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  • Sea of Poppies
    Sea of Poppies
    by Amitav Ghosh
    Hardcover: Oct 2008
    Paperback: Sep 2009
     
    A motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts embark on a voyage across the Indian Ocean in the midst of the Opium Wars between Britain and China.
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  • Sea of Tranquility
    Sea of Tranquility : A novel
    by Emily St. John Mandel
    Hardcover: Apr 2022
    Paperback: Mar 2023
     
    The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a ...
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  • The Sea of Trolls
    The Sea of Trolls
    by Nancy Farmer
    Hardcover: Sep 2004
    Paperback: May 2006
     
    The year is A.D. 793; Jack and his sister have been kidnapped by Vikings and taken to the court of Ivar the Boneless and his terrifying half-troll wife; but things get even worse when Jack finds himself on a dangerous quest to find the magical Mimir...
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  • Seabiscuit
    Seabiscuit : An American Legend
    by Laura Hillenbrand
    Hardcover: Mar 2001
    Paperback: Mar 2002
     
    Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.
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  • Second Glance
    Second Glance
    by Jodi Picoult
    Hardcover: Apr 2003
    Paperback: Mar 2004
     
    When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property. An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal. (An ...
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  • Second Honeymoon
    Second Honeymoon : A Novel
    by Joanna Trollope
    Hardcover: Mar 2006
    Paperback: Mar 2007
     
    Trollope explores the complexities of twenty-first century family life.
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  • The Second Mrs. Hockaday
    The Second Mrs. Hockaday
    by Susan Rivers
    Hardcover: Jan 2017
    Paperback: Nov 2017
     
    A love story, a story of racial divide, and a story of the South as it fell in the war, The Second Mrs. Hockaday reveals how this generation - and the next - began to see their world anew.
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  • The Second Summer of The Sisterhood
    The Second Summer of The Sisterhood
    by Ann Brashares
    Hardcover: Apr 2003
    Paperback: Dec 2004
     
    Brashares returns to the beloved characters she brought to life in her first novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, for a new installment that's equally authentic and engaging.
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