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  • Under The Tuscan Sun
    Under The Tuscan Sun : At Home In Italy
    by Frances Mayes
    Hardcover: Oct 1996
    Paperback: Oct 1997
     
    An enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany, in the spirit of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence.
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  • Under the Udala Trees
    Under the Udala Trees
    by Chinelo Okparanta
    Hardcover: Sep 2015
    Paperback: Sep 2016
     
    Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.
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  • Under the Wide and Starry Sky
    Under the Wide and Starry Sky
    by Nancy Horan
    Hardcover: Jan 2014
    Paperback: Sep 2014
     
    A much-anticipated second novel which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.
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  • The Underground Girls of Kabul
    The Underground Girls of Kabul : In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
    by Jenny Nordberg
    Hardcover: Sep 2014
    Paperback: Jul 2015
     
    An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.
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  • The Underground Railroad
    The Underground Railroad : A Novel
    by Colson Whitehead
    Hardcover: Aug 2016
    Paperback: Jan 2016
     
    From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South
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  • The Undertow
    The Undertow : A Novel
    by Jo Baker
    Hardcover: May 2012
    Paperback: Dec 2012
     
    The American debut of an enthralling new voice: a vivid, indelibly told work of fiction that follows four generations of a family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century - a novel about inheritance, about fate and passion, and about what it ...
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  • An Unfinished Life
    An Unfinished Life
    by Mark Spragg
    Hardcover: Aug 2004
    Paperback: Aug 2005
     
    Set in the high-country of Wyoming, this is a riveting tale of hard-won friendship, old wounds, fresh pain and love lost and found.
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  • The Unforgotten Coat
    The Unforgotten Coat
    by Frank Cottrell Boyce
    Hardcover: Sep 2011
     
    Often laugh-out-loud funny, this moving and simply told novella of two Mongolian brothers learning to fit in to a British school tugs at the heart - a unique story of immigration both fierce in its telling and magical in its characters.
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