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Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America

by Lily Burana

Published: 2003-02-19

Paperback: 336 pages

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Lily Burana had given up on stripping years before she accepted a marriage proposal-but decided to strip her way from Florida to Alaska before settling down. Lily, now a successful journalist, looks back at stripping with a writer's perspective. Her humorous yet hard-edged memoir deftly describes funky...

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Strip Tease

by Carl Hiaasen

Published: 2005-03-01

Paperback: 464 pages

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Murder, politics, and G-strings collide in this caper from the bestselling author of Tourist Season. Hilarity and chaos break out in a strip joint when a bachelor party gets out of hand, making the drunken guest of honor a threat to "big money" and "big government."A smart topless dancer a...

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Stripped

by Brian Freeman

Published: 2006

Hardcover: 689 pages

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From Publishers Weekly: At the start of Freeman's solid second thriller (after 2005's Immoral), detective Jonathan Stride has left his job in Duluth, Minn., for Las Vegas, Nev. The action begins with a flashback to Sin City in the 1950s and the murder of a famous exotic dancer, a case never fully resolved...

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A Stroke of Magic

by Tracy Madison

Published: 2009-06-30

Mass Market Paperback: 308 pages

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Strong Motion: A Novel

by Jonathan Franzen

Published: 2001-09-08

Paperback: 528 pages

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Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of earthquakes and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes cause complicate everything.

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A Strong West Wind: A Memoir

by Gail Caldwell

Published: 2007-01-09

Paperback: 256 pages

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In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle?a place of both boredom and...

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A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith

by Anna-Lisa Cox

Published: 2006-02-06

Hardcover: 288 pages

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In the heartland of 19th-century America, amid a roaring sea of racism and hatred, a mixed-race community existed where blacks lived as equal citizens. Schools and churches were completely integrated, blacks and whites married, and power and wealth were shared between the races. Starting in the 1860s,...

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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads)

by Lauren Kessler

Published: 2008-08-12

Paperback: 320 pages

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Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American. Masuo Yasui traveled from Japan across the other...

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Stuck in Downward Dog: A Novel

by Chantel Simmons

Published: 2007-07-28

Paperback: 272 pages

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Mara Brennan is about to unravel. Three days after her twenty-eighth birthday, her boyfriend dumps her, leaving her with nothing but a basement apartment, a futon and a pile of unpaid bills. On top of that, her job, working as a receptionist at a cosmetic surgery clinic is a nightmare; her boss is a...

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Stuck in the Middle (Sister-to-Sister, Book 1)

by Virginia Smith

Published: 2008-02-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Joan Sanderson's life is stuck. Her older sister, Allie, is starting a family and her younger sister, Tori, has a budding career. Meanwhile, Joan is living at home with Mom and looking after her aging grandmother. Not exactly a recipe for excitement. That is, until a hunky young doctor moves in next...