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A Strong West Wind: A Memoir

by Gail Caldwell

Published: 2007-01-09

Paperback: 256 pages

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In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle?a place of both boredom and...

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A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith

by Anna-Lisa Cox

Published: 2006-02-06

Hardcover: 288 pages

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In the heartland of 19th-century America, amid a roaring sea of racism and hatred, a mixed-race community existed where blacks lived as equal citizens. Schools and churches were completely integrated, blacks and whites married, and power and wealth were shared between the races. Starting in the 1860s,...

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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads)

by Lauren Kessler

Published: 2008-08-12

Paperback: 320 pages

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Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American. Masuo Yasui traveled from Japan across the other...

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Stuck in Downward Dog: A Novel

by Chantel Simmons

Published: 2007-07-28

Paperback: 272 pages

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Mara Brennan is about to unravel. Three days after her twenty-eighth birthday, her boyfriend dumps her, leaving her with nothing but a basement apartment, a futon and a pile of unpaid bills. On top of that, her job, working as a receptionist at a cosmetic surgery clinic is a nightmare; her boss is a...

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Stuck in the Middle (Sister-to-Sister, Book 1)

by Virginia Smith

Published: 2008-02-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Joan Sanderson's life is stuck. Her older sister, Allie, is starting a family and her younger sister, Tori, has a budding career. Meanwhile, Joan is living at home with Mom and looking after her aging grandmother. Not exactly a recipe for excitement. That is, until a hunky young doctor moves in next...

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Stuck On 75

by Ken Kaye

Published: 2011-02-14

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George Leon is a hip, hardworking magazine publisher and quite the ladies man, too. On a pretty March morning, he is driving merrily down Interstate 75 in South Florida, when a fuel tanker blows up right in front of him. Almost killed in the ensuing fire and chaos, he wants to know why, ex...

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The Stuff That Never Happened: A Novel

by Maddie Dawson

Published: 2010-08-03

Hardcover: 336 pages

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What if you were married to a wonderful husband for twenty-eight years but in love with another man? What if you were in love with them both?�Annabelle McKay knows she shouldn?t have any complaints. She's been in a stable marriage that's lasted almost three decades and has provided her wit...

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Stuff to Die For: A Novel

by Don Bruns

Published: 2007-09-01

Hardcover: 296 pages

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Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are hardly on the fast track. While James works as a line cook at Cap'n Crab, Skip spends his days selling - or rather, attempting to sell - security systems to people who (a) have no money, and (b) have nothing they care to protect. James and S...

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Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

by Gail Steketee, Randy Frost

Published: 2011-01-04

Paperback: 304 pages

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What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that’s ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house? Or Jerry and Alvin, wealt...

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Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family

by Patricia Volk

Published: 2002-10-22

Paperback: 256 pages

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Patricia Volk’s delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating and wonderful family, where you’re never just hungry–your starving to death, and you’re never just full–you’re stuffed. Volk’s family fed New York City for one hundred years, from 1888...