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  • Summer Sisters
    Summer Sisters
    by Judy Blume
    Hardcover: Jun 1998
    Paperback: May 1999
     
    An extraordinary novel of reminiscence and awakening--an unforgettable story of two women, two families, and the friendships that shape a lifetime.
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  • Summertime
    Summertime : Fiction
    by J M Coetzee
    Hardcover: Dec 2009
    Paperback: Oct 2010
     
    Summertime is an inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J.M. Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human ...
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  • The Sun Down Motel
    The Sun Down Motel
    by Simone St. James
    Hardcover: Feb 2020
    Paperback: Oct 2020
     
    Something hasn't been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.
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  • The Sunday Philosophy Club
    The Sunday Philosophy Club
    by Alexander McCall Smith
    Hardcover: Sep 2004
    Paperback: Jul 2005
     
    Filled with thorny characters and a Scottish atmosphere as thick as a highland mist, The Sunday Philosophy Club is irresistible, and Isabel Dalhousie is the most delightful literary sleuth since Precious Ramotswe.
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  • The Sunken Cathedral
    The Sunken Cathedral
    by Kate Walbert
    Hardcover: Jun 2015
    Paperback: Mar 2016
     
    A deeply moving novel that follows a cast of characters as they negotiate one of Manhattan's swiftly changing neighborhoods, extreme weather, and the unease of twenty-first-century life.
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  • Sunset Park
    Sunset Park : A Novel
    by Paul Auster
    Hardcover: Nov 2010
    Paperback: Oct 2011
     
    Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force, Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse.
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  • The Surrendered
    The Surrendered
    by Chang-rae Lee
    Hardcover: Mar 2010
    Paperback: Mar 2011
     
    A stunning story about how love and war inalterably change the lives of those they touch, The Surrendered is elegant, suspenseful, and unforgettable: a profound meditation on the nature of heroism and sacrifice, the power of love, and the ...
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  • Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas
    Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas
    by James Patterson
    Hardcover: Jul 2001
    Paperback: Apr 2002
     
    Beautifully captures the joys of a new family as it builds to an overwhelmingly moving climax. This is an unforgettable love story, at once heartbreaking and full of hope.
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