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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...

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This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone

by Melissa Coleman

Published: 2011-04-12

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Set on a rugged coastal homestead during the 1970s, This Life Is in Your Hands introduces a superb young writer driven by the need to uncover the truth of a childhood tragedy and connect anew with the beauty and vitality of the back-to-the-land ideal that shaped her early years. In the ...

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This Little Mommy Stayed Home: A Novel

by Samantha Wilde

Published: 2009-06-23

Paperback: 400 pages

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The Mother of all Motherhood novels.In this riotously funny, ruefully honest, and irresistibly warmhearted debut, Samantha Wilde writes about one new mother who discovers the wonders and terrors of motherhood?one hilarious crisis at a time. For new moms, potential moms-to-be, and anyone wh...

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This Lovely Life

by Vicki Forman

Published: 2009-07-23

Paperback: 272 pages

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Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie, weighing just a pound at birth, at twenty-three weeks? gestation. During the delivery she begged the doctors to "let her babies go" � she knew all too well that at twenty-three weeks they could very well die and, if they survived, they would face ...

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This Lullaby

by Sarah Dessen

Published: 2004-03-08

Paperback: 345 pages

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When it comes to relationships, Remy doesn't mess around.  After all, she's learned all there is to know from her mother, who's currently working on husband number five.  But there's something about Dexter that seems to defy all of Remy's rules.  He certainly doesn't seem like Mr. Right...