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The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy

by Judith L. Pearson

Published: 2005-10-01

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Perhaps more than any other single factor of World War II, the Nazi persecution and extermination of Jews, gypsies and other groups is seen as the war's greatest tragedy. The number of deaths is staggering: six million Jews, four million Soviet POWs, three million non-Jewish Polish civilians, one million...

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Wolves Eat Dogs

by Martin Cruz Smith

Published: 2006-01-03

Paperback: 336 pages

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In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created an iconic detective of contemporary fiction. Quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical, and haunted by melancholy, Arkady Renko survived, barely, the journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find his transformed n...

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The Wolves of Andover: A Novel

by Kathleen Kent

Published: 2010-11-08

Kindle Edition: 320 pages

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In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works as a servant in her cousin's household, taking charge and locking wills with everyone. Thomas Carrier labors for the family and is known both for his immense strength and size and mysterious past. The two begin a courtsh...

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The Wolves of Andover: A Novel

by Kathleen Kent

Published: 2010-11-08

Paperback: 416 pages

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In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works as a servant in her cousin's household, taking charge and locking wills with everyone. Thomas Carrier labors for the family and is known both for his immense strength and size and mysterious past. The two begin a courtsh...

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Woman : An Intimate Geography

by Natalie Angier

Published: 2000-02-15

Paperback: 464 pages

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With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of The New York Times's premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body. Angier takes readers on a mesmeriz...

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Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition

by Nawal El Saadawi

Published: 2008-01-08

Hardcover: 128 pages

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"All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face. But because I am a woman I have never had the courage to lift my hand. And because I am a prostitute, I hid my fear under layers of make-up."...

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The Woman at the Light: A Novel

by Joanna Brady

Published: 2012-07-03

Paperback: 352 pages

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One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry’s husband vanishes from Wreckers’ Cay, an isolated island off the coast of Key West where he tends to the lighthouse. As days stretch into months, Emily has no choice but take charge of Wrecker’s Cay and her husband’s duties tending the light to s...

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The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate

by Marjorie Williams

Published: 2005

Paperback: 355 pages

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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance,

by Kirstin Downey

Published: 2010-02-23

Paperback: 496 pages

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“Kirstin Downey’s lively, substantive and—dare I say—inspiring new biography of Perkins . . . not only illuminates Perkins’ career but also deepens the known contradictions of Roosevelt’s character.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s clo...

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A Woman Betrayed

by Barbara Delinsky

Published: 2008-03-18

Paperback: 528 pages

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A classic novel from an exceptional storyteller, A Woman Betrayed, first published in 1991, is a stunning tale of troubling secrets that can hide beneath the placid surface of a seemingly good marriage—and the courage that's needed to move on.Laura Frye has been happily married to her hu...