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The Year of the Hare - Arto Paasilinna; Pico Iyer; Her
From Publishers WeeklyFirst published in 1975 at the height of the back-to-nature movement, Paasilinna's charming, low-key allegory pursues a journalist abandoning his Helsinki lif... -
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 Year Money Grew on Trees - Aaron Hawkins
Chapter 1: A Bad Choice and a Worse One My dad always said that his feet were the only stupid parts of his body. They had walked him into every bad decision he had ever made, so h... -
The Yankee Years - Joe Torre; Tom Verducci
SUMMARY: The definitive story of one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, Joe Torre's New York Yankees. When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, they h... -
The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
SUMMARY: "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a deceptively jaunty intr... -
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 World According to Bertie - Alexander Hanchett Smith
From Publishers WeeklySmith delivers yet another delightful installment to his Scotland Street series. This time out, he focuses mostly on the irrepressible Bertie Pollock, a preco... -
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 Women - T. Coraghessan Boyle
From "America's most imaginative contemporary novelist" (Newsweek), a novel of Frank Lloyd Wright and the women in his life. Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harve... -
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky - Jennifer Steil
"I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn't speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn't I battled scor...