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The Swan Thieves

by Elizabeth Kostova

Published: 2010-11-03

Paperback: 592 pages

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Andrew Marlow, a psychiatrist, has a perfectly ordered life--solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when the renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes Marlow's pati...

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The Swan Thieves: A Novel

by Elizabeth Kostova

Published: 2010-01-12

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Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand t...

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Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past, Volume One)

by Marcel Proust

Published: 2009-01-01

Paperback: 276 pages

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The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time," also known as "A Remembrance of Things Past," "Swann's Way" is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence as a sensitive and intuitive...

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Swapping Lives

by Jane Green

Published: 2007-05-29

Paperback: 416 pages

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What if a successful, single Londoner and a comfortable, Connecticut mother of two were to walk in each other?s shoes for a month? Vicky Townsley is the director of Poise! magazine and lives a glamorous London life. She has everything she wants?except marriage, children, and a house in the...

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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

by Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman

Published: 2009-06-02

Paperback: 206 pages

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A fascinating journey into the hidden psychological influences that derail our decision-making, Sway will change the way you think about the way you think.Why is it so difficult to sell a plummeting stock or end a doomed relationship? Why do we listen to advice just because it came from so...

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The Swedish Gypsy

by Mary Paulson

Published: 2008-09-21

Paperback: 256 pages

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The Swedish Gypsy is a historical novel se in turn-of-the-century Stockholm. Fredrik, a successful business man hires Lilly to work at his cafe. Realizing she is a gypsy he keeps her on to tell fortunes. He is fascinated with her culture and with Lilly who becomes obsessed with him and pursues him using...

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, US & Canada Ed.

by Robert Mack

Published: 2007-12-03

Paperback: 300 pages

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Sweeping Up Glass

by Carolyn Wall

Published: 2009-08-04

Paperback: 336 pages

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Destined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family.Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where whites and blacks eke out a living in separate, t...

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Sweet Addiction

by Maya Banks

Published: 2012-04-03

Paperback: 336 pages

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He awakened a need within her...Cole is successful beyond his dreams. He can have any woman he wants, but there's only one he can't stop thinking about. His childhood sweetheart, Ren. He's never forgotten his first taste of innocent love and the desire that consumed them--or the pain he b...

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Sweet and Low: A Family Story

by Rich Cohen

Published: 2007-03-20

Paperback: 288 pages

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Sweet and Low is the bittersweet, hilarious story of Ben Eisenstadt, who invented sugar packets and Sweet'N Low, and amassed the great fortune that would later destroy his family. It is a story of immigrants, Jewish gangsters, and Brooklyn; of sugar, saccharine, obesity, and diet crazes; o...