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  • When I Lived In Modern Times
    When I Lived In Modern Times
    by Linda Grant
    Hardcover: Jan 2001
    Paperback: Jan 2002
     
    An unsentimental, iconoclastic coming-of-age story of both a country - Israel - and a young immigrant. An unforgettable glimpse of a time and place rarely observed from an unsparing point of view.
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  • When She Woke
    When She Woke : A Novel
    by Hillary Jordan
    Hardcover: Oct 2011
    Paperback: Sep 2012
     
    When She Woke is a fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, who embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country ...
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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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