The Rules of Magic
Franny, Jet, and Vincent Owens test strict family rules and a love curse in 1960s Manhattan and Massachusetts in Alice Hoffman's warm prequel about love, loss,…
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The Rumor
Two Nantucket best friends, Madeline and Grace, watch a summer of small indiscretions get retold into gossip that reshapes both their households.
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The Runaway Jury
A tobacco trial in Biloxi is quietly rigged from inside the jury box and by a woman offering to sell the verdict.
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The Running Man
Out of work in a broken 2025, Ben Richards enters a televised manhunt where each hour alive pays cash.
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The Sanatorium
A detective on leave joins her brother's engagement trip at a remote Alpine hotel, and a storm traps everyone inside with a killer.
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The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
Rose Walker dreams open as Dream hunts his missing creations and the Corinthian.
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The Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynne wears an A for adultery while Dimmesdale hides his part in Boston.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
A foppish baronet rescues aristocrats from the guillotine while his French wife hunts the hero she scorns.
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The School for Good and Evil
Best friends Sophie and Agatha are taken to fairy tale school and sorted to wrong sides.
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The School for Good Mothers
A mother sent to a reform school fights to keep her daughter under cold surveillance and strict rules.
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The Scorch Trials
Thomas and the Gladers cross a burned wasteland to reach haven while WICKED watches.
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The Score
Playboy Dean chases Allie, who wants a fresh start after a bad breakup.
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The Scorpio Races
Two riders risk deadly water horses in an island race for money and freedom.
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The Screwtape Letters
A senior devil advises his nephew Wormwood on tempting an ordinary Englishman away from faith and attention.
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The Sea of Monsters
Percy returns for a second summer as Camp Half-Blood loses its borders, Tyson is claimed as his brother, and the Golden Fleece waits past the Sea of Monsters.
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The Searcher
A retired Chicago cop seeks quiet in rural Ireland until a local kid pulls him into the hunt for a missing brother.
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The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Four friends share the traveling pants through a summer of grandmothers, first loves, and mothers who are learning to let go.
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The Secret
Byrne argues like attracts like and teaches ask, believe, and receive for money, health, and love.
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The Secret Garden
Sour Mary Lennox lands at Misselthwaite Moor from India, finds a locked garden with Dickon, and pulls sickly Colin to his feet.
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The Secret History
A California outsider joins six classics students whose Greek rite ends in murder.
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The Secret Keeper
A girl watches her mother kill a stranger in 1961; fifty years later she digs into her mother wartime London past.
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The Secret Life of Bees
Lily runs from her father with Rosaleen to Tiburon, finding shelter with beekeeping sisters.
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The Secret of the Nagas
Shiva hunts the Naga who attacked Sati, discovers her hidden twin sister and lost son, and follows the trail to the Naga capital of Panchavati.
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The Selection
The Selection retold: America Singer picked for palace contest, Prince Maxon, Aspen behind.
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