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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century

by David Levering Lewis

Published: 2001-09-01

Paperback: 752 pages

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This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves. A pioneering sociologist, educator, essay...

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Wacky Chicks: Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate and Fabulously Eccentric Women

by Simon Doonan

Published: 2005-05-24

Paperback: 272 pages

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Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled

by Nancy Mairs

Published: 1997-12-22

Paperback: 212 pages

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A Life Among the NondisabledIn a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit.Nancy Mairs, a gifted essayist who is fierce and funny by turns, landed in a wheelchair ye...

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Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story

by Mary Downing Hahn

Published: 2008-04-21

Paperback: 192 pages

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Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to ...

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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir

by Goodwin

Published: 1997

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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Published: 1998-06-02

Paperback: 272 pages

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By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corne...

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Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter

by Steve Dublanica Aka The Waiter

Published: 2008-08-01

Hardcover: 302 pages

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Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter

by Steve Dublanica

Published: 2008-08-01

Hardcover: 302 pages

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According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. Waiter Rant offers the server's unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant mis...

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* * * Gloomy,
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Waiting : A Novel (Vintage International)

by Ha Jin

Published: 2000-09-19

Paperback: 308 pages

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"In Waiting, Ha Jin portrays the life of Lin Kong, a dedicated doctor torn by his love for two women: one who belongs to the New China of the Cultural Revolution, the other to the ancient traditions of his family's village. Ha Jin profoundly understands the conflict between the individual ...

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Waiting for

by Participant Media

Published: 2010-09-14

Paperback: 288 pages

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Each book includes a $15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need. � The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United States will have 123 ...