Paperback releases for the week of November 2nd include QUEEN ESTHER, in which John Irving revisits the orphanage from THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, where Dr. Wilbur Larch takes in Esther --- a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism; SERVED HIM RIGHT, a gripping thriller from Lisa Unger about a woman’s brunch with friends that quickly turns dark; MONA'S EYES by Thomas Schlesser, a heartfelt, enlightening journey across five centuries of Western art history; Bruce Henderson's MIDNIGHT FLYBOYS, the untold history of a top-secret World War II operation in the run-up to D-Day; and WITHOUT CONSENT, an eye-opening story from Sarah Weinman about the first major spousal rape trial in America and the urgent questions it raised about women’s rights that would reverberate for decades.
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