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Unless: A Novel
Published: 2002-04
Hardcover: 213 pages
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I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that road. Well now! What about the ripping sound behind my eyes, the starchy tearing of fabric, end to end; what about the need I have to curl up my knees when I sleep? For all of her life...
Unless : A Novel
Published: 2003-05-01
Paperback: 336 pages
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I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that road. Well now! What about the ripping sound behind my eyes, the starchy tearing of fabric, end to end; what about the need I have to curl up my knees when I sleep? For all of her life...
Unless: A Novel (P.S.)
Published: 2006-01-03
Paperback: 352 pages
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Forty-four-year-old Reta Winters, wife, mother, writer, and translator, is living a happy life until one of her three daughters drops out of university to sit on a downtown street corner silent and cross-legged with a begging bowl in her lap and a placard round her neck that says "Goodness...
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Published: 2009-03-26
Hardcover: 336 pages
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No drinking.No smoking.No cursing.No dancing.No R-rated movies.Kevin Roose wasn't used to rules like...
An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley
Published: 2007-01-01
Hardcover: 243 pages
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On the night of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, his frantic wife, Mary, calls for her best friend and confidante, Elizabeth Keckley, but the woman is mistakenly kept from her side by guards who were unaware of Mary Todd Lincoln's close friendship with the black seamstress. How d...
The Unlikely Lavender Queen: A Memoir of Unexpected Blossoming
Published: 2008-05-27
Kindle Edition: 0 pages
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“I couldn’t help but question how I’d gotten to this strange spot in my life, so far from what I’d expected for myself. Yes, there had been a heady romance a few years back. Then a slew of subsequent decisions, fueled by love and yearnings I didn’t even know I had. But I never, e...
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
Published: 2013-03-26
Paperback: 384 pages
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST “[Rachel] Joyce’s beguiling debut is [a] modest-seeming story of ‘ordinary’ English lives that enthralls and moves you as it unfolds.”—People...
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Published: 2012-07-24
Hardcover: 336 pages
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Recently retired, sweet, emotionally numb Harold Fry is jolted out of his passivity by a letter from Queenie Hennessy, an old friend, who he hasn't heard from in twenty years. She has written to say she is in hospice and wanted to say goodbye. Leaving his tense, bitter wife Maureen to her chores, Harold...
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Published: 2012-03-01
Hardcover: 304 pages
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When Harold Fry leaves home one morning to post a letter, with his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save...
The Unlikely Spy
Published: 2003-05-06
Mass Market Paperback: 752 pages
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In wartime," Winston Churchill wrote, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." For Britain's counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable-a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself...
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