When You Are Engulfed in Flames
In twenty two essays Sedaris tries to quit smoking in Japan, buys a skeleton, fights spiders in Paris, and files dry reports from France on family, country…
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When You Reach Me
A sixth grader in 1970s New York gets strange notes that seem to predict the future.
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Where Rainbows End
Told in letters and emails, Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart grow from Dublin childhood to midlife, missing chances at love while raising Katie.
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Where She Went
Three years after the crash, rock star Adam Wilde spends one night in New York facing Mia and their breakup.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing: Kya the Marsh Girl, Tate and Chase, the 1969 murder in Barkley Cove, and what the trial misses.
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Where the Forest Meets the Stars
A grieving bird researcher hosts a strange child who claims to be alien in an Illinois cabin.
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Where the Heart Is
Pregnant teen Novalee Nation is abandoned at a Sequoyah, Oklahoma Wal-Mart, where she gives birth to Americus and rebuilds life with town help.
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Billy earns two hounds and hunts raccoons in the Ozarks with love and loss.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Sidewalk Ends retold: poems and drawings, Sarah Cynthia, unicorns, homework and giants.
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Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak follows Max in his wolf suit from mischief to a forest of Wild Things, through the wordless rumpus and back home to supper waiting still hot…
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Where We Belong
Marian's orderly New York life cracks when the daughter she gave up for adoption arrives, and the search for the father forces her to tell the truth.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Bee compiles emails to find architect mother Bernadette missing before Antarctica.
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Whidbey
Three women orbit one murdered abuser in this tense island whodunnit.
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White Fang
A wild wolfdog grows through hunger and cruelty toward a hard earned trust in one patient man.
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
DiAngelo's 2018 bestseller on why cross-racial talk about racism stalls, and what white readers can practice instead.
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White Night
Wizard Harry Dresden hunts fear-feeding White Court killers preying on Chicago's minor talents, reunites with Elaine Mallory, and faces a coup at Chateau Raith.
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White Nights
A lonely dreamer spends four summer nights with Nastenka in Petersburg, listening, hoping, then losing her at dawn.
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White Noise
Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies, flees a chemical cloud with his family, and chases a drug for dread in DeLillo's funny and bleak 1985 novel of…
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White Oleander
Astrid cycles foster homes after mother Ingrid murders boyfriend.
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White Teeth
Archie and Samad's wartime bond tangles their London families across generations, genes, and faith.
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Who Moved My Cheese?
A tiny parable about two mice and two little people hunting cheese in a maze, and why adapting to change beats waiting for old days to return.
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge traces black British history and shows how institutions, culture, and everyday assumptions keep producing racial inequality.
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Why Not Me?
Essays on work, dating, and body image from the Office writer learning to ask for bigger rooms.
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
A Berkeley sleep scientist explains how sleep shapes memory, mood, and health, and what happens when we miss it.
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