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Solar (New York Times Notable Books)

by Ian McEwan

Published: 2011-03-08

Paperback: 352 pages

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Michael Beard is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist (and compulsive overeater) whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and halfheartedly heads a government-backed initiative t...

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Solar Storms

by Linda Hogan

Published: 1997-02-26

Paperback: 352 pages

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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Linda Hogan, Solar Storms tells the moving, “luminous” (Publishers Weekly) story of Angela Jenson, a troubled Native American girl coming of age in the foster system in Oklahoma, who decides to reunite with her family.At seventeen, Angela returns to the pla...

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Sold

by Patricia McCormick

Published: 2006-09-15

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Sold: One Woman's True Account of Modern Slavery

by Zana Muhsen

Published: 2010-11-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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A newly updated edition of a young girls' account of her terrifying experiences with being sold by her father as a modern day sex slave in YemenZana Muhsen, born and bred in Birmingham, is of Yemeni origin. When her father told her she was to spend a holiday with relatives in North...

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Sold: One Woman's True Account of Modern Slavery

by Zana Muhsen, Andrew Crofts

Published: 1994-09-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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Soldier Boys

by Dean Hughes

Published: 2003-05-01

Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages

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Spencer Morgan And Dieter Hedrick Are On Opposite Sides Of The War And Fighting For The Same Thing.At the age of fifteen, Dieter's blind devotion gets him promoted from Hitler Youth into the German army. Dieter's determined to prove his allegiance and bravery all costs.Spence, just sixteen...

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A Soldier of the Great War

by Mark Helprin

Published: 2005-06-01

Paperback: 880 pages

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From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin, a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war   Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the Alps,...

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A Soldier Reborn

by Dan McCarty

Published: 2011-11-22

Paperback: 308 pages

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A murder in a small Colorado town prompts an investigation unlike any other. The young detective, Colt Sullivan, is left with few clues and only one cryptic lead. Before he can solve the murder he must learn about a past he never knew existed. He must dodge a killer's crosshairs long enough to expose...

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Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point

by Elizabeth D. Samet

Published: 2007-10-16

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Elizabeth D. Samet and her students learned to romanticize the army “from the stories of their fathers and from the movies.” For Samet, it was the old World War II movies she used to watch on TV, while her students grew up on Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan. Unlike their tea...

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The Soldier's Wife: A Novel

by Joanna Trollope

Published: 2012-06-05

Paperback: 320 pages

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LOVE AND DUTY COLLIDE? DAN RILEY IS A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY. After a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. He's up for promotion and his ex-Army grandfather and father couldn?t be prouder. The Rileys are un...