TY - BOOK AU - Alderman,Naomi TI - The power: a novel SN - 9780316547611 AV - PR6101.L43 P69 2017 U1 - 823/.92 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Little, Brown and Company KW - Women KW - Fiction KW - Teenage girls KW - Muscle strength KW - Sex role KW - Social role KW - Fantasy fiction KW - gsafd KW - lcgft KW - Science fiction KW - Bildungsromans N1 - "Originally published in Great Britain by Viking, October 2016." -- Title page verso N2 - When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death; A rich Nigerian boy; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. When a vital new force takes root and flourishes, their lives converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls and women now have immense physical power-- they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And everything changes ER -