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 Silkworm
A missing novelist and a cruel manuscript pull Strike and Robin into London publishing.
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The Silmarillion
Tolkien's posthumous First Age history, edited by Christopher Tolkien: the Music of the Ainur, Feanor's Silmarils, Beren and Luthien, Gondolin, and the fall of…
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The Silver Chair
Eustace and Jill retold: four signs, a lost prince, Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, giants at Harfang, and the Lady below.
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Four best friends share one magical pair of jeans through the summer that changes everything.
2,092-word summary · 9 min read
The Son of Neptune
Amnesiac Percy wakes at Camp Jupiter and quests to Alaska with Hazel and Frank to free Thanatos.
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The Song of Achilles
Song of Achilles retold: Patroclus and Achilles from boys to Troy, love and war in Miller prose.
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The Spanish Love Deception
Lina needs a wedding date for Spain and her insufferable coworker Aaron Blackford volunteers.
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The Stand
A superflu wipes out most people as good and evil gather in two towns.
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
A widowed bookseller on Alice Island adopts abandoned toddler Maya, rebuilds Island Books, and finds love with sales rep Amelia before illness closes in.
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The Story of Art
Gombrich traces art from cave painting to modernism with clear stories and famous images.
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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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