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An Unreasonable Woman, In Search of Meaning Around the Globe

by Shirley Deane

Published: 2010-11-24

Hardcover: 378 pages

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In 1956, Shirley Deane, a young professional musician, turned her back on a recording contract and TV appearances to work her way around the world. She traveled to 67 countries, became the first woman to drive a Land Rover from England to Kathmandu, was kidnapped and questioned by Turkish police, offered...

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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

by John Demos

Published: 1995-03-28

Paperback: 315 pages

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Nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704,...

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The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R.

by Carole DeSanti

Published: 2013-03-26

Paperback: 432 pages

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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A young woman follows the man she loves to Paris and finds, amid the wildness of Second Empire luxury and treachery, many loves to win and lose. She must also find a way to a life she can truly call her own. "An arresting tale of what it meant...

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Unsaid: A Novel

by Neil Abramson

Published: 2012-06-05

Paperback: 384 pages

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In this USA Today bestselling debut novel, Neil Abramson explores the beauty and redemptive power of human-animal relationships and the true meaning of communication in all of its diverse forms.As a veterinarian, Helena was required to choose when to end the lives of the terminally ill ani...

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The Unsavvy Traveler: Women's Comic Tales of Catastrophe

Published: 2005-08-19

Paperback: 300 pages

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Women travel for myriad reasons: They venture out to escape the routine of daily existence; to encounter fascinating new people and places; to enrich their lives; to embrace new cultures; and to explore; but sometimes none of this works out.This expanded edition of The Unsavvy Traveler add...

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The Unscratchables

by Cornelius Kane

Published: 2009-07-07

Paperback: 259 pages

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CRUSHER McNASH is the police force's most fearless detective, a barrel-chested bull terrier with a biscuit-thin temper and a barbed-wire tongue.CASSIUS LAP is the finest agent in the Feline Bureau of Investigation, an imperturbable Siamese with a mind as sharp as a can opener.SAN BERNARDO ...

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Unseen Companion

by Denise Gosliner Orenstein

Published: 2005-01-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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Unsinkable: The Molly Brown Story (Now You Know Bio)

by Joyce B. Lohse

Published: 2006-12-01

Paperback: 72 pages

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"Molly" Brown was the heroine of the Titanic disaster, but when asked about the experience, she said, "Please don't say I am a heroine. I did only the natural thing and not the heroic...It isn't who you are, nor what you have, but what you are that counts, That was proved on the Titanic...it was the...

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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

by P.D. James

Published: 2012-04-17

Kindle Edition: 292 pages

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Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers inste...

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Untamed (House of Night Novels)

by P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast

Published: 2009-09-29

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you.Just ask Zoey Redbird ? she's become an undisputed expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a tight-knit group of friends who trusted and supported her, to being an outcast.� An...