- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): early 21st century
Maggie Summer has three loves: her antique print business, Shadows; her career as a community college professor in Somerset County, New Jersey; and the new man in her life, Will Brewer. Her biological clock is pushing her to decide...
Shadows on the Koyukuk: An Alaskan Native’s Life Along the River
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
This book is more than one man’s incredible tale of hardship and success in Alaska. It is also a tribute to the Athapaskan traditions and spiritual beliefs that enable him and his ancestors to survive. His story, simply told,...
- Location(s): Lithuania
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
In 1941, 14-year-old Dalia and her family are deported from their native Lithuania to a labour camp in Siberia. As the strongest member of her family she submits to twelve hours a day of manual labour. At the age of 21, she...
Shadows the Sizes of Cities, A Novel
- Location(s): Morocco, Amsterdam, Chicago, Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1994
While traveling with friends in Europe and Morocco, the young American reporter Will Clark is drawn into killing a drug dealer. Pursued by other gang members and the police, his bond with his companions broken and his sense of...
- Location(s): Northern Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lost and listless on the island of Mallorca, Jamie Draper searches for his estranged wife, Pam, who has left him without any explanation or warning. Exploring her last known location, Jamie stumbles upon an urgent letter from his missing...
Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures #4)
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Victorian Era
SECRETS NEVER STAY SUBMERGED FOR LONG Swept into the bright hustle and bustle of New York, Lily, Robert and Malkin discover shadowy secrets lie beneath its surface. For there are chilling goings-on in their hotel… A strange boy held...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Sierra Santiago was looking forward to a fun summer of making art, hanging out with her friends, and skating around Brooklyn. But then a weird zombie guy crashes the first party of the season. Sierra’s near-comatose abuelo begins to...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left...
- Location(s): Indiana
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Just as Larry Newton, one of the most notorious inmates at Indiana Federal Prison, was trying to break out of jail, Dr. Laura Bates was trying to break in. She had created the world’s first Shakespeare class in supermax...
Shakespeare: The World As A Stage
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 16th Century
From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist and poet. Examining centuries of myths, half-truths and downright lies, Bill Bryson makes sense of the man behind the masterpieces. As he leads...
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