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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...

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Understanding the Koran: A Quick Christian Guide to the Muslim Holy Book

by Mateen Elass

Published: 2004-05-25

Paperback: 192 pages

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What You Should Know about Islam's Holy Book How is it like the Bible? How is it different? Why is it important? Muslims believe the Koran exists as a literal book in heaven and was dictated to the prophet Muhammad by the angel Gabriel. It is only the length of the New Testament, yet a fifth of the...

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The Understudy: A Novel

by David Nicholls

Published: 2007-01-30

Paperback: 368 pages

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Recently divorced actor Stephen C. McQueen (no relation, unfortunately) seems to have a knack for bad luck. But a failed marriage, a stalled career, a judgmental ex-wife, a distant daughter, a horrid little studio apartment in the far reaches of the London suburbs?all these pathetic elemen...

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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

by Thomas Lynch

Published: 1998-09-01

Paperback: 202 pages

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Thomas Lynch serves his readership as a poet and memoirist, and his townspeople as a funeral director. In this wholly unique collection of essays, the two vocations meet as Lynch shows himself to be a competent functionary of mourning--dispensing comfort and homespun wisdom to the grief-stricken--as...

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Undertow

by Sydney Bauer

Published: 2008-07-01

Mass Market Paperback: 439 pages

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The Undertow

by Jo Baker

Published: 2012-05-15

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The American debut of an enthralling new voice: a vivid, indelibly told work of fiction that follows four generations of a family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century?a novel about inheritance, about fate and passion, and about what it means to truly break free of the past.This is ...

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Underworld

by Don DeLillo

Published: 2007-06-05

Hardcover: 832 pages

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Our lives, our half-century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is a...