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The Sweetness of Tears: A Novel

by Nafisa Haji

Published: 2011-05-17

Kindle Edition: 400 pages

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From Nafisa Haji, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Writing on My Forehead, comes The Sweetness of Tears, an emotional, deeply layered story that explores the far reaching effects of cultural prejudice, forbidden love, and hidden histories on a young woman and her family. A pap...

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Sweetsmoke

by David Fuller

Published: 2009-09-08

Paperback: 336 pages

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The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins."A fascinating and gripping novel about the Civil War. The slave, Cassius Howard, is a great fictional character, and his story is part mystery, part love story...

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Sweetwater Creek

by Anne Rivers Siddons

Published: 2005-08-09

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A New York Times Bestseller Author Poignant and emotionally compelling, Sweetwater Creek draws you into the luminous landscape of the Lowcountry. With characters that linger long after you've turned the last page, this engaging tale is destined to become an instant classic.

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Sweetwater Gap (Women of Faith Fiction)

by Denise Hunter

Published: 2008-12-16

Paperback: 320 pages

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A story of new beginnings from best-selling Romance for Good™ author Denise Hunter. When Josephine's family insists she come home to help with the harvest, the timing works. But her return isn't simple benevolence-she plans to persuade the family to sell the failing orchard. The new manager's presence...

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

by Stephen Greenblatt

Published: 2011-09-26

Hardcover: 368 pages

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A riveting tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance.One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, chan...

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Swift as Desire

by Laura Esquivel, Stephen Lytle

Published: 2002-08-27

Paperback: 207 pages

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A Swift Pure Cry

by Siobhan Dowd

Published: 2007-04-10

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Ireland 1984.After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her budding spiritual friendship with a naive young priest...

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Swim

by Jennifer Weiner

Published: 2012-05-08

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The short story that inspired Jennifer Weiner?s forthcoming novel The Next Best Thing.Ruth has left her job writing for a hit television show for reasons she?d rather not discuss and is supplementing her increasingly dwindling savings with freelance writing...

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Swim Back to Me

by Ann Packer

Published: 2011-04-05

Hardcover: 240 pages

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From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen's Pier and Songs Without Words, a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family over the course o...

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Swim to Me: A Novel

by Betsy Carter

Published: 2007-08-01

Hardcover: 280 pages

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Sometimes to be who you really are, you have to pretend you’re already who you want to be. At two, Delores’s mother dropped her into the shallow end of a lake, trusting instinct would teach her daughter to swim. From then on, the water is where Delores Walker feels most at home. Now, nearly seventeen,...