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White Teeth

by Okot p'Bitek

Published: 1989-12-29

Paperback: 120 pages

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First published in Acoli as Lak Tar, this novel from the late Ugandan author of Song of Lawino, Song of Ocol and other major works, is the story of society on the threshold of change. A young Acoli man wishes to marry but cannot raise the bridewealth. He travels to Kampala to find work, and the author...

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White Teeth: A Novel

by Zadie Smith

Published: 2001-06-12

Paperback: 464 pages

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Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.Nominated as one of...

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* * * * Insightful,
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The White Tiger: A Novel

by Aravind Adiga

Published: 2008-10-14

Paperback: 304 pages

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A stunning literary debut critics have likened to Richard Wright’s Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society. “This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it befor...

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White Tigers: My Secret War in North Korea (Memories of War)

by Ben S. Malcom, Ron Martz

Published: 2003-04

Mass Market Paperback: 282 pages

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Operating from a clandestine camp on an island off western North Korea, Army lieutenant Ben Malcom coordinated the intelligence activities of eleven partisan battalions, including the famous White Tigers. With Malcom's experiences as its focus, White Tigers examines all aspects of guerrilla activities...

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* * * * * Romantic,
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White Truffles in Winter: A Novel

by N. M. Kelby

Published: 2012-10-08

Paperback: 368 pages

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“Rich in sensory delights . . . the kind of masterpiece readers will want to savor.”---Minneapolis Star-TribuneAuguste Escoffier (1846-1935) was the unparalleled French chef whose impact on restaurants and high cuisine is still with us. He was also a complicated man-kind yet imperious,...

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* * * * Fantastic,
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White Walls (The Asylum Trilogy)

by Lauren Hammond

Published: 2012-06-25

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Adelaide Carmichael knows that she's lost her mind.She's aware that she's being sent to The Oakhill Institution, but she's been told that she's being sent there to get better. She's been told that the staff is there to help.And it doesn't take Adelaide long to discover that she was very, v...

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White Widow

by David A Waples

Published: 2004-09-21

Paperback: 422 pages

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A president dies of natural causes. A vice-presidential vacancy. A congressman brutally murdered. America's widowed first lady turns to press secretary Nathaniel Freeman--a dashing former college football star--to challenge the Speaker of the House, an ambitious rival who has become an "a...

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* * * * Dark,
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The White Woman on the Green Bicycle: A Novel

by Monique Roffey

Published: 2011-04-26

Paperback: 437 pages

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A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of Trinidad Monique Roffey's Orange Prize-shortlisted novel is a gripping portrait of postcolonialism that stands among great works by Caribbean writers like Jamaic...

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The White

by Deborah Larsen

Published: 2003-09-09

Paperback: 219 pages

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In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their brother who was killed by whites. Emerging slowly from shock, Mary--now...

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Whitechapel Gods

by S.M. Peters

Published: 2008-02-05

Mass Market Paperback: 374 pages

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A thrilling new Steampunk fantasy from a talented debut author TWO GODS-ONE CHANCE FOR MANKIND In Victorian London, the Whitechapel section is a mechanized, steam-driven hell, cut off and ruled by two mysterious, mechanical gods-Mama Engine and Grandfather Clock. Some years have passed s...