The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman<\/a><\/center>
From the moment Scharisse Freeman ditched her humble roots and married a megachurch pastor fifteen years her senior, she\u2019s been labeled too brash and too \u201cof the world\u201d by church folks who grudgingly accepted her into their fold, and too holy by her estranged childhood bestie Petra. Schar doesn\u2019t have many allies, but that hasn\u2019t stopped her from building an enviable business empire spanning books to clothing to branded products, and living the comfortable life her husband’s power affords her.<\/p>\n
On the eve of her 40th birthday, Schar gets the final bit of validation she\u2019s always dreamt of: a coveted invitation to participate in the First Lady USA pageant. This is her chance to be accepted by the other pastors\u2019 wives\u2014First Ladies\u2014who are \u201clike Jesus\u2019 disciples if they had been a group of mean girls.\u201d Finally, blissfully, the ice between Schar and the other First Ladies begins to thaw.<\/p>\n
But as the pageant nears, a sensational scandal breaks with Schar at its center, and her carefully curated life implodes. Schar faces down shame and terrible secrets from her childhood and is reminded that in the eyes of the church, optics can matter more than the truth.<\/p>\n
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Ply<\/a><\/center>
Centuries from now, at the dawn of a historical epoch filled with both uncertainty and promise, an orphan is adrift in a city on the brink of a great transformation. The state has been dismantled, and humans are reinventing social bonds and learning new ways to coexist with nature. Following a childhood defined by loss, survival, and found family, the orphan grows up to become a \u201cpincher,\u201d someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market. It\u2019s a high-risk life, one that brings her into a rich art and music scene where she powers underground concerts. It also leads her to a colossal scientific invention that could change the very fabric of reality.
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American Hagwon<\/a><\/center>
In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and children in American Hagwon struggle to find satisfaction and meaning in a world that seems to grow less forgiving with each passing year. Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children\u2015Bo, DH, and Mido\u2015find their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John\u2019s oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis.<\/p>\n
Desperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern California\u2015where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents, strangers in a strange land, must adjust to a new life in which their experience and education mean little, and they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children\u2019s futures. The Kohs, their friends, relatives, and even their foes move in and out of each other\u2019s lives as they navigate new courses across the years, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security.<\/p>\n
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The French Illusion<\/a><\/center>
After Paul and Chelsea Tanner\u2019s fairytale wedding, their future is full of promise. But their honeymoon to Paris takes a dark, shocking turn when they are kidnapped while on a day trip to the French countryside. Who would target them, and why? It turns out this is not the first crime of its kind. The search for clues soon stretches across borders, with the FBI, CIA, and French Intelligence trying to work together to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Struggling to find answers, a young lawyer is recruited to be the bait in an elaborate CIA operation.
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Threshing Day<\/a><\/center>
Welcome to Threshing Day, the brutal, high-stakes trial where would-be riders at Basgiath War College fight to earn the bond of a dragon or die trying. Amid ruthless competition and dragon fire, these thirteen cadets must survive a battlefield where desperate rivals will do anything to gain an advantage and dragons decide one\u2019s ultimate fate\u2014and where a single choice can forge a rider\u2026or destroy them.<\/p>\n
Xaden Riorson, the powerful leader. Rhiannon Matthias, the clever friend. Dain Aetos, the dutiful rule-follower. Liam Mairi, the kindhearted protector. Ridoc Gamlyn, the jokester. Sawyer Henrick, the underdog. Garrick Tavis, the dependable aide. Imogen Cardulo, the impulsive fighter. Bodhi Durran, the second-in-command. Mira Sorrengail, the fearless rider. Brennan Sorrengail, the brilliant tactician. Aaric Graycastle, the restless royal. Sloane Mairi, the determined sister.<\/p>\n
On Threshing Day, there\u2019s only one rule: don\u2019t die.<\/p>\n
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Trad Wife<\/a><\/center>
Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the \u201ctrad wife\u201d queen, on her idyllic three-hundred-acre farm. With her handsome husband, seven well-behaved children, and a life of from-scratch meals and pastoral bliss, she\u2019s an icon of modern femininity. But behind every perfect image is a secret. And in this case, the secret is a horror.<\/p>\n
Desperate to save her tarnished career, journalist Jenny Kaplan arrives at Black Swan Farm to profile Mia. Jenny is ready to write a scathing expos\u00e9, determined to expose the deception behind Mia\u2019s curated life. But soon, Jenny has more to contend with than staged videos and camera-ready poses. There\u2019s something wrong at the farmhouse. Something slithers through Jenny\u2019s dreams, and at night, the children sing strange nursery rhymes.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s losing time. She\u2019s losing her hair. She starts to worry that she\u2019s losing her mind.<\/p>\n
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Trust Fall<\/a><\/center>
Julia is just a small-town girl from Nebraska who loves her peaceful life. But when her elderly next-door neighbor\u2014who just happens to be a secret multi-millionaire\u2014leaves everything to Julia and her family after his passing, Julia is swept away to live in a historic brownstone in New York City and attend an elite private school for the super-rich.<\/p>\n
It should be a dream come true. Wrong. Julia doesn\u2019t fit in at her new school; worse, she\u2019s failing. Enter Damion, the mysterious and handsome tutor who will get Julia back on track. Except Damion has a secret. He is the great-nephew of the man who left everything to Julia\u2019s family. Damion doesn\u2019t buy for a second that the person who was like a father to him would leave his home to strangers. And he\u2019s determined to prove it.<\/p>\n
To uncover the truth, Damion schemes to earn Julia\u2019s trust. Not an easy task with Julia unsure about this rich boy with a rebellious personality. But the more time Damion spends with Julia, the more his plan begins to backfire. Because he is falling for the enemy\u2014and the enemy is falling for him.<\/p>\n
As Damion and Julia figure out where they belong, can they see past their differences and act on their feelings, or will the trust Damion has worked so hard to gain fall apart?<\/p>\n
Sources: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n