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  • When the Doves Disappeared
    When the Doves Disappeared
    by Sofi Oksanen
    Hardcover: Feb 2015
    Paperback: Feb 2016
     
    From the acclaimed author of Purge ("a stirring and humane work of art" —The New Republic) comes a riveting, chillingly relevant new novel of occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Eastern Europe.
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  • When The Emperor was Divine
    When The Emperor was Divine
    by Julie Otsuka
    Hardcover: Sep 2002
    Paperback: Oct 2003
     
    This commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. A haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.
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  • When the Moon Is Low
    When the Moon Is Low : A Novel
    by Nadia Hashimi
    Hardcover: Jul 2015
    Paperback: Apr 2016
     
    Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the Taliban ...
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  • When We Were Orphans
    When We Were Orphans
    by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Hardcover: Sep 2000
    Paperback: Oct 2001
     
    An English boy born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when his mother and father both vanish under suspicious circumstances. Sent to live in England, he grows up to become a renowned detective and, 20 years later, returns ...
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  • When Will There Be Good News?
    When Will There Be Good News? : A Novel
    by Kate Atkinson
    Hardcover: Sep 2008
    Paperback: Jan 2010
     
    Three lives come together in unexpected and thrilling ways in Kate Atkinson's When Will There Be Good News?
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  • When You Reach Me
    When You Reach Me
    by Rebecca Stead
    Hardcover: Jul 2009
    Paperback: Dec 2010
     
    Winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal. Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody who knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing...
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  • Where The Heart Is
    Where The Heart Is
    by Billy Letts
    Hardcover: Jun 1995
    Paperback: May 1998
     
    Novalee may be homeless and jobless, living secretly in a Wal-Mart, but she's beginning to believe she may have a future. Through all the touching and surprising adventures that lie ahead, she's going in the right direction.
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  • Where'd You Go, Bernadette
    Where'd You Go, Bernadette : A Novel
    by Maria Semple
    Hardcover: Dec 2012
    Paperback: Apr 2013
     
    A compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
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The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson

An audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.

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    The Family Tabor
    by Cherise Wolas

    Wolas's gorgeously rendered sophomore novel reckons with the nature of the stories we tell ourselves.
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    by Beatriz Williams

    An electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power and redemption set on an island off the New England coast.
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