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When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race

by Judith Stone

Published: 2007-04-04

Hardcover: 336 pages

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During the worst years of official racism in South Africa, the story of one young girl gripped the nation and came to symbolize the injustice, corruption, and arbitrary nature of apartheid. Born in 1955 to a pro-apartheid Afrikaner couple, Sandra Laing was officially registered and raised ...

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* * * * Dramatic,
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When She Woke

by Hillary Jordan

Published: 2013-03-01

Hardcover: 432 pages

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When She Woke (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)

by Hillary Jordan

Published: 2012-02-01

Hardcover: 502 pages

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When she woke, she was red. Not flushed, not sunburned, but the solid, declarative red of a stop sign. An enthralling and chilling novel from the author of MUDBOUND, for fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and THE SCARLET LETTER. Hannah Payne's life has been devoted to church and family, but after her arrest,...

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* * * Unconvincing,
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When She Woke: A Novel

by Hillary Jordan

Published: 2012-09-18

Paperback: 368 pages

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Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan’s provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned a...

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When Someone You Love Is Wiccan: A Guide to Witchcraft and Paganism for Concerned Friends, Nervous Parents, and Curious Co-Workers

by Carl, M McColman

Published: 2002-12-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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When Southern Girls Grow Old: Three Homecomings

by Elizabeth Doak Sherman

Published: 2008-09-29

Paperback: 444 pages

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This novel tells the comic antics, hapless adventures, and emotional and physical traumas of three women as they come to grips with aging. Although they come from the same southern family, their diverse circumstances and temperaments lead them down very different paths. Mavis Horton assumes the...

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When the Devil Holds the Candle

by Karin Fossum

Published: 2007-06-04

Paperback: 272 pages

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When two teenagers steal a purse from a stroller, it results in an infant’s death. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing another. They follow an elderly woman home, and Andreas enters her house with his switchblade. In the dark, Zipp waits ...

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When the Dust Finally Settles

by Kat Meads

Published: 2011-01-07

Paperback: 165 pages

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Narrated in part by a ghost, when the dust finally settles is a novel focused on land, loyalty and racial politics in the 1968 South. Mawatuck County (also the setting for Meads’s The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan) is a place where the present continually collides with the past, a fact underscored...

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When the Elephants Dance

by Tess Uriza Holthe

Published: 2003-06-24

Paperback: 384 pages

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“Papa explains the war like this: ‘When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful.’ The great beasts, as they circle one another, shaking the trees and trumpeting loudly, are the Amerikanos and the Japanese as they fight. And our Philippine Islands? We are the small chickens....

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* * * Boring,
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When the Emperor Was Divine

by Julie Otsuka

Published: 2003-10-14

Paperback: 160 pages

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The debut novel from the PEN/Faulkner Award Winning Author of The Buddha in the Attic On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Ja...