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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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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...

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When the Finch Rises

by Jack Riggs

Published: 2004-08-31

Paperback: 272 pages

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JACK RIGGSWhen the Finch Rises is the debut novel of an author whose work will be read as classic literature for a long time to come. It is a story full of truths and revelations, transcending its fictional bounds to become something so real and so finely wrought that it will simply astoni...

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When the Heart Cries (Sisters of the Quilt #1)

by Cindy Woodsmall

Published: 2007-05-16

Hardcover: 525 pages

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When the Heart Cries (Sisters of the Quilt, Book One)

by Cindy Woodsmall

Published: 2006

Hardcover: 328 pages

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Despite being raised in a traditional Old Order Amish family, seventeen-year-old Hannah Lapp desires to break with custom, and marry outside the cloistered community. On the evening of their engagement, tragedy strikes and in one unwelcome encounter, all that Hannah has known and believed is destroyed....

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When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions (Plus)

by Sue Monk Kidd

Published: 2006-11-01

Paperback: 226 pages

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Blending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting." This Plus ...

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When the Husband is the Suspect

by F. Lee Bailey, Jean Rabe

Published: 2008-03-04

Hardcover: 272 pages

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From the bestselling author of The Defense Never Rests, a look at the modern spate of spousal homicides. This book provides an overview of several of the most famous homicidal husband cases of recent years, including:- Sam Sheppard, who inspired the TV series and movie The Fugitive- Jef...

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When the Killing's Done

by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Published: 2011-03-01

Hardcover: 384 pages

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'How can you talk about being civil when innocent animals are being tortured to death? Civil? I'll be civil when the killing's done.' The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue...