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The Sacred Place: A novel

by Daniel Black

Published: 2008-07-22

Paperback: 304 pages

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In the summer of 1955, fourteen-year-old Clement enters a general store in Money, Mississippi to purchase a soda. Unaware of the consequences of flouting the rules governing black-white relations in the South, this Chicago native defies tradition, by laying a dime on the counter and turns...

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Sacred Sins

by Nora Roberts

Published: 1987-11-01

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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Combining explosive suspense with sensual passion, Nora Roberts turns up the heat in this classic tale — the sizzling story of a man and woman on the trail of a demented killer, a search that will plunge them headlong into danger.... In the lazy days of summer, a merciless heat wave ...

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The Sacred Thread: A True Story of Becoming a Mother and Finding a Family--Half a World Away

by Adrienne Arieff

Published: 2012-03-13

Hardcover: 240 pages

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A touching and surprising memoir about one woman's journey to motherhood and family that illustrates the power of love and triumph of the human spirit.After three heartbreaking losses, Adrienne Arieff thought her dreams of becoming a mother might never come true. She and her husband soon d...

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The Sacrifice

by Kathleen Benner Duble

Published: 2007-08-28

Paperback: 211 pages

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In the year 1692, life changes forever for ten-year-old Abigail Faulkner and her family. In Salem, Massachusetts, witches have been found, and widespread fear and panic reign mere miles from Abigail's home of Andover. When two girls are brought from Salem to identify witches in Andover, su...

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The Sacrificial Man

by Ruth Dugdall

Published: 2012-09-01

Hardcover: 352 pages

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When Probation Officer Cate Austin is given her new assignment, she faces the highest-profile case of her career. Alice Mariani is charged with assisted suicide and Cate must recommend a sentence. Alice insists her story is one of misinterpreted love, forcing those around her to analyse their own lives....

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The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers (Graywolf Memoir)

by Moritz Thomsen

Published: 1990-02-01

Paperback: 284 pages

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The Saddest PleasureThe Saddest Pleasure is a deeply personal look at the people, poverty, beauty, art, music, literature, and passion of South America by an American who has spent most of his life there.Moritz Thomsen was one of the early Peace Corps volunteers. Through his skill as a wri...

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The Saddlemaker's Wife (Berkley Prime Crime Mysteries)

by Earlene Fowler

Published: 2007-05-01

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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Ruby McGavin has inherited part of a cattle ranch from her late husband, only to discover that his family is very much alive, in contrast to what he told her. Even as she is drawn to handsome saddlemaker Lucas McGavin, she learns more about her late husband's family-and wonders if she ever...

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Safe from the Neighbors

by Steve Yarbrough

Published: 2010-01-26

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Luke May teaches local history?his lifelong obsession?at his old high school in Loring, Mississippi. Having been mentored by his hometown newspaper's publisher, a survivor of the civil rights turmoil, he now passes these stories along to students far too young to have experienced or, in so...

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Safe from the Sea

by Peter Geye

Published: 2010-09-28

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Set against the powerful lakeshore landscape of northern Minnesota, Safe from the Sea is a heartfelt novel in which a son returns home to reconnect with his estranged and dying father thirty-five years after the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat that the father only partially survived and that has...

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Safe Harbor: A Novel

by Luanne Rice

Published: 2009-10-27

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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Readers across the country have embraced the moving, magical novels of Luanne Rice, among them her acclaimed bestsellers Firefly Beach, Follow the Stars Home, and Cloud Nine. The New York Times Book Review has called Rice's work "exciting, emotional, terrific," and praises her "rare combin...