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Up from Orchard Street
Published: 2006-03-28
Paperback: 402 pages
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In the tradition of Like Water for Chocolate and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, this exhilarating novel centered around a memorable immigrant family brings to vibrant life the soul and spirit of New York’s legendary Lower East Side.Up from Orchard Street......where three generations of Roths...
Up from Slavery
Published: 2012-04-15
Paperback: 156 pages
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Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools most no...
Up from the Blue: A Novel
Published: 2010-09-21
Paperback: 336 pages
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“Elegant and engrossing….Henderson is a talent to watch.” < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />—Danielle Trussoni, author of Angelology “This is not a book you’ll soon forget.” —Sara Gruen, author of Water for ElephantsThe gripping debut novel from Litpark.com founder and Pushcart Prize-nominee Susan Hender...
Up High in the Trees: A Novel
Published: 2007-07-10
Hardcover: 336 pages
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An exquisite debut novel about a family in turmoil told in the startling, deeply affecting voice of a nine-year-old, autistic boy. Following the sudden death of Sebby’s mother, his father takes Sebby to live in the family’s summerhouse, hoping it will give them both time and sp...
Up Island
Published: 1997-10
Hardcover: 537 pages
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When 42-year-old Molly's husband leaves her for a younger woman she is devastated and leaves their home to go and live in Martha's Vineyard. She fits in well and makes friends, runs the library and feeds the swans. Her reluctant friendship with a naturalist may even grow to something more.
Uplift
Published: 2002-09-05
Paperback: 240 pages
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In Uplift bestselling popular novelist and cancer survivor Barbara Delinsky creates exactly the resource she wished had existed at the time of her treatment. Delinsky has collected a compendium of survival secrets that have nothing to do with doctors, machines or drugs and everything to do with women...
The Upright Piano Player: A Novel
Published: 2011-06-07
Hardcover: 272 pages
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An adroit first novel of exceptional grace and emotional power by a legendary British ad executive. ?David Abbott's The Upright Piano Player is a wise and moving debut, an accomplished novel of quiet depths and resonant shadows.? ?John Burnham Schwartz, author of The Commoner and Reservati...
Uprising
Published: 2011-01-18
Paperback: 352 pages
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The fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the disaster, which brought attention to the labor movement in America, is part of the curric...
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
Published: 2008-01-31
Paperback: 448 pages
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Environmental disasters. Terrorist wars. Energy scarcity. Economic failure. Is this the world's inevitable fate, a downward spiral that ultimately spells the collapse of societies? Perhaps, says acclaimed author Thomas Homer-Dixon - or perhaps these crises can actually lead to renewa...
Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West
Published: 2005-09
Paperback: 120 pages
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