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Williwaw

Williwaw
  • Author(s): Gore Vidal
  • Location(s): The Aleutian Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

A boat of the army transportation corps fights through the fierce wind of the williwaw, carrying two officers and a chaplain with its crew. Human nature and the elements move the men through their uncertain destiny. This is Gore...

Willoughby’s Return

Willoughby’s Return
  • Author(s): Jane Odiwe
  • Location(s): Devon, Lyme Regis
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Regency

In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, when Marianne Dashwood marries Colonel Brandon, she puts her heartbreak over dashing scoundrel John Willoughby in the past. Three years later, Willoughby’s return throws Marianne into a tizzy of painful memories and exquisite...

Willow Trees don’t Weep

Willow Trees don’t Weep
  • Location(s): Afghanistan, Jordan, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A father sets out to save the Islamic world. A daughter sets out to save herself. Najwa’s father left when she was four years old. Now, upon her mother’s death, she cannot live alone in the Islamic society of...

Windrush Child

Windrush Child
  • Author(s): Benjamin Zephaniah
  • Location(s): Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1950s to present day

In this heart-stopping adventure, Benjamin Zephaniah shows us what it was like to be a child of the Windrush generation. Leonard is shocked when he arrives with his mother in the port of Southampton. His father is a stranger...

Winds of the Night

Winds of the Night
  • Author(s): Joan Sales
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Winds of the Night is the follow-up, published almost thirty years later, to Joan Sales’ acclaimed masterwork of the Spanish Civil War, Uncertain Glory. It describes the shell-shocked wasteland that was post-war Catalonia through the eyes of Cruells, a...

Winesburg, Ohio

Winesburg, Ohio
  • Author(s): Sherwood Anderson
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In “Hands,” Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In “Adventure,” lonely...

Winter And Night

Winter And Night
  • Author(s): S J Rozan
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Private detective Bill Smith is hurtled headlong into the most provocative-and personal-case of his career when he receives a chilling late night telephone call from the NYPD, who are holding his fifteen-year-old nephew Gary. But before he can find...

Winter at the Door

Winter at the Door
  • Author(s): Sarah Graves
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 21st century

Perfect for fans of Jenny Milchman, Linda Castillo, and Lisa Gardner—the first book in a suspenseful new crime thriller series featuring the tough but haunted police chief Lizzie Snow, a big-city cop with a mission, taking on a small...

Winter Cottage

Winter Cottage
  • Author(s): Mary Ellen Taylor
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Still grieving the loss of her wandering, free-spirited mother, Lucy Kincaid leaves Nashville for the faded town of Cape Hudson, Virginia. She goes to see the house she’s inherited—one she never knew existed, bequeathed to her by a woman...

Winter Fires at Mill Grange

Winter Fires at Mill Grange
  • Author(s): Jenny Kane
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When young Dylan Harris‘s former babysitter (and soon to be step-sister), Harriet, needs a last-minute venue for her acting troupe’s outdoor production of Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale, the staff at Mill Grange throw open its doors, keen to fill...

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