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Rachel Robinson was drifting comfortably through life, completely unaware that her entire world was about to be turned upside down. She was unprepared for the emotional tidal wave when her only child went off to college, and this suffering was compounded when her husband of 23 years suddenly asked for a divorce. With no place else to go, Rachel turns to her friend, Sadie. As the women unveil secrets from their past, a chain of events is triggered that changes their lives forever. Feeling as though she has nothing else to lose, Rachel sets sail on an unforgettable journey where she finds that...

Goosebumps appear on the flesh. Is this a natural occurrence or the body's attempt to warn us of impending danger? There are some people who spend their entire lives feeling like they don't belong; they just don't fit in with modern society. Outcasts, misfits, call them what you may, but in reality they are the gifted ones. Notlad has been sent here from his home planet NeVaeh on a mission to comprehend everything there is to know about "the fleshlings." Humans are very complex creatures, but even with their contradictions and flaws they have something very special that the NeVaehans...

Aristocratic Jessamine Halliday, suffering a "splenetic seizure" brought on by high breeding, is prescribed a therapeutic break in the Scottish Highlands. While there, she falls in love with handsome crofter Colin Macgillvray and makes an indecent proposal by offering him the "unconditional surrender" of her body but refusing to give her hand in marriage. A Superfluous Woman is an audacious exploration of the fin-de-siecle preoccupation with race, class, and the sexual double standard. Unsurprisingly, Brooke's novel caused outrage among critics. Campaigner W. T. Stead denounced it as "an...