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Saints at the River: A Novel

by Ron Rash

Published: 2005-07-01

Paperback: 239 pages

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A major new Southern voice emerges in this novel about a town divided by the aftermath of a tragic accident--and the woman caught in the middleWhen a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, the people of the small South Carolina town that b...

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Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints

by Thomas J. Craughwell

Published: 2006-09-19

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Saints are not born, they are made. And many, as Saints Behaving Badly reveals, were made of very rough materials indeed. The first book to lay bare the less than saintly behavior of thirty-two venerated holy men and women, it presents the scandalous, spicy, and sleazy detours they took on...

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Saint's Gate

by Carla Neggers

Published: 2011-08-23

Hardcover: 400 pages

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When Emma Sharpe is summoned to a convent on the Maine coast, it's partly for her art crimes work with the FBI, partly because of her past with the religious order. At issue is a mysterious painting depicting scenes of Irish lore and Viking legends, and her family's connection to the work....

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Salamander Cotton

by Richard Kunzmann

Published: 2008-02-01

Paperback: 450 pages

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A wealthy ex-farmer has been found beaten and burned to death at his home in suburban Johannesburg. Why does his estranged wife not seem particularly surprised by this cold-blooded murder, and insist that the killer will be found in the Northern Cape? That is where the victim's plantations were located...

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Sala's Gift

by Ann Kirschner

Published: 2006-11-07

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"Do you know why I write so much? Because as long as you read, we are together." -- Raizel Garncarz (Sala's sister), April 24, 1941 Few family secrets have the power both to transform lives and to fill in crucial gaps in world history. But then, few families have a mother and a daught...

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Salem Falls

by Jodi Picoult

Published: 2002-08-01

Paperback: 464 pages

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Love can redeem a man...but secrets and lies can condemn him.A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past: Once a teacher at a girls' prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation....

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Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall

by Eve Laplante

Published: 2008-11-04

Paperback: 368 pages

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Salem's Fire

by Sheri, Lewis Wohl

Published: 2007-05-11

Paperback: 224 pages

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In a small town nestled among mountains and pine trees, the line between the past and the present begins to blur. Over three hundred years later and thousands of miles from the barren gallows hill of Salems Village, accused witch Martha Corey and magistrate John Hawthorne come face to face once more....

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Sally Hemings

by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Published: 1979-06-21

Hardcover: 348 pages

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Sally Hemings is a novel, but its basis is in fact-as proven by DNA tests on the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and the mysterious woman who bore him seven children. Barbara Chase-Riboud's moving and controversial novel recreates the love story of Thomas Jefferson, third President of t...

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Sally Hemings: A Novel

by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Published: 2009-04-01

Kindle Edition: 384 pages

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One of the greatest love stories in American history is also one of the most controversial. Thomas Jefferson had a mistress for 38 years whom he loved and lived with until he died?the beautiful and elusive Sally Hemings. But it was not simply that Jefferson had a mistress that provoked suc...