So Much for That
: A Novel
by Lionel Shriver
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: Mar 2011
From the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World comes a searing, ruthlessly honest new novel about a marriage both stressed and strengthened by the demands of serious illness.
Solace of the Road
by Siobhan Dowd
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: Apr 2011
Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels transformed. Shes not Holly anymore, shes Solace: the girl with the slinkster ...
Solar
by Ian McEwan
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: Mar 2011
Michael Beard is a Nobel prizewinning physicist whose best work is behind him, and whose fifth marriage is crumbling. However, an invitation to travel to New Mexico offers him a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, ...
Sold
by Patricia McCormick
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: Apr 2008
Although Lakshmi's family is desperately poor her life still contains simple pleasures; but, when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all the familys crops, Lakshmis stepfather sends her away to take a job to support her family. When...
Soldier's Heart
: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
by Elizabeth D. Samet
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: Sep 2008
What does literature - particularly the literature of war - mean to a student who is likely to encounter its reality? What is the best way to stir uninhibited classroom discussions in a setting that is designed to train students to follow orders, ...
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