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The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
SUMMARY: "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a deceptively jaunty intr... -
The Woman Warrior_ Memoirs of a - Maxine Hong Kingston
Amazon.com ReviewThe Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (... -
The Winning Hand - Nora Roberts
EDITORIAL REVIEW: 'Did you say I won almost two million dollars'? Running away from her former life, and her controlling fiance, Darcy Wallace was down to her last ten dollars. And... -
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An incomparable Henry James’s novel in a new edition ** Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals in the be... -
The Wilt Alternative - Tom Sharpe
In this, the second of Tom Sharpe's chronicles about Henry Wilt, our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Depa... -
The White War_ Life and Death o - Mark Thompson
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste... -
The Well and the Mine - Gin Phillips
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **With an introduction by Fannie Flagg Author of *Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café *** A novel of warmth and true feeling, *The Well and the Mine* ex... -
The Wars of the Roses - Alison Weir
Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the British monarchy. Kings were murdered and deposed. Armies marched... -
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
The Modern Library is proud to include Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out--together with a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham. Publ... -
The Vorkosigan Companion - Lillian Stewart Carl; John Helf
About the AuthorLois McMaster Bujold is one of the most honored writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy and has won six Hugo Awards and two Nebula Awards, inc...