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Leaving Cold Sassy

by Olive Ann Burns

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 336 pages

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Anyone who came under the spell of Olive Ann Burns’s classic novel Cold Sassy Tree will delight in Leaving Cold Sassy, which returns to the story of the unforgettable Will Tweedy. In 1917, twenty-five-year-old Will now faces the complexities of adult life. He grapples with the influences...

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Leaving Gee's Bend

by Irene Latham

Published: 2010-01-07

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Ludelphia Bennett may be blind in one eye, but she can still put in a good stitch. Ludelphia sews all the time, especially when things go wrong. But when Mama goes into labor early and gets deathly ill, it seems like even quilting won?t help. That's when Ludelphia decides to do something d...

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Leaving Home: Short Pieces

by Jodi Picoult

Published: 2012-10-01

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Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, “Weights and Measures,” deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a non-fiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and...

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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children

by John Wood

Published: 2007-09-01

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John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work--not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s--but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting an...

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Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World

by Yang Erche Namu, Christine Mathieu

Published: 2004-02-10

Paperback: 320 pages

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- The hardcover edition of LEAVING MOTHER LAKE debuted at #3 on the San Francisco Chronicle's bestseller list.- A revelation of a culture virtually unknown in the West, a contemporary society in which women enjoy true sexual and economic freedom.- A huge international success, with rights sold in England,...

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Leaving Paradise

by Simone Elkeles

Published: 2007-04-01

Paperback: 312 pages

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Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel, and hit Maggie Armstrong. Even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp. Her social life is nil and a scholarship to study abroad?her chance to escape everyone and their pitying stares?has...

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Leaving Rock Harbor: A Novel

by Rebecca Chace

Published: 2010-06-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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An unforgettable coming-of-age story and a luminous portrayal of a dramatic era of American history, Rebecca Chace's Leaving Rock Harbor takes readers into the heart of a New England mill town in the early twentieth century.On the eve of World War I, fourteen-year-old Frankie Ross and her ...

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Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith

by Martha Beck

Published: 2006-04-25

Paperback: 352 pages

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As “Mormon royalty” within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church’s high elders in an existence framed by the strictest code of conduct. As an adult, she moved to the east coast, outside of her Mormon enclave for the...

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Leaving the World: A Novel

by Douglas Kennedy

Published: 2010-06-15

Paperback: 512 pages

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On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents: she would never get married, and she would never have children.But life, as Jane comes to discover, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in lov...

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Leaving Van Gogh: A Novel

by Carol Wallace

Published: 2011-04-19

Hardcover: 288 pages

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In the summer of 1890, in the French town of Auvers-sur-Oise, Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver.  He died two days later, at the age of thirty-seven, largely unknown despite having completed over two thousand works of art that would go on to become some of the mos...