Get ready to laugh with this collection of April Fool’s themed Pride and Prejudice stories. Each one delivers a comic tale in Amanda Kai’s style of sparkling wit and humor featuring your favorite characters from Pride and Prejudice, including Elizabeth and Darcy, Mr. and Mrs. Collins, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Anne de Bourgh, Lydia Bennet, Caroline Bingley, and others. A Good Joke Lydia Bennet, Longbourn’s chief resident prankster, travels to Brighton with Mrs. Forster, where she gets up to numerous hijinks including a covert visit to the men’s swimming cove, pranking Mr. Wickham, and sneaking out to a ball. Her pranks earn her the attention of Mr. Wickham, whose schemes for her are anything but a good joke. Two Fools in April When Mr. Darcy’s proposal goes awry, Mrs. Collins conjures a plan to force Elizabeth and Darcy to reconcile. With the help of Mr. Collins and Colonel Fitzwilliam, they lock the pair in Mr. Collins’ garden shed. A forced proximity story sure to make you laugh. Unconventional Mr. Darcy is in love with Elizabeth Bennet, but she teases and berates him. Then, Darcy finds himself unwittingly trapped into a marriage with Caroline Bingley. Will Darcy ever be free to pursue the woman he truly loves? Or will he be shackled forever in an unconventional marriage to a woman he detests? This story was originally published as a standalone. An Unexpected Party Lady Catherine longs to enjoy an afternoon repose, but her attempt to nap is rudely interrupted by a variety of uninvited guests. Who is responsible for this unexpected party? Originally published on the Austen Authors blog. April Fish Colonel Fitzwilliam’s visit to Rosings is punctuated by a series of fish-related pranks. To make matters worse, Lady Catherine has invited important guests to dine, compounding the colonel’s embarrassment. Who is behind this nautical nonsense?

Intensification plays a major role in spoken and written interaction, enabling the writer or speaker to express different levels of commitment. This book explores the patterns and meanings of intensifiers in Chinese learner English by ways of comparison with native English. The study is conducted within the theoretical framework of Firthian contextual theory of meaning, Sinclairian model of Extended Units of Meaning (EUM) and Hunston's pattern grammar. The method of contrastive inter-language analysis (CIA) is adopted and the intensifier collocations in learner English and native English are explored by means of quantitative and qualitative analyses of corpora data. This book is the first attempt to investigate the patterning and meaning features of intensifiers systematically with the corpora data in Chinese learner English. Readers will obtain a relatively complete picture of how Chinese learners use intensifiers to realize their attitudinal meanings.

The Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of the New York Times Bestseller That Focuses on Personal Finance for Every Budget -- and Every Stage of Life Taking control of your personal finances is the first -- and most important -- step toward successful investing and a secure future. The Motley Fool You Have More Than You Think, now fully updated and expanded, provides guidance for anyone trying to balance lifestyle aspirations and financial realities. The latest edition of this Motley Fool bestseller covers topics such as: Getting out of debt...and into the stock market Turning your bank account into a moneymaker Using Fool.com and the Internet to learn about all things financial -- from buying a home to getting the best deal on a car Saving enough to send your children to the colleges of their dreams

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling authors of The Motley Fool Investment Guide and its successful, savvy prequel, The Motley Fool's You Have More Than You Think, here's an engaging, humorous, and practical stock-picking guide, packed with Foolish insights, that caps off this invaluable personal finance trilogy from David and Tom Gardner. The Motley Fool's Rule Breakers, Rule Makers presents the sophisticated, yet easy-to-understand stock-picking methods that have kept the Motley Fool portfolio beating the Standard & Poor's averages by more than 30 percent. The key is investing in small start-up companies that have historically offered the greatest investment returns (the "rule breakers") as well as huge companies that maintain legal monopolies in their fields (the "rule makers"). The Gardner brothers explain * How to identify the best investments in today's public markets: the rule breakers and the rule makers * The definition of a "tweener" -- a maturing rule breaker -- and how to detect the Tweener Death Rattle * When to buy and when to sell, and how to manage your portfolio on a regular basis In their first two books, the Fools got you started in investing and freed you from the fees and worries that Wall Street's Wise Men have been imposing on investors for decades. Now, by sharing their methods for picking rule breakers and rule makers, they guide you through a stock market that has seen company valuations soar to unprecedented heights and that promises to continue providing roller-coaster thrills. The Motley Fools are the ultimate companions to bring along for a safe, fun, and profitable ride.

In "A little bit country," Rorie Campbell falls in love with rancher Clay Franklin, who is engaged, and in "Blackberry summer," Claire Bradford is forced to depend on Riley McKnight, the new chief police, after a tragic accident.

Make gerometry paractice easy and dun! Geometry is one of the oldest mathematical subjects in history. Unfortunately, few geometry study guides offer clear explanations, causing many people to get tripped up or lost when trying to solve a proof—even when they know the terms and concepts like the back of their hand. However, this problem can be fixed with practice and some strategies for slicing through all the mumbo-jumbo and getting right to the heart of the proof. Geometry Workbook For Dummies ensures that practice makes perfect, especially when problems are presented without the stiff, formal style that you’d find in your math textbook. Written with a commonsense, street-smart approach, this guide gives you the step-by-step process to solve each proof, along with tips, shortcuts, and mnemonic devices to make sure the solutions stick. It also gives you plenty of room to work out your solutions, providing you with space to breathe and a clear head. This book provides you with the tools you need to solve all types of geometry problems, including: Congruent triangles Finding the area, angle, and size of quadrilaterals Angle-arc theorems and formulas Touching radii and tangents Connecting radii and chords Parallel, perpendicular, and intersecting lines and planes Slope, distance, and midpoint formulas Line and circle equations Handling rotations, reflections, and other transformations Packed with tons of strategies for solving proofs and a review of key concepts, Geometry Workbook For Dummies is the ultimate study aid for students, parents, and anyone with an interest in the field.