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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America

by Paul Tough

Published: 2009-09-10

Paperback: 310 pages

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What would it take?That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The ques...

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Whatever Makes You Happy: A Novel

by Lisa Grunwald

Published: 2006-08-08

Paperback: 256 pages

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What does it take to be happy? How happy is happy enough? And what does ?happy? mean, anyway? So asks Sally Farber?wife, mother, daughter, friend, working woman, and lover?in this wise and funny novel about a woman's search for happiness in some of the right, and a few of the wrong, places...

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Whatever Mother Says... : A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

by Wensley Clarkson

Published: 1995-03-15

Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages

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To neighbors, she was the brave single mother...Raising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, 16-year-old Terry, told police another story: one almost too terrible to believe.But accused of ...

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Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales Of A Botswana Safari Guide

by Peter Allison

Published: 2014-06-03

Paperback: 272 pages

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A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “only food runs!” With a new introduction and new material from the authorIn the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allis...

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Whats Bred In the Bone

by Robertson Davies

Published: 1988-12

Paperback: 448 pages

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What's Bred in the Bone is the second novel in the Canadian writer Robertson Davies' ''Cornish Trilogy''. It is the life story of Francis (or Frank) Cornish, whose death and will were the starting point for the first novel, The Rebel Angels. Francis...

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What's a Ghoul to Do? (Ghost Hunter Mysteries, Book 1)

by Victoria Laurie

Published: 2007-04-03

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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M.J., her partner Gilley, and their client, the wealthy, de-lish Dr. Steven Sable, are at his family's lodge, where his grandfather allegedly jumped to his death from the roof-although Sable says it was foul play. But the patriarch's isn't the only ghost around. The place is lousy with souls, all with...

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape

by Peter Hedges

Published: 1999-11-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV c...

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What's Inside?

by Janet Lynn Eystad

Published: 2011-09-27

Paperback: 28 pages

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 A nature adventure in rhyme finds a young boy and girl exploring everything from oranges and carrots to pearls; so find your magnifying glass and let's begin!

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What's Left of Us

by Richard Farrell

Published: 2009-07-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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"Blunt and honest...A stunning piece of work." T.J. English "Deeply moving. . .What s Left of Us is a rush of blood to the head and heart, the kind only true art can deliver." --Andre Dubus "An amazing story not just of survival, but redemption." Mary McGarry Morris Richie Farrell grew ...

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What's So Funny?

by Donald E. Westlake

Published: 2008-03-01

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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In his classic caper novels, Donald E. Westlake turns the world of crime and criminals upside down. The bad get better, the good slide a bit, and Lord help anyone caught between a thief named John Dortmunder and the current object of his intentions. Now Westlake's seasoned but often scorel...