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and she believes they're linked to the curse that the community believes has its hold on the Farrow women June would love to end the curse, the fraying of the Farrow women's minds, once and for all--by never

imagined Agnes, wife to John (the fictionalized William Shakespeare character) as an independent, witchy, strong

unconventionally built family and a broad surrounding cast of characters--and it's all centered around independent women with unconventional women's roles in society at the time. The Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of

just-published young adult novel Body of Stars, the patterns of freckles, moles, and birthmarks on women extremely invasive and intrusive, especially when the boys and men felt entitled to examine the young women most intriguing aspects of the story for me were related to characters' dreams of a world in which women Body of Stars reminded me in some ways of The Power because of the young women's influence over society , but women ultimately seemed more empowered in that book.

In an appealing dynamic, Talin is the strong beating heart of the story, with Red as her supporting lieutenant

mysterious box with an inscription on the outside reading "The measure of your life lies within" and a string The source of the boxes is unknown, but it quickly becomes clear that each person's string length correlates Some choose not to look into their boxes at all, while others use the knowledge of their short strings Some with long strings question the participation of "short stringers" in delicate jobs; some couples You may not be surprised by any of the turns each storyline takes here, but the string dilemma leads

She also has a strong, passionate grasp of widely experienced inequalities—and ideas of how to chip away

review of See You Yesterday. 04 The Change by Kristen Miller The Change explores the power of menopausal women In Kristen Miller's novel The Change, set in Mattauk, Long Island, three women cope with various challenges The tone of The Change is largely campy, as middle-aged women heroines unite against the book's sometimes But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might

The story is heartwarming, funny, with strong friendships, plus it's steamy and romantic at times without

lives have gone in different directions, and they've always been very different in many ways, yet the women But when Jen's police officer husband is involved in the shooting of a Black teenager, the women's friendship

attention to unspoken bonds, deep and unorthodox friendships, makeshift families, legendary dogs, and strong

and I'm listening to the always-excellent Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code, historical fiction about the women The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun story of three very different women who answer the wartime call to The book jumps between 1940, the beginning of the women's forays into their secret duties and responsibilities

Tell me what you would tell a white woman, her face said. A white woman with money, her clothes said. Please, her tone said. In "Boys Go to Jupiter," a young woman wears a gifted confederate flag bikini, is careless about her "Why Won’t Women Just Say What They Want" focuses on an artist and the many people he has wronged (all

Sharratt I've been reading Mary Sharratt's Revelations over the course of this "school year" with my women's Their lives have gone in different directions, but the women still care about each other. When Jen's police officer husband is involved in the shooting of a Black teenager, the women's friendship

vineyard and also features racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women Women explore traditional roles and push back against infuriating chauvinism; characters consider their Blush also focuses on racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women,

from Kirsten Miller about middle-aged women coming into their power and coming into their own; Sea of novel The Change, set in Mattauk, Long Island, three women cope with various challenges surrounding aging together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of a missing girl: middle-aged women

Bridie is a strong female protagonist, and Things In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of

deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women It's kill or be killed, and the seasoned women will have to use their years of expertise and experience

But she developed a strange itch in her foot. In and among these scenes, Sedaris shares strange, sweet, funny, pivotal moments with each of his living Through Bell's voice we also learn what has shaped the other women of the family: we hear rich stories the difficult relationship between Bobby and her daughter (Kalb's mother) and how it affected each woman's

her husband and stepsons prepare for another catastrophic hurricane bearing down on Florida, one in a string Hartnett evokes a sense of place so strong, the town felt like a character itself. Unlikely Animals is sweet and wonderfully strange, and Hartnett employs a light touch and thoughtful

tomorrow; I'm reading Looking for Jane, Heather Marshall's debut novel that links multiple timelines and women's timelines linked through decades by a mysterious letter and enormously important recurring dilemmas for women

But the women's impassioned brunchtime discussion about the plot of Finlay's suspense novel--along with The woman mistakenly interprets what's happening and leaves Finlay with a mysterious note implying that

lives of the Earp brothers (and also includes some of the story of Doc Holliday), the men’s various strong

This is the third and final book in Katherine Arden's strong, fanciful, often wonderfully dark Winternight

The two women at the heart of the story are tough as nails but vulnerable with each other.

