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My Return to the Walter Boys: Sequel to My Life with the Walter Boys ; Now A Hit Netflix Show!

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‘The highly anticipated sequel to My Life with the Walter Boys, the internationally bestselling YA romance novel that inspired the Netflix series!

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Jackie Howard returns to the boy who has her heart, the family she loves, and the choice she must make.

Jackie is back on the Walter ranch after a summer in New York. She needed space – and got it. But she doesn’t know where things stand with her and Cole Walter after that goodbye kiss. Over the summer, she stopped texting him.

But she never stopped thinking about him.

Still, with Cole living off in town to work at Tony’s garage before he heads off to college, Jackie thinks it’ll be easy to avoid him – only to find that when she sees him face to face at last, it’s, well…impossible to resist him.

Things are getting complicated: he’s the boy she can’t get off her mind, and the Walters have become the family she loves and needs. How can Jackie move forward when she’s afraid of taking the next step?

This heartfelt follow-up to the bestselling My Life with the Walter Boys promises a sweet YA romance that captures the beauty of the found family dynamic and the complexities of coming of age.

Tropes
Found Family
First Love
Coming of Age
Young Adult
Romance

Also by Ali Novak:
My Life with the Walter Boys
The Heartbreakers (The Heartbreak Chronicles Book 1)
Paper Hearts (The Heartbreak Chronicles Book 2)

The Last Second Chance (Blue Moon Series, Book 3) ; TikTok Made Me Buy It! From Author of Things We Never Got Over

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Welcome back to the quirky, romantic small town of Blue Moon Bend: home to this enticing romantic comedy series from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over and the fan-favourite Riley Thorn books.

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A steamy romantic comedy between a stubborn heroine and the high-school sweetheart who abandoned her after a devastating accident nearly took her life…but is determined, eight years later, to win her back.

“You were made for me.”

“Shut up, Jax.”

There are two things Joey Greer is great at: raising horses and holding grudges. Eight years ago, her high school sweetheart abandoned her, skipped out on his family, and fled to Hollywood of all places. She vowed never to forgive or forget.

Now big-shot screenwriter Jackson Pierce is back in Blue Moon demanding another chance. No place is safe from him. Not the stables. Not the only bar in town. Not even the clawfoot tub on Joey’s own deck.

No matter how good it feels when he sneaks past her defences to land a kiss or a compliment, she is determined to pretend he doesn’t exist. Except maybe when he’s naked in her bed.

Jax can’t tell Joey the truth about the night he left. It would ruin far more than just their relationship. All he can do is sweep her off her reluctant feet with orgasms, flowers, bacon, and a rescue dog. Oh, and maybe handcuff himself to her for charity, too.

Blue Moon Bend’s Beautification Committee has a few tricks up its devious sleeve where Jax and Joey are concerned. Tricks that will either leave the past in the past or ensure these two lovebirds can never be in the same room again.

Lucy Score brings to life the “nosiest small town in upstate New York” in this charming and compelling romantic comedy – the third in a series of romcom romps through the small but lively town of Blue Moon Bend.

Tropes
Romantic Comedy
Small Town
Enemies to Lovers
High School Sweethearts
Contemporary Romance

The Blue Moon Series:
No More Secrets
Fall into Temptation
The Last Second Chance
Not Part of the Plan
Holding on to Chaos
The Fine Art of Faking
It Where It All Began
The Mistletoe Kisser

Ward D: A Taut Psychological Thriller from the Author of the sensational Housemaid series

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#1 Sunday Times and n bestselling author Freida McFadden returns with Ward D: a gripping locked room thriller set in an eerie hospital ward.

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Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. All she has to do is make it through the night shift…

Ward D is the hospital’s mental health unit and as a medical student, Amy is required to gain experience on the floor. But little do her colleagues know it may force her to confront a past she’s fought hard to forget.

The night starts. The countdown begins.

As the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within the ward’s tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger.

