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The Street Sweeper

by Elliot Perlman

Published: 2012-01-05

Hardcover: 640 pages

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How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing one another every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only so...

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A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

by Tennessee Williams

Published: 2004-09

Paperback: 224 pages

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The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play?reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In." It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and i...

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Streets of hope: Finding God in St Kilda

by Tim Costello

Published: 1998

Paperback: 242 pages

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Strength in What Remains

by Tracy Kidder

Published: 2009-08-25

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the su...

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Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiving

by Tracy Kidder

Published: 2010-05-04

Paperback: 468 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller, A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author -- The "master of the non-fiction narrative" (Baltimore Sun) gives us the inspiring account of one man's remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him -- a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances....

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Strides of Destiny

by Loly Trelles Garriga

Published: 2011-05-04

Paperback: 170 pages

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Is love at first sight possible? Can true love last forever? How many times can love conquer impossible obstacles? ?Strides of Destiny? is a true love story that gives new meaning to the words love, fate and destiny. It passionately depicts love's triumph and perseverance during the many hardships...

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Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002

by Sharon Olds

Published: 2004-09-28

Paperback: 208 pages

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A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and t...

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Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America

by Lily Burana

Published: 2003-02-19

Paperback: 336 pages

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Lily Burana had given up on stripping years before she accepted a marriage proposal-but decided to strip her way from Florida to Alaska before settling down. Lily, now a successful journalist, looks back at stripping with a writer's perspective. Her humorous yet hard-edged memoir deftly describes funky...

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Strip Tease

by Carl Hiaasen

Published: 2005-03-01

Paperback: 464 pages

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Murder, politics, and G-strings collide in this caper from the bestselling author of Tourist Season. Hilarity and chaos break out in a strip joint when a bachelor party gets out of hand, making the drunken guest of honor a threat to "big money" and "big government."A smart topless dancer a...

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Stripped

by Brian Freeman

Published: 2006

Hardcover: 689 pages

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From Publishers Weekly: At the start of Freeman's solid second thriller (after 2005's Immoral), detective Jonathan Stride has left his job in Duluth, Minn., for Las Vegas, Nev. The action begins with a flashback to Sin City in the 1950s and the murder of a famous exotic dancer, a case never fully resolved...