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Voices of Protest
Alan Brinkley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Waiting for Snow in Havana
Carlos Eire

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Waking Up White
Debby Irving

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Walking Since Daybreak
Modris Eksteins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Walk in Their Shoes
Jim Ziolkowski

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Wall and Piece
Banksy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song
Jim Perlman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

War of a Thousand Deserts
Brian Delay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Weaponized Lies
Daniel J. Levitin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Weaving the Web
Tim Berners-Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

We Band of Angels
Elizabeth M. Norman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

We Gon' Be Alright
Jeff Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

We Play a Game
Duy Doan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Wesley the Owl
Stacey O'Brien

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

West of Kabul, East of New York
Tamim Ansary

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

West of the Revolution
Claudio Saunt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

What Color Is Your Parachute
Richard Nelson Bolles

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1970

What I Know For Sure
Oprah Winfrey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

What Is Populism?
Jan-Werner Müller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

What It Is Like to Go to War
Karl Marlantes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

What's Cooking
Burt Wolf

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1993

What Stands in a Storm
Kim Cross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

What This Cruel War Was Over
Chandra Manning

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2007

What to Listen for in Music
Aaron Copland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

What We Lost
Dale Peck

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

What You Have Heard Is True
Carolyn Forché

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
Peter Godwin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

When and Where I Enter
Paula Giddings

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

When Books Went To War
Molly Guptill Manning

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

When China Rules the World
Martin Jacques

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

When Death Takes Something from You Give it Back
Naja Marie Aidt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

When Everything Changed
Gail Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

When I Was a Soldier
Valérie Zenatti

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away
Rámon A. Gutiérrez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

When Pride Still Mattered
David Maraniss

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

When Smoke Ran Like Water
Devra Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

When the Rivers Run Dry
Fred Pearce

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

When We Were the Kennedys
Monica Wood

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

When Women Were Birds
Terry Tempest Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

When Work Disappears
William Julius Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2008

Where is the Mango Princess?
Cathy Crimmins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Where the Birds Never Sing
Jack Sacco

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

While the Locust Slept
Peter Razor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Whistling Vivaldi
Claude Steele

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

White Mughals
William Dalrymple

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Who Killed My Daughter
Lois Duncan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Who Will Write Our History?
Samuel D. Kassow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Why Buddhism is True
Robert Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Why Does the World Exist?
Jim Holt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Why Football Matters
Mark Edmundson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Why Gender Matters
Leonard Sax

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Why People Believe Weird Things
Michael Shermer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Why We Do What We Do
Richard Flaste, Edward L. Deci

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Mario Livio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Wilbur and Orville
Fred Howard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1987

Wild: Endangered Animals in Living Motion
Kathy Wollard, Dan Kainen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Wilfred Owen
Jon Stallworthy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
Robert D. Richardson Jr.

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

Will in the World
Stephen Greenblatt

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Wind, Sand, and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1939

Wine To Water
Doc Hendley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Winner Takes All
Christina Binkley

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
Barbara Ehrenreich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Without You, There Is No Us
Suki Kim

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Woman Walking Ahead
Eileen Pollack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Working with Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Writing My Wrongs
Shaka Senghor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Writing to Save a Life
John Edgar Wideman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Yes Please
Amy Poehler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

You Are Not So Smart
David Mcraney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

You Can Heal Your Life
Louise Hay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Young Men and Fire
Norman Maclean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Your Erroneous Zones
Wayne Dyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Zealot
Reza Aslan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography
Robert E. Hemenway

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1977