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The Swans of Fifth Avenue

The Swans of Fifth Avenue
  • Author(s): Melanie Benjamin
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially...

The Swansea Marina Murders

The Swansea Marina Murders
  • Author(s): Stephen Puleston
  • Location(s): Swansea
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Detective Inspector Caren Waits Book 3 When each secret could be deadly and no one is truly safe… A brutal murder disrupts the serene waters of Swansea Marina. The discovery of university student Emily Hughes’ lifeless body shatters the...

The Sweet And Simple Kind

The Sweet And Simple Kind
  • Author(s): Yasmine Gooneratne
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1948

Loyalty (and the damnable lack of it in his wife) was the thought uppermost in the mind of Sir Andrew Millbanke as he looked down at Lady Alexandra’s dead body, spread-eagled on the paved pathway of the Residency.’ And...

The Sweet Taste of Muscadines

The Sweet Taste of Muscadines
  • Author(s): Pamela Terry
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A woman returns to her small southern hometown in the wake of her mother’s sudden death–only to find the past upended by stunning family secrets–in this intimate debut novel, written with deep compassion and sharp wit. Lila Bruce Breedlove...

The Sweetest Remedy

The Sweetest Remedy
  • Author(s): Jane Igharo
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a woman travels to Nigeria to attend the funeral of the father she never knew, she meets her extravagant family for the first time, a new and inspiring love interest, and discovers parts of herself she didn’t know...

The Sweetness of Tears

The Sweetness of Tears
  • Author(s): Nafisa Haji
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

From Nafisa Haji, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Writing on My Forehead, comes The Sweetness of Tears, an emotional, deeply layered story that explores the far reaching effects of cultural prejudice, forbidden love, and hidden histories on...

The Sweetness of Water

The Sweetness of Water
  • Author(s): Nathan Harris
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s (American Civil War)

In the dying days of the American Civil War, newly freed brothers Landry and Prentiss find themselves cast into the world without a penny to their names. Forced to hide out in the woods near their former Georgia plantation,...

The Swell

The Swell
  • Author(s): Kat Gordon
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mythology
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century / 1970

In places of darkness, women will rise . . . Iceland, 1910. In the middle of a severe storm, two sisters – Freyja and Gudrun – rescue a mysterious, charismatic man from a shipwreck near their remote farm. Sixty-five...

The Swimmer of Auschwitz

The Swimmer of Auschwitz
  • Author(s): Renaud Leblond
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

The extraordinary story of Olympian who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and survived to tell his story. Alfred Nakache, a Jewish child from Constantine, never imagined that he would one day swim for France at the Olympic Games in Berlin...

The Switch Up

The Switch Up
  • Author(s): Katy Cannon
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WILLA Drama queen Fashion guru Spontaneous Looks like Alice ALICE Bookworm Allergic to fashion Planner Looks like Willa LAX Departure Lounge. Two girls board the same flight to London as complete strangers. When the plane touches down, it’s the...

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