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Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Published: 2011-02-01

Paperback: 388 pages

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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, and the second best-selling...

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Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages

by Katie Roiphe

Published: 2008-05-20

Paperback: 343 pages

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An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust, With a New Epilogue

by Bernat Rosner, Frederic C. Tubach, Sally Patterson Tubach

Published: 2010-01-12

Paperback: 328 pages

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In 1944, 13-year-old Fritz Tubach was almost old enough to join the Hitler Youth in his German village of Kleinheubach. That same year in Tab, Hungary, 12-year-old Bernie Rosner was loaded onto a train with the rest of the village's Jewish inhabitants and taken to Auschwitz, where his whole family was...

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An Uncommon Grace: A Novel

by Serena B Miller

Published: 2012-04-03

Paperback: 352 pages

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A moving and inspirational novel about the power of faith, family and above all, love, as a young Amish man must turn to his Englisch neighbor for help after a devastating tragedy.Grace Connor, a military nurse formerly stationed in Afghanistan, hopes that moving to a farm in rural Ohio wi...

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The Uncommon Reader: A Novella

by Alan Bennett

Published: 2008-09-30

Paperback: 120 pages

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From one of England's most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of readingWhen her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of ...

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Unconditionally Single

by Mary B. Morrison

Published: 2009-08-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison thrills readers with another riveting tale featuring beloved heroine Honey Thomas. This time, Honey goes into hiding to save her life--and fights to keep past enemies from destroying the future she so desperately wants. . .Honey Thomas onc...

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Unconfessed

by Yvette Christianse

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 360 pages

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A 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award finalist: "Impossible to put down, this work deserves a place beside such classics as Toni Morrison's Beloved and Edward P. Jones's The Known World."—Library Journal (starred review)Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed—and never wit...

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The Uncoupling

by Meg Wolitzer

Published: 2011-04-05

Hardcover: 288 pages

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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire. When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex w...

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Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

by Stephen Ambrose

Published: 1997-06-02

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From the bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his ...

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The Undaunted

by Gerald N. Lund

Published: 2009-08-17

Hardcover: 802 pages

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The journey was impossible. But they had no other choice. At the call of their prophet, they left well-established farms and businesses to strike out yet again into the untamed wilderness. A small band of men, women, and children formed the 1879 pioneer company. Their mission: stand as a buffer between...