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Sugar Street: Cairo Trilogy 3

Sugar Street: Cairo Trilogy 3
  • Author(s): Naguib Mahfouz
  • Location(s): Cairo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Sugar Street, the climactic conclusion to Mafhouz’s masterpiece trilogy, is the captivating portrait of a family struggling to change with the rise of modern Egypt. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost...

Sugar, Sugar: Bitter Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers

Sugar, Sugar: Bitter Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers
  • Author(s): Lainy Malkani
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Historical, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1838-1917

Sugar, Sugar is a contemporary collection of short stories which reveals a rich and culturally diverse history behind India’s migrant workers and one of the most abundant and controversial commodities in the world. Inspired by historical documents between 1838...

Sugarbread

Sugarbread
  • Author(s): Balli Kaur Jaswal
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Subtly raising important issues such as racism, religion, identity, class and patriarchy, Jaswal’s second novel sensitively portrays Singaporean life through the eyes of a child. Pin must not become like her mother, but nobody will tell her why. She...

Suit to Saddle: Cycing To Self-Discovery On The Southern Tier

Suit to Saddle: Cycing To Self-Discovery On The Southern Tier
  • Author(s): Larry Walsh
  • Location(s): The American South
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2018

“Your job has been eliminated.” In other words, you’re unemployed, out of work, and desperate to find a new purpose. When US Army veteran Larry Walsh heard those words, his world was turned upside down. He desires to move...

Suite Scarlett

Suite Scarlett
  • Author(s): Maureen Johnson
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Her new summer job comes with baggage Scarlett Martin has grown up in a most unusual way. Her family owns the Hopewell, a small Art Deco hotel in the heart of New York City. When each of the Martins...

Sullivan’s Island

Sullivan’s Island
  • Author(s): Dorothea Benton Frank
  • Location(s): Charleston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The New York Times bestseller—in paperback for the first time!Set in the steamy, stormy landscape of South Carolina, Sullivan’s Island tells the unforgettable story of one woman’s courageous journey toward truth. Born and raised on idyllic Sullivan’s Island, Susan...

Sultan in Oman

Sultan in Oman
  • Author(s): Jan Morris
  • Location(s): Oman
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1955

In 1955 the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, southeast of Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Sea, was a truly medieval Islamic State, shuttered against all progress under the aegis of its traditionalist and autocratic ruler. But it was also...

Summer at the Art Cafe

Summer at the Art Cafe
  • Author(s): Sue McDonagh
  • Location(s): Gower Peninsula
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can “Dozy Rosie” spice up her life and prove she’s not boring? Rosie Bunting has spent her life caring for others, often at the expense of her own hopes and dreams. But when she overhears somebody describing her as...

Summer at the Cornish Café

Summer at the Cornish Café
  • Author(s): Phillipa Ashley
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): present-day

Demi doesn’t expect her summer in Cornwall to hold anything out of the ordinary. As a waitress, working all hours to make ends meet, washing dishes and serving ice creams seems to be as exciting as the holiday season...

Summer at the Cornish Farmhouse

Summer at the Cornish Farmhouse
  • Author(s): Linn B Halton
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

When Jess Newman married the love of her life Ben she was sure they had what it took to stay together forever. So when Ben falls out of love with her only to promptly fall in the arms of...

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