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Swallows and Amazons

Follows four children who dream of escaping from the tedium of a summer holiday. When finally given permission to camp on their own on a remote island in the middle of a vast lake, they are overjoyed. But when they arrive, they discover they may not be alone and a desperate yet whimsical battle for ownership of the island ensues, where both skill and luck play a hand. Simultaneously, the dangers of an adult world, on the brink of war, encroach on their paradise and intertwine with their lives, in the form of a mysterious pair of Russian spies hot on the tail of the enigmatic Jim Turner. The children must ban together from both groups, learn skills of survival, responsibility, and the all-important value of friendship to save a family member.

Sandman Slim

James "Sandman Slim" Stark, a fast talking, hard-boiled, supernatural vigilante, escapes from Hell to avenge his girlfriend’s murder and hunt down the magicians responsible for getting him sent "downtown."

School for the Blind

A war correspondent and a librarian strive to solve the cold case murder of a blind student who disappeared years before.

Scout

While on a personal/spiritual mission, an Apache ex-Army Ranger investigates the disappearance of young women and ultimately uncovers a conspiracy involving local gangs, human slavers, oil companies and corrupt government officials.

Screw Everyone: How I S...

Skeptical about long-term relationships, a woman approaches dating as a sort of research experiment from early on: she spends her twenties traveling from futon to futon and gathering data, figuring that one day she'll put it all together somehow and build her own perfect Frankenmate. When she meets a guy who doesn't fall for the emotionally cavalier facade she’d constructed (a guy who wants marriage and monogamy), she knows it is time to reevaluate. Her approach ultimately helps her overcome her phobia of commitment.

Secret Daughter

Tells the story of two families, one in Mumbai, India forced to give a baby up for adoption, and another in San Francisco raising a brown-skinned child from another culture.

Seveneves

The human race faces a catastrophic event which leaves them scrambling to survive. Nations band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. Five thousand years later, their progeny — seven distinct races now three billion strong — embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown: back to Earth.

Shockwave

An account of the three weeks leading up to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Shrinking of Treehorn

A young man begins shrinking in size after playing a strange board game and goes largely unnoticed by his parents.

Siracusa

Deceit is involved in a marriage as two couples and a child head for vacation in the sun-drenched coast of the Ionian Sea in Italy.

Six Years

Follows Jake Fisher, who watched the love of his life, Natalie, marry another man. Six years have passed when Jake comes across the other man's obituary. He resolves to attend the funeral, hoping to catch a glimpse of Natalie. But the mourning widow is not Natalie, throwing all of his past memories with the woman into question.

Snowblind

Follows the story of a U.S. Ranger haunted by painful memories of a family tragedy, who becomes stranded with his platoon in a remote chalet in the woods. As they fight for survival and against their own inner demons, they are torn apart by a discovery they make — a box filled with $5 million in cash and a dark, disturbing secret.

Spark

Set in the near-future and questions the meaning of freedom and self-determination in a world without either.

Spy School

Middle schooler Ben Ripley dreams of becoming a CIA agent. Even though he is awkward and accident prone, he is brilliant and recruited for a magnet school with a focus on science that actually is a front for a junior CIA academy.

Stay Close

A past crime returns to devastate the lives of a photojournalist, a suburban mother with a hidden past, and a homicide detective obsessed with a series of unsolved disappearances. The three people are plunged into a dark world of sex, secrets and shocking violence.