I love the tone of this trilogy: playful, otherworldly, and with faulted, greedy, scared, strong, angry

"It’s strange how the discovery of an ancient girl in Siberia and viruses we’ve never encountered before But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study could The interconnected stories here are made up of strange, affecting situations, including those in which

Thistlefoot is a strange, epic, often dark adventure tale with roots in Jewish folklore, and puppets She is only a woman. Sometimes, one cannot know until retelling what was right and what was wrong.

and young gay love; and Tokyo Dreaming, the second in Emiko Jean's young adult series about a young woman The women's lives occurred a century and a half apart, but somehow the two are intrinsically connected

depth and, at times, darkness. “...the linear, beginning-middle-end form doesn’t fit the lives of any women

mentions of endless projects, ideas, collaborations, and plans make clear she's one of the hardest working women Another Dolly-focused book I'd like to read is She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who

eccentric family and a broad surrounding cast of characters--and it's all centered around independent women with unconventional women's roles in society in nineteenth century New York City. The Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of

Each of the three young women is in the middle of her own high-stakes crisis, and none of them expects The women must decide whether to ignore what's occurred or to harness and master the spells they've been difficulties of their own--an out-of-wedlock pregnancy; involvement in the much-maligned and persecuted women's There's also a theme running through all three of women striving for more--more opportunities, justice

Space. 02 The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei I loved the futuristic space-mission capabilities, smart and strong all-woman crew, the mystery and suspicion, and most of all the character-driven storyline in Kitasei's

be cruel, ruthless, and he's Wren's sworn enemy, a deadly force who has destroyed her countrymen and women side note: the title felt so oddly vague that I kept forgetting what the book was called, which felt strange

There are women who take care of your grandfather...women whose own families are thousands of miles away , women who are washing your plates and washing vegetables for your dinner.

shared with her deceased husband, and issues surrounding the secret threaten to crack her formerly strong

she pokes fun at her fellow writer in a sketch about talented but average-looking men dating gorgeous women

To honor his friend, he'll need to be strong enough for Maisie and Grant, despite his own pain and fears

Mystery series with strong female protagonists?

Kimmery Martin's Doctors and Friends begins with a group of seven women, friends since medical school As the story progresses, Martin mentions each of women and their families, but keeps the story relatively

In her spare time, Enid loves true crime podcasts and dates a variety of women from dating apps.

chokehold of addiction to drugs and alcohol, his struggles to quit using, and the many (beautiful) women Perry spends much of the page time focusing on the many (beautiful) women who got away.

mysterious box with an inscription on the outside reading "The measure of your life lies within" and a string The source of the boxes is unknown, but it quickly becomes clear that the string length correlates to Some choose not to look into their boxes at all, while others use the knowledge of their short strings as excuses to act without the same consequence as before; some with long strings question the participation

The book seems to lend itself to an audiobook format because of Odenkirk's strong voice and manner of

When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--her persistent presence attended prenatal classes before the birth of her first child and noted the immediate intimacy between the women

is set in the wilderness and rugged terrain of British Columbia, along a highway where unsuspecting women Cold Creek Highway setting is based on the real-life "Highway of Tears" in British Columbia, where women have gone missing since the 1970s, and where a disproportionate number of Indigenous women have been

twentieth century New York and his mysterious death; and a science fiction-slanted story about young women Her mother's disappearance leads Josie to track down the other Girls, and together they discover strange

The swirl of events draws other innocent young women into Miryem's complicated web and toward potential

The Humans is funny, strange, deep, and lovely. I loved it. The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop II stories, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women