The Selfish Gene
Dawkins argues genes are the units of selection, recasting kinship, conflict and altruism through replicators, game theory and memes.
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The Sense of an Ending
Retired Tony Webster inherits money and a diary from an old girlfriend's mother, forcing him to rethink his youth, a cruel letter, and a friend's death.
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The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Human Oraya enters the vampire Kejari tournament with rival Raihn while her father watches from the House of Night.
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The Serpent's Shadow
Carter and Sadie Kane have three days to bind Apophis by his shadow before the serpent rises and unmakes the world.
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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Aiden relives a murder day in eight hosts to solve Evelyn Hardcastle's killing.
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo explained: the seven marriages, old Hollywood, Celia and John, and the twist in Monique's story.
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The Seven Sisters
Maia follows Pa Salt clue from Geneva to Rio and Christ the Redeemer.
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The Seven Year Slip
A grieving publicist inherits a time slipping Manhattan apartment and falls for a chef living seven years in the past.
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The Shack
After his daughter's murder, Mack gets a note to return to the shack and spends a weekend questioning God.
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The Shadow of the Wind
In postwar Barcelona, Daniel finds a cursed novel and hunts its vanished author while a burned man watches.
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The Shadow Rising
Rand the Dragon heads for Rhuidean with the Aiel, while Perrin defends the Two Rivers and Elayne and Nynaeve hunt trouble in Tanchico.
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The Shadow Sister
Star D'Apliese steps out of her sister's shadow and follows a bookshop clue into the Edwardian life of Flora MacNichol, a woman who gave up love for duty.
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The Shadows Between Us
Alessandra plans to woo the Shadow King, marry him, and kill him for his throne, then finds someone else wants him dead first.
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The Shell Seekers
Elderly Penelope Keeling must decide the fate of her father's treasured painting while her three children press her to sell.
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The Shining
The Shining retold: Jack winters at Overlook with Wendy and Danny, REDRUM, hedge maze chase.
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The Ship of the Dead
Magnus and his crew sail to the edges of the Norse worlds to stop Loki from launching Naglfar, the ship of the dead.
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The Shipping News
At thirty-six, failed newsman Quoyle loses his cruel wife and flees to ancestral Newfoundland with his daughters, where a small-paper job slowly rebuilds him.
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The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
Newborn Bree thinks through hunger with Diego in Victoria army basement.
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The Sign of Four
Mary Morstan's pearls lead Holmes and Watson from foggy London to Agra treasure and a Thames chase.
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The Signature of All Things
Botanist Alma Whittaker grows up in Philadelphia trade wealth, studies mosses, marries distant Ambrose Pike, and sails to Tahiti seeking how species change.
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The Silence of the Girls
Briseis, queen of Lyrnessus, is captured by Achilles and narrates the Trojan War from inside the Greek camp, where women are prizes and survival is its own…
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The Silence of the Lambs
Clarice Starling seeks Hannibal Lecter's help to catch Buffalo Bill before Catherine Martin runs out of time.
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The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient retold: Alicia's silence, Theo's obsession, the Alcestis clue, and the final flip.
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The Silent Wife
A Chicago psychologist watches her twenty-year partnership collapse when Todd leaves for Natasha, then plans murder.
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