FIFTY SHADES OF GREY BY E L JAMES

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant and intimidating.  The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize that she wants this man, and despite his reserve, finds that she is desperate to get close to him.  Unable to resist Ana's quiet beauty, wit and independent spirit, Grey admits that he wants her too- but, on his own terms.


Shocked, yet thrilled by Grey's singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates.  For all the trappings of success, Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control.  When the couple embarks on a daring passionate physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey's secrets and explores her own dark desires.


All I can say is,  WOW!!!!!!!

STATE OF WONDER by ANN PATCHETT

 As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect-infested Amazon, she will be forced to surrender herself to the lush, but forbidding world that awaits within the jungle.  Charged with finding her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she will have to confront her own memories of tragedy and sacrifice as she journeys into the unforgiving heart of darkness.


In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, and a neighboring tribe of cannibals, State of Wonder is a world unto itself, where unlikely beauty stands beside unimaginable loss.   It s a tale that lead me into the very heart of darkness and then showed me what was on the other side.

BOSSYPANTS BY TINA FEY

From her youthful days as a vicious nerd, to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live, from her passionately half-hearted pursuit of physical beauty, to her life as a mother eating things off the floor, from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, from the beginning of this paragraph to the final sentence.


Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we all suspected:  you're no one until someone calls you bossy.

YOGA from the INSIDE OUT by CHRISTINA SELL

How do you make peace with your body through yoga?  What does, "making peace with the body" really mean?  How do you integrate your physical practice with inner body awareness and a deep connection to the heart?


This book elevates the philosophy of hatha yoga to a spiritual art of self-love and acceptance that can transform your self-image.  Yoga is so much more than postures and breathing.  It is a deeply personal journey back home to ourselves and it takes us from self-doubt and judgement to self-acceptance and joy.


It helps us to discover our true nature and to make that our intention.

A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME BY WILEY CASH

Told by three resonant and evocative characters, Jess, Adelaide Lyle, the town midwife and moral conscience and Clem Barefield, a sheriff with his own painful past, the book is a haunting tale of courage in the face of cruelty and the power to love to overcome the darkness that lives in us all. 


Adventurous, Jess is enormously protective of his older brother, Christopher, a mute, whom everyone calls Stump.  Though their mother has told them not to snoop, Stump can't help sneaking a peek at something he's not supposed to.  This is an act that will have catastrophic consequences shattering both his world and Jess's.  It's a wrenching event that thrusts Jess into a world that he is not prepared for.  


Excellent story!!!!

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS by JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

Set against the wild landscapes of North America, at the novels center is the celebrated "Massacre" of British troops and their families by Indian allies of the French in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper builds a romantic fiction of captivity, sexuality and heroism in which the destiny of the Mohican Chingachgook and his son Uncas is inseparable from the lives of Alice and Cora Munro and of Hawk-eye the frontier scout.

WATERSHIP DOWN BY RICHARD ADAMS

Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and certain destruction of their home.  Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.