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THE HIDDEN FORCE The Hidden Force is also much more than a book about the chasm between white Westerners and warm-blooded Orientals. This problem plays an important role-Van Oudyck’s beautiful wife gives in to adultery but later becomes covered with red betel juice which unknown assailants spit at her in a classic bathroom scene, as if she has transgressed into …

OUTLANDER The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach, an “outlander”, in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border …

BLUEPRINTS Caroline and Jamie McAfee are close. Not only do they enjoy their relationship as mother and daughter, they’re in business together as the team that fronts the popular home renovation show Gut It! All is well with these two strong women, but when the network tells Caroline that Jamie is to replace her as host, Caroline feels betrayed by …

THE FIRST BAD MAN Cheryl, vulnerable woman who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat. She is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six, who sometimes recurs as other people’s babies. Cheryl is obsessed with Phillip, a philandering board member at the women’s self-defense non-profit where she works. She believes they’ve been making love …

REVIVAL This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along …

STATION ELEVEN An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, one snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named watches in horror as Jeevan performs, pumping Arthur’s chest …

THE HUSBAND’S SECRET Acclaimed author Liane Moriarty has written a gripping, thought-provoking novel about how well it is really possible to know our spouses, and, ultimately, ourselves. Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret, something with the potential to destroy not just the …

WHENEVER YOU WANT Cuban blood and an almost carnal love for art. Luis, the protagonist of the story is the classic seducer, lover of women, tireless predator and believe that sex is the most important reason of life. He is an instinctive seducer, of those without inhibitions or rules: that’s why nobody knows resist. The case, however, to fall for …

GRAY MOUNTAIN The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer’s career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast trackShe’s offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she’d get her old job back. Her new job takes Samantha into the murky …

ORPHAN TRAIN A captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship. Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Vivian Daly has lived a quiet life on the coast of Maine, and in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past. Molly grows to Vivian, the more she discovers parallels to …