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An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley

by Ann Rinaldi

Published: 2007-01-01

Hardcover: 243 pages

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On the night of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, his frantic wife, Mary, calls for her best friend and confidante, Elizabeth Keckley, but the woman is mistakenly kept from her side by guards who were unaware of Mary Todd Lincoln's close friendship with the black seamstress. How d...

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The Unlikely Lavender Queen: A Memoir of Unexpected Blossoming

by Jeannie Ralston

Published: 2008-05-27

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“I couldn’t help but question how I’d gotten to this strange spot in my life, so far from what I’d expected for myself. Yes, there had been a heady romance a few years back. Then a slew of subsequent decisions, fueled by love and yearnings I didn’t even know I had. But I never, e...

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Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

by Rachel Joyce

Published: 2012-03-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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When Harold Fry leaves home one morning to post a letter, with his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save...

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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel

by Rachel Joyce

Published: 2013-03-26

Paperback: 384 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST “[Rachel] Joyce’s beguiling debut is [a] modest-seeming story of ‘ordinary’ English lives that enthralls and moves you as it unfolds.”—People...

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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

by Rachel Joyce

Published: 2012-07-24

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Recently retired, sweet, emotionally numb Harold Fry is jolted out of his passivity by a letter from Queenie Hennessy, an old friend, who he hasn't heard from in twenty years. She has written to say she is in hospice and wanted to say goodbye. Leaving his tense, bitter wife Maureen to her chores, Harold...

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The Unlikely Spy

by Daniel Silva

Published: 2003-05-06

Mass Market Paperback: 752 pages

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In wartime," Winston Churchill wrote, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." For Britain's counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable-a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself...

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Unlimited: How to Build an Exceptional Life

by Jillian Michaels

Published: 2011-04-05

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Imagine. Believe. Achieve.Many self-help books offer a lot of new age platitudes and sappy mantras: Just love yourself. See the glass as half full. Believe it and it will come.Really? That's not how it works, and you know it. A lifetime's worth of struggle is not overturned in a small mome...

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Unlocked: A Love Story

by Karen Kingsbury

Published: 2010-10-26

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Before You Take a Stand ... You Got to Take a Chance. Holden Harris is an eighteen-year-old locked in a prison of autism. Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden is very happy and socially normal---on the inside, in a private world all his own. In reality, he is bullied at school by kids...

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Unlovable (The Port Fare Series)

by Sherry Gammon

Published: 2011-01-19

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Author Sherry Gammon is a member of the GOODREADS Clean Romances group.Unlovable is the debut novel for author Sherry Gammon, and is the first novel in the Port Fare Series.Seventeen year-old Maggie Brown is truly the poster child for Heroin Chic, complete with jutting bones and dark-ringe...

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UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging.

by Scott Stratten

Published: 2010-09-07

Hardcover: 272 pages

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From one of the leading experts in viral and social marketing-market your business effectively to today's customersFor generations, marketing has been hypocritical. We've been taught to market to others in ways we hate being marketed to (cold-calling, flyers, ads, etc.). So why do we still...