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  • Ways to live forever
    Author:
    Nicholls, Sally
    Summary:

    Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.
  • Ways of dying a novel
    Author:
    Mda, Zakes
    Summary:

    In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit,...
  • Wave Cry
    Author:
    Fullerton, Alexander
    Summary:

    Gripping adventure set in the aftermath of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
  • Watermelon
    Author:
    Keyes, Marian
    Summary:

    On the day she gives birth to her first child, Claire Walsh's husband James tells her he's been having an affair and now's the right time to leave her. Right for who exactly? Exhausted, tearful and a tiny bit furious, Claire can't think...
  • Waterborne
    Author:
    Murkoff, Bruce
    Summary:

    During the Great Depression, three lost souls meet one another at Boulder Dam, a massive engineering project in the midst of the Nevada desert. The story begins with Filius Poe, an engineer coping with a grave personal loss. Lew Beck is...
  • Water Inc
    Author:
    Burstyn, Varda
    Summary:

    Megawealthy William Greele has put together a consortium of CEOs to build a gargantuan pipeline to pump Quebec water to the U.S. Contemptuous of the concerns of environmentalists and confident that his minions have muzzled the press,...
  • Water : selkies, sirens, & sea monsters
    Author:
    Summary:

    "Discover the transforming power of Water and the creatures that thrive on it in these twenty-four stories and poems, including: a selkie seeking divorce in Reno; a kitchen witch trying to save her small town; and a professional...
  • Watch over me
    Author:
    Parrish, Christa
    Summary:

    After Deputy Ben Patil finds an abandoned newborn in rural South Dakota, he and his wife Abbi seem the perfect foster parents. But the infant's arrival opens old wounds for Abbi and reveals how much Ben has changed since his devastating...
  • Washington Square
    Author:
    James, Henry
    Summary:

    Set in the exacting social landscape of New York City at the turn of the century, Washington Square is the tale of a wealthy but shy young woman caught between conflicting family expectations.
  • Warrior's blood
    Author:
    Lucas, Walter
    Summary:

    Raised by Kiowa tribesmen, Boytale is now 17 years old and filled with an insatiable thirst for the blood of his people's enemies. Across the prairie at Fort Levenworth, Kansas, 20-year-old army private James Rambling gears up for...
  • Warrior of the Altaii
    Author:
    Jordan, Robert
    Summary:

    Epic fantasy legend, and author of #1 New York Times bestselling series The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan's never-before published novel, Warrior of the Altaii: Draw near and listen, or else time is at an end. The watering holes of...
  • Warrior : Matthew Hervey, book 10
    Author:
    Mallinson, Allan
    Summary:

    The stability of the Cape Colony has been threatened by Xhosa tribesman who have been making incursions across the borders. And when Hervey is told by his old friend, Sir Eyre Somervile, that the Zulu warrior king Shaka is about to make...
  • Warpath of the Mountain Man
    Author:
    Johnstone, William W.
    Summary:

    Legendary hero Smoke Jensen comes to the rescue once again when a crew of crooked outlaws attempts to rob the town's bank. After Smoke puts a damper on their plans, leader of the pack, renegade Jack Tatum, is determined to seek...
  • Warlord of Willow Ridge
    Author:
    Phillips, Gary
    Summary:

    O'Conner needs a place to hole up after an especially bloody job. Tooling his sputtering motorcycle into the suburban community of Willow Ridge, he expects to find a place of refuge. Instead, he tumbles headfirst into a world of...
  • Warbreaker
    Author:
    Sanderson, Brandon
    Summary:

    Those who attain glory return as gods. And those who can master the essence known as breath can perform the most wondrous miracles--or unleash the most devastating havoc.
  • War dances
    Author:
    Alexie, Sherman
    Summary:

    As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman...
  • Wanting
    Author:
    Flanagan, Richard
    Summary:

    Assuming the governorship of the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, Sir John Franklin and his wife adopt a young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, and ten years later after Franklin and his crew disappear in the Arctic, Charles Dickens...
  • Wanderer of the wasteland
    Author:
    Grey, Zane
    Summary:

    Adam flees to the desert to save his life, and discovers the need to save his soul. In the heat of Death Valley, lonely land of prospectors and hermits, he confronts his baser instincts as he struggles to survive.
  • Wan : a novel
    Author:
    Promislow, Dawn
    Summary:

    "Narrated in a completely distinctive and mesmerizing voice, Wan is the story of Jacqueline, a privileged artist in 1970s South Africa. After an anti-apartheid activist comes to hide in her garden house, Jacqueline's carefully...
  • Walk the wire
    Author:
    Baldacci, David
    Summary:

    Amos Decker and Alex Jamison investigate the death of a woman whose body was expertly autopsied and then dumped in the open, which is only the beginning of the oddities surrounding the case.

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