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In 1906 San Francisco, two very different women seek new beginnings: Gemma is a gifted soprano whose and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary because of its origins in Beijing's Summer When San Francisco is devastated by an earthquake and the widespread destruction of its aftermath, Thornton set in the early 20th century, as Violet, a young ship's stewardess bent on providing for her family after

This story picks up immediately after those events, alluding to various ongoing emotional impacts and

This means that sought-after DNA specimen sources such as celebrities are in potential danger of having

I listened to the audiobook, read wonderfully by Emily Woo Zeller, with an afterword by Yip-Williams's my full review of The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything that Comes After of dying, death, appreciating the beauty of the impermanence of our lives, planning for loved ones after

And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and

This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved. Their secret tryst at the end of season one ended badly, and they've been far from friendly ever since I smiled a lot, I teared up, and I loved this perfect summer read! intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction

Main protagonist Violet Powell is being released after 22 months' imprisonment for the drunk-driving Lila has planned her million-dollar wedding down to the last detail, and Phoebe's depression and her very

disappears to locate their children, and meanwhile Frida gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, named after potential destruction possible, but Frida couldn't have imagined the unraveling of society that takes place after Whoever he is, the man seems very clearly to know Isla well--and he says he's messaging her from the

clearly has dangerous knowledge of Nightlight and the troublesome goings-on that occurred in his life after irrational setting: Why would the kids be made to shower with carefully hoarded rainwater and immediately afterward And the repeated use of I instead of me is a copyediting-level issue, but it stopped me every time I Could he realistically have the emotional ability that we're told he possesses immediately after his

01 The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken After her larger-than-life mother's death, the narrator able to answer this enormous question, but the robot wonders if the matter is really so complicated after

You might want to check out all the titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my very favorite job, offering incredibly lucrative terms and making demands about having the biography released only after After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes After Hitler's invasion of Russia and the Ukraine, Mila, along with so many others, enlists to fight Surmounting challenge after challenge, Mila ultimately becomes a sniper trainer and a lethal hunter of

personality and obsessive immersion--in the gritty details of homicides, the preliminary circumstances, the aftermaths despite the fact that the number of unresolved homicides were growing exponentially across the country every

"You don't know how beautiful you are" types of lines; unrealistically convenient run-ins; not-dead-after-all

Are the strange coordinates she's receiving on her phone after seven years a message from Luke?

Meanwhile, Luzia can't trust those competing against her for favor, as dark forces lead one after another

Yara is put on probation at the college where she is an assistant art history teacher after calling out

moment of simple winter joy leads to renewed hope that they may be able to share their love with a child after I really liked this story and I still think about this book, years after reading it. This is magical realism, folklore, and historical fiction wrapped up in one very interesting read. 05 but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every She considers every desperate plan she can to try to save Kasia from this horrible fate, knowing all

After Hitler's invasion of Russia and the Ukraine, Mila, along with so many others, enlists to fight Surmounting challenge after challenge, Mila ultimately becomes a sniper trainer and a lethal hunter of Her estranged husband is improbably ever-present, and he felt too easy to detest, but he serves his purpose

My very favorite books from March! Every heart-stopping moment; every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and various early road bumps he encountered, and his dogged determination--which was admittedly shaken after landing very few and consistently stereotypical roles. Reporter Sunny's connection to the two performers and their past was intriguing, and I very much enjoyed

Susan Conley's novel Landslide offers a portrait of a family in a remote fishing village in Maine after While facing what feels like disaster after disaster, Jill struggles to give her boys what they need-

Fight for Justice, and in Red Notice, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after Crying in H Mart is beautiful, painful, and evocative. 06 Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean Emiko Jean's The irresistible premise of Tokyo Ever After: a heretofore-unknown princess finds herself and searches Emiko Jean's young adult light fiction Tokyo Ever After is the story of Izumi (Izzy) Tanaka, an everyday Tokyo Ever After is about identity, expectations, truth, challenges, betrayal, loyalty, and self-discovery

combat, wisdom, and other elements of Viking legends to anyone she encounters; and she models her life after The characters, the story arc that isn’t too easy but leaves you in a promising place after all, and in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred years to remember her after she walks out the door, the next day, and every day afterward. This title was also listed in My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

