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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel

by Milan Kundera

Published: 2009-10-27

Paperback: 320 pages

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In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places; br...

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The Unbearable Lightness of Scones

by Alexander Mccall Smith

Published: 2010-01-12

Paperback: 368 pages

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The witty and utterly delightful new novel in the national bestselling 44 Scotland Street series.Featuring all the quirky characters we have come to know and love, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, finds Bertie, the precocious six-year-old, still troubled by his rather overbearing mother...

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Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

by Portia de Rossi

Published: 2010-11-02

Hardcover: 320 pages

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?I didn?t decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier . . .? Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood film in w...

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Unbecoming Behavior

by Stephanie Rowe

Published: 2005-11-29

Mass Market Paperback: 342 pages

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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

by Michelle Hodkin

Published: 2011-09-27

Hardcover: 464 pages

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Mara Dyer doesn't believe life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can.                                                                                                              ...

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Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival

by Dean King

Published: 2010-03-24

Hardcover: 432 pages

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In October 1934, the Chinese Communist Army found itself facing annihilation, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Nationalist soldiers. Rather than surrender, 86,000 Communists embarked on an epic flight to safety. Only thirty were women. Their trek would eventually cover 4,000 miles ov...

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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...