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Say You're One of Them - Uwem Akpan
SUMMARY: Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family ... -
Saving Max - Antoinette van Heugten
Product DescriptionMax Parkman—autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive—is perfect in his mother[HTML_REMOVED]s eyes. Until he[HTML_REMOVED]s accused of murder.A... -
Sanatorium under the sign of th - Bruno Schulz; Celina Wieniewska
Product DescriptionThis is the second and final work of Bruno Schulz, the acclaimed Polish writer killed by the Nazis during World War II. In the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer, "W... -
San Francisco Noir - Peter Maravelis
From Publishers WeeklyA roster of Bay Area authors lends solid street cred to 15 original stories, but few deliver on the elusive noir premise of this new series. Following the suc... -
Salmonella men on Planet Porno_ - Yasutaka Tsutsui
SUMMARY: This collection of marvelously off-kilter short stories – the American debut of acclaimed Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui – portrays the consequences of a world where the... -
Russka_ The Novel of Russia - Edward Rutherfurd
From Publishers WeeklyRutherfurd weaves an expansive tapestry of Russian lore in this sprawling, occasionally soap-operatic historical novel--a seven-week PW bestseller and a Liter... -
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The acclaimed tale of a shipwrecked Englishman who finds himself stranded on an island off the coast of S... -
Riven Rock - T. Coraghessan Boyle
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1905, Stanley McCormick, heir to East Coast millions, is most definitely mad. Heredity and an early, horrifying glimpse of his naked sister have rendered him sc... -
Riding the Iron Rooster - Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey thr... -
Return to Sender - Julia Alvarez
SUMMARY: After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t s...