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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 Without Us - Alan Weisman
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Time* #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 *Entertainment Weekly* #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award *Salon* Book Awards 2... -
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 Woman Warrior_ Memoirs of a - Maxine Hong Kingston
Amazon.com ReviewThe Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (... -
The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare
Amazon.com ReviewForced to leave her sunny Caribbean home for the bleak Connecticut Colony, Kit Tyler is filled with trepidation. As they sail up the river to Kit's new home, the t... -
The Wit & Wisdom of Discworld - Terry Pratchett
Review“When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.” –From, Small Gods “A marriage is always made... -
The Wishing Trees - John Shors
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From "master storyteller"* John Shors, bestselling author of *Beneath a Marble Sky*, comes a remarkable novel about a father and daughter on a life-changing journ... -
The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
Amazon.com ReviewThe Wise Man's Fear continues the mesmerizing slow reveal of the story of Kvothe the Bloodless, an orphaned actor who became a fearsome hero before banishing hims.... -
The Winter Sea - Susanna Kearsley
ReviewThe story was deliciously romantic and the writing style matched the brooding, haunting tale very well. Definitely well worth reading! (Lynn Spencer All About Romance 2...