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  • February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions The mystery of the book centers around a post-war haven for soldiers mentally and physically harmed by But the mystery takes a back seat in the book to Maisie's explorations of human motivations, her interest Check out this Greedy Reading List for Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.

  • Review of Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

    Kevin Wilson's wonderfully odd 1990s coming-of-age novel centers around teens Frankie and Zeke, their mysterious They come up with an original enigmatic phrase and add attention-getting artwork, then spread mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/21/22 Edition

    Reading Now I'm reading Blackwater Falls, a recently published thriller by Ausma Zehanat Khan about the mystery Detective Inaya Rahman and Lieutenant Waqas Seif work to solve the mystery of the girls' murders--running

  • Review of Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine

    She fears that Minnie's death is her fault, and when Minnie asks her to complete three mysterious, questionable-feeling

  • September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    newest gorgeousness, a dystopian gem, and yet another of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell Victorian mystery series, we learn more about Stoker's past, secrets, heartbreak, and motivations; are treated to more fantastic past, and Raybourn offers a number of explanations for some of the previous book's alluded-to personal mysteries

  • Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

    In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding developed, but they're important to the structure and the odd interconnectedness at the heart of the mysterious identical personal experience; and detective Gaspary from the future's Night City investigates their mysterious

  • Review of The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) by Jane Harper

    of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

  • Review of The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

    The fig tree offers the reader much of the material that fills in the blanks: what really occurred between Ada's parents over the years; which factors drove them apart and brought them back together; and the mysteries

  • Review of The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

    incredible genetic cloning advancements--but people have noticed that her husband has recently been mysteriously

  • Review of The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

    There aren't gray areas for the reader to explore where he's concerned; revenge fantasies are the logical

  • Review of The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee

    this smart, funny young adult book complete with Chinese folklore, a rock-solid friendship, creative fantasy adult book--the first in a series--complete with Chinese folklore, a rock-solid friendship, creative fantasy

  • Bossy Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one. I listened to Funny Story as an audiobook (narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan). In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens

  • Review of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

    When she stumbles across extensive communications from Bruno, a mysterious figure who trains the young

  • Review of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

    Is it possible that Marcellus somehow holds the key to finding answers about her son's mysterious disappearance An overly convenient situation and moment of chitchat pushes the main mystery of the story to a head-

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/2/24 Edition

    Inside, the mysterious Kokoro Clinic for the Soul prescribes medicine to those looking for support and

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/19/22 Edition

    newest fiction, described as an Appalachian David Copperfield; and I'm reading Rachel Hawkins's upcoming mystery The Villa is gothic suspense set at an Italian villa, where dark mystery and wicked turns abound.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/6/23 Edition

    Then a mysterious power begins calling to her. Looking for Jane is a story of three timelines linked through decades by a mysterious letter and enormously

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/13/23 Edition

    client on the page and then in real life; and I'm reading Maria Dong's suspenseful novel that explores mystery is also a suspenseful page-turner, as Katrina follows various clues to try and resolve the menacing, mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/10/22 Edition

    , Adam Hamdy's twisty mystery about interconnected characters. respectable citizen, and a disgraced police officer are intertwined through connections to a series of mysterious

  • Review of Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein

    I mentioned this book (along with the epic science fiction/fantasy To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and a young

  • Review of The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

    intrigue and suspense; this is a patiently paced story of a time and place—which happens to have a mystery

  • Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II

    Light We Cannot See; The Women in the Castle, which includes a complicated sort of bravery; and the fantastic There's a low-key mystery Lexie is set on unraveling (key players are keeping secrets about events from

  • Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories

    Katherine Arden finishes out the trilogy in typical mesmerizing fashion, with her usual masterful balance multimillion-copy bestselling book (or the Tony award-winning Broadway musical based upon it, or the fantastic interesting possibilities. 04 Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin The first book in Mahurin's young adult fantasy

