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Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women

by Barbara Sicherman

Published: 2012-08-01

Paperback: 392 pages

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In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost--and found--themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them. Some women, like Edith and Alice...

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Well-Schooled in Murder (Inspector Lynley)

by Elizabeth George

Published: 2007-05-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad's housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his...

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The Welsh Girl

by Peter Ho Davies

Published: 2008-01-14

Paperback: 352 pages

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Set in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day, Peter Ho Davies’s profoundly moving first novel traces the intersection of disparate lives in wartime. When a POW camp is established near her village, seventeen-year-old barmaid Esther Evans finds herself strangely drawn to ...

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Wench

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Published: 2010

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Wench: A Novel

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Published: 2010-01-05

Hardcover: 293 pages

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Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is startling and original fiction that raises provocative questions of power and freedom, love and dependence. An enchanting and unforgettable novel based on little-known fact, Wench combines the narrative allure of < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Cane River by Lalita Tademy and the moral co...

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Wench: A Novel (P.S.)

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Published: 2011-01-25

Paperback: 293 pages

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Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is startling and original fiction that raises provocative questions of power and freedom, love and dependence. An enchanting and unforgettable novel based on little-known fact, Wench combines the narrative allure of < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Cane River by Lalita Tademy and the moral co...

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Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein

by Julie Salamon

Published: 2011-08-18

Hardcover: 480 pages

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The authorized biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein. In Wendy and the Lost Boys bestselling author Julie Salamon explores the life of playwright Wendy Wasserstein's most expertly crafted character: herself. The first woman playwright to win a Tony Award, Wend...

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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

by Stacey O'Brien

Published: 2009-06-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

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West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Published: 1976-10-20

Paperback: 192 pages

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"It is like a fairyland." So Laura Ingalls Wilder described her 1915 voyage to San Francisco to visit her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. Laura's husband, Almanzo, was unable to leave their Missouri farm and it is her faithful letters home, vividly describing every detail of her journey, that...

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West of Here

by Jonathan Evison

Published: 2011-02-15

Hardcover: 496 pages

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Set in the fictional town of Port Bonita, on Washington State's rugged Pacific coast, West of Here is propelled by a story that both re-creates and celebrates the American experience?it is storytelling on the grandest scale. With one segment of the narrative focused on the town's founders ...