Jean Reynolds
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One of today's most compelling voices in women's fiction, acclaimed novelist Jean Reynolds Page delivers a story of unanticipated familial ties, exploring with compassion and humor the hope, forgiveness, and sometimes just plain tolerance necessary to hold a family together. Safe Within is rich with heart and Southern atmosphere, as a loving wife, facing an almost unbearable impending tragedy, returns with her husband and son to Lowfield, North Carolina-and...
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A deeply compelling novel that explores the true meaning of family, Leaving Before It's Over is masterful and provocative fiction from Jean Reynolds Page, the author of The Space Between Before and After and The Last Summer of Her Other Life. Fans of Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard will be moved and enthralled by Page's Leaving Before It's Over, as a 1970s family is thrown into turmoil when a previously unknown son and brother is brought into...
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From Jean Reynolds Page-the critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Before and After and one of the most compelling voices in contemporary women's fiction-comes a dazzling novel of loss and redemption, of relationships that damage and those that heal. Thirty-nine and pregnant by a man she's decided to leave behind in California, Jules' life is changing. Always the protected daughter, she must now relinquish that role and prepare to be a mother...
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Forty-two and divorced, Holli Templeton has just begun to realize the pleasures of owning her life for the first time. But the experience is short-lived. Her son Conner has unexpectedly fled college in Rhode Island and moved to Texas with his troubled girlfriend, Kilian. This alone is difficult to handle, but as Holli begins to understand the depth of the girl's problems, concern turns to crisis.
Conner's situation is worsening, and as if that's...
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After her husband Ben's tragic death at the age of thirty-six, Gina Melrose becomes a "live-aboard" on his boat. Docked at a South Carolina marina, a grieving Gina settles into a strange, temporary, borrowed existence. But this stillness is dramatically shattered late one night when Ben's ex-wife, Reese, disrupts Gina's world of quiet isolation. With Reese, once described by Ben as "a wild child," comes her daughter: an enigmatic little girl called...
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Meet a procrastinator: Me! After years of struggling to live with schedules and to-do lists, I began discovering how to get things done without forcing myself into a structure I couldn't live with. This book is the result.People like me (and perhaps you) who thrive on flexibility and spontaneity sometimes give up on time management because all that structure simply doesn't work for us. Dreams go unfulfilled, chaos takes over, and we resign ourselves...
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I'm a longtime English teacher, consultant, editor, and professional writer. Over the years many people told me about their secret desire to write for publication. They have an abundant storehouse of ideas and experiences to write about. What holds them back is finding time for an intensive course in English grammar.They're always astonished when I tell them that there's an easier pathway to writing-one that doesn't involve complex grammar theory,...
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Learn the skills needed to write efficient and effective criminal justice reports: interviewing, organizing, drafting, revising, objectivity, sentence skills, active voice, bullet style, common usage errors, and the specialized vocabulary needed for police and corrections reports. Sample reports are included, along with abundant exercises, a pre-test, a post-test, and a complete answer key.
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Jean Reynolds is a longtime English instructor, professional writer, editor and consultant who thinks a revolution is overdue: English instructors need to do less paperwork, and students need to do more learning. This provocative paper examines the power issues embedded in an activity most of us take for granted: grading student papers. Most English instructors, Reynolds says, spend endless hours editing and revising student papers. The inevitable...
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There's good news for everyone who loves Bernard Shaw: because his works are going out of copyright, we can expect to see many more productions of his wonderful plays - and to be surprised again by his insight, humor, and relevance.Pygmalion (more familiar in its musical form - My Fair Lady) is probably his most popular play - and his most surprising one.In Pygmalion's Wordplay, I argue that long before the postmodernists came along, Shaw intuited...
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Gretel is a homeless and hungry girl in a tale that was already old when the Grimm brothers wrote it down almost two centuries ago. But the story of her abandonment, imprisonment, and ultimate triumph is still meaningful in the way that all old, well-told stories are meaningful.The themes in Gretel's Story are still vivid and powerful today. People continue to find both love and hatred within their families; evil and goodness still struggle to destroy...
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Report writing skills are essential to success in your code enforcement career. Your notices of violation, letters, and reports are public documents that may be read by supervisors, attorneys, judges, citizens, design professionals, contractors, and reporters. Quality inspection reports and notices of violation help ensure code compliance, impress superiors, and win respect from colleagues. They facilitate repairs, reinforce requirements for safe...
13) Impossible Love
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It's embarrassing and overwhelming, and it happens again and again: falling in love with someone hopelessly out of reach. The fantasy lover might be a neighbor, teacher, therapist, or minister, or it might be a rock star or other public figure. "Impossible Love" explores the secrets and mysteries that lie hidden within our most intimate love stories.