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We Are All Welcome Here - Elizabeth Berg
SUMMARY: Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Art of Mending and The Year of Pleasures, has a rare talent for revealing her characters’ hearts and minds in a manner that makes... -
Waveland - Frederick Barthelme
From Publishers WeeklyIn his first novel since PEN/Faulkner finalist Elroy Nights, Barthelme offers a strangely detached exploration of the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf Coast. On.... -
Wartime lies - Louis Begley
From Publishers WeeklyThe "lies" in this haunting, powerful Holocaust novel are not just the Nazis' monstrous racialist myths, but also the personal fictions adopted by their victi... -
War - Sebastian Junger
SUMMARY: From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.They were known as "The Rock."... -
Walkabout - James Vance Marshall
A plane crashes in the vast Northern Territory of Australia, and the only survivors are two children from Charleston, South Carolina, on their way to visit their uncle in Adelaide.... -
Walden and on the Duty of Civil - Henry David Thoreau
SUMMARY: Thoreau, a sturdy individualist and nature lover, lived a spare existence in a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, from 1845 to 1847. "Walde... -
Voracious - Alice Henderson
Review“Heralds the arrival of a major new talent in the dark fiction field.”—J. A. KONRATH “A terrific debut.”—SIMON CLARK “A polished and well-focused novel of ... -
Villette (B&N) - Charlotte Bronte; Laura Engel
Villette, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader... -
Veteran - Gavin Smith
SUMMARY:Three hundred years in our future, in a world of alien infiltrators, religious hackers, a vast convoying nation of Nomads, city sized orbital elevators, and a cyborg... -
Up, Simba! - David Foster Wallace
In February 2000, <I>Rolling Stone</I> magazine sent David Foster Wallace, "NOT A POLITICAL JOURNALIST," on the road for a week with Senator John McCain's campaign to win the Repub...