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Unbowed: A Memoir (Vintage)

by Wangari Maathai

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 368 pages

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In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that ...

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The Unbreakable Child

by Kim Michele Richardson

Published: 2010-10-01

Paperback: 218 pages

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The Unbreakable Child offers hope, justice, and forgiveness. Abuse of children is always appalling and unforgiveable, whether perpetrated by a parent, a relative or a stranger. There's an added layer of disgrace to the crime when the perpetrators abuse not only children but their own auth...

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UNBROKEN

by Jamie Lisa Forbes

Published: 2010-05-20

Paperback: 324 pages

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Ranching is a life of extremes, perhaps even more so on the high plains near Laramie, Wyoming. And no one knows that better than Gwen Swan, who married both her husband Will and his family ranch where she works hard beside the men and struggles to raise her two children. Meg Braeb...

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An Unbroken Bond: The Untold Story of How the 658 Cantor Fitzgerald Families Faced the Tragedy of 9/11 and Beyond

by Edie Lutnick

Published: 2011-09-09

Paperback: 326 pages

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On September 11th, 658 men and women at Cantor Fitzgerald found themselves trapped together in One World Trade Center. None would make it out alive. Among them was Edie Lutnick's brother Gary, whom she had raised when their parents died at an early age. This is the story of the victims, the families...

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Unbroken: A Memoir

by Tracy Elliott

Published: 2011-01-06

Paperback: 226 pages

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One thing, a cupboard, was the only thing in Tracy Elliott's life that didn't get shattered. As a stripper, Elliot lived hard and suffered the consequences. In Unbroken, she tells the deeply impacting story of how her life was put back together by the power and redemption of God.

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

Published: 2010-11-16

Hardcover: 473 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER � SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE � Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine � Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year awardOn a May afternoon in 194...

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The Unburied

by Charles Palliser

Published: 2000-11-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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In Victorian England, Dr. Courtine is invited to spend the days before Christmas with Austin, a friend from his youth, in the Cathedral Close of Thurchester. Courtine hopes to research an unsolved mystery at the cathedral library, but when Austin captivates him with the story of the town...

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Uncharted

by Angela Hunt

Published: 2006-07-04

Kindle Edition: 321 pages

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"I'm beginning to think the island wants to keep us here."It was supposed to be an adventure. A little time off to honor the memory of a friend and complete a service project in the tropics. Do good deeds while getting a tan.But when a storm rocks their plans, five long-time friends from...

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unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity... and Why It Matters

by David Kinnaman, Gabe Lyons

Published: 2007-10-01

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Based on groundbreaking Barna Group research, unChristian uncovers the negative perceptions young people have of Christianity and explores what can be done to reverse them.

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Uncivil Seasons

by Malone

Published: 2001-09-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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The polite Piedmont town of Hillston, North Carolina, wants to go on believing it is still too temperate to require homicide experts. But when the wife of a state senator is found beaten to death, the inner circle of Hillston's ruling families arranges to have the case assigned to Detectiv...