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  • The Stranger's Child
    The Stranger's Child
    by Alan Hollinghurst
    Hardcover: Oct 2011
    Paperback: Aug 2012
     
    A magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
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  • The Strangler Vine
    The Strangler Vine
    by Miranda J. Carter
    Hardcover: Mar 2015
    Paperback: Feb 2016
     
    Set in the untamed wilds of nineteenth-century colonial India, a dazzling historical thriller introducing an unforgettable investigative pair.
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  • Strength in What Remains
    Strength in What Remains : A journey of remembrance and forgiveness
    by Tracy Kidder
    Hardcover: Aug 2009
    Paperback: May 2010
     
    Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him – a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
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  • The Submission
    The Submission : A Novel
    by Amy Waldman
    Hardcover: Aug 2011
    Paperback: Mar 2012
     
    Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel reimagines its aftermath and wonders what would happen if a Muslim-American was blindly chosen to plan the World Trade Center Memorial.
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  • Submission
    Submission
    by Michel Houellebecq
    Hardcover: Oct 2015
    Paperback: Oct 2016
     
    Michel Houellebecq's new book may be satirical and melancholic, but it is also hilarious, a comic masterpiece by one of France's great novelists.
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  • Sugar Run
    Sugar Run
    by Mesha Maren
    Hardcover: Jan 2019
    Paperback: Oct 2019
     
    Set within the charged insularity of rural West Virginia, Sugar Run is a searing and gritty debut about making a run for another life.
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  • Suite Francaise
    Suite Francaise
    by Irene Nemirovsky
    Hardcover: Apr 2006
    Paperback: Apr 2007
     
    The first two stories of a masterwork once thought lost, written by a pre-WWII bestselling author who was deported to Auschwitz and died before her work could be completed.
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  • The Summer Before the War
    The Summer Before the War
    by Helen Simonson
    Hardcover: Mar 2016
    Paperback: Feb 2017
     
    The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love and war that reaches far beyond the small English town in which it is set.
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