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Skippy Dies: A Novel

by Paul Murray

Published: 2010-08-31

Hardcover: 672 pages

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Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop?Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-...

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Skizzer: A Novel

by A. J. Kiesling

Published: 2008-01-01

Paperback: 249 pages

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Two sisters. Many unanswered questions. One undiscovered past. Claire Trowling is on a quest. It’s June, 2001, and she has just received news of her sister Becca’s abrupt disappearance. After finding a stack of mysterious letters bound by a rare necklace, Claire leaves her home in North Carolina...

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The Skull Mantra (Inspector Shan Tao Yun Novels)

by Eliot Pattison

Published: 2008-09-30

Kindle Edition: 416 pages

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Winner of the 2001 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, The Skull Mantra was a sensation when first published and received wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. The Skull Mantra is ranked as a novel about a people and a place--the Tibetans of the high Himalayas--as it is a gripping thr...

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Skunk Stew: A Memoir of a 1930s Childhood

by Helen Parramore

Published: 2008-03-04

Paperback: 226 pages

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The Sky Below

by Stacey D'Erasmo

Published: 2009-01-09

Hardcover: 288 pages

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From a rising literary star ?in the tradition of Carol Shields and A. S. Byatt? comes this luminous story of a contemporary man's metamorphosis.Andrea Barrett and Michael Cunningham have lauded Stacey D?Erasmo for the beauty of her language and her ability to create worlds that leave a las...

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Sky Blue

by Travis Thrasher

Published: 2007-07-01

Paperback: 383 pages

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Sky Bridge: A Novel

by Laura Pritchett

Published: 2007-04-05

Paperback: 232 pages

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Sky Burial

Published: 2005-07-31

Paperback: 164 pages

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Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

by Xinran Xinran

Published: 2006-08-08

Paperback: 224 pages

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It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the internationally acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet a woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China.Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen,...

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The Sky Isn't Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life

by Felicia C. Sullivan

Published: 2008-02-05

Hardcover: 255 pages

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Felicia Sullivan's volatile, beautiful, deceitful, drug-addicted mother disappeared on the night Sullivan graduated from college, and has not been seen or heard from in the ten years since. Sullivan, who grew up on the tough streets of Brooklyn in the 1980s, now looks back on her childhood...