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A Week at the Airport (Vintage International Original)

by Alain De Botton

Published: 2010-09-21

Paperback: 112 pages

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From the bestselling author of The Art of Travel comes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place" that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization.Given unprecedented access to one of the world's busiest airports as a ?writer-in-residence,? Alain de Botton fo...

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A Week in December

by Sebastian Faulks

Published: 2010-03-09

Hardcover: 400 pages

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From the author of the bestselling Birdsong comes a powerful novel that melds the moral heft of Dickens and the scrupulous realism of Trollope with the satirical spirit of Tom Wolfe. London: the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a h...

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A Week in the Woods

by Andrew Clements

Published: 2004-04-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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Collision course The fifth-grade Week in the Woods is a beloved tradition of Hardy Elementary, where Mark Chelmsley (the Fourth) is pretty much killing time before his parents send him off to an exclusive prep school. But then Mark realizes the Week might be a chance to prove to Mr. Maxwe...

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The Weekend That Changed Wall Street: An Eyewitness Account

by Maria Bartiromo

Published: 2010-09-07

Hardcover: 240 pages

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America's most famous business reporter gives her unique perspective on the white-knuckle weekend that brought the financial world to its knees. During a single historic weekend (September 12-14, 2008) the fate of Lehman Brothers was sealed, Merrill Lynch barely survived, and AIG bec...

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Weekend Warriors

by Fern Michaels

Published: 2004-07-01

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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JUSTICE HAS A NEW OUTFIT   Life isn’t fair. Most women know it. But what can you do about it? Plenty…if you’re part of the Sisterhood. On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be—but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues t...

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The Weekend: A Novel

by Bernhard Schlink

Published: 2010-10-12

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They excavate old memories and pass clandestine judgments on the wildly divergent paths they?ve taken since their youth. But this isn?t just any reunion, and their conversations about the...

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Weekends at Bellevue

by Julie Holland

Published: 2009-10-06

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Julie Holland thought she knew what crazy was. Then she came to Bellevue. New York City's Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States, has a tradition of 'serving the underserved? that dates back to 1736. For nine eventful years, Dr. Holland was the weekend physician...

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Weep No More, My Lady

by Mary Higgins Clark

Published: 2000-05-25

Kindle Edition: 336 pages

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Elizabeth Lange has arrived at Cypress Point Spa in Pebble Beach, California, weary of heart and soul. Still grieving for her beloved sister, a famous actress who plunged to her death from her Manhattan penthouse, Elizabeth is determined to unearth the truth about how Leila died. Dashing m...

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The Weight of All Things

by Sandra Benitez

Published: 2002-02-20

Paperback: 256 pages

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"Bentez's third novel seamlessly blends fact with imagination, evoking the trauma of war more vividly than any newspaper account . . . beautifully illuminating." (Publishers Weekly starred review) Sandra Bentez received international acclaim for her first two novels: A Place Where the Sea ...

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The Weight of Dreams

by Jonis Agee

Published: 2000-08

Paperback: 448 pages

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Abandoned by his mother after the accidental death of his beloved younger brother, Ty Bonte spends his days working on the family ranch with his violent father and his nights marauding with his mean-spirited drinking buddy, Harney Rivers. When a drunken fight escalates into the near-death ...