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White Mughals_ Love and Betraya - William Dalrymple
From Publishers WeeklyDalrymple, author of the bestselling In Xanadu, now anchors himself in India around the turn of the 19th century to focus on James Kirkpatrick, an officer for... -
Where Good Ideas Come From_ The - Steven Johnson
From Publishers WeeklyJohnson--writer, Web guru, and bestselling author of Everything Bad Is Good for You--delivers a sweeping look at innovation spanning nearly the whole of human... -
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork - George Carlin
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. There's no better way to enjoy one of Carlin's books than to hear him read it himself. With his gravelly voice, Carlin sounds like a foul-mout... -
Whatever You Say I Am_ The Life - Anthony Bozza
From Publishers WeeklyThe demand for all things Eminem is big, and rock journalist Bozza aims to fill in the gaps with some personal notes of his own. Culling from his own past int... -
What You See in the Dark - Manuel Munoz
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Muñoz, the author of two short story collections (The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue and Zigzagger), uses the second-person voice to draw the re... -
What Would Google Do_ - Jeff Jarvis
From Publishers WeeklyThis scattered collection of rambling rants lauding Google's abilities to harness the power of the Internet Age generally misses the mark. Blog impresario Jar... -
What We Keep - Elizabeth Berg
From Publishers Weekly"I don't like my mother. She's not a good person." So declares Ginny Young on a trip to California to visit her mother, Marion, whom she hasn't seen in 35 yea... -
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.... -
Washington Rules_ America's Pat - Andrew Bacevich
From Publishers WeeklyU.S. Army colonel turned academic, Bacevich (The Limits of Power) offers an unsparing, cogent, and important critique of assumptions guiding American military... -
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...