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When Satan Wore A Cross

by Fred Rosen

Published: 2007-11-01

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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In 1980 in Toledo, Ohio?on one of the holiest days of the church calendar?the body of a nun was discovered in the sacristy of a hospital chapel. Seventy-one-year-old Sister Margaret Ann had been strangled and stabbed, her corpse arranged in a shameful and stomach-churning pose. But the po...

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When She Flew

by Jennie Shortridge

Published: 2009-11-03

Paperback: 352 pages

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A new novel about faith, family, and finding the courage to do the right thing from the author of Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe.Police officer Jessica Villareal has always played by the book and tried to do the right thing. But now, she finds herself approaching midlife di...

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When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race

by Judith Stone

Published: 2007-04-04

Hardcover: 336 pages

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During the worst years of official racism in South Africa, the story of one young girl gripped the nation and came to symbolize the injustice, corruption, and arbitrary nature of apartheid. Born in 1955 to a pro-apartheid Afrikaner couple, Sandra Laing was officially registered and raised ...

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* * * * Dramatic,
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When She Woke

by Hillary Jordan

Published: 2013-03-01

Hardcover: 432 pages

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When She Woke (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)

by Hillary Jordan

Published: 2012-02-01

Hardcover: 502 pages

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When she woke, she was red. Not flushed, not sunburned, but the solid, declarative red of a stop sign. An enthralling and chilling novel from the author of MUDBOUND, for fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and THE SCARLET LETTER. Hannah Payne's life has been devoted to church and family, but after her arrest,...

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* * * Unconvincing,
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When She Woke: A Novel

by Hillary Jordan

Published: 2012-09-18

Paperback: 368 pages

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Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan’s provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned a...

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When Someone You Love Is Wiccan: A Guide to Witchcraft and Paganism for Concerned Friends, Nervous Parents, and Curious Co-Workers

by Carl, M McColman

Published: 2002-12-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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When Southern Girls Grow Old: Three Homecomings

by Elizabeth Doak Sherman

Published: 2008-09-29

Paperback: 444 pages

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This novel tells the comic antics, hapless adventures, and emotional and physical traumas of three women as they come to grips with aging. Although they come from the same southern family, their diverse circumstances and temperaments lead them down very different paths. Mavis Horton assumes the...

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When the Devil Holds the Candle

by Karin Fossum

Published: 2007-06-04

Paperback: 272 pages

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When two teenagers steal a purse from a stroller, it results in an infant’s death. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing another. They follow an elderly woman home, and Andreas enters her house with his switchblade. In the dark, Zipp waits ...

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When the Dust Finally Settles

by Kat Meads

Published: 2011-01-07

Paperback: 165 pages

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Narrated in part by a ghost, when the dust finally settles is a novel focused on land, loyalty and racial politics in the 1968 South. Mawatuck County (also the setting for Meads’s The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan) is a place where the present continually collides with the past, a fact underscored...