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Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities

by Elizabeth Edwards

Published: 2010-06-29

Paperback: 256 pages

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The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.She's one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. T...

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Resistance

by Owen Sheers

Published: 2009-02-10

Paperback: 306 pages

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Resistance is a beautifully written and powerful story set during an imagined occupation of Britain by Nazi Germany in World War II. In a remote and rugged Welsh valley in 1944, in the wake of a German invasion, all the men have disappeared overnight, apparently to join the underground...

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Resistance

by Anita Shreve

Published: 2006-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 296 pages

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Resistance : A Novel

by Anita Shreve

Published: 1997-01-01

Paperback: 222 pages

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This tale of impossible love--told with the same narrative grace and keen eye for human emotion that have distinguished all of Anita Shreve's cherished bestsellers--leads us into a harrowing world where forbidden passions have catastrophic consequences. In a Nazi-occupied Belgian village, ...

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Resistance: A Novel

by Anita Shreve

Published: 1997-01-01

Paperback: 222 pages

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A tale of impossible love in Nazi-occupied Belgium, where forbidden passions have catastrophic consequences. Claire Daussois, the wife of a Belgian resistance worker, shelters a wounded American bomber pilot in a secret attic hideaway. As she nurses him back to health, Claire is drawn into...

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The Resolution for Women

by Priscilla Shirer

Published: 2011-09-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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Written in partnership with Sherwood Pictures' upcoming film, COURAGEOUS, in The Resolution for Women, popular speaker and author Priscilla Shirer challenges all women to be intentional about embracing and thriving in God's beautiful and eternal calling on their lives. Like the men in the...

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A Respectable Trade

by Philippa Gregory

Published: 2007-02-01

Paperback: 512 pages

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Bristol in 1787 is booming, a city where power beckons those who dare to take risks. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs capital and a well-connected wife. Marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually conveni...

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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

by Alex Ross

Published: 2008-10-14

Paperback: 720 pages

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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the YearTime magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ro...

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The Rest of Her Life CD

by Laura Moriarty

Published: 2007-08-07

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In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another.Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship ...

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REST OF HER LIFE, THE

by Laura Moriarty

Published: 2007-08-07

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another. Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationshi...