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A teenage girl in picturesque suburban Connecticut is brutally attacked and raped. The girl's mother decides with her husband to give their daughter a pill to erase her short term memory so she won't relive the trauma of the rape. Slowly, the girl uncovers the identity of her assailant and remembers what happened to her, with the help of her psychiatrist, who is connected to the crime in an unpredictable and shocking way.
A self-described proud sports atheist is sent on a lark by her editor to cover a sporting event. Her readers are amused, and she eventually spends four years covering major sporting events, writing humorous and somewhat academic essays. Along the way, she slowly becomes a convert, discovering the significance of sport, and how it affects her own life and relationships.
In “The Outliers,” Wylie has always had great instincts, but she dismissed them as nothing more, until her best friend went missing. She finds Cassie in a remote spot in the woods with a group called the Outliers, who claim to be able to harness “intuition” and turn it into a powerful psychological weapon called EQ Transference. Bewitched by the utopia they seem to have created, and thrilled to be surrounded by people like her, Wylie joins the Outliers. But within days, she finds herself running for her life. Wylie doesn't know it, but she has the potential to become the most powerful Reader of all. There are many who would go to great lengths to destroy her, and she can't trust anyone – least of all, the Outliers.
Ruth Handler turns the toy industry upside down by creating a grown-up doll for girls after watching her daughter at play.