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The Sentimentalists

by Johanna Skibsrud

Published: 2009-10-31

Paperback: 216 pages

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Johanna Skibsrud's debut novel connects the flooding of an Ontario town, the Vietnam War, a trailer in North Dakota and an unfinished boat in Maine. Parsing family history, worn childhood memories, and the palimpsest of old misunderstandings, Skibsrud's narrator maps her father's past. Na...

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Separate Beds

by LaVyrle Spencer

Published: 2003-08-18

Hardcover: 464 pages

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Readers have long flocked to the works of LaVyrle Spencer, one of America's most cherished storytellers. From The Fulfillment to Morning Glory to Then Came Heaven, her touching, emotionally charged novels have examined love in all its forms. In Separate Beds, two attractive, headstrong peo...

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* * * * Dramatic,
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A Separate Country

by Robert Hicks

Published: 2009-09-23

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Set in New Orleans in the years after the Civil War, A Separate Country is based on the incredible life of John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the Confederate Army--and one of its most tragic figures. Robert E. Lee promoted him to major general after the Batt...

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Separate Journeys: Short Stories by Contemporary Indian Women

by Geeta Dharmarajan

Published: 2004-01-01

Paperback: 160 pages

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This collection, which gathers fifteen stories by contemporary Indian women representing the varied languages and regions of their subcontinent, is now available to an American audience for the first time. Western readers have come to recognize the names of Indian writers such as Arundhati...

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Separate Kingdoms: Stories (P.S.)

by Valerie Laken

Published: 2011-03-29

Paperback: 224 pages

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From Valerie Laken, the Pushcart Prize?winning author of Dream House, comes a powerful collection of short stories charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and outsiders, and partners and misfits searching for love. Set in Russia and the United States, ...

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* * * Unconvincing,
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A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

Published: 2003-09-30

Paperback: 204 pages

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An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American R...

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Separated by Dreams

by Elizabeth, Ann Guevara

Published: 2007-07-19

Paperback: 228 pages

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Separated by Dreams is a True Story about a San Diego businesswoman who's life was entwined with a young man after a quick overnight business trip to San Antonio Texas. The young man breaks into a locked van containing three briefcases. He only takes her briefcase which is the only one NOT containing...

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September

by Rosamunde Pilcher

Published: 1991-07-15

Mass Market Paperback: 471 pages

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A place you will never forgetRosamunde Pilcher's Scotland...where the fields flourish with greenery, the bills bloom with purple, and the lochs glitter with the bright blue of the sky.A time you will never forgetSeptember...when the heather is in full flower, the first chill of autumn cool...

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September and Other Stories

by Dawson, Julie

Published: 2005-01-31

Paperback: 188 pages

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"one magnificent read that will go on the keeper shelf." (myshelf.com) "dark, creepy, and quirky(Clubreading.com)" you are looking for something that beckons back to more traditional horror, but still has a fresh voice, pick up this book." (Booklore.co.uk) Go ghost hunting with a ghost. Have dinner...

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September Fair: A Murder-by-Month Mystery

by Jess Lourey

Published: 2009-09-01

Paperback: 270 pages

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". . . An entirely engaging novel with pathos, plot twists, and quirky characters galore. Beautifully written and wickedly funny." ?Harley Jane Kozak, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity-award winning author of A Date You Can't Refuse "Move over Janet Evanovich-mystery fans have a new reason to...