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Raised in an evangelical household, Alison doesn't have the emotional tools to deal with her first heart-wrenching romantic breakup. Sarah Dunn's debut novel, The Big Love, is thoughtful quality chick lit at its best.

 

This new thriller tells the story of the rise of a Mexican woman to the top of an international drug smuggling ring. Advance readers have said The Queen of the South is a fast-paced page turner from one of the most loved literary adventure writers around.

 

Reed skewers our culture's current obsession with physical appearance in this funny dystopian novel in which the worship of youth and beauty has literally replaced Christianity as the reigning religion of the land. Not as farfetched as it sounds.