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The Sisters Brothers

by Patrick deWitt

Published: 2011-04-26

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“A gorgeous, wise, riveting work of, among other things, cowboy noir…Honestly, I can’t recall ever being this fond of a pair of psychopaths.” —David Wroblewski, New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle “A masterful, hilarious picaresque that keeps compan...

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The Sisters Brothers: A Novel

by Patrick deWitt

Published: 2011-04-26

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But the...

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The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay: Fiction

by Beverly Jensen

Published: 2010-06-24

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A tale of two sisters over seventy years that recovers the vibrant and unforgettable voice of Beverly Jensen In 1916, Idella and Avis Hillock live on the edge of a chilly bluff in New Brunswick-a hardscrabble world of potato farms and lobster traps, rough men, hard work, and baffling bea...

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Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq

by Christina Asquith

Published: 2009-09-29

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women's lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women's rights activist and a U....

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The Sisters Montclair: A Novel

by Cathy Holton

Published: 2012-07-31

Paperback: 350 pages

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A tale of family secrets and sisterly bonds set against the unlikely friendship of two remarkable women: Stella Nightingale, a twenty-one-year-old runaway from a broken home, and Alice Montclair Whittington, a ninety-four-year-old Southern grande dame with a dry sense of humor, a wicked to...

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Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad

by Jehanne Wake

Published: 2011-04-05

Hardcover: 416 pages

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As gripping as the best historical novel, Sisters of Fortune is the story of the exuberant Marianne, Bess, Louisa, and Emily Caton, the American sisters who enthralled the highest levels of English Regency society decades before the notorious Dollar Princesses of the Victorian era. The Cat...

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Sisters of Fortune: The First American Heiresses to Take Europe by Storm

by Jehanne Wake

Published: 2010-09-07

Hardcover: 416 pages

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As gripping as the best historical novel -- an exuberant account of the American sisters who enthralled high society in the wake of Waterloo.The Caton sisters were Southern belles descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and were expected to 'marry a Plantation'. But they were indepe...

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Sisters of My Heart

by Ann Marie Blaine

Published: 2005-10-28

Paperback: 316 pages

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Sisters of My Heart explores the deep bond of love that three sisters form after the death of their mother in a horrific car accident. Alexandra is the mother figure to her two sisters, but every girl has a dream. Alex dreams of a career far removed from the cares of raising a family unt...

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The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels

by Janet Soskice

Published: 2009-08-18

Hardcover: 336 pages

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In 1892, two sisters, identical twins from Scotland, made one of one of most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. Combing the library of St. Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai, they found a neglected palimpsest: beneath an unpreposessing life of female saints, they detected ...

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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy

by Leanda de Lisle

Published: 2009-10-13

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Mary, Katherine, and Jane Grey–sisters whose mere existence nearly toppled a kingdom and altered a nation’s destiny–are the captivating subjects of Leanda de Lisle’s new book. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen breathes fresh life into these three young women, who were victimized in th...