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I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book! Samantha Harvey is also the author of The Shapeless Unease: A Year Without Sleeping , The Western Wind , Dear Thief , The Wilderness , and All Is Song .

reading a light fiction book about a dedicated single mom who gives love another try, listening to a fantastic But then she hears about a DNA-based, data-driven dating program that makes sense to her--and she's got “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. She fought to get off the godforsaken island where she'd been stuck for years after her father abandoned

Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction Books of the Year last year and which I also listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books

Now they've been engaged for six years, they're desperately in love, and they've been dating long-distance For years they've taken annual trips to their friend Sabrina's cottage in Maine with the rest of their So this year, when their friends surprise Harriet upon her arrival with the fact that Win was able to Henry emphasizes that dissatisfaction with the actuality of the job is what spurs the abandonment of years Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading

This is a fantastic blend of realistic complications, mistakes, adjustments, and spunk. Bug's father was a getaway driver who disappeared years ago, but Beauregard (Bug) owns a respectable This is a fantastic blend of realistic complications, mistakes, adjustments, and spunk.

Here are the new science and nature books--published at the end of last year or during this calendar year--that I'm most excited to give as gifts this holiday season. indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year They have a fantastic selection of titles, offer spot-on recommendations, and can order almost anything We brought our first puppy into the family this year (Leo!)

Seventeen-year-old girls aren't safe on their own, so Jess cuts her hair, binds her chest, and saddles Jess's voice was fantastic. and Johanna isn't a willing participant in this venture, having become more culturally Kiowa over the years for great historical fiction of all types, look at: Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year and Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year.

these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans, and Alien Life and AI Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year I'd love to hear what you thought! Can you fall in love with someone you’ve never met, never even spoken to--someone who is light years

Return of the Thief is the sixth and final book in Turner's fantastic Queen's Thief series. Turner's series was published over a period of almost twenty-five years, and the story trail traces the

Me, I’m tired of thinking about how white folks treat us, and that is why all year I work to create performances My book club heard Alice Randall speak last year at the virtual Verse & Vino, our local library foundation's We like to add books by some of the authors we hear to our reading list for the coming year. (featured in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II) last year , and that's how we came to read Black Bottom Saints this year.)

In Seattle, Tina Cannon is trying to figure out what happened to her dear friend Ruth, who disappeared When she hears about the horrifying events in Tallahassee, she becomes convinced that what happened to The capable Pamela yet again must take charge despite her fear and rage and pain. I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

Yay, the fantastic character of Pippa Fitz-Amobi is baaaaack! His twenty-four-year-old brother Jamie is missing, the police aren't responding with any urgency, and

community, found her world turned upside down when she discovered in 2020 that her husband of over 25 years Having inspired women for years as a leader in authenticity and a proponent of healthy relationships, By tracking back to her youth and young-adult years and alternating with scenes from more recent life

The tension between Juliette and Oskar begins to drive them apart, and Juliette begins to fear that her Fifty years later, Caroline and Patrick, two Cambridge students who are falling in love, are also on

The past concerns of fulfillment and fears around financial security feel grotesque when set alongside She notes that there is a 37% chance of a massive earthquake in the Pacific Northwest in the next 50 years

Ivan Koubek is ten years younger, a competitive chess player, a loner, and, he has always thought, his I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

Boulley weaves fantastically fluid and frequent details of indigenous tradition into Daunis's everyday Ojibwe medicine and her brave willingness to go undercover, Daunis unearths dark secrets that could tear between action, thought, and feeling, especially in the earlier sections of the book, but Boulley weaves fantastically

You can find more books like this on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic

Avery, the oldest, ten years sober, is a married lawyer (her wife is her former therapist, eek) making I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling

scenes in which they circuitously learn intimate details about each other's families, pasts, traditions, fears I could see this in the many fantastic details she includes of the city and its rhythm. mentioned this book--along with The Wife Upstairs and Here For It--in my first Greedy Reading List of the year

Someone will need to stand up to the ruthless thugs ruling the area with fear and corruption in order Within this setting, one of our main protagonists is an academic fascinated by the past (the years surrounding

I'd love to hear what you thought! Which other books should I add to my second-chance book list? I think you should know that going in, because it’s not the only fantastic thing, but it is one of the fantastic things in Elan Mastai's All Our Wrong Todays. 05 In Five Years by Rebecca Serle Dannie is on the path to achieving her five-year goals in spectacularly Serle's In Five Years totally hit the spot for me, and it also wasn’t exactly what I expected.

sometimes awkward acts and words, and it's deliciously heartbreaking to be privy to their insecurities and fears recognize the wonder in each other and delve beneath the protective facades they've built up for so many years

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the seventh installment in Martha Wells's fantastic science fiction Only a few Antari have been born in a generation, and they have long been the only ones with the power If you've read the Shades of Magic books, you'll already be acquainted with the fantastic characters Now Kosika, a young, impressionable, fervor-driven young Antari, is taking up the mantle of the deceased

After years working to advance artificial intelligence in a near-future dystopian world decimated by

Book two picks up as our main characters, having laid low for a year, are contacted by the Museum, the An Eastern European gangster has obtained the names of agents who have stood in his way over the years But in the ensuing years, Camilla can't stop obsessing over the unusual aspects of the siege: the violence Are the strange coordinates she's receiving on her phone after seven years a message from Luke? Reading List Six More Time-Travel Stories to Explore , but included as one of my favorite books of the year

tracks a horse thief and an orphan who bond and find love amid the turmoil and destruction of the final year Taylor Brown's debut novel Fallen Land is set in the final year of the Civil War. Callum, an Irish horse thief, fled to America an orphan at fifteen years old.

Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Dear reader, the limit does not exist! Have you read any of these books? I'd love to hear what you thought. Which other books should I add to my memoir to-read list? I loved listening to her fantastically raspy voice as she read her memoir in audiobook form--and she stories of his Canadian childhood dreaming of making it big in show business in the United States, his years

time to dive into recently published romantic stories, and these have been six of my favorites this year Six More of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads of the Past Year Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading Six More Great Light Fiction Stories Six of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year , and Six More of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year Have you loved any other romantic comedy or Jimenez is also the author of Just for the Summer   (one of my Favorite Rom-Coms of the Year  last year

Rocky's family has been vacationing in Cape Cod for twenty years. She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental. This year, she's sandwiched between her half-grown children and her aging parents. And the carefree vacations of the past feel light years away, because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens

Members of the hate group, focused on building fear and intolerance and profiting from its participants His life was built upon a lie, and his years of unchecked abhorrent, violent, narcissistic, horrifying As he faces the scheduled yearly vacation to Hilton Head, he attempts to get rid of her belongings--and Her young daughter is missing, and Ella is in limbo, desperately hoping she hears news soon.

to one day later, then two days later, and four days later in a doubling pattern that ends sixteen years later, then presents events in halved time periods (eight years, four years, two years, and so on) until

The diary's author is a Lutheran pastor who met and was witness to the fantastical, frightening, brutal

01 The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin Cronin's debut novel explores mortality Lenni and Margot  was one of my top twelve reads the year I read it. Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives in the terminal ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital Collectively they've been around 100 years, but this just doesn't feel like enough, and they each want For my full review of this book, please see The One Hundred Years of Lennie and Margot .

Jaouad offers a powerful, introspective memoir about coping with leukemia and its accompanying emotions, fears Jaouad spent four years constantly fearing for her life; undergoing various procedures; living with intense She emerged from spending years with her head down, fighting to survive, to realize that she needed to I admit that I felt loyalty to her boyfriend "Will," who saw her through years of significant difficulties Jaouad situation (they're married), I saw that unfortunately, Jaouad's leukemia returned in the past year

twisty events, unsolved elements from the past and present, and a denouement I didn't predict. “...hear , Allison, Nate, Janelle, and David and their dialogue are fantastic as always.

01 Recursion by Blake Crouch Recursion is more fantastic character-driven science fiction from Blake adult Josie is Girl One, the first of nine baby girls who were famously conceived without male sperm years Except...Andra soon realizes she wasn't sleeping for 100 years. She was asleep for 1,000. At one point Andra calls her friend Zhade (who is from a time 1,000 years past her origin time) an insult I reck [reckon] I was born about a thousand years too late. I missed all the best words."

to be the perfect cozy book for reading over a long weekend: an Elizabethan mystery, complete with fantastic And, dear reader, it was. With fears of betrayal and destruction at the hands of Mary Queen of Scots loyalists looming over Elizabeth's

I'm reading Lily King's newest novel, set during university years and decades afterward, Heart the Lover 01 Heart the Lover by Lily King In the fall of our as-yet-unnamed female narrator's senior year in college Truly Devious series, skilled amateur high school sleuth Stevie Bell is in denial about her senior-year

(inspired by Taylor Brown's great-grandfather); Big Frank, a black World War I veteran fed up with fear fiction--the cutthroat, sometimes deadly efforts of coal-company enforcers to subdue rebellion; the years

In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, the fantastic Jo Ann Beard explores also the author of Astonish Me, Seating Arrangements, and Great Circle, one of my favorite books the year on the farm where her grandparents lived and where she was born, here offers stories spanning forty years

I'd love to hear what you thought! Which other books should I add to my to-read robot book list? SecUnit is a fantastic main character; it's grumpily and charmingly obsessed with keeping its people Except...Andra soon realizes she wasn't sleeping for 100 years. She was asleep for 1,000. Years later Rose is a world-renowned physicist working to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious , yet Neuvel allows their spoken-only participation in the book to express their growth, hopes, and fears

Almost thirty years ago, Dennis, a young boy from a children's home, washed away in the rough waves of While I enjoyed the trip to Alaska (I love an Alaska storyline) and the polar bear-focused parts of the

States without family at age nine keeps the reader within each immediate, breathless, uncomfortable, fear-filled Zamora keeps us in his nine-year-old perspective, which also serves to keep us focused on moment-by-moment discomfort (he is tired, cold, hot, burned, thirsty, hungry), emotional turmoil (he feels loneliness, fear , concern, disconnectedness), and yearning (he is desperate for trust, for assurances, for safety and

But she fears she'll be killed in one of the school's daily unfortunate incidents before she can finish with her dark magic--more powerful than any of her classmates realize, which is just how El wants it--fears dark humor and unexpected details, and the exchanges between El and Orion (and El and everyone) were fantastic Novik also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading

somewhat disjointed and flagged in pacing for me as it addressed various events of the characters' later years The story meandered through subsequent years, and I didn't feel immersed in the novel; I was told that

For Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP), life in recent years has been primarily focused on shutting off the outside world, but the demands of a six- and nine-year-old reeling with pain and in desperate need of constancy To honor his friend, he'll need to be strong enough for Maisie and Grant, despite his own pain and fears musicals, various nontraditional families and loving bonds, and a little bit of poignancy that brought a tear

although I still haven't emotionally recovered from reading Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous five years 01 The Love Haters by Katherine Center Katie Vaughn has been single for a year, since her former fianc Save in a Fire , The Bodyguard , and other books. 02 The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong Nineteen-year-old

irritating to the rest of my book club years ago, but I couldn't help my love. Jiles's Chenneville, titular character John Chenneville is a former Union soldier who has spent the year determined search for John himself, the distraction of a clever, brave woman, and the pain of losing those dear