Robert Willis
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Forty-one-year-old Miami real estate broker Clay Redmond is living the good life. He thinks his plan to retire early is unfolding nicely until his longtime business partner screws him out of his interest in a choice piece of real estate. After he tries and fails to recoup his investment via a nasty court battle, Redmond begins to plot his revenge.
Redmond's plan includes not only eliminating his crooked business partner, but also seducing his beautiful...
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Canterbury Cathedral, at the heart of the Church in England since the arrival of Augustine in Kent in 597 C.E., is remarkable for its extent, beauty and importance, for the variety of its architectural styles and the many structural changes which it has undergone over the years. In this 1845 work, the Reverend Robert Willis, who was Jacksonian Professor of the University of Cambridge, reproduces historical accounts of the destruction and rebuilding...
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The Church or group of Churches, which is the subject of the following pages, was in its original form erected by the Emperor Constantine for the pious purpose of protecting and venerating that Sepulchral cavern which was believed to have been the very Tomb in which the Body of our Lord was laid. The buildings received, in accordance with the custom of that period, the name of the Martyrium of the Resurrection. They have long since disappeared, and...
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Barlow, a tale wherein native ingenuity trumps book learning. A friendly bet between the mayor of Farcey Springs and the county sheriff puts this countrified veteran face-to-face with certain restrictions that hinder the use of "blood-letting" weapons in defense of his homestead. Southern dialect of course adds 1930s realism to the flesh of this novella, including unique perspectives and phraseology that run through most of the remaining thirteen...
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This book is for anyone who has ever been in love, who has even been infatuated with someone, who has ever found someone so desirable that you have lost your focus, who has ever been rejected by that ONE, who has longed for someone so badly that it made you quake with emotion. If you have felt how and its many facets love feels, then these poems may be of interest.
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A fast-paced work of hardboiled fiction, Great Point Clear tells the troubled tale of Tyler Ganzy.
As a young field hand in Sweet Bend, Alabama, Tyler fell in love with Baltimore beauty Iry Tuttle during the summer of 1942. Everything was picture perfect-until the couple witnessed a murder that went unsolved.
Without evidence, and with his word weighing less in the community than the murderer's, Tyler ran-right into the arms of the...
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Oxford University Press
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[2025]
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"Based on original interviews with World War II veterans, The First Black Marines chronicles the powerful stories of the first African American men who trained and served in the US Marine Corps during the Jim Crow era. As a highly accessible introductionto oral history methodology, this graphic history empowers students to conduct their own research projects"--