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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...

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We Need to Talk about Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

Published: 2003

Hardcover: 0 pages

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Focusing on a boy who kills seven of his fellow students, Shriver tells a resonant story while framing the horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as metaphors for the larger tragedy--the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.)

by Lionel Shriver

Published: 2006-07-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry Eva never really wanted to be a mother—and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, ...

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We Shall Not Sleep: A Novel (World War One Novels)

by Anne Perry

Published: 2008-03-25

Paperback: 292 pages

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Anne Perry's magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the world's best known and loved historical novelists. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perry's talents ?have taken a quantum leap? (The Star-Ledger), and so has the number of her devoted readers. We Sha...

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We Speak Your Names: A Celebration

by Pearl Cleage

Published: 2006-05-09

Hardcover: 64 pages

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For centuries, African American women have been remaking the world, giving testament to the power of hope, courage, and resilience. But it took the inspired generosity of Oprah Winfrey to honor fully the many gifts of sisterhood. For three amazing days–from May 13 to 15, 2005–a...

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We the Animals: A novel

by Justin Torres

Published: 2011-08-30

Hardcover: 126 pages

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"We the Animals is a dark jewel of a book. It s heartbreaking. It s beautiful. It resembles no other book I ve read. We should all be grateful for Justin Torres, a brilliant, ferocious new voice." --Michael Cunningham An exquisite, blistering debut novel Three brothers tear their way ...

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We the Living

by Ayn Rand

Published: 1996-01-01

Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages

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An exploration of the eternal human struggle between the human individual and the state offers the first installment of Rand's philosophy of Objectivism and features an introduction by the author's heir, Leonard Peikoff. Reissue.

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We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive

by Laurie Notaro

Published: 2005-04-19

Paperback: 240 pages

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We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

by Gillian Gill

Published: 2009-11-30

Paperback: 480 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its po...