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The Strangeness of Beauty

by Lydia Yuri Minatoya

Published: 2001-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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A quietly daring exploration of art, family, culture, and conscience, as three generations of women, American and Japanese, face a strained reunion in pre-World War II Japan. Etsuko and her six-year-old motherless niece return from jazz-age Seattle to the ancient Japanese household of Etsuko's mysterious...

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The Stranger (Everyman's Library)

by Albert Camus

Published: 1993-02-23

Hardcover: 152 pages

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Introduction by Peter Dunwoody; Translation by Matthew WardThe Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man...

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The Stranger Beside Me

by Ann Rule

Published: 2008-12-30

Mass Market Paperback: 672 pages

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THE DEFINITIVE WORK OF AMERICAN TRUE CRIME FROM "AMERICA'S BEST TRUE-CRIME WRITER" (Kirkus Reviews) Utterly unique in its astonishing intimacy, as jarringly frightening as when it first appeared, Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me defies our expectation that we would surely know if a monst...

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A Stranger for Christmas: A Novel

by Carol Lynn Pearson

Published: 2003-08

Hardcover: 106 pages

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Spending Christmas alone in a nursing home, two elderly women, Florence and Myrna, share their longing for the love of a traditional family Christmas. In order to prove to a doubting Florence that the joy of Christmas still exists, Myrna bets that someone will make room in their hearts and home for a...

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Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

Published: 1991-10-01

Paperback: 528 pages

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Here at last is the complete, uncut version of Heinlein's all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. It is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the man from Mars who taught humankind grokking and water-sharin...

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Stranger in Savannah

Published: 1993-04

Paperback: 0 pages

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A Stranger in the Kingdom: A Novel

by Howard Frank Mosher

Published: 2002-09-04

Paperback: 432 pages

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Howard Frank Mosher has earned both critical acclaim and a wide readership for his vivid historical portraits of northern New England residents in his fictional Kingdom County, Vermont. A Stranger in the Kingdom tells the unforgettable story of a brutal murder in a small town and the devas...

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Stranger in the Midst: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

by Nan Fink

Published: 1997-03

Hardcover: 250 pages

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A moving memoir of life change, this poignant and gracefully written work explores how one woman defied her upbringing by converting to Judaism in a quest for spiritual meaning. Born Christian, Nan Fink found her path to Judaism far more difficult than she had anticipated. She nevertheless found the...

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The Stranger in the Mirror

by Laura Marie

Published: 2009-01-16

Paperback: 178 pages

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After a terrific summer of being a missionary in the south Bronx, Laura Marie finds herself struggling more now than she ever has before. Between her addictions and self sabotaging ways, her life was quickly coming to a close. In a last ditch effort to gain her...

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The Stranger in the Mirror: A Memoir of Middle Age. Jane Shilling

by Jane Shilling

Published: 2012-01-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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'I looked in the mirror one morning, and saw the face of a stranger. Who was she, this haggard, bun-faced woman with the softening jawline, the downturned mouth, the world-weary air of a woman who hasn't had what she wanted from life, and knows she isn't going to get it now? Why, it was no one else but...