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Want to Go Private?

by Sarah Littman

Published: 2011-08-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Abby and Luke chat online. They've never met. But they are going to. Soon. Abby is starting high school--it should be exciting, so why doesn't she care? Everyone tells her to \u0022make an effort,\u0022 but why can't she just be herself? Abby quickly feels like she's losing a grip on her o...

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A Wanted Man: A Jack Reacher Novel

by Lee Child

Published: 2012-09-11

Hardcover: 416 pages

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Reacher is back! A Wanted Man is a new masterpiece of suspense—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child.   Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the ...

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Wanting: A Novel

by Richard Flanagan

Published: 2009-05-12

Hardcover: 272 pages

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One of our most inventive and important international literary voices, Richard Flanagan now delivers Wanting, a powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human.It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, a barefoot aborigina...

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The Wapshot Chronicle

by John Cheever

Published: 2011-06-28

Paperback: 368 pages

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When "The Wapshot Chronicle" winner of the 1958 National Book Award, was published in 1957, Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories. Based in part on Cheever's adolescence in New England, the novel follows the destinies of the wildly eccentric Wapshots of St. Botolphs,...

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The War Against Miss Winter

by Kathryn Miller Haines

Published: 2007-06-01

Paperback: 317 pages

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War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America

by Huey P. Newton

Published: 2000-09

Paperback: 148 pages

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As co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton knew repression first hand. Surviving a shooting in which one police officer was killed and another wounded, Newton became the symbol of Black urban resistance in the United States. Obscure until now, Newton's valuable Ph.D. dissertation War Against...

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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race

by Edwin Black

Published: 2008-09-25

Hardcover: 592 pages

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In War Against the Weak, award-winning investigative journalist Edwin Black connects the crimes of the Nazis to a pseudoscientific American movement of the early twentieth century called eugenics. Based on selective breeding of human beings, eugenics began in laboratories on Long Island but ended in...

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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

Published: 2013-01-12

Kindle Edition: 1802 pages

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Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, considered one of the finest novels ever written, chronicles Napoleon's invasion of Russia during the early 19th century. A linked table of contents is included to navigate this massive epic.

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War And Peace (Greenwich House Classics Library)

by Leo Tolstoy

Published: 1988-12-12

Hardcover: 1334 pages

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War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families.

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War and Peace (Norton Critical Editions)

by Leo Tolstoy

Published: 1966-10

Paperback: 1504 pages

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A new version -- the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished -- of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon -- it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books. 'War and Peace' is a masterpiece --...