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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

by Alice Walker

Published: 2006-10-30

Hardcover: 257 pages

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A beautifully packaged book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge, from the incomparable Pulitzer Prize-winner?a woman who has devoted her life to befriending the earth.From the Introduction: "In fact, the happiness that imbues this kind of (impersonal) friendship, whe...

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We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against: The Classic Account of the 1960s Counter-Culture in San Francisco

by Nicholas von Hoffman

Published: 1988-12-01

Paperback: 279 pages

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Books about the sixties have proliferated in recent years, but none has surpassed Nicholas von Hoffman's classic account of the 1960s counter-culture in San Francisco. ?In the summer of 1967,? he writes, ?youth drew attention to itself by clustering in large numbers in most major American ...

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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese

by Elizabeth M. Norman

Published: 2000-05-01

Paperback: 327 pages

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Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a "grippingly told" story of "power and relevance," here is the true, untold account of the first American women to prove their mettle under combat conditions. Later, during three years of brutal captivity at the hands of the Japanese, they also ...

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We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals that Changed Their Lives Forever

by Benjamin Mee

Published: 2009-09-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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The remarkable true story of a family who move into a rundown zoo? already a BBC documentary miniseries and excerpted in The Guardian.In the market for a house and an adventure, Benjamin Mee moved his family to an unlikely new home: a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside. Mee had a d...

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We Can't Go Home Again

by Max Andrew Dubinsky

Published: 2011-11-02

Paperback: 132 pages

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Asking if any of us are beyond forgiveness is a landscape of human angst and pain in search of redemption. A college student's sexual addiction leads to a family tragedy. A group of anarchists living on the road fall under the control of a violent leader waiting for the world to end. A young man crosses...

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We Don't Die

by Joel Martin, Patricia Romanowski

Published: 2002-08-06

Paperback: 304 pages

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This is the phenomenal true story of the world-renowned psychic medium George Anderson?the groundbreaking book that first brought afterlife experience into the light. For over 12 years Joel Martin documented evidence of Anderson's powers?the ability to reach 'the other side'?and repeatedly...

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We Had It So Good: A Novel

by Linda Grant

Published: 2012-04-03

Paperback: 352 pages

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Stephen Newman’s children find it hard to believe that their father once dressed up in Marilyn Monroe’s furs, cooked acid at Oxford and lived with their mother, Andrea, in an anarchist collective. Quite often, Stephen finds it hard to believe himself. Born to immigrant parents in sunny...

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

Published: 2009-09

Mass Market Paperback: 176 pages

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Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods - until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat protects her...

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Shirley Jackson

Published: 2006-10-31

Kindle Edition: 162 pages

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Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods—until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat protects her...

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We Might As Well Win: On the Road to Success with the Mastermind Behind Eight Tour de FranceVictories

by Johan Bruyneel, Bill Strickland

Published: 2009-06-03

Paperback: 240 pages

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Johan Bruyneel knows what it takes to win. In 1998, this calculating Belgian and former professional cyclist looked Lance Armstrong in the eye and said, "Look, if we?re going to ride the Tour, we might as well win." In that powerful phrase a dynasty was born.We Might AsWellWin takes reader...