Amy never wanted to spend the night on Ward D. Now, she might not make it out alive.

Ward D once again demonstrates why Freida McFadden is the most talked-about voice in contemporary crime fiction, delivering a taut psychological thriller that will have you gripped right to the thrilling final twist.

Tropes
Claustrophobic
Thriller
Psychological
Locked Room
Mystery Thriller
Suspense Thriller
Survive the Night

Also by Freida McFadden:
The Crash
The Boyfriend
The Housemaid
The Housemaid’s Secret
The Housemaid is Watching
The Coworker
The Locker Door
Never Lie
The Teacher
The Inmate

Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Favourite Nursery Rhymes | Board Books for Kids | Classic Nursery Rhymes for 2+ Years | Fun Learning and Ideal for Gifting

Peppa and her friends are singing their favourite nursery rhymes at playgroup.

This chunky board book is the perfect introduction to classic nursery rhymes.

Sing along to:
1. Mary had a Little Lamb
2. Hey Diddle Diddle
3. Hickory Dickory Dock
4. Itsy Bitsy Spider
5. Row Row Row Your Boat
6. The Wheels on the Bus
7. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Which is your favourite to sing?

Sing, Rhyme, and Learn: A Perfect Read for Tiny Tots!
• Promotes early language development and phonemic awareness
• Sturdy board built to withstand rough handling
• Easy-to-read rhymes and verses
• Creates a joyful reading routine for young learners
• Each rhyme is paired with delightful illustrations

Peppa Pig: Learn With Peppa: Bumper Pencil Control | Draw Patterns and Shapes | | 60 Pages of Tracing Practise | Activity Book for Toddlers | Ages 3+

Let Peppa support your little ones in their early learning adventure with this Peppa’s Patterns and Pencil Control Book!

Filled with pre-writing exercises and fun activities to help improve pencil control, the patterns and shapes in this book are introduced in order from easiest to most difficult and show children the key hand movements needed for letter formation.

A perfect activity book designed for early learners to develop pencil control and motor skills. By following the arrows and tracing the dotted lines with Peppa, little ones can complete the tracing exercises leading to development of their early writing skills.

This Peppa’s Patterns and Pencil Control Book:
• Offers beautiful, colourful illustrations and fun activities
• Introduces skill-building exercises for the cognitive development of the child
• Instills foundational skills such as pencil control and pattern recognition
• Features large, easy-to-follow pattern outlines
• Inculcates hand-eye coordination and muscle memory

Activities Included:
• Straight Lines
• Circle
• Crosses
• Waves
• Zig-Zags
• Diagonal Lines
• Adding in Loops
• Picture Practise

The book is an excellent first step to prepare for school, with children’s favourite, Peppa!

Feminist Frames: Gender, Space and Violence in India

This book revisits approaches to South Asian feminist politics through the lens of shared historical memories and their social spatialisation. The author looks at borderlands, socialist visions of internationalism, cultures of travel, theatre history, artist-activist performances, and connected histories of discrete geo-political formations. Locating the book’s spatial context in Bengal—for its long tradition of militant movements and its historical cross-border connections—Sinha Roy attempts to release the spatial into South Asian feminism and historicise the space and place of Bengal in a dynamic relationship with time. She argues that in addition to plotting a temporally progressive chronological story of gender, violence and love in the inert space of Bengal (bracketed by national and international borders), the practices of spatialisation play an active role as temporal emplotment, in organising and prioritising the major place-based arguments.