But after his younger sister Lizzie evades her grandmother's attempts to send her from England to the When Lizzie finds a secret notebook of her mother's, she becomes more determined than ever to solve the

about overcoming thwarted emotional connection and forging new ways of coming together through and after

set in the early 20th century, as Violet, a young ship's stewardess bent on providing for her family after

repercussions of doing so; The Guide, a new book by one of my favorite authors, Peter Heller, which picks up after the events of his book The River as main character Jack serves as a fishing guide at an elite but eerie One Man's Fight for Justice, and in it, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after After Browder escaped Russia, he became determined to bring to justice those in the Putin regime who After suffering a great loss in The River, he's eager to lose himself in nature and meet the needs of

ICYMI: When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious multiple homicide

​ Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year after second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this was a series until after

In Lauren Goff's The Vaster Wilds, a servant girl has fled her colonial household in the brutal aftermath Or is someone really after her? But the side hustle is more complicated than Millie ever imagined--and the students under her watch in

Ko is an Indigenous man who is taken advantage of time after time.

Atkinson is also the author of Case Histories, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Life After Life, Human

Then Monica's mother became inspired after the tragic death of John F. and community in a crisis and in common suffering, and figuring out the impossible: how to move on after I'm also going to admit here that in the notes I made with my five-star rating just after reading this

a hole if you lose them- the same way a painting or a photograph will leave its shadows on the wall after Through the very different but interconnected storylines and the varied, complicated set of characters

They were all in the closet, with the minuscule footed pajamas and hand-knit baby hats, and every day Klay's National Book Award winner Redeployment, the author shares short stories about war and life afterward powerful emotions, troops haunted by decisions and unforeseen dangers, painful adjustments to life after

but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every She considers every desperate plan she can to try to save Kasia from this horrible fate, knowing all

rooms of the Roosevelt White House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned more like a not-very-fancy never even wielded a scalpel He'll learn more from Sister Margarite--who he's falling for--than he ever hasn't killed anyone, he hasn't been arrested, and in fact, none of last night's events have happened after After I finished reading, I kept thinking about the characters and their realizations, compromises, and

conflicts to consider at the story's close: duty, corrupt power, the suffering of the common people, regret after Maisie Dobbs is a formidable, dogged, whip-smart investigator working to ferret out the truth in the aftermath to care deeply about them, their roles in the wartime efforts, and their potential for various happy-ever-afters is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious job: she'll be a handler for expats--and paid very

Three decades after her Highfield days, Lou receives a surprising phone call.

to herself--she's kind of cynical, she doesn't have a lot of friends, and she's holding true to form after hasn't killed anyone, he hasn't been arrested, and in fact, none of last night's events have happened after

Barnes's eerie science fiction novel Ghost Station; and I'm listening to Emily Henry's newest delightful But could their shared pain lead to a friendship after all?

The pacing of the the first 100 pages felt slow, but after that I was totally hooked on this very compelling

I devoured this in a rainy afternoon. He's already seen how convincing her writing can be, after all--she's got everyone fooled. premise in which a famous person dates a not-famous person: Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan and Very

But when unexpected events lead her to leave the only home she's ever known in order to save her genetic her brother's subversive genius of a friend, and a lonely alien force Kyr to reexamine all that she's ever Eye by Etaf Rum Yara is put on probation at the college where she is an assistant art history teacher after

I didn't connect the first book's beloved characters to these characters until very late in the book. author of a rom-com I adored, Better Than the Movies , the cute Betting on You  and also Happily Never After

infuriating, as they not only do terrible things but consistently twist the knife by bragging or threatening after

Maneka Roy has temporarily returned to India after six years teaching creative writing in the American

Leigh Bardugo's second and final book in the young adult King of Scars duology; I'm listening to Life After harboring enormous, dark secrets--and revealing them would almost certainly lead to his undoing. 02 Life After In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships

aimed to help her sleep during this difficult time induces an incredible side effect: when she sleeps after

After long months of mystery and suffering and tests that went nowhere, she finally received a diagnosis difficulties due to cancer, treatment, and side effects, a bone marrow transplant, and dedicated caregiving after

After all, last time around, all kinds of horrible things happened as she dug into (and solved, thank you very much) the mystery of the Andie Bell and Sal Singh case. Pip is still producing her popular podcast, but after the trial, she's convinced that she'll be finished Pip is as perfectly imperfect a character as ever.