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including her life's one tender connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge

Silver offers a story with a missed-chances premise in which romance, drama, and an unwavering hope in One Day in December offers a missed-chances setup with enormous repercussions. Josie Silver also wrote an irresistible second-chances premise in her book The Two Lives of Lydia Hill

When her mom shows up from Ghana, Maddie jumps at the chance for some independence; a late bloomer, she For my full review, please check out We All Want Impossible Things. 06 Changeless (Parasol Protectorate books and laughed out loud at the dialogue, Alexia's abrupt manner, and the delightful oddities in Changeless review (and a link to my review of the first book in the Parasol Protectorate series), please check out Changeless

embracing of the beauty in an everyday life and in straightforward affection, the heartbreak of missed chances

shifts allow a story to go places it otherwise never could, allowing for unusual perspective, second chances intrigued by time-travel stories, you might also like the books on these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Second-Chance

is forced to consider her life and the person she's become--and determine whether she's capable of change

In "Alcatraz," characters count on officially changing the erroneous facts of their family's history

The capable Pamela yet again must take charge despite her fear and rage and pain.

In We Are Called to Be a Movement, Barber makes an impassioned case for change and a "moral revival,"

Bridget has a chance at a stable new beginning--yet she's young and can't stifle her yearning for adventure

their relationship is discovered, they're cruelly punished by being abandoned on an island with little chance

Andrew Sean Greer offers a story of enduring love, loss, chance encounters, friendship, adventure, and

his teacher and the other thieves in the area--and taking in young people who are also fighting for a chance

The elaborate climactic scene was creatively gruesome—and I felt realistic disgust as a result.

I didn’t want to know all these words, charged with urgency and crisis.

The messy zigzags Edward takes toward growing and changing and understanding himself and what life should

could have been an interesting and charming memoir about growing up in Appalachia and the incredible changes

As Khayyam eagerly discovers more of Leila's mysterious history, she begins to grow and change in this

kingdom's evils are intensely detailed and extensively explored; this motivates characters to seek change

And the homicides seems to be shifting the tide of power and changing men's behavior in general.

exception, are Sedaris's unflinching observations of moments in time, desperate scenes, and emotionally charged

A chance meeting shifts the paths of their lives forever.

significantly complicated by the fact that the potential victim is unknown-- and by the fact that those in charge

assume the conflicts and political upheaval won't touch them out in the wild, and they figure that the charged

I love stories about returning home, reconnecting with old flames, and chances for redemption, and Every

Those who seem without hope fight and claw for a chance, while those who seem to have it all fall to

imperfect parenting, compounding mistakes by clinging to fear or regret, and against-the-odds second chances into an engrossing, complicated family story of forbidden love, secrets, impending death, and second chances

Or will they have missed thirteen years of their lives--and the chance to figure out how the heck they

The next day, the world is changed. Carls have cropped up in cities throughout the world.

and beauty of blended families, breaking unhealthy familial patterns, and unlikely, hard-won second chances

deprivation that kept her and other cult members under control of the Uncles, as the group called the men in charge

One Day in December, which looks like it plays with the idea of "what could have been" in a missed-chances

She has the incredible chance to make the same decisions or to consider her choices and do things differently The following morning, she gets yet another chance at reliving her first day.

about an emotionally sensitive NFL player and his quirky, irresistible female agent is a sweet second-chance I loved the fake marriage, the push and pull of career and love, and the second-chance romance.

When a dead body shows up in her tea house, Vera takes charge of the investigation of what only she is

But he had been one of two men charged with the rape of one of Martha's best friends, and now the sole

But when her charge drops dead on day one, Maud must identify the murderer, try to get her hands on a

twentieth anniversary of The Moth Radio Hour by offering 45 tales of ordinary and famous people forever changed

her own eventual personal growth drove a rift between her and the mother she idolized, a shift that changed

interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six Second-Chance

December and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd, a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance

When a dead body shows up in her tea house, Vera takes charge of what she is certain is a murder.

they repeat the same patterns and manipulations while making mental excuses for their diminished or changed

savviness she's gained through tracing the steps of her many other selves if she's going to stand any chance of each is dramatically affected by her own various small and large decisions, others' choices, and chance

Because Jessica's body is usurped so quickly in the story, we don't get a chance until the very end to

jumps back in forth in time from when Paris was a young victim to her present, in which she's taken charge

When her mom shows up, Maddie jumps at the chance for some independence; a late bloomer, she finds a

Abriel has said that this story is so fully inspired by her grandmother's story that she didn't even change

Scorah tells a fascinating personal story of growth and fear and change.

December and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd, a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance