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  • White Oleander
    White Oleander
    by Janet Fitch
    Hardcover: May 1999
    Paperback: May 2000
     
    The unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances.
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  • White Teeth
    White Teeth : A Novel
    by Zadie Smith
    Hardcover: Apr 2000
    Paperback: Jun 2001
     
    Epic and intimate, hilarious and poignant - the story of two North London families - one headed by Archie, the other by Archie's best friend, a Muslim Bengali named Samad Iqbal.
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  • The White Tiger
    The White Tiger : A Novel
    by Aravind Adiga
    Hardcover: Apr 2008
    Paperback: Oct 2008
     
    Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life - having nothing but his own wits to help him along.
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  • The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
    The White Woman on the Green Bicycle : A Novel
    by Monique Roffey
    Paperback: Apr 2011
     
    A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of Trinidad
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  • The Whole World Over
    The Whole World Over : A Novel
    by Julia Glass
    Hardcover: May 2006
    Paperback: Jun 2007
     
    When a piece of her coconut cake is served to the governor of New Mexico, he woos Greenie Duquette, a Greenwich Village pastry chef away from the life she knows to become his chef – a change that sets in motion a period of adventure and upheaval...
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  • The Whore's Child
    The Whore's Child
    by Richard Russo
    Hardcover: Jul 2002
    Paperback: Jul 2003
     
    With a fluency of tone that will surprise even his devoted readers these short stories capture both bewildering horror and heartrending tenderness with an absorbing, compassionate authority.
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  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
    Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
    by Jeanette Winterson
    Hardcover: Mar 2012
    Paperback: Mar 2013
     
    Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
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  • Wickett's Remedy
    Wickett's Remedy : A Novel
    by Myla Goldberg
    Hardcover: Sep 2005
    Paperback: Oct 2006
     
    Through narrative, authentic newspaper clippings, and fictional correspondence, the author of Bee Season offers an intimate view of the life of Lydia Kilkenny, a shop clerk and daughter of Irish immigrants in South Boston in the early 20th...
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