: "Suitable for multiple audiences! Both my first-grader and preschooler...
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"Rachel's fans will enjoy her latest case, which highlights the consequences of greed as well as the abilities of the disabled." -Booklist
As St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold knows firsthand, the demands of the profession can take a toll on young lawyers. Some turn to drugs, some give up the job and occasionally one gives up altogether. According to the medical examiner, Sari Bashir belongs in the latter category. After she fell from the eighth floor...
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"STICKS AND STONES" HAD IT WRONG.
Words can hurt you, as elementary school teacher Jon Wanamaker learns while working to preserve a dying language. Already mired in the aftermath of a failed marriage, Jon is suddenly tormented by ghostly, ribbon-like sentences that stream across his vision, wrenching him in and out of consciousness.
But are they hallucinations, or something more? Minutes after the ribbons appear, a deranged sniper is hot on Jon's...
6) Tongue Tied
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There is no lover for you in all of Carum Sound.Prophecy or not, Princess Conora refuses to accept a life of celibacy-especially not after meeting the suave and sensual Prince Calosandros from beyond Carum Sound. Their similar Gifts even provide a connection: he can speak any language, and she can talk to animals. So, when he proposes marriage during their first meeting, Conora sees an opportunity to regain control of her life and impulsively accepts...
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With recipes for everything from Coconut Crab Crumpets to Kasundi Keema Lasagne Rolls, award-winning food writer Gurdeep Loyal celebrates the hybrid third-culture cooking of second-generation migrants around the world today. Born in Britain to Indian parents, Gurd felt constantly pulled by the clashing expectations of both cultures. But through his passion for food and cooking he was able to embrace the delicious contradictions of his plural British...
8) Tongue Tied
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He is a Master Linguist who has trained the world's greatest speakers, but when Derek Scotts meets the ravishing Willow Jacob, he is suddenly tongue-tied. To make matters worse, she has hired him to prepare her for the speech of a lifetime, a TED Talk.
Could he get over his tongue issues to help her achieve that perfect oratory speech?
With tongue-twisting turns and tongue-lashing twists, Tongue Tied is a heart-warming story, which is part of the...
9) Milk Tongue
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An exploration of what we inherit or pass on, illuminating the gray area between ubiquitous human desires and overconsumption.
Irène Mathieu's third collection, “Milk Tongue”, refers to the layer of milk that coats a baby's tongue, which often is a challenge to distinguish from thrush, the overgrowth of naturally occurring yeast. As poet and pediatrician, Mathieu explores how we diagnose and investigate where normal consumption and overconsumption...
10) Silver Tongue
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A stand-alone psychic romantic suspense from NYT and USA Today bestseller Marie Harte. When empath Kitty Nelson is forced to work with rude artist Dane Hanson on a mission to recover a stolen antique, the sparks fly. Kitty's psychic skills don't work on him. And Dane thinks she's the hottest thing he's ever seen. But when the op turns deadly, Dane realizes he wants to keep the feisty redhead for a lot longer than this mission. That's if she'll let...
13) Loose Tongues
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What's wrong, killer got your tongue? It's DC Sean Blake's first week on the job, but already he faces a series of brutal and bizarre killings: women are being strangled in their homes, each with a mobile phone forced down their throat. There are never any signs of a struggle or forced entry. The Greater Manchester Police have no leads. Blake can't afford to waste any time - even as he picks apart the disturbing motive behind the murders, the case...
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Prince Allen has trained his entire life to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious mother, who has made their kingdom one of the wealthiest and most influential in the empire. For the past few years he has trained to become the new consort of the High King. The only thing no one prepared him for was the stubborn, arrogant High King himself, who declares Allen useless and throws him out of court.High King Sarrica is ruling an empire at war, and...
15) Tongues of Fire
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A chilling and explosive tale of revenge set in the Middle East from acclaimed suspense novelist Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries After his unit is decimated in the Israeli war, Lieutenant Isaac Rehv returns to Haifa to find his family savagely murdered. Torn apart with grief and rage, he vows that his enemies-and the enemies of Israel-will pay. Months later, Rehv, who is a former literary scholar and professor...
16) Tongues of Ash
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Winner, IP Picks Best First Book, 2011.
Keith Westwater's poetry arises from his appreciation and love of the New Zealand landscape. Well-travelled throughout the land, the poet evokes memories as he revisits places invested with emotion, history and spirituality.
17) A Stolen Tongue
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A riveting mystery that recalls the work of Umberto Eco and Barry Unsworth, A Stolen Tongue is the captivating debut novel that launched critically acclaimed author Sheri Holman's literary career.
In 1483, Father Felix Fabri sails from Germany to Mount Sinai on a pilgrimage to venerate the relics of Saint Katherine of Alexandria. But at each of the shrines he visits throughout Greece and Palestine, he finds that the remains of Katherine's body are...
18) The Lying Tongue
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Fresh from finishing university in England, Adam Woods arrives in Venice to begin a new chapter in his life. He soon secures employment as the personal assistant of Gordon Crace -- a famous expatriate novelist who makes his home in a dank and crumbling palazzo, surrounded by fabulous works of art, piles of unanswered correspondence and the memories of his former literary glory.
Before long Adam becomes indispensable to the feeble Crace, and he finds...
19) Hold Your Tongue
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Upon learning his great-uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out for Ste. Anne, in southeastern Manitoba, to find his father and tell him the news. Waylaid by memories of his stalled romance, tales of run-ins with local Mennonites, his job working a honey wagon, and struck by visions of Métis history and secrets of his family's past, Richard confronts his desires to leave town, even as he learns to embrace his heritage.
Evoking an...
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All over Hollywood, men are dialing O-for orgasms. Her steamy naughty talk fills them with lust and longing, and helps them perform like the studs they claim to be.
In truth, the industry's favorite "erotic phone operatrix" is Nina Harte, a struggling actress who has put her career on hold so that her husband, Nathan, can pursue his own dreams of stardom. When Nathan's career takes off, so does he, leaving Nina and their four-year-old son, Jake,...