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The Slide: A Novel

by Kyle Beachy

Published: 2009-01-27

Paperback: 287 pages

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At once an offbeat love story, a moving portrait of a family in crisis, and a darkly funny American comedy, Kyle Beachy's arresting debut novel?written in prose that is swift, stunning, and sweet?heralds the arrival of a remarkable new voice in fiction.Potter Mays retreats immediately afte...

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Sliding On The Snow Stone

by Andy Szpuk

Published: 2011-11-26

Paperback: 238 pages

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It is astonishing that anyone lived this story. It is even more astonishing that anyone survived it. Stefan grows up in the grip of a raging famine. Stalin's Five Year Plan brings genocide to Ukraine ? millions of people starve to death. To free themselves from the daily terrors of Soviet rule, Stefan...

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A Slight Trick of the Mind

by Mitch Cullin

Published: 2006-05-09

Paperback: 272 pages

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The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon.It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his j...

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Slightly Settled (Red Dress Ink)

by Wendy Markham

Published: 2004-02-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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Top Two Don'ts for the Office Party. --Don't dress in a revealing manner. (Translation: Don't wear the sexy scarlet, size-eight dress you couldn't fit into three months ago. The one that flaunts your firmed-up cleavage and newly discovered collarbones.) --Don't make a spectacle of yourself...

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Slightly Single: Red Dress Ink (Red Dress Ink Novels)

by Wendy Markham

Published: 2004-11-01

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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For every girl who's ever endured a long, hot urban summer on her own, Slightly Single is the summer breeze you've been waiting for! A heat wave in Manhattan is enough to drive a girl crazy, and for Tracey Spadolini, a 24-year old New York transplant who's been "left behind" for the summer...

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The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After

by Melanie Gideon

Published: 2010-08-10

Paperback: 224 pages

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Melanie Gideon's hilarious memoir is a disarmingly honest take on marriage and motherhood by a woman who realized she was sleepwalking through life and decided she needed to do something about it. The Slippery Year chronicles her struggle to rediscover meaning and pleasure in life while na...

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Sliver of Truth: A Novel

by Lisa Unger

Published: 2008-03-25

Paperback: 368 pages

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Slob

by Ellen Potter

Published: 2009-05-14

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Twelve-year-old Owen Birnbaum is the fattest kid in school. But he's also a genius who invents cool contraptions? like a TV that shows the past. Something happened two years ago that he needs to see. But genius or not, there is much Owen can?t outthink. Like his gym coach, who's on a missi...

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Sloppy Firsts: A Novel

by Megan McCafferty

Published: 2001-08-28

Paperback: 297 pages

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“My parents suck ass. Banning me from the phone and restricting my computer privileges are the most tyrannical parental gestures I can think of. Don’t they realize that Hope’s the only one who keeps me sane? . . . I don’t see how things could get any worse.”When her best friend, ...

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Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things

by Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie

Published: 2011-01-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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Pollution is not only an abstract, distant problem seen in belching smokestacks and contaminated waterways; it’s also personal. Some of the most dangerous pollutants come from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces?shampoos and toothpastes, carpets and children’s toys.To prove t...