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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
John W. Blassingame
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979
The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
Jeff Olson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship
Steve Lopez
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008
The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1855
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
Kao Kalia Yang
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
Jon Meacham
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Sy Montgomery
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015
The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir
Ruth Wariner
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020
The Speed Of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
Stephen M.R. Covey
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
David Abram
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Anne Fadiman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
David Epstein
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Jennifer E. Smith
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012
The Stories Julian Tells
Ann Cameron
Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1981
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Gabriel García Márquez
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1955
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Howard Pyle
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1903
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Hope Jahren
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mahatma Gandhi
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1927
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
Will Durant
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1926
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health—and a Vision for Change
Annie Leonard
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010