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Strangers: A Novel

by Anita Brookner

Published: 2009-06-16

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Literary master Anita Brookner's elegant style is manifest on every page of her brilliant new novel. Beautifully crafted and emotionally evocative, Strangers portrays the magic and depth of real life, telling the rich story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears ar...

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The Stranger's Child

by Alan Hollinghurst

Published: 2011-10-11

Hardcover: 448 pages

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From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate--a handsome, aristocratic young ...

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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

by Graham Farmelo

Published: 2009-08-25

Hardcover: 560 pages

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Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of ...

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The Strangler

by William Landay

Published: 2007-12-26

Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Defending JacobBoston, 1963. A city on edge. On street corners, newsboys hawk the shocking headline: KENNEDY IS DEAD. In the city's underworld, a mob war rages. But what terrifies Bostonians most is the mysterious killer who has already claim...

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Strapless

by Deborah Davis

Published: 2004-05-03

Paperback: 320 pages

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The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unknown at the time, Sargent won the commission to paint her; the two must have recognized in...

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Strawberry Fields, a Book of Short Stories

by Chuy Ramirez

Published: 2009

Hardcover: 0 pages

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Mis comentarios son los siguientes: The short stories of Strawberry Fields are like beautiful and colorful blouses made of delicate chiffon------revealing. The stories reveal the compassion of a mother for her seven year old son who expresses anger for the family's poverty. The stories reveal the strengths...

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Strawberry Shortcake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery (Hannah Swensen Mysteries)

by Joanne Fluke

Published: 2002-02-02

Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages

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Stray

by Rachel Vincent

Published: 2007-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 624 pages

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I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds. Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escaped the pressure to continue my species and carved out a normal life for myself. Until the night a Stray attacked. I'd been war...

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Stray Affections

by Charlene Baumbich

Published: 2009-09-15

Paperback: 320 pages

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The last thing that Cassandra Higgins expects out of her Sunday is to be mesmerized at a collectors? convention by a snowglobe. She's enjoying some mommy time, with husband Ken at home tending their brood of four young boys, when she's utterly charmed by the one-of-a kind globe containing ...

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The Stray Sod Country: A Novel

by Patrick McCabe

Published: 2010-09-28

Paperback: 339 pages

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It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog, is launched into space, Golly Murray, the Cullymore barber's wife, finds herself oddly obsessing about the canine cosmonaut. Meanwhile, Fonsey "Teddy" O'Neill is returning, like the prodigal son, from overseas, with Brylcreem in his hair and a Cub...