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594 items found for "strong women"
- Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
She recalls how as a young woman she felt hemmed in by hippie culture and also by the societal opposition
- Review of Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman
The limitations and cruelties Ruth experiences because she is a woman feel realistically (and maddeningly
- Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series
I loved the Ottoman Empire setting, the strong female main protagonist, and the complications and sometimes
- Review of Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
She's a black young woman supporting residents who are largely white, and Reid shows widespread entitled
- Review of The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
The author explores her own wonder, joy, loss, and peace as she reflects on the formidable woman after
- Review of The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
One client does make a strange appearance late in the book, which felt jarring and off topic. serial killer danger lurking getting drinks in the early afternoon and going to secluded places with strange
- Review of The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
The Princess Diarist is based upon the diaries Carrie Fisher kept while she was a young woman stumbling
- Review of Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
In Reckless Girls, the newest novel by Rachel Hawkins, Lux is a frustrated young woman who's just done
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/26/23 Edition
Bridget falls for a fellow "sporting woman," and when the Buffalo Queen is threatened, she must determine
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/17/22 Edition
In and among these scenes, Sedaris shares strange, sweet, funny moments with each of his living sisters
- Six Book Club Books I Loved in 2021
The women's discoveries of their inner strength during their desperation are wonderful lights in the
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
I love the tone of this trilogy: playful, otherworldly, and with faulted, greedy, scared, strong, angry
- Review of Outlawed by Anna North
seventeen-year-old Ada is a newlywed, following contentedly the path set out for her as a young married woman
- Review of Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning
There in the sharp teeth of the Gilded Mountains, where the snow and murderous cold conspire to ruin a woman
- Review of State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
The shift has made for strange bedfellows—and a prickly partnership between our main protagonist, Ellen
- Review of Warcross (Warcross #1) by Marie Lu
Emika Chen is an orphaned young woman in a futuristic New York City.
- Review of The Survivors by Jane Harper
forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of a young woman's
- Review of The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually a highly skilled Executive Protection
- Review of American Mermaid by Julia Langbein
Can't a woman retain her clearheadedness even when she's doing battle?"
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/29/24 Edition
Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something
- Review of Now You Say Yes by Bill Harley
exploring trust, betrayal, the unexpected bubbling up of grief, and the bone-deep tiredness of a young woman
- Review of In Pieces by Sally Field
Her In Pieces account of her relationship with Burt Reynolds reflects a controlling man and a woman without
- Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore
Ruth's father, the founder of the colony, preached that men should marry as many women and have as many
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/21/21 Edition
by Tiffany McDaniel In Tiffany McDaniel's novel Betty, set in the foothills of Appalachia, a young woman
- Six Short Story Collections to Wow You
Hampton's F*ckface, Kevin Wilson's Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, and Ron Rash's Something Rich and Strange McCracken is a fantastic writer who highlights odd, strangely beautiful elements in small moments.
- Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility is strange and ethereal, with a surprise toward the end that I delighted in.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/12/22 Edition
Informed by Jewish folklore, Thistlefoot is a strange, epic adventure tale.
- Review of The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
Sloan is a heavily tattooed yet romantically traditional woman sometimes presented as so broken that
- Review of Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
surprisingly limited, and her witchiness less pronounced than her identity as a thief and as a young woman
- Review of The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren
Fizzy is a straight talker, a sex-positive woman, and a successful romance writer, but she's never been
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/27/22 Edition
But her adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might just
- Review of The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi
Are the strange components intentional? Are they connections to a real-life murder from the past?
- Review of Skyhunter by Marie Lu
So as I started this book I realized something strange.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/6/22 Edition
In Cult Classic, a woman leaving a reunion dinner one night in New York City’s Chinatown runs into a
- Review of In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
She goes to sleep satisfied, but wakes up in another life: a strange apartment, a different boyfriend
- Review of The Harpy by Megan Hunter
A woman he'd invited to their home. Vanessa.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/10/22 Edition
Festival Days is not light reading: "Cheri" delves into the last days of a woman who is terminally ill
- Review of Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre
The book explores clashes of ideology; the challenges of a woman pursuing spy work; and general, often
- Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
the mark of the Prophet and was promised to him, but she was far from the submissive, obedient young woman
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition
A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious
- Review of People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
She'll just push down her strange feelings about Alex and pretend that fateful time never even happened
- Six of My Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads from the Past Year
But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually a highly skilled Executive Protection
- Review of The Humans by Matt Haig
The Humans is funny, strange, deep, and lovely. I loved it.
- Review of Fallen: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo
A rebellious young woman who left her Amish culture behind and became estranged from her family has returned
- Review of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The other twin marries a dark-skinned black man and lives as a black woman.
- Review of My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Yet it makes sense that this thoughtful woman would be eager and starving for connection after her painful consequential for her) encounter with an author in New York City years earlier when she notes that because the woman
- Review of Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
some significant repetition (for example, the idea of “you’re allowed to ask questions, it would be strange
- Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
She goes to sleep satisfied, but wakes up in another life: a strange apartment, a different boyfriend This was strange and compelling. 06 All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai There are flying cars in the
- Review of With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt
artist being able to see the true secrets in her subjects (she is able to see just from studying a woman's
- Review of Normal People by Sally Rooney
Marianne, a solitary young woman living in a large house outside of town, and Connell, a popular athlete