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Luckily, her new boyfriend, sexy doc Joe Bascombe, is there to help, especially when Nicki faces her latest ghost, a woman in pink sequins who holds the key to some family secrets.
“A Match Made in Hell” by Terri Garey Doug Knipe 2008
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Bournemouth, must have been formerly rich in minerals, and Camden, who calls it "Bascombe", tells us that it had a "copperas house".
Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch Sidney Heath 1907
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Some of us perhaps think we have seen him from afar, but we only know the better that in the mood wherein such as Bascombe are, they will never find him -- which would no doubt be to them a comfort were it not for a laughter.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864
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Some of us perhaps think we have seen him from afar, but we only know the better that in the mood wherein such as Bascombe are, they will never find him -- which would no doubt be to them a comfort were it not for a laughter.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2 George MacDonald 1864
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Patel, who opened the bowling in the absence of Steve Finn, benefited when he had Miles Bascombe lbw.
West Indies 113-5, England 88 | Twenty20 international match report 2011
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"I do not credit the epiphanic, the seeing-through that reveals all, triggered by a mastering detail…" writes Ford in the voice of his American everyman narrator, Frank Bascombe.
Paul Graham: 'The photography I most respect pulls something out of the ether' 2011
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Paul Graham's most recent book of photographs, a shimmer of possibility, which was published in 2007, could be read as 12 visual short stories that illuminate – in their often open-ended, elliptical way – Bascombe's unvarnished view of life.
Paul Graham: 'The photography I most respect pulls something out of the ether' 2011
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By late middle age, Corey's philosophical engagement with his comfortable surroundings strongly resembles the buoyant introspections of Frank Bascombe, the realtor negotiating smalltown American life in Richard Ford's epic Sportswriter trilogy.
America America: Summary and book reviews of America America by Ethan Canin. 2008
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The Sportswriter by Richard Ford: A Mississippi-raised writer who has written so well about Montana nailed the voice of the Eastern suburbs with Haddam's Frank Bascombe.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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In Atlanta, Nicki Styx is grateful to her new boyfriend, ER Dr. Joe Bascombe whom she met when he saved her life though lacking exact change for ferryman to escort her across her surname river also proved a factor (see DEAD GIRLS ARE EASY).
A Match Made in Hell-Terri Garey « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
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