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The Science of Evil - Simon Baron-Cohen
A pathbreaking autism researcher explores why some people lack empathy and what that absence means for our psychological understanding of evil. -
The Scarpetta Factor - Patricia Cornwell
SUMMARY: It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medi... -
The Scarab Path - Adrian Tchaikovsky
SUMMARY: The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate, and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled in ways... -
The Scar - China Mieville
SUMMARY:A mythmaker of the highest order, China Miéville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sp... -
The Savage Girl - Alex Shakar
E-book exclusive special feature: This PerfectBound e-book contains "Virtualism," an essay on consumerism in a wired time - written especially by the author to help to encourage yo... -
The Savage City - T. J. English
In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American... -
The Saint of Dragons - Jason Hightman
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The ancient dragons -- of the time of the legendary Saint George and earlier -- have never disappeared entirely. Instead, they've moved undercover -- and into hum... -
The Saboteurs - W.E.B. Griffin
From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Griffin and his son, Butterworth, resuscitate Griffin's Men at War series, first published in paperback during the 1980s under the pseudonym Alex B... -
The Russian Dreambook of Color - Gina Ochsner
In a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, there's a ghost who won't keep quiet.Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly buried, so he sticks around to heckle... -
The Russian Concubine - Kate Furnivall
SUMMARY: A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia...