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The Watery Part of the World

by Michael Parker

Published: 2012-06-05

Paperback: 288 pages

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Michael Parker’s vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two little-known moments in history, it begins in 1813, when Theodosia Burr, en route t...

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The Water's Lovely

by Ruth Rendell

Published: 2007-08-02

Paperback: 416 pages

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Water's Edge

by Robert Whitlow

Published: 2011-07-19

Paperback: 410 pages

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Sometimes small towns hold the biggest secrets. Ambitious young attorney Tom Crane is about to become a partner in a high-profile Atlanta law firm. But first he must clear one final matter from his docket—the closing of his deceased father's law practice in his hometown of Bethel, Georg...

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

by Christopher Paul Curtis

Published: 2000-12-12

Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages

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The Newbery Honor-winning American classic, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, celebrates 20 years with this anniversary edition featuring a special letter from Christopher Paul Curtis and an introduction by noted educator Dr. Pauletta Bracy.   Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old...

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Watson's Apology

by Beryl Bainbridge

Published: 1985-09

Hardcover: 222 pages

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After nearly thirty years of marriage, a Victorian clergyman, John Selby Watson, bludgeons his wife to death one Sunday afternoon after church. In this compelling tale by award-winning novelist Beryl Bainbridge, the seemingly ordinary history of their marriage unfolds until it climaxes in ...

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The Wave (Laurel-Leaf contemporary fiction)

by Todd Strasser

Published: 1981-09-15

Mass Market Paperback: 144 pages

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The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" sys...

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Wave Without a Shore

by C. J. Cherryh

Published: 2000-12

Hardcover: 280 pages

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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean

by Susan Casey

Published: 2010-09-14

Hardcover: 326 pages

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From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal,� ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dis�missed these st...

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The Waves (Annotated)

by Virginia Woolf

Published: 2006-07-03

Paperback: 348 pages

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The Waves is often regarded as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, standing with those few works of twentieth-century literature that have created unique forms of their own. In deeply poetic prose, Woolf traces the lives of six children from infancy to death who fleetingly unite around the unsee...

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Wavesong: The Obernewtyn Chronicles 5

by Isobelle Carmody

Published: 2008-12-09

Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages

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With the end of the wintertime that isolates Obernewtyn from the rest of the world, Farseeker guildmistress Elspeth Gordie again sets out for the lowlands. But she soon finds that not everyone welcomes the changes brought about by the rebellion. There is a traitor among the rebels?a traitor whose hatred...