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Sweetness in the Belly

by Camilla Gibb

Published: 2007-03-27

Paperback: 368 pages

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Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb’s widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a young woman she goes on pilgrimage t...

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Sweetness in the Belly: A Novel

by Camilla Gibb

Published: 2006-03-16

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb's widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a young woman she goes on pilgrima...

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The Sweetness of Forgetting

by Kristin Harmel

Published: 2012-08-07

Kindle Edition: 370 pages

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A baker in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, must travel to Paris to uncover a family secret for her dying grandmother—and what she learns may change everything. The Sweetness of Forgetting is the book that made Kristin Harmel an international bestseller.At thirty-six, Hope McKenna-Smith is no st...

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The Sweetness of Tears: A Novel

by Nafisa Haji

Published: 2011-05-17

Kindle Edition: 400 pages

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From Nafisa Haji, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Writing on My Forehead, comes The Sweetness of Tears, an emotional, deeply layered story that explores the far reaching effects of cultural prejudice, forbidden love, and hidden histories on a young woman and her family. A pap...

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Sweetsmoke

by David Fuller

Published: 2009-09-08

Paperback: 336 pages

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The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins."A fascinating and gripping novel about the Civil War. The slave, Cassius Howard, is a great fictional character, and his story is part mystery, part love story...

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Sweetwater Creek

by Anne Rivers Siddons

Published: 2005-08-09

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A New York Times Bestseller Author Poignant and emotionally compelling, Sweetwater Creek draws you into the luminous landscape of the Lowcountry. With characters that linger long after you've turned the last page, this engaging tale is destined to become an instant classic.

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Sweetwater Gap (Women of Faith Fiction)

by Denise Hunter

Published: 2008-12-16

Paperback: 320 pages

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A story of new beginnings from best-selling Romance for Good™ author Denise Hunter. When Josephine's family insists she come home to help with the harvest, the timing works. But her return isn't simple benevolence-she plans to persuade the family to sell the failing orchard. The new manager's presence...

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

by Stephen Greenblatt

Published: 2011-09-26

Hardcover: 368 pages

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A riveting tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance.One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, chan...

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Swift as Desire

by Laura Esquivel, Stephen Lytle

Published: 2002-08-27

Paperback: 207 pages

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A Swift Pure Cry

by Siobhan Dowd

Published: 2007-04-10

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Ireland 1984.After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her budding spiritual friendship with a naive young priest...