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The Stolen Book

The Stolen Book
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hidden under dust, stacked and forgotten lay the book. Just a pamphlet really, only within its pages it promised to show a way to unlimited wealth right out of the circumstances that surrounded her. It wasn’t hers, she shouldn’t...

The Stolen Marriage

The Stolen Marriage
  • Author(s): Diane Chamberlain
  • Location(s): North Carolina, Hickory
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1944

It is 1944. Pregnant, alone, and riddled with guilt, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly gives up her budding career as a nurse and ends her engagement to the love of her life, unable to live a lie. Instead, she turns...

The Stolen Ones

The Stolen Ones
  • Author(s): Vanessa Curtis
  • Location(s): Munich
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1950s

My name is Inge. I am sixteen. I live with Mama and Papa in Munich. Food is still rationed, though the war ended over ten years ago. My boyfriend is Jewish. I have to hide this from my parents....

The Stone Angel

The Stone Angel
  • Author(s): Margaret Laurence
  • Location(s): Manitoba
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

In her best-loved novel, The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence introduces Hagar Shipley, one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Stubborn, querulous, self-reliant—and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her—Hagar Shipley makes a bold last step towards...

The Stone Goddess

The Stone Goddess
  • Author(s): Minfong Ho
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Twelve-year-old Nakri’s beloved home in Cambodia is shattered when the nation’s capital is overrun by government rebels. Her family is forced to flee, and she and her siblings end up in a children’s labor camp, separated from everything they’ve...

The Stone Maidens

The Stone Maidens
  • Author(s): Ioulia Kolovou
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

For years, the best that young girls from the backwater village of Alta Gracia could hope for was a position in the Big House, home of the immensely powerful and politically influential Goyena family. So, when Señorita Delia Lugghi...

The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade

The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade
  • Author(s): Adrian Levy, Cathy Scott-Clark
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A riveting, entertaining, and richly detailed nonfiction narrative in the spirit of The Orchid Thief, Longitude and Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, this is the first book ever written about Imperial Green Jade — the rare and beautiful stone more precious than...

The Stone of Laughter

The Stone of Laughter
  • Author(s): Hoda Barakat
  • Location(s): Lebanon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The Stone of Laughter is a virile novel which brings forth the contradictory history of a city under fire through the life and dilemmas of a gay man. It is a bold and radical novel, full of black humor...

The Storm (The Lady of the Pier #3)

The Storm (The Lady of the Pier #3)
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Historical, Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s & 1980s

When Sofia falls in love, a mourning spirit begins to haunt her… The Storm is the concluding part of the trilogy where the two stories of Sofia and Laura merge into one and redemption seems finally possible… BRIGHTON 1988...

The Storm Keeper’s Island

The Storm Keeper’s Island
  • Author(s): Catherine Doyle
  • Location(s): Arranmore Island (Árainn Mhór)
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

When Fionn Boyle sets foot on Arranmore Island, it begins to stir beneath his feet … Once in a generation, Arranmore Island chooses a new Storm Keeper to wield its power and keep its magic safe from enemies. The...

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