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Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)

by Malcolm Lowry

Published: 2000-05-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. Here the consul's debilitating malaise is drinking, and activity that has overshadowed his life. Under the Volcano is set during the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938. His wife, Yvonne...

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Undercover in High Heels

by Gemma Halliday

Published: 2007-09

Mass Market Paperback: 313 pages

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Secret affairs, hunky gardeners, and housewives desperate enough to bare it all... welcome to Magnolia Lane, TV's newest hit show. As the new wardrobe assistant, shoe designer Maddie Springer is in fashion heaven. But then a young starlet is found dead. Now it's up to Maddie to s...

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Underdogs

by Markus Zusak

Published: 2011-08-01

Hardcover: 512 pages

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From the bestselling author of THE BOOK THIEFBefore THE BOOK THIEF, Markus Zusak wrote a trilogy of novels about the Wolfe Brothers: THE UNDERDOG, FIGHTING RUBEN WOLFE, and GETTING THE GIRL. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are champions at getting into fights, coming up with half-baked schemes, an...

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Underground Christmas

by Jon Hassler

Published: 1998-04

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Jon's story is about a man named Jay who has come rather late to his midlife crisis. Nearing fifty, Jay finds himself dislocated by a divorce and by his only child's attempted suicide. Seeking stability, he has taken a temporary teaching position at his alma mater, St. Andrew's College. The story opens...

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Underground to Canada. Barbara Smucker

by Barbara Claassen Smucker

Published: 2008-06

Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages

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There's a place the slaves been whisperin' around called Canada. The law don't allow no slavery there. They say you follow the North Star, and when you step onto this land you are free. Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that...

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The Underland Chronicles: Books 1-5 Paperback Box Set

by Suzanne Collins

Published: 2009-09-01

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When 11-year-old Gregor follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of his New York City apartment building, he hurtles into a dark Underland beneath the city. There, humans live uneasily beside giant spiders, bats, cockroaches, and rats?but the fragile peace is about to fall apart....

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The Underneath

by Kathi Appelt

Published: 2008-05-06

Hardcover: 320 pages

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There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the ...

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The Underside of Joy

by Sere Prince Halverson

Published: 2012-01-12

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Set against the backdrop of Redwood forests and shimmering vineyards, Seré Prince Halverson's compelling debut tells the story of two women, bound by an unspeakable loss, who each claims to be the mother of the same two children. To Ella Beene, happiness means living in the northern C...

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Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy

by Joan Magretta

Published: 2011-12-06

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Competitive advantage. The value chain. Five forces. Industry structure. Differentiation. Relative cost. If you want to understand how companies achieve and sustain competitive success, Michael Porter's frameworks are the foundation. But while everyone in business may know Porter's name, m...

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Understanding Telephone Electronics, Fourth Edition

by Joseph Carr, Steve Winder, Stephen Bigelow

Published: 2001-10-15

Paperback: 432 pages

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Throughout its history, Understanding Telephone Electronics has been, by far, one of the most popular books on telecommunication electronics in the trade, electronic distribution, and educational markets because of its very simple, direct approach to the technology. In keeping with the dis...