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  • Sometimes I Lie
    Sometimes I Lie
    by Alice Feeney
    Hardcover: Mar 2018
    Paperback: Oct 2018
     
    My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me:
    1. I'm in a coma.
    2. My husband doesn't love me anymore.
    3. Sometimes I lie.
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  • The Song of Achilles
    The Song of Achilles : A Novel
    by Madeline Miller
    Hardcover: Mar 2012
    Paperback: Aug 2012
     
    Built on the groundwork of the Iliad, Madeline Miller's page-turning, profoundly moving, and blisteringly paced retelling of the epic Trojan War marks the launch of a dazzling career.
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  • Song of the Crow
    Song of the Crow
    by Layne Maheu
    Hardcover: Jun 2006
    Paperback: May 2007
     
    The story of Noah's Ark and the flood, as narrated by a Crow who is deeply suspicious - and skeptical - about Mankind.
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  • The Song Reader
    The Song Reader
    by Lisa Tucker
    Paperback: May 2003
     
    'Leeann is the perfect narrator for this engaging and bittersweet story of compassion, forgiveness, and the search for redemption. This is a wonderful first novel.'
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  • Song Yet Sung
    Song Yet Sung
    by James McBride
    Hardcover: Feb 2008
    Paperback: Jan 2009
     
    From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Color of Water comes a powerful page-turner about a runaway slave and a determined slave catcher.
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  • Sophie and The Rising Sun
    Sophie and The Rising Sun
    by Augusta Trobaugh
    Hardcover: Nov 2001
    Paperback: Sep 2002
     
    A radiant novel that gets the rhythms and cadences of small-town life exactly right. An unforgettable story of a time when the world lost its innocence--and of a town that finds its redemption in an extraordinary love.
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  • Soul Mountain
    Soul Mountain
    by Gao Xingjian
    Hardcover: Nov 2000
    Paperback: Nov 2001
     
    A man's search for meaning -- in life, in the journey -- turns up the possibility that there may be no meaning. The elusive Lingshan (Soul Mountain) becomes the object of his quest. A novel of immense wisdom and profound beauty.
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  • Sounds Like Titanic
    Sounds Like Titanic : A Memoir
    by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
    Hardcover: Feb 2019
    Paperback: Feb 2020
     
    A Finalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography

    "Deliciously bizarre and utterly American.…[A] Coen brothers movie come to life.…I couldn't put it down." —Caitlin Doughty, best-selling author of Smoke ...
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