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Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine: A Novel

by Ann Hood

Published: 2008-05-17

Paperback: 240 pages

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"Brilliant....[The Vietnam era] is vividly captured by Ann Hood."—New York Times Book ReviewIn 1969, as Peter, Paul and Mary croon on the radio and poster paints are splashing the latest antiwar slogans, three friends find love. Suzanne, a poet, lives in a Maine beach house awaiting...

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Somewhere Towards the End (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series)

by Diana Athill

Published: 2009-10-02

Hardcover: 253 pages

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Diana Athill will be ninety in December, 2007. "Somewhere Towards the End" tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forget, to regret, to forgive - and how one faces the inevitable fact of death. Athill...

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Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir

by Diana Athill

Published: 2009-12-07

Paperback: 182 pages

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Winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and a New York Times bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging ??An honest joy to read? (Alice Munro). Hailed as ?a virtuoso exercise? (Sunday Telegraph), this book reflects candidly, s...

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The Somnambulist. by Essie Fox

by Essie Fox

Published: 2011-05

Hardcover: 384 pages

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'Some secrets are better left buried...' When seventeen-year old Phoebe Turner visits Wilton's Music Hall to watch her Aunt Cissy performing on stage, she risks the wrath of her mother Maud who marches with the Hallelujah Army, campaigning for all London theatres to close. While there, Phoebe is drawn...

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The Somnambulist: A Novel

by Jonathan Barnes

Published: 2009-01-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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Once the toast of good society in Victoria's England, the extraordinary conjurer Edward Moon no longer commands the respect that he did in earlier times. Still, each night he returns to the stage of his theater to amaze his devoted, albeit dwindling, audience, aided by his partner, the So...

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Son

by Lois Lowry

Published: 2012-10-02

Hardcover: 400 pages

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They called her Water Claire. When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a society where emotions and colors didn’t exist. That she had become a Vessel at age thirteen. That she had carried a Product at age fourteen. That it had been stolen from her body. Claire ha...

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Son of a Witch LP: Volume Two in the Wicked Years

by Gregory Maguire

Published: 2009-01-01

Paperback: 560 pages

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The long-anticipated sequel to the million-copy bestselling novel Wicked Ten years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after D...

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Son of a Witch: A Novel

by Gregory Maguire

Published: 2006-10-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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Ten years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, L...

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Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices

by Mosab Hassan Yousef

Published: 2011-03-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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Son of Hamas is now available with an all-new chapter about events since the book’s release such as the revelation of Mosab’s Israeli intelligence handler’s true identity, and Homeland Security’s effort to deport the author.Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an i...

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Son of Stone (Stone Barrington)

by Stuart Woods

Published: 2011-09-20

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A new addition to the New York Times-bestselling Stone Barrington series. After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington is back in New York, and he's looking to stay closer to home and cash in on ...