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  • Shalimar The Clown
    Shalimar The Clown
    by Salman Rushdie
    Hardcover: Sep 2005
    Paperback: Oct 2006
     
    From one of the leading literary figures of our time, a gripping international tale of love and revenge, and the ancient and modern conflicts from which they spring.
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  • Shanghai Girls
    Shanghai Girls : A Novel
    by Lisa See
    Hardcover: May 2009
    Paperback: Feb 2010
     
    Pearl and May are sisters, living carefree lives in Shanghai, the Paris of Asia. But when Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, they set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of ...
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  • She's Not There
    She's Not There : A Life In Two Genders
    by Jennifer Finney Boylan
    Hardcover: Jul 2003
    Paperback: Aug 2004
     
    The exuberant memoir of a man named James who became a woman named Jenny.
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  • The Shelter Cycle
    The Shelter Cycle
    by Peter Rock
    Hardcover: Apr 2013
    Paperback: Apr 2014
     
    An American original, Peter Rock brings our strangest beliefs to vivid and sympathetic life in this haunting novel inspired by true events.
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  • Shelter From The Storm
    Shelter From The Storm
    by Michael Mewshaw
    Hardcover: Mar 2003
    Paperback: Feb 2004
     
    A beautifully made thriller set in Central Asia that evokes a world of subterfuge, potential chaos and nuance hovering just this side of disbelief.
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  • The Shock of The Fall
    The Shock of The Fall : (originally published in hardcover in USA as Where the Moon Isn't)
    by Nathan Filer
    Hardcover: Nov 2013
    Paperback: Oct 2014
     
    What begins as the story of a lost boy turns into a story of a brave man yearning to understand what happened that night, in the years since, and to his very person.
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  • Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
    Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher : The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
    by Timothy Egan
    Hardcover: Oct 2012
    Paperback: Aug 2013
     
    How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, ...
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  • A Short Walk Through a Wide World
    A Short Walk Through a Wide World : A Novel
    by Douglas Westerbeke
    Hardcover: Apr 2024
     
    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she stops moving.
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