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Seventeen Syllables

Seventeen Syllables
  • Author(s): Hisaye Yamamoto
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 20th century

A collection of 19 stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto’s 40-year career. Yamamoto’s themes include the cultural conflicts between the first generation, the Issei, and their children, the Nisei; coping with prejudice; and the World War II Internment of Japanese...

Seventeenth Summer

Seventeenth Summer
  • Author(s): Maureen Daly
  • Location(s): Wisconsin, Fond du Lac
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1942

Until the summer before college, Angie Morrow didn’t really date. Her mother didn’t like her to go out much. But no one — not even Angie’s mother — can resist the charm of strikingly handsome Jack Duluth. His good...

Seventh

Seventh
  • Author(s): Lewis Hastings
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa), Hong Kong, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern day

“A modern, multi-layered believable crime thriller, told via a trilogy and based on a true story.” Summer 2014, the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, a place for which superlatives were created. Expat British police officer John ‘Jack’ Cade has settled...

Seventh Heaven

Seventh Heaven
  • Author(s): Alice Hoffman
  • Location(s): Long Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1959

Nora Silk doesn’t really fit in on Hemlock Street, where every house looks the same. She’s divorced. She wears a charm bracelet and high heels and red toreador pants. And the way she raises her kids is a scandal....

Severina

Severina
  • Author(s): Rodrigo Rey Rosa
  • Location(s): Guatemala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A new translation of the Guatemalan author whom Roberto Bolano called “the most rigorous writer of my generation, the most transparent…the most luminous of all.” “Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she...

Sex and Lies

Sex and Lies
  • Author(s): Leila Slimani
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In these essays, Leila Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies sex. In a country where the law punishes and outlaws all forms of sex...

Sex and Vanity

Sex and Vanity
  • Author(s): Kevin Kwan
  • Location(s): Capri, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men. On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill...

Sex Power Money

Sex Power Money
  • Author(s): Sara Pascoe
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Current

Following her hit book Animal, Sara Pascoe decides to confront her fear of the male libido, and turns her attention to the things that really matter to humans, delving into such questions as: Why don’t people care about the...

Seychelles – The Best Of: A Photographic Journey through Pristine Natural Beauties

Seychelles – The Best Of: A Photographic Journey through Pristine Natural Beauties
  • Author(s): Gregor Kervina
  • Location(s): Seychelles
  • Genre(s): Photography, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The wonderful, high quality photographs inside Seychelles – The Best Of will take you on a spectacular journey through some of the most beautiful spots on our planet! You will discover some of the best pristine places, fascinating wild...

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
  • Author(s): Suzanne Fisher Staples
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she’s been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when...

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