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The Street of a Thousand Blossoms ($9.99 ed.)

by Gail Tsukiyama

Published: 2011-05-24

Paperback: 448 pages

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It is Tokyo in 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms, two orphaned brothers dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older boy, Hiroshi, shows early signs of promise at the national obsession of sumo wrestling, while Kenji is fascinated by the art of Noh theater masks. B...

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Published: 2007-01-01

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Street Soldier: My Life as an Enforcer for Whitey Bulger and the Boston Irish Mob

by Edward J. Mackenzie, Phyllis Karas

Published: 2004-06-22

Paperback: 272 pages

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For decades the FBI let James “Whitey” Bulger get away with murder, allowing him continued control of his criminal enterprise in exchange for information. He went on the lam in 1995 and today follows top-ranked Osama bin Laden on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List.Edward J. M...

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The Street Sweeper

by Elliot Perlman

Published: 2012-01-05

Hardcover: 640 pages

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How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing one another every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only so...

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A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

by Tennessee Williams

Published: 2004-09

Paperback: 224 pages

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The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play?reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In." It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and i...

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Streets of hope: Finding God in St Kilda

by Tim Costello

Published: 1998

Paperback: 242 pages

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Strength in What Remains

by Tracy Kidder

Published: 2009-08-25

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the su...

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Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiving

by Tracy Kidder

Published: 2010-05-04

Paperback: 468 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller, A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author -- The "master of the non-fiction narrative" (Baltimore Sun) gives us the inspiring account of one man's remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him -- a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances....

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Strides of Destiny

by Loly Trelles Garriga

Published: 2011-05-04

Paperback: 170 pages

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Is love at first sight possible? Can true love last forever? How many times can love conquer impossible obstacles? ?Strides of Destiny? is a true love story that gives new meaning to the words love, fate and destiny. It passionately depicts love's triumph and perseverance during the many hardships...

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Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002

by Sharon Olds

Published: 2004-09-28

Paperback: 208 pages

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A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and t...