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Stamp twice for murder
By Betty Cavanna. 1981
Mysterious things happen when an American girl and her family come to France to claim an abandoned country cottage that…
was willed to them. Jan learns that a murder was committed in the attic of the cottage years ago by someone apparently looking for something of great value. An atmospheric mystery for grades 5-8. 1981.Soulmate: A Novel Of Eternal Love
By Deepak Chopra. 2001
Raj Rabban, gifted young doctor, meets fiery Molly on a Manhattan subway. Their increasingly deepening relationship wars with Raj's responsibility…
to his fiancée (who is his parents' choice). Molly's tragic death takes Raj and those closest to him on a journey beyond death's portals. Rich with Chopra's unique insights. 2001.Snow (Vintage International)
By Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely. 2005
Poet Ka returns to Turkey after years of exile in Germany. While trying to rekindle romance with a childhood friend…
he investigates the suicide of several religious "head-scarf" girls. Meanwhile a blizzard cuts off the town and a military coup occurs. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. Bestseller. 2002. Uniform title: Kar.South of the border, west of the sun
By Haruki Murakami. 1998
Hajime finds and loses Shimamoto, only to meet her again years later. He's now a businessman, husband and father. She…
tantalizes him and disrupts his equanimity while remaining mysteriously uncommunicative about details of her daily existence, until Hajime's longing for her becomes obsessive. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1998.Something might happen
By Julie Myerson. 2003
On a Monday night in October in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. As the…
police go about their routine investigation, Tess's world of nappies, Elastoplast and fish fingers begins to unravel. Suddenly nothing is certain, the mundane becomes charged with significance, established relationships begin to crumble, and places that once were safe are safe no longer. Descriptions of sex. 2003.Slow man
By J. M Coetzee. 2005
A bicycle accident changes Paul Rayment's solitary, self-sufficient life. Although his right leg is amputated, he refuses a prosthesis. Sixtyish,…
single, and childless, he must learn to navigate anew, physically and mentally, and he wonders whether he needs to be cared for - or loved. By the 2003 Nobel Prize winner. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2005.Smoky Joe's Cafe
By Bryce Courtenay. 2001
This was a book about Australian Vietnam Vets who get together after several years to discuss their shared horrors, failures,…
and medical problems. They decide to do something about it, as a unit. The rest is a story that makes you think about how far your frustrations with government inaction on a variety of issues might take you, and what your action would be. 2001.Skippy dies
By Paul Murray. 2010
Why does Skippy, a student at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut…
shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory? Or Carl, the teenage drug dealer who is Skippy's rival in love? Strong language. 2010.Skinner's drift
By Lisa Fugard. 2005
South Africa's Skinner's Drift was Eva van Rensburg's home. Years pass and the summer storms finally arrive. The violence that…
was buried beneath the parched earth begins to break through and looks set to shatter the lives of all who remain. And Eva knows she must flee the place she loves if she is to survive. 2005.Sitting practice
By Caroline Adderson. 2003
Three weeks into their marriage, Ross and Iliana Alexander get into a car accident that leaves Iliana paralyzed. Ross struggles…
with his guilt while Iliana learns to live with her new condition, processes complicated by Ross's too-close relationship with his twin sister Bonnie and her young son. Two years later, trying to start anew, they are running a café when Bonnie arrives with her son, stirring up unresolved tensions. Some strong language. Descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. 2003.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By Michael Morpurgo. 2004
One New Year's in Camelot, when King Arthur's knights of the Round Table are feasting, a bright green giant bursts…
in and issues an unusual challenge. Sir Gawain, the king's nephew, courageously accepts. What follows are sword fights, monsters, magic, knights in shining armour, dragons, adventure - and a lesson in humility and honour. Grades 5-8. 2004. Uniform title: Gawain and the Grene Knight.Sister crazy: Novel
By Emma Richler. 2001
Jemima Weiss grew up with a special feeling for her eccentric family. Now a worldly, yet troubled woman, Jem reflects…
on her formative years, as she struggles against becoming engulfed by the present. In seven episodes, she recounts her childhood in a family so extraordinary that it has left her adrift in the adult world. Some strong language. 2001.Silent sleep of the dying
By Keith McCarthy. 2004
Solicitor Helena Flemming and pathologist John Eisenmenger investigate the death of cell biologist Millicent Sweet, an employee at Pel-Ebstein Pharmaceuticals…
(PEP). Eisenmenger finds that the pathologist changed the autopsy report to death by natural causes, even though Sweet's body was riddled with numerous cancers that all developed within the week before her death. Now Eisenmenger and Flemming are in a race to uncover the details of PEP's secret research project. Explicit descriptions of violence, descriptions of sex, and explicit strong language. 2004.Shattered
By Eric Walters, Roméo A Dallaire. 2006
Fifteen-year-old Ian decides to work at "The Club" for his community service - but it turns out to be a…
soup kitchen in a bad part of town, and he is nearly mugged going there. He's saved by a pipe-wielding homeless man, a former soldier named Jacques who was stationed in Rwanda. Can Ian help Jacques, a man who has lost everything but his nightmarish memories? Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. Winner of the 2007 White Pine Award. 2006.Shallows
By Tim Winton. 1984
Whales have always been the life-force of Angelus, a small town on the south coast of Western Australia. Their annual…
passing defines the rhythms of a life where little changes, and the town depends on their carcasses. So when the battle begins on the beaches outside the town, and when Queenie Cookson, a local girl, joins the Greenies to make amends for the crimes of her whaling ancestors, it can only throw everything into chaos. 1985. c1984.Shampoo planet
By Douglas Coupland. 1992
The world of Tyler Johnson, a 20-year-old Reaganite, collides with that of his hippie parents. As Tyler drifts into the…
Washington town of Lancaster and jaunts to Paris and Hollywood, his life mirrors contemporary society. 1992.Shadow of a bull
By Maia Wojciechowska. 1964
Everyone expects Manolo to become a great bullfighter like his father, but he wants to follow his own heart and…
become a doctor. As he prepares to fight his first bull, Manolo realizes that he is afraid. Grades 5-8. 1965 Newbery Award winner. 1964.Sexy
By Joyce Carol Oates. 2005
Darren Flynn, high school student and star swimmer, is incredibly good-looking with a perfect life, until 'the thing' happens -…
'the thing' with Mr. Tracy, his English teacher. 'The thing' was how Darren would think of it afterwards, but did it happen at all? As everything and everyone around him changes, and Darren feels he can trust no one, he searches for his identity, finding answers in the most unexpected places. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2005.Sea swept (Quinn brothers trilogy. #1.)
By Nora Roberts. 1998
Ray and Stella Quinn adopt three boys, Cameron, Phillip, and Ethan, from various troubled backgrounds and raise them as a…
family. Just before he dies, Ray takes in Seth, another young fledgling. Suddenly the older Quinns must make major lifestyle changes. Followed by "Rising Tides". Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1998. (Quinn Brothers trilogy ; 1)Scar tissue
By Michael Ignatieff. 1993
At the heart of this powerful novel is a son's account of his mother's voyage into the world of neurological…
disease, where she loses first her memory, and then her very identity; only to gain, at the end, a strange serenity. As the son tells her story, he grows obsessed by his mother's transformation beyond her self, and sets out on his own quest for self-discovery. 1993.