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* * * * Romantic,
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Up Close and Dangerous: A Novel

by Linda Howard

Published: 2007-07-17

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A mysterious plane crash . . . a dangerous trek through the Idaho wilderness . . . a smoldering attraction . . . and a deadly game of cat and mouse. In her latest tour de force of romantic suspense, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard blends these elements into a gripping story ...

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Up Country

by Nelson DeMille

Published: 2003-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 880 pages

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The last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, an organization that thanked him for his many years of dedicated service by forcing him into early retirement. But when his former boss calls in a career's worth of favors, Paul finds himself investigating...

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Up For Renewal

by Cathy Alter

Published: 2008-07-01

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By age thirty-seven, Cathy Alter had made a mess of her life. With a failed marriage already under her belt, she was continuing down the path of poor decisions, one paved with a steady stream of junk food, unpaid bills, questionable friends, and highly inappropriate men. So she sat down an...

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Up For Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex, and Starting Over

by Cathy Alter

Published: 2008-07-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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By age thirty-seven, Cathy Alter had made a mess of her life. With a failed marriage already under her belt, she was continuing down the path of poor decisions, one paved with a steady stream of junk food, unpaid bills, questionable friends, and highly inappropriate men. So she sat down an...

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Up from Orchard Street

by Eleanor Widmer

Published: 2006-03-28

Paperback: 402 pages

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In the tradition of Like Water for Chocolate and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, this exhilarating novel centered around a memorable immigrant family brings to vibrant life the soul and spirit of New York’s legendary Lower East Side.Up from Orchard Street......where three generations of Roths...

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* * * * Interesting,
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Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

Published: 2012-04-15

Paperback: 156 pages

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Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools most no...

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* * * * Dramatic,
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Up from the Blue: A Novel

by Susan Henderson

Published: 2010-09-21

Paperback: 336 pages

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 “Elegant and engrossing….Henderson is a talent to watch.” < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />—Danielle Trussoni, author of Angelology “This is not a book you’ll soon forget.” —Sara Gruen, author of Water for ElephantsThe gripping debut novel from Litpark.com founder and Pushcart Prize-nominee Susan Hender...

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Up High in the Trees: A Novel

by Kiara Brinkman

Published: 2007-07-10

Hardcover: 336 pages

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An exquisite debut novel about a family in turmoil told in the startling, deeply affecting voice of a nine-year-old, autistic boy. Following the sudden death of Sebby’s mother, his father takes Sebby to live in the family’s summerhouse, hoping it will give them both time and sp...

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* * * * * Fantastic,
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Up Island

by Anne Rivers Siddons

Published: 1997-10

Hardcover: 537 pages

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When 42-year-old Molly's husband leaves her for a younger woman she is devastated and leaves their home to go and live in Martha's Vineyard. She fits in well and makes friends, runs the library and feeds the swans. Her reluctant friendship with a naturalist may even grow to something more.

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Uplift

by Barbara Delinsky

Published: 2002-09-05

Paperback: 240 pages

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In Uplift bestselling popular novelist and cancer survivor Barbara Delinsky creates exactly the resource she wished had existed at the time of her treatment. Delinsky has collected a compendium of survival secrets that have nothing to do with doctors, machines or drugs and everything to do with women...