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The Secret Life Of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily .... (Read more)
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The Shack
by William Paul Young
Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspic.... (Read more)
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The Shadow Lines
by Amitav Ghosh
As a young boy, the narrator travels across time through the tales of those around him, traversing the unreliable planes of memory, unmindful of physical, political and chronological borders. But as he grows older, he is haunted by a seemingly random act of violence. Bits and pieces of sto.... (Read more)
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The Shadow Of Your Smile
by Mary Higgins Clark
At age eighty-three and in failing health, Olivia Morrow knows she has little time left. The last of her line, she faces a momentous choice: expose a long-held family secret, or take it with her to her grave.
Olivia has in her possession letters from her deceased cousin Catherine, a nun.... (Read more)
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The Shining
by Stephen King
The Overlook Hotel is more than just a home-away-from-home for the Torrance family. For Jack, Wendy, and their young son, Danny, it is a place where past horrors come to life. And where those gifted with the shining do battle with the darkest evils..... (Read more)
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The Sicilian
by Mario Puzo
Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him. At sea amid the treacheries of a brutal and unfamiliar land, Michael must find a way through the la.... (Read more)
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The Sky Is Falling
by Sidney Sheldon
If America had a royal family, the Winthrops would wear the crown. Popular and charismatic, they have captured the imagination of the world with their public services, enormous charity and glamorous lives. But in a single year, all five members of the family are killed in a series of 'acc.... (Read more)
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The Sly Company Of People Who care
by Rahul Bhattacharya
In flight from the tame familiarity of home in Bombay, a twenty-six-year-old cricket journalist chucks his job and arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerizing beauty. Amid beautiful, decaying wooden houses in Georgetown, on coastal sugarcane plantations, and in the .... (Read more)
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The Solitude Of Emperors
by David Davidar
We do not know what to do with one of our most precious resources, solitude, and so we fill it with noise and clutter . . .
Suffocating in the small-town world of his parents, Vijay is desperate to escape to the raw energy of Bombay in the early 1990s. His big chance arrives unexpectedl.... (Read more)
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The Space Between Us
by Thrity Umrigar
In this beautifully crafted novel about the interlinked lives of two women, Thrity Umrigar explores the complex relationships between the classes in India, rarely addressed in contemporary fiction. 'Bhima is real. She worked in the house I grew up in, year after year, a shadow flitting ar.... (Read more)
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