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Sala's Gift

by Ann Kirschner

Published: 2006-11-07

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"Do you know why I write so much? Because as long as you read, we are together." -- Raizel Garncarz (Sala's sister), April 24, 1941 Few family secrets have the power both to transform lives and to fill in crucial gaps in world history. But then, few families have a mother and a daught...

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Salem Falls

by Jodi Picoult

Published: 2002-08-01

Paperback: 464 pages

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Love can redeem a man...but secrets and lies can condemn him.A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past: Once a teacher at a girls' prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation....

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Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall

by Eve Laplante

Published: 2008-11-04

Paperback: 368 pages

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Salem's Fire

by Sheri, Lewis Wohl

Published: 2007-05-11

Paperback: 224 pages

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In a small town nestled among mountains and pine trees, the line between the past and the present begins to blur. Over three hundred years later and thousands of miles from the barren gallows hill of Salems Village, accused witch Martha Corey and magistrate John Hawthorne come face to face once more....

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Sally Hemings

by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Published: 1979-06-21

Hardcover: 348 pages

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Sally Hemings is a novel, but its basis is in fact-as proven by DNA tests on the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and the mysterious woman who bore him seven children. Barbara Chase-Riboud's moving and controversial novel recreates the love story of Thomas Jefferson, third President of t...

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Sally Hemings: A Novel

by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Published: 2009-04-01

Kindle Edition: 384 pages

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One of the greatest love stories in American history is also one of the most controversial. Thomas Jefferson had a mistress for 38 years whom he loved and lived with until he died?the beautiful and elusive Sally Hemings. But it was not simply that Jefferson had a mistress that provoked suc...

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

by Paul Torday

Published: 2007-02-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in 'Trout and Salmon' - who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing...

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Salt

by Jeremy Page

Published: 2007-07-19

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A haunting, evocative portrait of three generations of a family by an exciting and inspired new voice in fiction It is the summer of 1945 in Norfolk, England, and when Goose comes upon a German soldier buried neck deep in the mud of a local salt marsh, she pulls him out and brings him hom...

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The Salt Garden

by Cindy Martinusen-Coloma

Published: 2007-02-13

Paperback: 320 pages

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Three women's lives converge around the century-old mystery of a shipwreck. There's Sophia, a reclusive author who retreated from the world after a tragic loss, Claire, a young journalist who's reluctantly returned to her home town, and Josephine, a passenger from the ill-fated ship.As th...

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The Salt God's Daughter

by Ilie Ruby

Published: 2013-08-06

Paperback: 352 pages

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Set in Long Beach, California, beginning in the 1970s, The Salt God’s Daughter follows Ruthie and her older sister Dolly as they struggle for survival in a place governed by an enchanted ocean and exotic folklore. Guided by a mother ruled by magical, elaborately-told stories of the full ...