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REA's MAXnotes for Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes...
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With the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Russia emerged from its rubble as a country looking to re-establish itself on the world stage of geopolitics. Capitalism, or the West's brand of capitalism, was an option but one that members of the Communist Party hardly embraced. In its place, the underworld and the upper world merged, creating an oligarchy that has extended its tentacles across the globe. From Australia to Africa, thru North and South...
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This book provides encouragement to Christians who are dealing with infertility. Using scriptures, the author explores the fertility journey of several Biblical characters who struggled to conceive, as well as the fruitful lives of several women of the Bible who were not mothers. The book ends with some practical steps to achieving spiritual fruitfulness and living a life that is pleasing to God. Infertility is a problem that affects thousands of...
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Randy Grimes quickly learned one important truth as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' top draft pick: play through pain, or get cut. This is just part of being a pro athlete, he told himself. Growing up in Tyler, Texas, Grimes's life was very much on center. A childhood spent in church on Sundays and on the gridiron all week turned into a football scholarship to Baylor, marriage to his college sweetheart, and a coveted NFL roster spot. When the Bucs' starting...
45) For the Quiet
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An aching journey through love and loss.
This intimate collection explores lost love in the technological age, yearning for someone next to you, and the feeling of floating adrift in the face of lost hope.
For The Quiet is for anyone who has ever loved.
46) Winter's Gift
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In her search for answers, Louvette Blackwood has stuck her nose in the right place. Someone is out to get her. Can she survive long enough to find out who?
The Cursed world is back. The Northline pack has been compromised. Louvette Blackwood isn't sure who she can trust. The one thing she know is her pack and Arsen Whitecreek are on her side. On top of that, her Gift is turning out to be more of a curse than she realized.
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In 1992, A "no-shot" candidate runs for president in the New Hampshire Democratic Primary, while telling the story of how the United States evolved from 13 small, scattered, quarreling British colonies along the Atlantic Coast into the most powerful nation in history.
With a definite, clear and unique message, the candidate and his handful of helpers, who include a recovering alcoholic who once worked for Jimmy Carter's campaign; a young waitress,...
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We all seek meaning in our lives, especially as we move past the grubbing for money and status of our early years. And even those who find earthly success soon discover that there is no end to those struggles, no top to be found, no rat-race prize, so every thoughtful person eventually sees that whatever success we might find on earth gives us nothing more than toys whose luster is going to dim as our bodies fail. No matter how rich and famous we...
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Few people realize how much is known about what happens at and after death. Roberta Grimes has spent decades studying nearly two hundred years of abundant and consistent afterlife evidence, principles of quantum mechanics and consciousness research, accounts of statements by acknowledged authorities on this side of life and the next, and other scientific insights to assemble a detailed understanding of the death process and the amazing realities that...
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Boy Meets Bird.
Boy Gets Bird.
Boy Loses Bird
An Urban Folktale.
One day in the dead of winter, New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes looked out the window into his backyard in Queens and saw a chicken, jet black with a crimson comb. Wherever it had come from, it showed no sign of leaving, and it quickly made a place for itself among the society of resident stray cats. Before long, the chicken became the Chicken, and it began to...
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In Shaunta Grimes' middle-grade novel Center of Gravity, a girl loses her mom, and her dad remarries quickly, so she must rebuild her life and friendships.
Tessa is an anxious person, but it's become worse since her mother died a few months ago. To calm herself down she cuts out photos of missing kids-from milk cartons-and keeps them in a file. It helps her feel like she's not alone.
When her dad announces suddenly that he's getting married-and...
52) Ancestors
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Two thousand years ago, a crucifixion took place on a hill outside Jerusalem. The question is: who, exactly, died on that cross? This fast-paced thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat and leave you questioning everything you know about the most famous story in history.
53) Winter's Pack
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Louvette Blackwood is back in the second installment of The Cursed Series.
"People being something other than what they appeared to be was a common theme at this table, Louvette thought sarcastically. With a table half full of wolves, the sheep still had no idea what ate alongside them. Nevertheless, one of the guests was a wolf in sheep's clothing, or at least he was attempting to be.
Unable to stop herself, her stare cut over for the millionth...
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The hilarious adventures of human chameleon Ciel Halligan continue in the fourth installment of this original urban fantasy series, All Fixed Up.
Ciel Halligan, aura adaptor extraordinaire, has a lot of experience filling in for her clients-as them. A rare genetic quirk gives her the ability to absorb human energy and project it back out in a flawless imitation. She's hard at work, posing as a well-known and celebrated astronaut, about to make a...
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Over the past thirty years, Roger Grimes has been studying Kenpo Karate, achieving the rank of seventh-degree black belt as he also dabbled in several martial arts disciplines. Roger Grimes has also been seeking leadership skills and life lessons to improve his life and character. In cage fighting, he was also seeking learning for improvement, resulting in Lessons from the Cage.
Lessons from the Cage is an inspirational book where Roger Grimes shares...
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This is a story about the relationship between an old man and a red-tailed hawk that fell from its nest and how he saved the hawk from being eaten by a six-foot-long rattlesnake and how the hawk was able to return the favor by saving the old man's life.
The old man, born in the 1900s and raised on a farm in Wakulla County, Florida, was not a big fan of the red-tailed hawks. The common name of a red-tailed hawk is a chicken hawk because they are...
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Have you ever worked in a call center? Or a restaurant? Or a retail store?
If you have ever worked in Customer Service, then this book is for you. This is a book written by a Customer Service Representative FOR Customer Service Representatives "The Death of Customer Service" is a work of fiction based on my personal experience working in multiple call centers. This book starts as a satirical take on where I believe Customer Service is headed as an...
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Linda Grimes's sexy and hilarious urban fantasy series that began with In a Fix and Quick Fix continues in The Big Fix.
Aura adaptor extraordinaire Ciel Halligan, who uses her chameleon-like abilities to fix her clients' problems-as them-is filling in on set for action superstar Jackson Gunn, whose snake phobia is standing in the way of his completing his latest mega-millions Hollywood blockbuster. There's only one thing Jack fears more than snakes,...
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David Grimes's humor column runs three times a week in the Sarasota Herald Tribune. David began writing his humor column in 1985 when it became clear that he had no talent for other, more useful jobs at the paper. David has gleaned a lifetime of wisdom from his 25 years as a Florida resident and offers us his sage advice on topics such as these:
• Granny sweat boosts health
• How to read a real-estate guide
• Fending off fruit fiends
• And...
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From take-off to landing, The Pornographers moves at the speed of sound through post 9/11 angst, yoga, bureaucratic helplessness, marriage, collective public insecurity and family. A group of minor bureaucrats operating under the unfunded directive of "Homeland Security" try to start a commercial pornography site in order to generate revenue for their city. Their research into the the porn industry does in fact suggest it as a viable solution to their...