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The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

Published: 2015-05-05

Paperback: 480 pages

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Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a new edition of the break-out science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q&A with the author. Anderson Lake is AgriGen’s Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok’s s...

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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure

by Donald Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup

Published: 2002-04-30

Paperback: 304 pages

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The remarkable untold story of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II."To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine." –Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour d�...

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The Wine of Solitude

by Irene Nemirovsky

Published: 2011-11-14

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Hélène is a troubled young girl. Neglected by her self-absorbed mother and her adored but distant father, she longs for love and for freedom. As first the Great War and then the Russian Revolution rage in the background, she grows from a lonely, unhappy child to an angry young woman inte...

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Wine, cheese, & bread: A POW's story of survival in Italy

by Ruby Simon Smith

Published: 1998

Paperback: 138 pages

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The Winemaker's Daughter (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Timothy Egan

Published: 2005-01-11

Paperback: 320 pages

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Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times national correspondent Timothy Egan turns to fiction with The Winemaker's Daughter, a lyrical and gripping novel about the harsh realities and ecological challenges of turning water into wine.When Brunella Cartolano visits her father on the family vine...

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Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

Published: 2003-01

Hardcover: 180 pages

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'Here [is] a new order of short story,' said H. L. Mencken when Winesburg, Ohio was published in 1919. 'It is so vivid, so full of insight, so shiningly life-like and glowing, that the book is lifted into a category all its own.' Indeed, Sherwood Anderson's timeless cycle of loosely connec...

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Winesburg, Ohio (Signet Classics)

by Sherwood Anderson

Published: 2005-11-01

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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Inspired by Sherwood Anderson’s Midwestern boyhood, the loosely connected stories in Winesburg, Ohio, gave birth to the American story cycle, for which William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and later writers were forever indebted. Defying the prudish sensibilities of his time, Anderson ...

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Wing Nut

by MJ Auch

Published: 2008-10-28

Paperback: 256 pages

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Twelve-year-old Grady Flood and his mom, Lila, have been on the road ever since Grady's dad died seven years ago. When their old car breaks down, they find themselves stranded in rural Pennsylvania where Lila gets work as a cook and caretaker. There's nothing out of the ordinary in that, u...

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Winging It: A Memoir of Caring for a Vengeful Parrot Who's Determined to Kill Me

by Jenny Gardiner

Published: 2010-03-16

Hardcover: 256 pages

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A hilarious and poignant cautionary tale about two very different types of creatures, thrown together by fate, who learn to make the best of a challenging situation -- feather by feather.Like many new bird owners, Jenny and Scott Gardiner hoped for a smart, talkative, friendly companion. I...

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Wings

by Aprilynne Pike

Published: 2009-04-25

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Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. They were terrifyingly beautiful?too beautiful for words. Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like wings. In this extraordinary tale of magic an...