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  • Shout
    Shout
    by Laurie Halse Anderson
    Hardcover: Mar 2019
    Paperback: Mar 2020
     
    A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!
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  • Shred Sisters
    Shred Sisters
    by Betsy Lerner
    Hardcover: Oct 2024
     
    No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister.

    From Betsy Lerner, celebrated author of The Bridge Ladies, comes a wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sisters.
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  • Shrines of Gaiety
    Shrines of Gaiety : A Novel
    by Kate Atkinson
    Hardcover: Sep 2022
    Paperback: May 2023
     
    The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War--a city fizzing with money, glamour, and corruption--in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal
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  • The Sicilian Inheritance
    The Sicilian Inheritance : A Novel
    by Jo Piazza
    Hardcover: Apr 2024
    Paperback: Apr 2025
     
    From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the author's own family history about a long-awaited trip to Sicily, a disputed inheritance, and a family secret that some will kill to protect ...
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  • Sightseeing
    Sightseeing : Short Stories
    by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
    Hardcover: Dec 2004
    Paperback: Jan 2005
     
    A glorious fiction debut written with exceptional acuity by an award-winning twenty-five-year-old Thai-American writer. Read a complete short story at BookBrowse.
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  • Signal and Noise
    Signal and Noise : A Novel
    by John Griesemer
    Hardcover: Apr 2003
    Paperback: Apr 2004
     
    In this rich and rewarding read Griesemer effortlessly animates the epic story of the laying of the trans-Atlantic cable, and the men and women who are caught in its monumental tide.
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  • The Signal Flame
    The Signal Flame
    by Andrew Krivak
    Hardcover: Jan 2017
    Paperback: Sep 2017
     
    The stunning second novel from National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak - a heartbreaking, captivating story about a family awaiting the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War.
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  • Sing Them Home
    Sing Them Home
    by Stephanie Kallos
    Hardcover: Jan 2009
    Paperback: Sep 2009
     
    The eagerly anticipated second novel from the author of Broken for You - a national best seller and selection of the Today Show Book Club - is a sweeping, gorgeously crafted family story set in the American heartland.
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