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The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Many will greet this taut, clear-eyed memoir of grief as a long-awaited return to the terrain of Didion's venerated, increasingly rare persona... -
The Wrong Man - John Katzenbach
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Bestseller Katzenbach (_The Traveler_) manages the impressive feat of taking a thriller cliché and using it as the basis for a powerful and c.... -
The World of Karl Pilkington - Karl Pilkington; Ricky Gervais;
In this pithy and hilarious book, Karl Pilkington is in conversation with (the often bewildered) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the writers and stars of The Office and Extras,... -
The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Essayist and public radio regular Vowell (_Assassination Vacation_) revisits America's Puritan roots in this witty exploration of the ways in ... -
The Wild Zone_ A Novel - Joy Fielding
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. The Wild Zone, a South Beach (Miami Beach, Fla.) bar filled with lusty men—specifically, charismatic personal trainer Jeff Rydell; his cute vi... -
The Weight - Andrew Vachss
From Publishers WeeklyAt the start of this tepid stand-alone from Vachss (Haiku), professional thief Tim "Sugar" Caine finds himself in an interesting dilemma--a rape victim has mi... -
The Water Room - Christopher Fowler
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Traditional mystery buffs with a taste for the offbeat will relish British author Fowler's wonderful second contemporary whodunit featuring th... -
The Venetian Judgment - David Stone
Apr 2009 At the start of bestseller Stone's formulaic third thriller to feature CIA cleaner Micah Dalton (after The Orpheus Deception), Dalto... -
The Valiant - Michael Jan Friedman
Product DescriptionThree hundred years ago, the S.S. Valiant was destroyed during an ill-fated attempt to cross the legendary Galactic Barrier. Starfleet had always assumed t... -
The Use and Abuse of Literature - Marjorie Garber
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Harvard English professor Garber (Patronizing the Arts) leads an expedition through the archives of literature, rejecting expansion of the ter...