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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa

by Peter Godwin

Published: 2008-04-10

Paperback: 341 pages

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Hailed by reviewers as "powerful," "haunting" and "a tour de force of personal journalism," When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award winning author and journalist Peter Godwin writes with p...

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When a Nation Forgets God: 7 Lessons We Must Learn from Nazi Germany

by Erwin W.. Lutzer, Erwin W. W.. Lutzer

Published: 2010-01-01

Paperback: 148 pages

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Years ago, a cartoon appeared in a Russian newspaper picturing a fork in the road. One path was labeled freedom; the other path was labeled sausage. As we might guess, the path to freedom had few takers; the path to sausage was crowded with footprints. When given a choice people will choos...

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When All the World Was Young: A Memoir

by Barbara Holland

Published: 2006-02-21

Paperback: 320 pages

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Acclaimed writer Barbara Holland, whom the Philadelphia Inquirer has called “a national treasure,” finally tells her own story with this atmospheric account of a postwar American childhood. When All the World Was Young is Holland’s account of growing up in Washington, D.C...

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When Autumn Leaves: A Novel

by Amy S. Foster

Published: 2009-10-06

Kindle Edition: 287 pages

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In Avening, a tiny town on the Pacific coast, it's hard not to believe in magic.This is a town where the shoes in the window always fit, where you can buy a love potion at the corner shop, and where the woods at the outskirts of town just might be the door to another world. And, of course,...

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When Bad Things Happen to Good People

by Harold S. Kushner

Published: 2004-08-24

Paperback: 176 pages

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When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the...

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When Beauty Tamed the Beast (Happily Ever Afters)

by Eloisa James

Published: 2011-02-01

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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Miss Linnet Berry Thrynne is a Beauty . . . Naturally, she's betrothed to a Beast. Piers Yelverton, Earl of Marchant, lives in a castle in Wales where, it is rumored, his bad temper flays everyone he crosses. And rumor also has it that a wound has left the earl immune to the charms of any ...

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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

by Chanrithy Him

Published: 2001-04-17

Paperback: 336 pages

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Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia...

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When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man

by Nick Dybek

Published: 2012-04-12

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Every fall, the men of Loyalty Island sail from the Olympic Peninsula up to the Bering Sea to spend the winter catching king crab. Their dangerous occupation keeps food on the table but constantly threatens to leave empty seats around it.To Cal, Alaska remains as mythical and mysterious...

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When Christ and His Saints Slept: A Novel

by Sharon Kay Penman

Published: 1996-02-06

Paperback: 784 pages

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A.D. 1135. As church bells tolled for the death of England's King Henry I, his barons faced the unwelcome prospect of being ruled by a woman: Henry's beautiful daughter Maude, Countess of Anjou. But before Maude could claim her throne, her cousin Stephen seized it. In their long and bitter...

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When Crickets Cry

by Charles Martin

Published: 2006-04-04

Kindle Edition: 352 pages

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A man with a painful past. A child with a doubtful future. And a shared journey toward healing for both their hearts.It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade stand. But the little girlâ??s pretty yellow...