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The Unprofessionals: A Novel

by Julie Hecht

Published: 2003-09-02

Hardcover: 240 pages

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There is no American writer alive who is funnier, more inquisitive, or more surprising than Julie Hecht. The Unprofessionals, her first novel, whose nameless narrator also told the stories in the author’s bestselling collection, Do the Windows Open?, is a mordant triumph. It follows ...

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An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of Love, Service, and an Authentic Life

by Mary Johnson

Published: 2011-09-13

Hardcover: 526 pages

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An unforgettable spiritual autobiography about a search for meaning that begins alongside one of the great religious icons of our time and ends with a return to the secular world At seventeen, Mary Johnson saw Mother Teresa's face on the cover of Time and experienced her calling. Eighteen...

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An Unquiet Mind

by Kay Redfield Jamison

Published: 1997-05-09

Paperback: 240 pages

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This is the revelation of Jamison's own struggle since childhood with manic-depression and how it has shaped her life. 2 cassettes.

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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

by Kay Redfield Jamison

Published: 1996-10

Paperback: 224 pages

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WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORIn her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness.Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while s...

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Unraveled: The True Story of a Woman Who Dared to Become a Different Kind of Mother

by Maria Housden

Published: 2005-06-07

Kindle Edition: 288 pages

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As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans.Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young ...

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The Unraveling of Violeta Bell (Morgue Mama Mysteries (Hardcover))

by C R Corwin

Published: 2011-04-05

Paperback: 240 pages

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Newspaper librarian Maddy Sprowls never gives story ideas to the editors at The Hannawa Herald-Union. She prefers to stay in the morgue and do her job, and hopes the editors stay in the newsroom and do theirs. Then one Saturday she sees four elderly women get out of a taxicab at a garage s...

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* * * * * Inspiring,
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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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* * * * * Insightful,
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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...