  • Six of My Favorite Book Club Books of 2023

    Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences. 05 Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson Atkinson's newest mystery in vivid Roaring Twenties London as Nellie Coker struggles to hold on to her empire of clubs while mysterious by the intersection of Gwendolyn and Ma Coker's golden child, her eldest son Niven--along with the mystery An overly convenient situation and moment of chitchat pushes the main mystery of the story to a head-

  • Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens

    Stevens offers a bad guy who's easy to despise in this mystery with great passages about surviving in

  • Review of Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

    But Arthur is mysterious, and he's not who Birdie thought he was.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/26/25 Edition

    Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous five years ago); and I'm listening to Karen Thompson Walker's speculative mystery

  • Review of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

    Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had The quiet main protagonist Bill is a hero; he musters forgiveness for painful events in his past while

  • Review of A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

    This fantastic book is the first in Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series. #mysterysuspense, #series, #historicalfiction, #london, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of Recursion by Blake Crouch

    Recursion is more fantastic character-driven science fiction from Blake Crouch, and I found this sooooo #timetravel, #mysterysuspense, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview

  • February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    celebrity memoir from a larger-than-life performer; a comedian's funny memoir; a fast-paced WWII-set mystery behind-the-scenes World War II British codebreaking of Nazi messages, along with a rich back story and mysterious Lizzie finds a secret notebook of her mother's, she becomes more determined than ever to solve the mystery

  • Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites

    Fiction Stories Set in the American West , Six Historical Fiction F avorites , Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Kate Quinn is also the author of the fantastic titles The Rose Code , The Diamond Eye , and The Alice

  • Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out

    The Autoboyography dialogue is fantastic and witty but feels effortless and like it comes from actual This is fantastic contemporary young adult fiction. I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid. an immensely readable book rich in period detail, great dialogue, and satisfying elements of love, mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/21/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading What Happened to the Bennetts, the upcoming mystery from the prolific 01 What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline In Lisa Scottoline's upcoming mystery What Happened Scottoline is the author of Eternal and 31 other mysteries.

  • Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman

    A mysterious app on her phone seems to have all of the answers she needs--but Lai isn't sure what the

  • Review of Grey Dog by Elliott Gish

    But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious

  • Review of We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

    There are mysterious forces and machinations, many of which remain unclear to the reader until late in

  • Review of American Mermaid by Julia Langbein

    Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at water (I'm sorry, but I can't stop the puns), making the reader wonder about the nature of multiple mysterious

  • Review of What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown

    of the book, in which Jane and her father are entrenched in their own world, driven by her father's mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/27/21 Edition

    it, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after its breakup--and the crimes, mysteries

  • Review of The Book of Love by Kelly Link

    Meanwhile, mysterious forces with dangerous plans converge upon Lovesend, drawn by the resurrection of

  • Review of The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr

    As the community wonders at his mysterious, whimsical appearance, they embrace Brendan, as he is ultimately

  • Review of The Project by Courtney Summers

    of seeking and exposing the truth around her as a journalist, while Bea retreats into a reclusive, mysterious When mysterious events come to light that seem linked to the seemingly harmless, benevolent group The I'm intrigued by stories about secrets and mysterious communities or private groups, so the focus on

  • Bossy Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Sports and Recreation Nonfiction

    Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know about Women by Maggie Mertens (2024) 1923: The Mystery They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/21 Edition

    Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo Rule of Wolves is the second and final book in Bardugo's young adult fantasy

  • Review of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

    Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition

    Moscow and Rules of Civility. 02 Troubled Blood by Robert Galbratih In the fifth installment of the mystery A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious So far it feels nicely paced, and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's

  • Six Fascinating Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War

    ; here are just a few: Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year Six Historical Fiction Mysteries about the real life of a freed black man—with the details of his life imagined and elaborated on in fantastic

  • Review of The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon

    or stops abruptly, and I find myself becoming increasingly frustrated by this method of prolonging a mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/24 Edition

    fraternity members and a multi-million-dollar interstate drug ring; and I'm listening to a suspenseful mystery

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