Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson's authorized Steve Jobs: forty interviews covering the garage, the 1985 ouster, Pixar, and the return that made the iPhone.
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Books: S
183 books starting with S.
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
What happens to donated bodies, from crash labs and decay farms to composting and space tests.
2,051-word summary · 9 min read
Still Alice
Harvard professor Alice Howland faces early onset Alzheimer's and her family must adapt as memory fades.
2,477-word summary · 11 min read
Still Beating
Chained in a killer's basement, lifelong enemies Cora and Dean must rely on each other to survive, then face what survival cost.
2,880-word summary · 13 min read
Still Life
A beloved teacher found with an arrow in Three Pines looks like hunting accident until Gamache looks closer.
1,996-word summary · 9 min read
Still Me
Lou spends a year in New York working for the Gopniks, torn between Josh, distant Sam, and the life she wants.
2,939-word summary · 13 min read
Still Missing
A realtor is abducted at a Vancouver Island open house and held for more than a year. Told through therapy sessions, the novel follows her escape and the hunt…
2,466-word summary · 11 min read
Stillhouse Lake
Acquitted wife of a serial killer becomes armed Gwen Proctor, but trolls and followers find her lake refuge.
2,086-word summary · 9 min read
Stolen in Death
A billionaire is found dead beside a vault of stolen art in his home, and Eve Dallas must trace old thefts to find who killed him.
2,492-word summary · 11 min read
Stone of Tears
After the veil tears, Richard seeks training from the Sisters while Kahlan holds a fracturing Midlands and Zedd hunts the missing Stone.
2,483-word summary · 11 min read
Stoner
William Stoner trades farm life for literature, then endures a cold marriage and petty campus wars in John Williams's quiet classic.
2,282-word summary · 10 min read
Stones from the River
Trudi Montag is born a dwarf in a small German river town in 1915 and grows up to keep the town's library and its secrets, from the First World War to the…
2,818-word summary · 13 min read
Stories of Your Life and Others
Eight stories about language, time and choice, including the tale behind Arrival.
2,402-word summary · 11 min read
Storm Front
Wizard PI Harry Dresden hunts heart-explosion killer in Chicago.
2,563-word summary · 11 min read
Stormbreaker
A fourteen-year-old boy loses his uncle, then his ordinary life, when MI6 sends him undercover to a Cornish computer plant where the giveaway machines hide a…
2,822-word summary · 13 min read
Strange Sally Diamond
Sally Diamond takes her dying father's joke literally and burns his body, then learns her whole childhood was built on a kidnapping and a lie.
2,411-word summary · 11 min read
Strange the Dreamer
Orphan librarian Lazlo Strange joins a quest to the lost city of Weep, where blue-skinned godspawn haunt dreams.
2,221-word summary · 10 min read
Stranger in a Strange Land
A Mars-raised man lands on Earth, learns religion and love, and founds a church that shocks everyone.
2,725-word summary · 12 min read
Strangers in the Villa
A strained couple in a Spanish villa takes in guests who refuse to leave.
2,208-word summary · 10 min read
Strega Nona
A village witch doctor hires a boy who does not listen, and the pasta pot he was told not to touch floods Calabria with noodles he cannot stop.
2,587-word summary · 11 min read
Stuart Little
A two-inch boy in a New York family befriends a canary, loses her, and drives off alone to find her.
2,591-word summary · 12 min read
Stuck with You
Sadie gets stuck in a New York elevator with Erik, the rival she blames for a lost client. A short, spicy STEM novella about rivalry and repair.
3,378-word summary · 15 min read
Such a Clever Girl
Fifteen years after the Tanners vanished, Aubrey returns at 30 as a new disappearance forces three women to face old secrets.
2,203-word summary · 10 min read
Such a Fun Age
A late-night grocery store clash pulls sitter Emira Tucker and her employer Alix Chamberlain into a tense fight over race, money, and good intentions.
2,339-word summary · 10 min read