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Why Read Moby-Dick_ - Nathaniel Philbrick
Product DescriptionThe New York Times bestselling author of seagoing epics now celebrates an American classic. Moby-Dick is perhaps the greatest o... -
Why Can't Elephants Jump_ - New Scientist
Product DescriptionWell, why not? Is it because elephants are too large or heavy (after all, they say hippos and rhinos can play hopscotch)? Or is it because their knees face the w... -
Why Aren't We Saving the Planet - Geoffrey Beattie
Review"The planet is in peril on account of human activity. Politicians, philosophers, and various pundits have been proposing ways to reverse the destructive thrust of this activi... -
Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb__ - Brian Lamb; C-Span
SUMMARY: In this newly updated book, C-SPAN provides a comprehensive guide to the final resting places of our nation's presidents. As much about the presidents' lives as it is abou... -
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness_ - Toure; Michael Eric Dyson
Review“One of the most acutely observed accounts of what it is like to be young, black and middle-class in America. Toure inventively draws on a range of evidence . . . for a perfo... -
White Noise - Don Delillo
Amazon.com ReviewBetter than any book I can think of, White Noise captures the particular strangeness of life in a time where humankind has finally learned enough to kill itself. .... -
Whisper on the Wind - Maureen Lang
SUMMARY: In Brussels at the height of WWI, a small, underground newspaper is the only thing offering the occupied city hope-and real news of the war. The paper may be a small whisp... -
Whiplash - Catherine Coulter
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While the Light Lasts - Agatha Christie
These five early stories, unpublished since their first magazine appearances in the '20s and '30s, were finally unearthed 21 years after Agatha Christie's death. Smartly jacketed i... -
While I'm Falling - Laura Moriarty
SUMMARY: Ever since her parents announced that they're getting divorced, Veronica has been falling. Hard. A junior in college, she's fallen in love. She's fallen behind in her diff...