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Small Great Things

Centers on a labor/delivery nurse who takes care of newborns at a Connecticut hospital who’s ordered not touch the baby of a white supremacist couple. When the baby dies in her care, she’s then taken to court by the couple.

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."

Salt to the Sea

At the end of WWII, three refugees from East Prussia believe their way to safety is on the ship the Wilhelm Gustloff. Just when freedom seems in their grasp, tragedy strikes: the sinking of that ship ias one of the worst maritime disasters that ever occurred.

Storming Las Vegas

Jose Vigoa, a Cuban-born commando veteran of the Soviet army, and his crew embarked on a violent 16-month crime wave that targeted some of Las Vegas' most prominent casinos. He was pitted against a 23-year vet of the Vegas police force, who was charged with tracking down Vigoa and his cohorts without letting the story make the papers and spoil Vegas's image.

Savvy

The Beaumonts, a unique Midwestern family, is made up truly talented individuals with superpowers. As each kid hits the age of thirteen, his or her inherent power comes to light. They call this talent "savvy," and it can be anything. When a Beaumont celebrates that fateful, lucky thirteen, everyone waits with baited breath to see what happens.

She Said

New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey face down threats and intimidation as they push through with their story about Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and assault over the past several decades.

Shibumi

Details the struggle between the “Mother Company,” a conspiracy of energy companies that secretly controls much of the Western world, and a highly skilled assassin named Nicholaï Hel.

Seconds

A woman is given the ability to alter reality by writing something she wants to change in a notebook, eating a mushroom and falling asleep. Her actions slowly cause the fabric of time and space to unravel.

Skyward

Set in a world where gravity suddenly becomes a fraction of what it is now, humanity has adapted to its new low-gravity reality. A woman born just after G-Day has become accustomed to it, but has come across a dangerous plan to bring gravity back.

S.T.A.G.S.

Greer MacDonald has just started as a scholarship student at the exclusive St. Aidan the Great boarding school, known to its privileged pupils as STAGS. STAGS is a place where new things–and new people–are to be avoided. And in her first days there, Greer is ignored at best and mocked at worst by the school’s most admired circle of friends, the Medievals.

So, naturally, Greer is taken by surprise when the Medievals send her an invitation to a sought-after weekend retreat at the private family estate of their unofficial leader, Henry de Warlencourt. It’s billed as a weekend of “huntin’ shootin’ fishin’.”

As the weekend begins to take shape, it becomes apparent that beyond the luxurious trappings, predators are lurking, and they’re out for blood.

Shotgun Lovesongs

Four men in their early thirties live near one another in the same Wisconsin town where they grew up. Some in the quartet have left their birth state while others have not, and they are just now coming into their own as husbands and fathers with each hoping to finally find real purchase in the world. One of the friends records the album "Shotgun Lovesongs" in a former chicken coop.

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.

Superman vs. the KKK

Chronicles the creation of a real-life 1946 radio drama in which Superman took on a thinly-veiled version of the actual Klan.

Sweet Valley High

Two teenage girls, Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, live in Sweet Valley, Calif. Jessica is the more conniving and materialistic of the sisters, and usually needs help from the more practical Elizabeth when her schemes go awry.

Silver

17-year-old Liv meets the mysterious Henry. He belongs to a secret circle that possesses the ability of ‘lucid dreaming’. But little do they know that the fulfillment of their dreams comes with a high price.

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.

Skulduggery Pleasant

A wise-cracking skeleton detective and his young female accomplice try to stop the return of the evil Faceless Ones.

Space Opera

A fierce musical contest has arisen in the wake of a great galactic war known as the Metagalactic Grand Prix. Part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past, species far and wide compete in feats of song, and dance.