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The Wine-Dark Sea - Patrick O'Brian
SUMMARY: At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strang... -
The Winds of Khalakovo - Bradley P. Beaulieu
From Publishers WeeklyDebut novelist Beaulieu paints a detailed and realistic portrayal of individual fates bound up in social responsibilities as well-grounded cultures clash. Pri... -
The Wilt Alternative - Tom Sharpe
In this, the second of Tom Sharpe's chronicles about Henry Wilt, our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Depa... -
The Wildwater Walking Club - Claire Cook
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Lively and inspiring!"--*Hartford Courant* "A great feel-good story."--*Philadelphia Examiner* *Just one step at a time. * After losing her boyfriend and her job... -
The Wild Things - Dave Eggers
SUMMARY: Max is a rambunctious eight-year-old, living with his mother and his sister, terrorizing the neighborhood on his bicycle. But Max's world is changing around him: His fathe... -
The Wild Girls - Ursula K. le Guin
Newly revised and presented here in book form for the first time, this Nebula Award-winning story tells of two captive "dirt children" in a society of sword and silk, whose determi... -
The Whole Story of Half a Girl - Veera Hiranandani
After her father loses his job, Sonia Nadhamuni, half Indian and half Jewish American, finds herself yanked out of private school and thrown into the unfamiliar world of public edu... -
The Whitechapel Conspiracy - Anne Perry
Amazon.com ReviewAfter a less-than-impressive outing with the more-turgid-than-tense Half Moon Street, Anne Perry is back on familiar--and entertaining-- turf with The Whitech... -
The White Devil - Justin Evans
Review“[An] ingenious and creepy supernatural thriller, will give you chills even in the summer heat. Evans has fused a literary mystery, sinister ghost story and Gothic romance wi... -
The White Castle - Orhan Pamuk
From Publishers WeeklyOne of Turkey's foremost novelists explores the ambivalent relationship between master and slave in this elegant, postmodernist twist on the theme of the dopp...