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* * * * Romantic,
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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

by James Patterson

Published: 2002-04-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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Katie Wilkinson has finally found the perfect man - but one day he suddenly disappears, leaving behind only a diary written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby, Nicholas. In it she intimately reveals the romance between herself and the child's father, her hopes for their marriage, and her unparalleled...

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Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir

by Laura M. Flynn

Published: 2009-02-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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When Laura Flynn was a little girl, her beautiful, dynamic mother, Sally, was the center of her imagination. It wasn?t long, however, before Sally's fun-loving side slowly and methodically became absorbed by madness. As Laura's parents divorced and her father struggled to gain custody, Sal...

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* * * Gloomy,
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Swallowing Grandma. Kate Long

by Kate Long

Published: 2006-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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Katherine Millar is eighteen and desperate to be less fat, less swotty and to have cooler friends. But most of all, she wishes she had two parents, instead of one grandma, Poll. Poll is pushing seventy, half blind and utterly poisonous. She has looked after Katherine since she was a baby, when her father...

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Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)

by Arthur Ransome

Published: 1994-09-01

Paperback: 351 pages

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The first title in Arthur Ransome's classic series, originally published in 1930: for children, for grownups, for anyone captivated by the world of adventure and imagination. Swallows and Amazons introduces the lovable Walker family, the camp on Wild Cat island, the able-bodied catboat Swallow, and the...

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* * * Unconvincing,
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The Swallows of Kabul

by Yasmina Khadra

Published: 2005-04-12

Paperback: 195 pages

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Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, who was once a brilliant teacher and is now no ...

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* * Dark,
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Swamplandia!

by Karen Russell

Published: 2011-02-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves ("How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell's . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire."Los Angele...

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* * * Adventurous,
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Swamplandia! (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Karen Russell

Published: 2011-07-26

Paperback: 400 pages

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Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, h...

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* * * * Informative,
Inspiring,
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The Swan House (The Swan House Series #1)

by Elizabeth Musser

Published: 2001-07-01

Paperback: 448 pages

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Mary Swan Middleton has always taken for granted the advantages of her family's wealth. But a tragedy that touches all of Atlanta sends her reeling in grief. When the family maid challenges her to reach out to the less fortunate as a way to ease her own pain, Mary Swan meets Carl--and ever...

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* * * * * Scary,
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Swan Song

by Robert McCammon

Published: 1987-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 960 pages

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An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force that feeds on the dark desires of the countless followers he has gathered into his service. His only desire is to find a special child named Swan -- an...

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The Swan Thieves (Chinese Edition)

by Elizabeth Kostova

Published: 2010-08

Paperback: 0 pages

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