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What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal

by Zoe Heller

Published: 2003

Hardcover: 272 pages

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A lonely schoolteacher reveals more than she intends when she records the story of her best friend's affair with a pupil in this sly, insightful novel. "Heller writes with a precision that stirs the blood and an uncommon insight into the darker sides of love."--Nuala O'Faolain.

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What We Do Is Secret

by Kief Hillsbery

Published: 2005-04-12

Paperback: 368 pages

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“Why am I a punk? Because I wasn’t anything before, except different. And now it’s like I’m different, but with a vengeance.” It’s been months since the suicide of Darby Crash, L.A. punk rock icon and lead singer of the Germs. He checked out on the same ...

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What We Have: A Family#s Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival

by Amy Boesky

Published: 2010-08-05

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The stirring true story of a woman who chose fearlessness in the face of a fatal family legacy and discovered the pleasure of living each moment to its fullest At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) per...

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What We Keep

by Elizabeth Berg

Published: 2002-01-02

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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?BERG KNOWS THE HEARTS OF HER CHARACTERS INTIMATELY, showing them with compassion, humor, and an illuminating generosity.??The Seattle Times?BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN . . . [Ginny Young] crosses the country for a reluctant reunion with the mother she has not seen in 35 years. During the long hou...

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What We Keep: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Elizabeth Berg

Published: 1999-05-25

Paperback: 304 pages

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Do you ever really know your mother, your daughter, the people in your family? In this rich and rewarding new novel by the beloved bestselling author of Talk Before Sleep and The Pull of the Moon, a reunion between two sisters and their mother reveals how the secrets and complexities of th...

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories

by Nathan Englander

Published: 2012-02-07

Hardcover: 224 pages

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These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American f...

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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

by Bernard Lewis

Published: 2003-01

Paperback: 0 pages

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For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing t...

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What You Have Left: A Novel

by Will Allison

Published: 2007-06-05

Hardcover: 224 pages

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What You Have Left is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and, most of all, longing.In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie tells her he just ...

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What You Owe Me

by Bebe Moore Campbell

Published: 2002-09-03

Mass Market Paperback: 527 pages

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Sweeping across fifty years of family, friendship, betrayal, and reconciliation, this is Bebe Moore Campbell's most ambitious achievement yet.

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What You See in the Dark

by Manuel Munoz

Published: 2011-03-29

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Bakersfield, California, in the late 1950s is a dusty, quiet town too far from Los Angeles to share that city's energy yet close enough to Hollywood to fill its citizens with the kinds of dreams they discover in the darkness of the movie theater. For Teresa, a young, aspiring singer who wo...