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Vaclav & Lena: A Novel

by Haley Tanner

Published: 2012-02-07

Paperback: 320 pages

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NAMED BY THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION AS A 5 UNDER 35 AUTHORVaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They meet as children in an ESL class in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Vaclav is precocious and verbal. Lena, struggling with English, takes comfort in the safety of his adoration, his noi...

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A Vagabond's Journey

by Melanie Eve Miller

Published: 2008-10-04

Paperback: 262 pages

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Loosely biographical and historically on the mark, A Vagabond's Journey by Melanie Eve Miller is a powerful tale of one boy's ingenuity and will to survive during the Great Depression. Finely and tightly wrought, this is historical fiction at its finest. It is an epic tale that chronicles the youthful...

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The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition

by Eve Ensler

Published: 2000-12-05

Paperback: 224 pages

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A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities all across America and at hundreds of college...

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Vagina: A New Biography

by Naomi Wolf

Published: 2012-09-11

Hardcover: 400 pages

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An astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural history that radically reframes how we understand the vagina?and consequently, how we understand women?from one of our most respected cultural critics and thinkers, Naomi Wolf, author of the modern classic The Beauty Myth. When an...

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The Vagrants: A Novel

by Yiyun Li

Published: 2009-02-03

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Brilliant and illuminating, this astonishing debut novel by the award-winning writer Yiyun Li is set in China in the late 1970s, when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement, an anti-Communist groundswell designed to move China beyond the dark shadow of the Cultural Revolution t...

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Vahudrick (I): The Blood Gift

by C.N. Cheeks

Published: 2011-11-04

Paperback: 442 pages

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Carina Powers has had a difficult life dealing with bullies and weight issues. She failed to find purpose for her life. In the process of changing that, she had no idea the man of her dreams, Kopono Majealo (Ma ha a low) the owner of the 24 hour gym she attends, would finally find her and ...

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The Valachi Papers

by Peter Maas

Published: 2003-03-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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Valiant: A Modern Faerie Tale (Modern Faerie Tale)

by Holly Black

Published: 2006-09-26

Paperback: 320 pages

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When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's ne...

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Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie

by Holly Black

Published: 2005-05-31

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The Valkyries

by Paulo Coelho

Published: 2012-02-14

Paperback: 224 pages

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A classic masterwork of spiritual tension and realization from Paulo Coelho, this powerful story of one man’s battle with self-doubt and fear is now available in a beautiful new package from HarperOne. An essential volume alongside Coelho’s other bestselling and influential books, such...