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Strangers at the Feast: A Novel

by Jennifer Vanderbes

Published: 2011-08-16

Paperback: 352 pages

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On Thanksgiving Day 2007, as the country teeters on the brink of a recession, three generations of the Olson family gather. Eleanor and Gavin worry about their daughter, a single academic, and her newly adopted Indian child, and about their son, who has been caught in the imploding real-es...

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The Strangers in the House (New York Review Books Classics)

by Georges Simenon

Published: 2006-10-24

Paperback: 216 pages

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Dirty, drunk, unloved, and unloving, Hector Loursat has been a bitter recluse for eighteen long years—ever since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child to run off with another man. Once a successful lawyer, Loursat now guzzles burgundy and buries himself in books, taking litt...

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Strangers on a Train

by P HIGHSMITH

Published: 2009

Paperback: 272 pages

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The Strangers on Montagu Street (Tradd Street)

by Karen White

Published: 2011-11-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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Psychic realtor Melanie Middleton returns-only to be greeted by a house full of lost souls.  Psychic realtor Melanie Middleton is still restoring her Charleston house and doesn't expect to have a new houseguest, a teen girl named Nola. But the girl didn't come alone, and the spirits that ...

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Strangers: A Novel

by Anita Brookner

Published: 2009-06-16

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Literary master Anita Brookner's elegant style is manifest on every page of her brilliant new novel. Beautifully crafted and emotionally evocative, Strangers portrays the magic and depth of real life, telling the rich story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears ar...

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The Stranger's Child

by Alan Hollinghurst

Published: 2011-10-11

Hardcover: 448 pages

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From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate--a handsome, aristocratic young ...

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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

by Graham Farmelo

Published: 2009-08-25

Hardcover: 560 pages

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Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of ...

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The Strangler

by William Landay

Published: 2007-12-26

Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Defending JacobBoston, 1963. A city on edge. On street corners, newsboys hawk the shocking headline: KENNEDY IS DEAD. In the city's underworld, a mob war rages. But what terrifies Bostonians most is the mysterious killer who has already claim...

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Strapless

by Deborah Davis

Published: 2004-05-03

Paperback: 320 pages

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The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unknown at the time, Sargent won the commission to paint her; the two must have recognized in...

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Strawberry Fields, a Book of Short Stories

by Chuy Ramirez

Published: 2009

Hardcover: 0 pages

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Mis comentarios son los siguientes: The short stories of Strawberry Fields are like beautiful and colorful blouses made of delicate chiffon------revealing. The stories reveal the compassion of a mother for her seven year old son who expresses anger for the family's poverty. The stories reveal the strengths...