Poornahuti/पुर्णाहुति

पिता की सेना में पति को घिरे देख युद्धक्षेत्र में लज्जा त्याग संयोगिता बोली, ‘स्वामी! अब मेरा मुँह न देखिए बढ़-बढ़कर हाथ दीजिए और क्षत्रिय-जन्म सुफल कीजिए!’
वीर क्षत्राणी संयोगिता, कन्नौज के राजा जयचंद की बेटी थीं। संयोगिता को तिलोत्तमा, कान्तिमती, संजुक्ता जैसे नामों से भी जाना जाता है। संयोगिता और पृथ्वीराज चौहान के बीच प्रेम की कहानी बहुत प्रसिद्ध है, जिसे इस उपन्यास में दर्शाया गया है।
क्षत्रिय-कुल सिरमौर पृथ्वीराज चौहान की बहादुरी की रूह फूंक देने वाली इस कहानी में आचार्य चतुरसेन ने शृंगार और वीर रसों का अद्भुत संगम कराते हुए इसे अमर ऐतिहासिक उपन्यास बना दिया है।

Caste Matters (Hindi)/Jati Zinda Hai/जाति ज़िंदा है

इस धमाकेदार किताब में, सुरज मिलिंद एंगडे, जाति से जुड़े गहरे विश्वासों को चुनौती देते हैं और इसकी कई परतों को खोलते हैं। यह इंक़लाबी किताब यह दिखाती है कि जाति किस तरह इंसान की रचनात्मक शक्ति को कुचलती है। ये किताब बताती है कि जाति किस तरह उत्पीड़न के दूसरे रूपों जैसे नस्ल, वर्ग और लिंग से खौफनाक रूप से मेल खाती है। यह किताब असमानता पर विचार करने के साथ-साथ एक संघर्ष का आह्वान भी करती है।

Sahitya Ka Manosandhan / साहित्य का मनोसंधान

हिंदी में निबंध लेखन की स्वस्थ परंपरा रही है। साहित्य का मनोसंधान उसी की दिलचस्प व पठनीय कड़ी है। कथा साहित्य में लेखक वस्तुस्थिति के समांतर एक संसार रचता है; निबंध में उससे सीधे मुठभेड़ करता है। दोनों तरह के लेखन का प्रमुख स्वर, भिन्न नज़रिया और प्रचलित मान्यता से प्रतिरोध हो सकता है, जो मृदुला गर्ग का है। निबंध में उसकी अभिव्यक्ति के लिए स्वरचित किरदारों का सहारा नहीं लेना पड़ता। तथ्यों की आँखों में आँखें डाल कर उनकी मनोवैज्ञानिक पड़ताल की जा सकती है। समाज, व्यवस्था और व्यक्ति के परस्पर घात प्रतिघात का सीधे जायजा लिया जा सकता है। मात्र विश्लेषण करके नहीं। प्रज्ञा और सौंदर्य बोध के प्रयोग से रस और रसोक्ति, दोनों पैदा कर के। इस पुस्तक में मनोसंधान का फलक खूब विस्तृत और गहन है। इसमें केवल बौद्धिक छटपटाहट नहीं, हार्दिक संवेदन और मनोरंजन है।

Adivasi or Vanvasi

‘An extremely important and timely book’ — Nandini Sundar, Professor Department of Sociology, Delhi University.

Akhil Bhartiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, popularly known as Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram or VKA is the tribal wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). As the largest tribal organization in the country, it works in many areas of Kerala, Jharkhand and the North-east of India. Till the late 1970s, VKA’s work was limited to a few districts of Chhattisgarh (then Madhya Pradesh), Jharkhand (then Bihar), and Odisha but it has gradually and continuously expanded its footprint in different parts of the country.

It is noteworthy that from its inception VKA focused on spreading Hindu values by organizing religious rituals in tribal areas and working in the area of education and hostels. It has tirelessly worked to provide medical help to the tribals from the mid-1960s. However, after the late 1970s, it started to work in different aspects of tribal communities’ lives. By the 1990s, it also formally began to raise questions related to the rights of tribal communities over forest land and its resources.

Exploring its genesis, historical journey, the nature of ideological discourse, and various functions of the VKA, this book opens a window to the contribution of an organization, which largely remained untold and therefore unknown. Deeply researched and evocative, Adivasi or Vanavasi would immensely interest anyone interested to understand modern India’s history, politics and changing landscape of Indian society.

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