The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.
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The Stranger
Meursault buries his mother, kills a man on an Algiers beach, and faces trial for seeming to feel nothing.
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The Stranger Beside Me
Ann Rule's classic memoir of her friendship with Ted Bundy, written by the true-crime author who knew him long before the world learned what he had done.
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The Street Lawyer
Michael Brock survives a hostage morning at his rich D.C. firm, then quits for a street clinic after learning a buried eviction file cost a mother and kids…
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Blogger Mark Manson argues for fewer cares held better, through suffering, values, failure and saying no, with raw stories.
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The Subtle Knife
Will finds a window to Cittagazze, meets Lyra, and both hunt the knife that cuts between worlds.
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The Summer I Turned Pretty
Belly spends another Cousins summer torn between Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher.
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The Summer of Broken Rules
Meredith plays Assassin at Vineyard wedding a year after sister Claire died.
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The Summoning
Chloe Saunders sees ghosts and lands in Lyle House, a group home for troubled teens with hidden powers and a secret tied to the Edison Group.
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The Sun Also Rises
Jake Barnes drifts through Paris bars and Pamplona bullfights with Brett Ashley and a wounded generation.
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the sun and her flowers
Kaur follows love and loss through wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming in short illustrated poems.
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The Sun Down Motel
In 1982 Viv vanishes from a Fell motel desk; in 2017 niece Carly takes the same shift to find her.
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The Sun Is Also a Star
On deportation day, Natasha meets Daniel, who bets hours and science can make her fall in love.
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The Surgeon
A Boston killer copies an attack surgeon Catherine Cordell survived, and detective Jane Rizzoli must stop him before he reaches her.
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne
James Murray built the Oxford dictionary with Broadmoor inmate William Minor, whose thousands of slips shaped this 1998 HarperCollins story of murder, madness…
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The Survivors
Kieran Elliott returns to Evelyn Bay twelve years after a storm killed his brother, and a young woman's murder forces the town to face what it has concealed.
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The Sweetest Oblivion
Sheltered Elena Abelli catches the eye of feared made man Nicolas Russo after her sister flees an arranged match.
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Eleven year old chemist Flavia de Luce finds a dead bird on the doorstep and a village mystery that traps her father in 1950 England. She uses poison lore to…
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Shipwrecked Robinsons build treehouses and tame island beasts.
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The Switch
A burned-out consultant and her 79-year-old grandmother swap London and Yorkshire homes for two months, facing grief, dating apps, and village politics.
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The Sword of Shannara
A young half-Elf and a company of companions set out to recover a magic sword before the Warlock Lord destroys the Four Lands.
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The Sword of Summer
A homeless Boston teen learns he is a Norse god son and dies on day one stopping a fire giant.
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The Sympathizer
Double agent captain spies in Saigon fall and LA exile while confessing to commandant.
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The Takeover
An arrogant CEO and the sharp employee forced to staff his deal trade insults, trips and late nights across a long push-pull, until pride and jealousy force…
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