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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 : 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 : 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
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
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 : (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 : 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 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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The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon

"I cannot say why it is so important that I make this daily record. Perhaps because I have been ...
Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch

Paul Lynch's 2023 Booker Prize–winning Prophet Song is a speedboat of a novel that hurtles...
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
by Lynda Cohen Loigman

Lynda Cohen Loigman's delightful novel The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern opens in 1987. The titular ...
Small Rain
by Garth Greenwell

At the beginning of Garth Greenwell's novel Small Rain, the protagonist, an unnamed poet in his ...