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A Lucky American Childhood (Singular Lives)

by Paul Engle

Published: 2007-10-15

Paperback: 192 pages

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The legacy of poet Paul Engle, who died in 1991, includes the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, which he helped found in 1967, and the memoir A Lucky American Childhood. Engle grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, during the 1920s on a hardscrabble farm where his family...

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Lucky Break (Corwin Curse, Book 3)

by Carly Phillips

Published: 2009-09-29

Paperback: 378 pages

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Jason Corwin knows he should resist his attraction to Lauren Perkins. After all, it was one of her ancestors who came up with the curse that had haunted every Corwin male since. But after one night of mind-blowing sex with his supposed?and very seductive?enemy, he can't bring himself to st...

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Lucky Charm (Lucky Trilogy)

by Carly Phillips

Published: 2008-10-01

Paperback: 376 pages

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Long ago, as revenge on a Corwin who stole her son's fianc�e, a witch proclaimed an eternal curse that every Corwin male who married for love would be destined to lose his woman and his fortune?Derek thought he could outsmart the long-standing Corwin curse by breaking up with Gabrielle, hi...

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A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy (Back Bay Readers' Pick)

by Thomas Buergenthal

Published: 2010-09-16

Paperback: 272 pages

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Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his fat...

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Lucky Girl: A Memoir

by Mei-Ling Hopgood

Published: 2009-04-28

Hardcover: 244 pages

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In a true story of family ties, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades.In 1974, a baby girl from Taiwan arrived in Amer...

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Lucky in the Corner: A Novel

by Carol Anshaw

Published: 2003-07-14

Paperback: 256 pages

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Nora and Fern's relationship as mother and daughter is a tumble of love and distrust. To Nora, her daughter is an enigma -- at the same time wonderful and unfindable. Fern sees her mother as treacherous -- for busting up their family to move in with her lover, Jeanne. As their lives become complicated...

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Lucky Jim

by Kingsley Amis

Published: 2002-01-29

Paperback: 272 pages

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Kingsley Amis has written a marvelously funny novel describing the attempts of England's postwar generation to break from that country's traditional class structure. When it appeared in England, LUCKY JIM provoked a heated controversy in which everyone took sides. Even W. Somerset Maugham reviewed the...

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Lucky Man

by Michael J Fox

Published: 2003-01-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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The remarkable memoir of film star Michael J. Fox and his first ten years living with Parkinson's Disease. Diagnosed in 1991, Michael eventually lost his balance, his grace, his spontaneity, and the ability to read the morning newspaper. Even so, he realizes that, in fact, he is a lucky ma...

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Lucky Man: A Memoir

Published: 2002-04-01

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Lucky Man: A Memoir

by Michael J. Fox

Published: 2003-01-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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A funny, highly personal, gorgeously written account of what it's like to be a 30-year-old man who is told he has an 80-year-old's disease. "Life is great. Sometimes, though, you just have to put up with a little more crap." --Michael J. Fox In September 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the wo...