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  • Wedlock
    Wedlock : The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
    by Wendy Moore
    Hardcover: Mar 2009
    Paperback: Mar 2010
     
    Moore resurrects history from dry names and dates, and vividly recreates this eerily familiar era with a historian's love for detail and a storyteller's passion for a good yarn.
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  • The Weight of All Things
    The Weight of All Things
    by Sandra Benitez
    Hardcover: Feb 2001
    Paperback: Feb 2002
     
    A novel about war -- and the lunacy of it -- seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. Set in El Salvador. "A strong and provocative novel"
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  • The Weight of Heaven
    The Weight of Heaven : A Novel
    by Thrity Umrigar
    Hardcover: Apr 2009
    Paperback: Feb 2010
     
    Filled with satisfyingly real characters and glowing with local color, The Weight of Heaven is a rare glimpse of a family and a country struggling under pressures beyond their control. Umrigar illuminates how slowly we recover from unforgettable loss...
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  • Welcome To The World, Baby Girl
    Welcome To The World, Baby Girl
    by Fannie Flagg
    Hardcover: Sep 1998
    Paperback: Dec 1999
     
    Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth.
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  • The Well of Lost Plots
    The Well of Lost Plots : A Thursday Next Novel
    by Jasper Fforde
    Hardcover: Feb 2004
    Paperback: Jul 2004
     
    In this delicious sequel to The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book, Fforde's redoubtable heroine Thursday Next once again does battle with philistine bibliophobes.
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  • Wellness
    Wellness : A Novel
    by Nathan Hill
    Hardcover: Sep 2023
    Paperback: Jun 2024
     
    The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about marriage, the often baffling pursuit of health and happiness, and the stories that bind us together. From the gritty '90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia ...
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  • The Welsh Girl
    The Welsh Girl
    by Peter Ho Davies
    Hardcover: Feb 2007
    Paperback: Jan 2008
     
    From the acclaimed writer Peter Ho Davies comes an engrossing wartime love story set in the stunning landscape of North Wales during the final, harrowing months of World War II.
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  • Wesley the Owl
    Wesley the Owl : The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
    by Stacey O'Brien
    Hardcover: Aug 2008
    Paperback: Jun 2009
     
    When biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl with nerve damage in one wing, she knew he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild, so gave him a permanent home living with her. This is the funny, poignant story of their...
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