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  • Snowglobe
    Snowglobe : Snowglobe, Book 1
    by Soyoung Park, Joungmin Lee Comfort
    Hardcover: Feb 2024
    Paperback: Apr 2025
     
    In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can escape the bitter cold—but this perfect society is hiding dark and dangerous secrets within its frozen heart. A groundbreaking Korean novel ...
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  • So You Want to Talk About Race
    So You Want to Talk About Race
    by Ijeoma Oluo
    Hardcover: Jan 2018
    Paperback: Sep 2019
     
    In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America
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  • Solar
    Solar
    by Ian McEwan
    Hardcover: Mar 2010
    Paperback: Mar 2011
     
    Michael Beard is a Nobel prize–winning physicist whose best work is behind him, and whose fifth marriage is crumbling. However, an invitation to travel to New Mexico offers him a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, ...
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  • Sold
    Sold
    by Patricia McCormick
    Hardcover: Sep 2006
    Paperback: Apr 2008
     
    Although Lakshmi's family is desperately poor her life still contains simple pleasures; but, when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all the family’s crops, Lakshmi’s stepfather sends her away to take a job to support her family. When...
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  • Soldier's Heart
    Soldier's Heart : Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
    by Elizabeth D. Samet
    Hardcover: Oct 2007
    Paperback: Sep 2008
     
    What does literature - particularly the literature of war - mean to a student who is likely to encounter its reality? What is the best way to stir uninhibited classroom discussions in a setting that is designed to train students to follow orders, ...
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  • The Solitude of Prime Numbers
    The Solitude of Prime Numbers : A Novel
    by Paolo Giordano
    Hardcover: Mar 2010
    Paperback: Mar 2011
     
    A bestselling international literary sensation about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connect with someone else.
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  • Some Luck
    Some Luck
    by Jane Smiley
    Hardcover: Oct 2014
    Paperback: Jul 2015
     
    From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a powerful, engrossing new novel - the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America
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  • Some of It Was Real
    Some of It Was Real
    by Nan Fischer
    Paperback: Jul 2022
     
    A psychic on the verge of stardom who isn't sure she believes in herself and a cynical journalist with one last chance at redemption are brought together by secrets from the past that also threaten to tear them apart.
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