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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (Hinges of History)

by Thomas Cahill

Published: 2004-07-27

Paperback: 352 pages

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In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore ?the hinges of history,? Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining?and historically unassailable?journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.In the city-st...

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Sailing to Capri

by Elizabeth Adler

Published: 2007-05-29

Paperback: 400 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Adler invites you on a decadent Mediterranean cruise?where nothing is what it seems, no one is telling the truth, and murder is on the agenda…When English tycoon Sir Robert Waldo Hardwick dies mysteriously in a car accident, he leaves behind a ...

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The Sailor from Gilbralter

by Marguerite Duras

Published: 1986-02-12

Paperback: 318 pages

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Saint John of the Five Boroughs

by Edward Falco

Published: 2009-10-20

Paperback: 424 pages

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When 22-year-old Avery Walker, a senior at Penn State, meets Grant Danko, a 37-year-old performance artist from Brooklyn whose stage name is Saint John of the Five Boroughs, her life changes radically as she leaves college to live with Grant in Brooklyn and pursue a life as an artist. Out of concern...

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Saint Maybe

by Anne Tyler

Published: 1996-08-27

Paperback: 352 pages

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Ian Bedloe is the ideal teenage son, leading a cheery, apple-pie life with his family in Baltimore. That is, until a careless and vicious rumor leads to a devastating tragedy. Imploding from guilt, Ian believes he is the one responsibly for the tragedy. No longer a star athlete with a brig...

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Saint Training

by Elizabeth Fixmer

Published: 2011-09-20

Paperback: 240 pages

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Mary Clare is on the lookout for a miracle. Mary Clare O'Brian is determined to be a saint when she grows up (the halo will help cover her frizzy hair). But lately none of her prayers seem to be working the way she wants them to: her mother is losing her faith, her parents can't pay all the bills, and...

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Saints at the River: A Novel

by Ron Rash

Published: 2005-07-01

Paperback: 239 pages

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A major new Southern voice emerges in this novel about a town divided by the aftermath of a tragic accident--and the woman caught in the middleWhen a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, the people of the small South Carolina town that b...

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Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints

by Thomas J. Craughwell

Published: 2006-09-19

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Saints are not born, they are made. And many, as Saints Behaving Badly reveals, were made of very rough materials indeed. The first book to lay bare the less than saintly behavior of thirty-two venerated holy men and women, it presents the scandalous, spicy, and sleazy detours they took on...

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Saint's Gate

by Carla Neggers

Published: 2011-08-23

Hardcover: 400 pages

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When Emma Sharpe is summoned to a convent on the Maine coast, it's partly for her art crimes work with the FBI, partly because of her past with the religious order. At issue is a mysterious painting depicting scenes of Irish lore and Viking legends, and her family's connection to the work....

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Salamander Cotton

by Richard Kunzmann

Published: 2008-02-01

Paperback: 450 pages

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A wealthy ex-farmer has been found beaten and burned to death at his home in suburban Johannesburg. Why does his estranged wife not seem particularly surprised by this cold-blooded murder, and insist that the killer will be found in the Northern Cape? That is where the victim's plantations were located...