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Handle with Care: A Novel

by Jodi Picoult

Published: 2009-02-20

Kindle Edition: 512 pages

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Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break. Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the ch...

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Handling Sin

by Michael Malone

Published: 2001-08

Paperback: 640 pages

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On the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young ...

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The Handmaid and the Carpenter: A Novel

by Elizabeth Berg

Published: 2008-10-28

Paperback: 153 pages

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This wonderful novel transports us to Nazareth in biblical times, where we meet Mary and Joseph–and understand them as never before: young, in love, and suddenly faced with an unexpected pregnancy. Aided by a great and abiding love, they endure challenges to their relationship as well as...

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Handmaid's Tale (Vintage 21st Anniv Editions)

by Margaret Atwood

Published: 2011-08-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one option: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs....

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Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood (York Notes Advanced)

by Margaret Atwood

Published: 2003-08-29

Paperback: 136 pages

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The most supportive, easy-to-use and focussed literature guides to help your students understand the texts they are studying at GCSE and A Level

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Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

by Myron Uhlberg

Published: 2009-02-03

Hardcover: 256 pages

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By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.“Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and...

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Handyman

by Linda Nichols

Published: 2000-11-07

Mass Market Paperback: 270 pages

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Maggie Ivey is about to make the best mistake of her life.A struggling twenty-six-year-old single mom, Maggie Ivey is just trying to keep it all together. She's got a lecherous boss, a dead-end job, and a worried mother who just wants her to move back home to Georgia. Maggie's prospects lo...

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The Handyman: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Carolyn See

Published: 2000-04

Paperback: 220 pages

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With this brilliant novel about the surprises of destiny and the origins of fame, the critically acclaimed author of Golden Days ("Extraordinary . . . a very, very important book"-Los Angeles Times Book Review) and Making History ("Radiant . . . exciting and imaginative"-Cleveland Plain De...

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Hanging Out In Bur Oak

by Neal Smith

Published: 2009-11-13

Hardcover: 164 pages

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Neal Smith served in the US Congress from 1958 to 1994. This work explores the United States during the 1930s and 40s.

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The Hanging Tree

by David Lambkin

Published: 1998-06-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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This compelling work of literary fiction raises disturbing questions about love and jealousy, cruelty throughout the history of humankind, and sexual obsession. With a profound knowledge of Africa's landscape, animals, and myths, Lambkin sheds light on the deepest human instincts.This lite...