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Who cares about commas, semicolons, dashes, and hyphens? Well, you should. A misplaced punctuation mark can confuse physicians and surgeons, cause thousands of dollars in legal fees, misinform judges, puzzle bankers, misguide stockbrokers...and create lumps in your pudding.
You don't need a teacher with a mouthful of jargon to help you understand how to make yourself clearly understood. Better Punctuation in 30 Minutes a Day will help you teach yourself....
63) Chance
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One night. One moment. One chance.Buried in obligation, Aveline Michaels is in over her head, caring for her bed-ridden mother, taking college courses, and working her ass off to make ends meet. When she finally agrees to let loose and take one night off from her duties, everything changes.College student, Greer McQueen knows meeting Aveline face-to-face is exactly what he wants. After all, he's wanted her since the day they met in his online class....
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Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.
Memories, travel, and identity. Becoming a tree, applying to college by grappling hook, and living with a monster in your heart - the best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaphorosis magazine's eighth year.
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• The Conch Shell - Elizabeth Raphael
• The Excursionist of JCPenney - Chris Panatier
• Arborify - Cadence Mandybura
• Pain Eater - Danny Menter
• She...
65) Returning to You
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Monica's relationship with her father is falling apart, made more obvious when her return to Madison after years aboard results in him throwing her out of the house. Lisa Carson, her BFF and old college roommate, takes her in. Turns out Lisa has her own issues with her parents – they're pushing her to date despite her lack of desire. So when Monica joins a Carson family dinner, she lies and says it's starting a relationship with Lisa that brought...
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I screwed up and now my college football career is on the line. And the woman that means everything to me is determined to keep her word and stand by my side, even though I don't deserve her.The love Lexi and I have for one another is too strong to deny and too profound to walk away from. But can she help me get rid of these demons forever or will they continue to destroy me and our relationship? Can we survive the challenges that life is throwing...
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Rebecca Nachman is a Rabbi without a synagogue. Having resigned from her dwindling congregation, she now works as a college counselor at a small Vermont college advising students about private matters and offering the "Jewish perspective" on issues raised at faculty dinner parties.
Deeply lonely and on the edge of losing her faith, she comes into possession of a Torah, the last relic of Czechowa, a village of Polish Jews who were exterminated by...
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SEC Football Trivia is filled from cover to cover with interesting questions and answers about the part of the country where college football is a religion: Who was the cub reporter that covered the Tide practice sessions in Pasadena prior to the 1935 Rose Bowl contest? The most coveted college football award is named for which early Auburn coach? Which Georgia All-American was nicknamed "the Brat"? In what year did Coach Bear Bryant lead Kentucky...
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Cuff College of Transgression and Pathology, Oxford.
The quiet of the evening is shattered by the discovery of a Body In The Library.
The police are Baffled. Tom Hurst, a junior lecturer at the College, breaking every rule of the whodunit genre, follows a trail of arcane clues that leads him to Botswana and Mma Delicious Ontoast.
His investigations then take him to Sweden and Burt Colander; to Edinburgh, where he is grudgingly helped by DI John...
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Darcy Frey chronicles the aspirations of four young men as they navigate the NCAA recruitment process, their only hope of escape from a life of crime, poverty, and despair.
It ought to be just a game, but basketball on the playgrounds of Coney Island is much more than that. In The Last Shot, the aspirations of a few of the neighborhood's most promising players reveal that what they have going for them (athletic talent, grace, and years of dedication)...
72) Somebody to Love
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Somebody to Love is an intertwining mosaic of queer stories, following a group of college students as they navigate their identities.
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Synopsis: The Electoral College always fails to deliver voting results that reflect the will of the people. This book reveals the source of the failure and what can be done to remedy the situation. The remedy, called Equal Voice Voting (EVV), retains the proportional voting process set forth in the Electoral College. It ends the voting disenfranchisement, experienced in every presidential election, which sets aside tens of millions of ballots without...
74) Home Run
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In the world of girls softball, fun no longer matters. Colleges. Scholarships. Where every game, every pitch, holds their future.Laurie Stevens fought this her whole life. A former college star who walked away from it all. Now, a coach for twelve-year-old girls, faces the same challenge.A challenge that hits home when former Major League Baseball player, Jack Evans, and his lonely daughter, walks onto her team and into her life.Jack, who reminds Laurie...
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The author of The Haunted Boonslick proves the Show Me State isn't shy about its ghostly heritage-especially in the beautiful college town at its center. According to Columbia ghost lore, the city's dead only dabble with departure. The specter of Broadway legend Maude Adams checks in on classes at Stephens College, while ragtime pioneer John William Boone returns to trail invisible fingers along his grand piano. Some linger from love, like the spirit...
77) Among the Bros
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A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose.
Estranged from her parents, Ethan’s mum had been abused by her ex-partner, and began taking drugs to cope. Ethan is obviously lost and bewildered, and regularly wakes up screaming for his mum in the night. He begins to lash out at other kids at school and his behaviour becomes more volatile. When arrangements...
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Cheer up, have fun, and relax with these 10 exciting men's comedy storiesWe all know reading helps us to relax and feel good; but how much stronger is the effect when you're reading a FUNNY book? One that's working hard to evoke bursts of laughter that bother your neighbors and scare the cat?And what if it gets even better?What if that funny book is about the most exciting subject?That's right! Man's Funny Book is all about sex, dates, flings, hookups,...
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Jeff Van Gundy. Brad Stevens. Frank Vogel. Mike Budenholzer. Tom Thibodeau. Sam Presti. Leon Rose. Before you knew his name, before he drafted your favorite player, before he guided your team to a championship, he had a playing career of his own at an NCAA Division III college. He didn't play for fortune – the NBA was out of reach, and his school didn't even give athletic scholarships. He didn't play for fame – ...
80) Benched
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Baseball broke Evie Cordova's heart. Living in Santa Isabella, home of the five-time College World Series champs, The Quakes, Evie has grown up loving baseball. Her dad has been the head coach for as long as she can remember and her happiest memories were on the baseball diamond. But baseball broke her heart, in more ways than one, and she'll do anything to avoid it. Now Evie is in college and she can't avoid baseball anymore. Working for her dad...
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