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A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Victor Davis Hanson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
Carl F. Hovde, Henry David Thoreau, William L. Howarth, Elizabeth Hall Witherell, John McPhee
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004
A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing
Reynolds Price
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003
A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson
David Backes, David J. Backes
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999
A Wild Swan: And Other Tales
Michael Cunningham, Yuko Shimizu
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015
A Wolf at the Table
Augusten Burroughs
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008
A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Mary Ann Glendon
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002
The War Between the Classes (Laurel-Leaf Contemporary Fiction)
Gloria D. Miklowitz
Fiction | Novel | Published in 1986
The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)
Edward Ardizzone, Anthony Trollope, David Skilton
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
Margaret MacMillan
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
Charles Kingsley
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1863
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Jeff Goodell
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Tim Flannery
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)
Terry Pratchett
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004
The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3)
Brett Helquist, Lemony Snicket
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Richard Preston, Richard Preston
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
The Wings of the Dove
Amy Bloom, Henry James, Pierre A. Walker
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003
The Withered Arm and Other Stories
Kristin Brady, Thomas Hardy
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Paula Spencer, #1)
Roddy Doyle
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997
The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre, Bernard Frechtman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981
The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters
Wes Moore, Wes Moore
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015
The World Turned Upside Down: George Washington and the Battle of Yorktown
Richard Ferrie
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Jared Diamond
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012
The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)
Renee Ahdieh, Renée Ahdieh
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
Russell Freedman
Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1991
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Carlos Eire
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004
Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
Debby Irving
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014
Walking Since Daybreak : A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century
Modris Eksteins
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000
Walk in Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World?
Jim Ziolkowski, James S. Hirsch
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013
Walk on the Great Barrier Reef (Nature Watch)
Caroline Arnold
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988