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This Is Not the Life I Ordered: 50 Ways to Keep Your Head Above Water When Life Keeps Dragging You Down

by Deborah Collins Stephens, Michealene Cristini Risley, Jackie Speier, Jan Yanehiro

Published: 2007-03

Hardcover: 220 pages

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This Is Not the Life I Ordered is for anyone who has ever felt overworked, overwhelmed, or just plain unlucky (and, who hasn't?!). Through this collection of stories, wisdom, and practical advice, readers will meet four ordinary women who have faced extraordinary life challenges. Toget...

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This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness

by Laura Munson

Published: 2010-04-01

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Laura Munson's essay in the New York Times, about the time she was tested in a way she never anticipated, created a firestorm-now here's the whole story. When Laura Munson's essay was published, The New York Times was so flooded with responses that they had to close down the comment feat...

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This Is Not Your City

by Caitlin Horrocks

Published: 2011-06-28

Paperback: 224 pages

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Eleven women confront dramas both everyday and outlandish in Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City. In stories as darkly comic as they are unflinching, people isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace?they have no other choice. A Russian mail-order brid...

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This is Paradise!

by Hyok Kang

Published: 2006-05-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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This is Paradise! is a shocking and moving portrayal of scenes of every day life in North Korea, a secretive and brutal nation. Hyok Kang writes of the public executions, the labor camps and mines, the punishment for "anti-social behavior," the secret watching of Beijing television, and th...

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This is US: The New All-American Family

by David Marin

Published: 2011-09-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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It was no mystery why California had 98,000 children stuck in foster care. There were not 98,003 because I was stubborn.When David Marin fell in love with three abandoned children desperately in need of a home, there was only one thing he could do. Give up his relatively carefree life and ...

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This Is Where I Leave You

by Jonathan Tropper

Published: 2009-08-06

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The death of Judd Foxman’s father marks the first time that the entire Foxman family—including Judd’s mother, brothers, and sister—have been together in years. Conspicuously absent: Judd’s wife, Jen, whose fourteen-month affair with Judd’s radio-shock-jock boss has r...

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This Is Where I Leave You (Chinese Edition)

by Jonathan Tropper

Published: 2010-09

Paperback: 352 pages

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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

by Daniel J. Levitin

Published: 2006-08-03

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind—and the role of melodies in shaping our lives Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life—even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods?...

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This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Published: 2008-06-24

Hardcover: 256 pages

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America in the ’aughts—hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as “the soul mate”* of Jonathan SwiftBarbara Ehrenreich’s first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of Our Lives, about the Reagan era, was r...

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This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family's Heartbreak (P.S.)

by Melissa Coleman

Published: 2012-04-10

Paperback: 352 pages

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“Lyrical and down-to-earth, wry and heartbreaking, This Life Is in Your Hands is a fascinating and powerful memoir. Melissa Coleman doesn’t just tell the story of her family’s brave experiment and private tragedy; she brings to life an important and underappreciated chapter of our re...