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What I Did for Love: A Novel

by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Published: 2009-01-20

Hardcover: 401 pages

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How did this happen? Georgie York, once the costar of America's favorite television sitcom, has been publicly abandoned by her famous husband, her film career has tanked, her father is driving her crazy, and her public image as a spunky heroine is taking a serious beating. What should a...

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What I Got Into Last Summer

by Janet Lynn Eystad

Published: 2012-01-31

Hardcover: 28 pages

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What didn't this young boy get into last summer? After graduating from kindergarten our young adventurer boards a train for some summer fun with his grandparents. Let's tag along and take a train ride, visit an aviation museum, play the piano, the bassoon, and the bass clarinet (well, sort of). Let's...

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What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America

by Tavis Smiley

Published: 2008-01-08

Paperback: 272 pages

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From the man who catapulted the Covenant with Black America to number one on the New York Times bestseller list comes a searing memoir of poverty, ambition, pain and atonment. Tavis Smiley grew up in a family of thirteen in rural Indian, where money was scarce and the sight of other black...

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What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self

by Ellyn Spragins

Published: 2008-04-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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If you could send a letter back through time to your younger self, what would the letter say? In this moving collection, forty-one famous women write letters to the women they once were, filled with advice and insights they wish they had had when they were younger. Today show correspondent...

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What I Loved

by Siri Hustvedt

Published: 2003-06

Paperback: 391 pages

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What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years,...

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What I Thought I Knew: A Memoir

by Alice Eve Cohen

Published: 2009-07-09

Hardcover: 208 pages

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A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possibleAt age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming. Al...

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What I Was

by Meg Rosoff

Published: 2009-02-10

Paperback: 224 pages

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In 1962, a 16-year-old boy is dropped off by his father at a boarding school on the windswept coast of East Anglia. It is a model of its kind?the rooms are freezing, the food is disgusting, the older boys are sadistic, and the masters are the ineffectual, damaged castoffs of a dying Empire...

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What I Was: A Novel

by Meg Rosoff

Published: 2008-12-30

Paperback: 224 pages

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Read Meg Rosoff's posts on the Penguin Blog. Finn was a beautiful orphan. H was a prep school misfit. On a September afternoon many years ago they met on a beach on the coast of England, near the ancient fisherman's hut Finn was squatting in with his woodstove, a case of books, a st...

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What In the World Is Going On?: 10 Prophetic Clues You Cannot Afford to Ignore

by Dr. David Jeremiah

Published: 2008-09-30

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Is the current economic and political crisis actually prophesied in the Bible? � If so, what are we to do about it?� It is hard to piece together all this information in a way that gives a comprehensive picture of what the end times will look like. That's why so many theories abound.�And t...

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What Is Left the Daughter

by Howard Norman

Published: 2011-05-03

Paperback: 264 pages

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Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country’s finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books—The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard, and The Haunting of L—in this erotically charged and morally complex story. Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is...