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You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness

by Julie Klam

Published: 2010-10-28

Hardcover: 240 pages

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The hilarious and heartfelt chronicle of a woman learning the secrets of love, health, and happiness from some very surprising teachers: her dogs. Julie Klam was thirty, single, and working as a part-time clerk in an insurance company, wondering if she would ever meet the man she could sp...

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You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss (and Each Other)

by Vanessa Williams, Helen Williams

Published: 2012-04-17

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The highly anticipated first book by a widely respected entertainer whose career highlights include The Right Stuff, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, and former Miss AmericaWhen Vanessa Williams was growing up, she had a plan: She?d go to college and major in musical theater; afterward sh...

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You Have Seven Messages

by Stewart Lewis

Published: 2012-09-11

Paperback: 304 pages

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It's been a year since Luna's mother, the fashion-model wife of a successful film director, was hit and killed by a taxi in New York's East Village. Luna, her father, and her little brother, Tile, are still struggling with grief.When Luna goes to clean out her mother's old studio, she's st...

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You Have Time for This

Published: 2007-11-01

Paperback: 135 pages

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You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

by Deborah Tannen

Published: 2007-02-06

Paperback: 352 pages

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Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words.Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including eight months at number one, You Just Don't Understand is a true cultural and intellectual phenomenon. This is the book that brought gender difference...

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You Know When the Men Are Gone

by Siobhan Fallon

Published: 2011-01-20

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Tim O'Brien, an unforgettable collection of intercollected short stories. In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls... You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also kn...

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You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

by Eleanor Roosevelt

Published: 2011-04-26

Paperback: 224 pages

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One of the most beloved figures of the twentieth century, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt remains a role model for a life well lived. At the age of seventy-six, Roosevelt penned this simple guide to living a fuller life. now back in print, You Learn by Living is a powerful volume of enduring...

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You Lost Me There

by Rosecrans Baldwin

Published: 2010-08-12

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A dazzling debut that is at once a lightly erudite novel of ideas and a darkly charming love story set on an island off the coast of Maine-the perfect sophisticated summer read. By turns funny, charming, and tragic, Rosecrans Baldwin's debut novel takes us inside the heart and mind of Dr...

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You Never Gave Me a Name: One Mennonite Woman's Story

by Katie Funk Wiebe

Published: 2009-06-15

Paperback: 284 pages

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"I loved this book," says Dora Dueck, writer and editor, who is author of several books and co-editor of Northern Lights: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Writing in Canada (Wiley, 2008). "This is Katie's life, her name, her harvest of work and discovery. But something wonderful happened as I read...

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You or Someone Like You

by Chandler Burr

Published: 2009-06-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Anne Rosenbaum leads a life of quiet Los Angeles privilege, the wife of Hollywood executive Howard Rosenbaum and mother of their seventeen-year-old son, Sam. Years ago Anne and Howard met studying litera-ture at Columbia'she, the daughter of a British diplo-mat from London, he a boy from ...