Maxine Presents the Crabbiest of Crabby Road


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Whatever you do, don't get in Maxine's way. This tough-talking inhabitant of Crabby Road will mow you down! Dressed in her trademark dark glasses and bunny slippers, this blue-rinsed grandmother with an adeptly acerbic wit has gained a solid reputation for speaking her mind in a way that's touched millions of fans who hope to grow old with as much spirit as Maxine. This saucy senior has become a spokesperson of sorts for countless supporters everywhere.This first-ever Crabby Road collection, Maxine Presents the Crabbiest of Crabby Road, combines the best of Maxine's straight-to-the-point advice, her signature quips and zingers, and musings on some of her favorite activities, from gardening to golf to running other people's lives. "Thought about having fat-free weenies at my next cookout," she grouses at the grill. "But then I decided to go ahead and invite the relatives." Maxine has been a superstar in Hallmark's Shoebox Greetings line for more than a dozen years. As Maxine herself puts it, "I'm so hot, I can't tell the difference between the popularity and the flashes." Her snarling countenance has graced more than 160 million greeting cards and has also been featured on best-selling calendars, mugs, shirts, dolls, books, and other collectibles. Her daily Crabby Road strip has been read by fans in more than 100 newspapers since 1995. Their affection for this crabby lady has grown into an official fan club, a first in the greeting card industry.







Books In Print 2004-2005


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Crabby Road


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Maxine: Yelling It Like It Is


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* Dubbed the "Mother Lode of Laughs" by People magazine, Maxine boasts her own fan club and licensed merchandise sales. Never afraid of telling it like it is, or at least how it should be, Maxine is a lean, mean, griping machine lambasting everything from fast food to feng shui. Complete with over-the-top one-liners and classic Maxine rants, this hilarious humor collection offers something for every closet curmudgeon. * "Start each day off on the right foot, unless you kick better with your left." * "The world is going to hell in an SUV, and whoever is driving is too busy talking on a cell phone to notice."




Anagram Solver


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Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.




And Another Thing!


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Maxine's Guide to Aging Gracelessly


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She's crabby, she's feisty, and she takes no guff from anyone. Maxine has been a hit character since she first appeared on a greeting card back in 1986. No sweet sentiment here; Maxine just tells it like it is! One of Shoebox Greetings' most eccentric and beloved personalities, Maxine now gets her own birthday gift book that is sure to delight cranky birthday observers everywhere. Some of Maxine's choice sayings on aging include: "Birthdays are like relatives at the holidays. They show up whether you want them to or not."Birthdays are a time when there's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on. Yeah, those upper arms are always the first to go."Mother Nature thinks of everything. She makes your hair turn gray before it falls out so you don't miss it as much."Birthdays are like chocolate chip cookies. If you think about how many you've had, it kinda makes you sick."




Sisters, Super-Creeps and Slushy, Gushy Love Songs


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Ally knows her super-efficient big sis Linn finds their chaotic family a bit ... exasperating. But when Linn falls for Q, the tearaway lead singer in a local band, all her sensible ways go out of the window. Everyone else can see that Q's a creep, but does Ally have the courage to burst Linn's heart-shaped bubble?




Collins Rhyming Dictionary


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If it’s time for a rhyme, or you need a satiric lyric, the Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the fastest and easiest way to refine your line.




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