<div>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: An unhappy marriage is further shaken when IRA terrorists invade the couple&rsquo;s home in this &ldquo;first rate&rdquo; thriller (The New York Times). Michael Dillon, a self-described &ldquo;poet in a business suit,&rdquo; is a once-aspiring writer in Belfast whose dreams have been consumed by a stultifying career as a hotel manager and a hateful marriage to his unstable wife, Moira. But on the day he decides to leave Moira for his younger lover and take off for London, IRA terrorists break into the Dillon home. Their plan is simple: They&rsquo;ll hold Moira hostage while Michael plants a bomb designed to kill a rabble-rousing Protestant and his flock convening for a political rally. If Michael goes to the police, Moira dies. It&rsquo;s only the first choice of many&mdash;because in Brian Moore&rsquo;s &ldquo;breathtakingly constructed&rdquo; nightmare, the day has just begun (Los Angeles Times). &ldquo;The plot [is] one that only a spoiler would reveal&mdash;and risk ruining the surprises that detonate throughout the novel like cleverly hidden and elegantly designed incendiary devices. The notion of &lsquo;unbearable suspense&rsquo; is, of course, a clich&eacute;, but I found that I kept briefly putting down the novel to postpone the moment when I had to face what might happen next.&rdquo; &mdash;Francine Prose, The New York Times </div>

Lies of Silence

<div>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: A married woman begins an impulsive affair in Paris in this novel of &ldquo;brilliant insight&rdquo; (The Times, London). Sheila Redden, a devoted mother and reserved wife of a busy Belfast surgeon, is awaiting the arrival of her husband at a Paris hotel. In a matter of days, they&rsquo;ll be celebrating a second honeymoon after sixteen years of marriage. But Sheila never could&rsquo;ve imagined the chance encounter with Tom, a handsome and attentive American student&mdash;or that in one inexplicable moment, she&rsquo;d abandon everything she knows to disappear into the unknown with an irresistible stranger. It&rsquo;s more than a sexual awakening. It&rsquo;s a chance to see her ordinary life from a distance&mdash;her dutiful role as mother and wife, her sacrifices, her lost sense of self, and the realization that she&rsquo;s already been vanishing little by little for quite some time. All the while, Sheila&rsquo;s concerned husband and brother are retracing her steps, following her on a cathartic and devastating journey that&rsquo;s far from over. </div>

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The Doctor's Wife

<div>The hunt is on for an elusive Nazi war criminal in this &ldquo;absorbing intellectual thriller that keeps you guessing . . . until the final page&rdquo; (The New York Times). For four decades Pierre Brossard has eluded capture as one of the most vicious SS officers in history. Condemned to death in absentia he&rsquo;s tenuously protected by an intricate web of Nazi collaborators and an extreme right-wing faction of the Catholic Church. With nothing more than a suitcase and a prayer, Brossard seeks refuge in a monastery outside Salon-de-Provence. He knows the Committee for Justice is closing in. With every reason to fear his days are numbered, he realizes only one man can help him get away with murder: Commissaire Vionnet, a retired police chief who, forty years earlier, allowed Brossard to escape. But two other men are collaborating as well: a hired assassin known only as T, and Cardinal Primate Delavigne, reformist of the postwar church. He&rsquo;s as unstoppable as T, as ruthless as Brossard, and he can&rsquo;t wait to play this game to its unpredictable end. &ldquo;An exciting, classic novel of hunter and hunted&rdquo; inspired by a true story, The Statement was made into an award-winning film starring Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, and Alan Bates (The Washington Post). </div>

The Statement

<div>A day in the life of a mad housewife in Manhattan: &ldquo;One of the truest and most awesome books I have ever read&rdquo; (The Scotsman). She was born Mary Dunne. A New York actress in a stalled career, she&rsquo;s previously been known as Maria and Martha. Married three times, she&rsquo;s also been called Mrs. Phelan, Mrs. Bell, and currently, Mrs. Terence Lavery&mdash;wife of the esteemed playwright. No wonder Mary Dunne forgot her name this morning at the hairdresser. She has no idea who she is anymore. Or maybe she&rsquo;s just crazy. She&rsquo;s curious to find out. Over the course of a single day, Mary tries to recall more than her name. But as memories of her past come trickling back&mdash;infuriating, illuminating, and grievous&mdash;she realizes there&rsquo;s so much she&rsquo;d prefer to forget. As she tries to escape what she calls &ldquo;the dooms,&rdquo; Mary must confront what she&rsquo;s done with her life&mdash;deliberately, haplessly, or by default. If only she were going crazy; it would be so much easier to explain it all away. Hailed by the Globe and Mail as a &ldquo;feminist novel written before the wave of feminist novels began,&rdquo; I Am Mary Dunne is &ldquo;as complex and satisfying as anything Moore has yet done&rdquo; (The Observer). </div>

I Am Mary Dunne

<div>The restless wife of an illusionist becomes embroiled in a North African holy war in this &ldquo;tour de force&rdquo; of historical fiction (The New York Times). Early in her marriage to renowned prestidigitator Henri Lambert, Emmeline had exulted in his fame, the foreign tours, and the command performances of his &ldquo;Magical Evenings.&rdquo; Now, Henri&rsquo;s given it all up to pursue a quiet life in their remote country manor, but restless, devoted Emmeline longs to see her husband return to his former glory. It all changes again when, in service to their country, Henri and Emmeline are invited to spend seven days at Compi&egrave;gne as guests of Napol&eacute;on III. The emperor wants Henri to work his magic on a charismatic Algerian marabout who&rsquo;s influencing his followers to overthrow the French in a holy war. For Henri, convincing a man of where his allegiance should lie will be the performance of a lifetime. But for Emmeline, ushered from the lavish royal courts to the barren Sahara, it will prove to be an illuminating journey that will challenge her views on God and faith, open her eyes to her husband&rsquo;s weaknesses, and expose the treachery of her own country. &ldquo;Flashing his own sleight of hand, [Moore] transforms a historical fact into a story both true to its time and relevant to the present day.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times </div>

The Magician's Wife

<div>A &ldquo;near-masterpiece&rdquo; about faith and doubt by the award-winning, international bestselling author (The New York Times). In Rome, surrendering to secular pressures, the Fourth Vatican Council is stirring a revolution with their official denial of the church&rsquo;s core doctrines. They&rsquo;ve abolished clerical dress and private confession; the Eucharist is recognized only as an outdated symbol; and they&rsquo;re merging with the tenets of Buddhism. They&rsquo;re also unsettled by the blind faith of devout pilgrims from around the world congregating on a remote island monastery in Ireland&mdash;the last spot on earth where Catholic traditions are defiantly alive. At the behest of the Vatican, Father James Kinsella has been dispatched to Muck Abbey with an ultimatum: Adhere to the new church or suffer the consequences. But in Abbot Tom&aacute;s O&rsquo;Malley, Kinsella finds less an adversary than a man of bewildering contradictions&mdash;unyieldingly bound to his vows, yet long-questioning his devotion to God. Now, between Kinsella and O&rsquo;Malley comes an unexpected challenge that will reveal their truths, their purpose, their faith, and their doubt. &ldquo;Told with . . . superb grace and wit,&rdquo; Catholics was adapted by Brian Moore for the 1973 film starring Martin Sheen and Trevor Howard (The New Yorker). </div>

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