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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

by Kate Summerscale

Published: 2008-04-15

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Suspicious

by Nora Roberts

Published: 2003-11-01

Paperback: 592 pages

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Partners He had wanted Laurel Armand for years -- though professionally she was his nemesis. But once the two rival reporters headed down to steamy New Orleans to investigate a murder, Matt Bates was determined to make his lovely adversary his willing partner in passion. The Art Of Decept...

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Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation (New Directions in Indigenous Studies)

by Rose Stremlau

Published: 2011-09-26

Paperback: 336 pages

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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. In Sustaining the Cherokee Family, Rose Stremlau illuminates the impact of this policy on the Cherokee ...

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Sutton

by J.R. Moehringer

Published: 2012-09-25

Kindle Edition: 352 pages

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"Electrifying." --Booklist (starred)Willie Sutton was born in the Irish slums of Brooklyn in 1901, and he came of age at a time when banks were out of control. Sutton saw only one way out and only one way to win the girl of his dreams. So began the career of America's most successful bank ...

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* * * * Romantic,
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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

by James Patterson

Published: 2002-04-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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Katie Wilkinson has finally found the perfect man - but one day he suddenly disappears, leaving behind only a diary written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby, Nicholas. In it she intimately reveals the romance between herself and the child's father, her hopes for their marriage, and her unparalleled...

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Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir

by Laura M. Flynn

Published: 2009-02-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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When Laura Flynn was a little girl, her beautiful, dynamic mother, Sally, was the center of her imagination. It wasn?t long, however, before Sally's fun-loving side slowly and methodically became absorbed by madness. As Laura's parents divorced and her father struggled to gain custody, Sal...

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* * * Gloomy,
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Swallowing Grandma. Kate Long

by Kate Long

Published: 2006-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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Katherine Millar is eighteen and desperate to be less fat, less swotty and to have cooler friends. But most of all, she wishes she had two parents, instead of one grandma, Poll. Poll is pushing seventy, half blind and utterly poisonous. She has looked after Katherine since she was a baby, when her father...

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Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)

by Arthur Ransome

Published: 1994-09-01

Paperback: 351 pages

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The first title in Arthur Ransome's classic series, originally published in 1930: for children, for grownups, for anyone captivated by the world of adventure and imagination. Swallows and Amazons introduces the lovable Walker family, the camp on Wild Cat island, the able-bodied catboat Swallow, and the...

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* * * Unconvincing,
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The Swallows of Kabul

by Yasmina Khadra

Published: 2005-04-12

Paperback: 195 pages

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Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, who was once a brilliant teacher and is now no ...

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Swamplandia!

by Karen Russell

Published: 2011-02-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves ("How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell's . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire."Los Angele...