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Read-Alikes for Books Starting with S

461 books starting with "s"

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  • A Second Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul
    A Second Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul : 101 More Stories to open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Women
    by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
    Hardcover: Oct 1998
    Paperback: Oct 1998
     
    Celebrates the shared experiences of being a woman in a 101 new ways.
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  • A Secret Kept
    A Secret Kept
    by Tatiana de Rosnay
    Hardcover: Sep 2010
    Paperback: Sep 2011
     
    From Tatiana de Rosnay, author of the New York Times bestseller Sarah's Key, A Secret Kept plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the power of a past secret to change everything in the present.
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  • A Short Guide To A Happy Life
    A Short Guide To A Happy Life
    by Anna Quindlen
    Hardcover: Oct 2000
     
    "We have to teach ourselves now to live, really live...to love the journey, not the destination."   Quindlen guides us with an understanding that comes from knowing how to see the view, the richness in living.
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  • A Short History of Nearly Everything
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    by Bill Bryson
    Hardcover: May 2003
    Paperback: Sep 2004
     
    The ultimate journey to discover how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since.
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  • A Short Walk Through a Wide World
    A Short Walk Through a Wide World : A Novel
    by Douglas Westerbeke
    Hardcover: Apr 2024
     
    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she stops moving.
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  • A Slight Trick of The Mind
    A Slight Trick of The Mind
    by Mitch Cullin
    Hardcover: Apr 2005
    Paperback: May 2006
     
    This subtle and wise work is more than a re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes but a profound meditation on faultiness of memory and how, as we grow older, the way we see the world is inevitably altered.
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  • A Small Indiscretion
    A Small Indiscretion : A Novel
    by Jan Ellison
    Hardcover: Jan 2015
    Paperback: Feb 2016
     
    With the emotional complexity of Everything I Never Told You and the psychological suspense of The Girl on the Train, O. Henry Prize winner Jan Ellison delivers a brilliantly paced, beautifully written debut novel about one woman's reckoning with a ...
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  • A Snake Falls to Earth
    A Snake Falls to Earth
    by Darcie Little Badger
    Hardcover: Nov 2021
    Paperback: Apr 2024
     
    Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories.
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