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Sweet land stories - E. L. Doctorow
From Publishers WeeklyAs one might expect of Doctorow, the title is ironic. In settings that range across the U.S., most of the alienated characters in the five stories here find l... -
Sweet Thursday - John Steinbeck
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene... -
Sweet Thunder_ The Life and Tim - Wil Haygood
Review"Haygood's book is certainly one of the best biographies of a boxer ever written . . . an important contribution to both sports literature and African American studies."-Gera... -
Sushi for Beginners - Marian Keyes
A nervous breakdown seems like a great idea: all that lying in bed and watching daytime TV. But who's going to have it? Will it be housewife Clodagh, who spends her days microwavin... -
Surviving the Mob - Dennis Griffin
What do you do when the law wants you behind bars and the New York crime families want you buried? Surviving the Mob is a cautionary tale of the harsh reality of a criminal, inmate... -
Sun in a Bottle - Charles Seife
The author of Zero looks at the messy history of the struggle to harness fusion energy . When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the vaste... -
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow - Jessica Day George
From BooklistUnnamed and rejected by her mother, a girl (known as the lass) jumps at the chance to leave her meager home after a great white bear offers her a deal: if she accompan... -
Summer of Night - Dan Simmons
SUMMARY: In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, five 12-year-old boys forge the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. An ancient, sinister evil lurks in t... -
Summer Knight - Jim Butcher
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Now available in hardcover-the fourth novel in the *New York Times* bestselling Dresden Files series.** Harry Dresden's faced some pretty terrifying foes during... -
Suicide Run_ Three Harry Bosch - Michael Connelly
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch as we've never seen him before, in three never-before-collected stories.In "Suicide Run," the apparent suicide of a beautiful young starlet turns out to ...