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Teenage Connor's elderly friend died, his boyfriend talked him into coming out, and now his mother thinks He started A Very Punchable Face with a story that is really his mother's (to be fair, it's interesting He's playing in a "scratch band" near the Texas coast with other big-hearted characters to try to make Paulette Jiles also wrote two other Civil War-era historical fiction books I loved, News of the World

She's been raised by her caring, no-nonsense single mother in a mostly white northern California town That we’d run into each other’s arms? For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

I'd love to hear about others you love! Now he lives life as a regular guy; he works in IT, he’s happily married, and he has a beloved daughter When he begins to have memory loss and other odd symptoms, he realizes it’s linked to his past time travel have to break all the rules of time travel to attempt the impossible: preserve the existence of his daughter There are links to other Mitchell books and characters if you're paying attention, but the book can stand

Raised by a codependent, emotionally stunted alcoholic mother who frequently abandons the kids for days

She's Hollywood royalty, and her former movie star mother lives in a home on the same compound. I heard the dialogue in her voice, I had a mental image of Debbie Reynolds as her mother, and Star Wars What other titles might fit the bill?

Bea has always been a worrier, and as her father's happiness blooms, she worries: that her mother is let on; that she's being left out of things; that having two homes will mean she's always missing the other one; and that her own periodic lack of impulse control and rage may have contributed to others' pain Have you read other Rebecca Stead books? I'm reading whatever she's writing at this point.

Rowley's sassy, heartwarming fiction about an uncle caring for his young niece and nephew after their mother's They each have their grief and confusion, but they also adore each other and have their love to fall “To other people, it sometimes seems like nothing at all. Her other selves seem uncannily apt to die, so Cara is able to visit 372 other Earths where her counterparts data, the purpose of which is of no interest to her--she's more focused on tracking the shadows of her other

If you like books about magic, here are two other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might enjoy When the long-lost sisters do unexpectedly cross each other's paths again at last, the world's seams She's a witch who has sworn off magic; she fled her powerful mother and coven, but they didn't want to There are instances of trickery related to lineage and other similar surprises. Circe, daughter of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, is an odd child.

For my full review of this book, please see A Curious Beginning. 04 The Clockmaker's Daughter In 1862 would have dreamed of becoming a doctor if society would allow it, but she's stuck working off her mother's So here's the greedy question: What are some other historical fiction mysteries I should read?

Ursula Burton, an unassuming mother and wife, was a legendary real-life spy who evaded capture by China The unassuming-seeming mother and wife was actually a legendary spy who evaded capture by China, the

Riley lives on her cousins’ Wisconsin farm, where she’s grown up since the death of her mother. Can they learn to trust each other and face the past in order to move forward?

As for the other characters, Alex's father is pure negligence and willful ineptitude, and he feels too Her mother subsumes herself into marriage and motherhood, with disastrous results, while her strong, for young readers including The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Iron Hearted Violet, The Witch's Boy, and others

She's Barbara Van Lear, the daughter of the owners of the camp where many local residents work. house, she discovers a horrible tragedy--two of her sisters (one, her best friend) are dead and two others Other books that center around a podcast are Listen for the Lie   (reviewed above) and also the Good and Tokyo Dreaming  and Tokyo Forever , as well as Mika in Real Life , Empress for All Seasons , and other

the medical profession during an era when this was not the norm, and the details of her care for new mothers

I loved this story of how Joanna and Gabe are inextricably drawn to each other and into Ursa's magically In Glendy Vanderah's Where the Forest Meets the Stars, Joanna is feeling adrift after her mother's death Gabe keeps to himself and has his own painful past, but he and Joanna are inextricably drawn to each other

Ursule Orchière watches her mother fooling local women with her false spells, using her family history

The relationship between stepmother Hannah and her stepdaughter Bailey, whose mother has died, is fraught Have you read Hello, Sunshine, The First Husband, Eight Hundred Grapes, or any of her others?

on the Greedy Reading List Six Short Story Collections to Wow You, or you might like some of these other But when she returns to the lake for Sam Florek's mother's funeral, she's swept back into the connection

Her mother was from a longtime, well-respected Washington, DC-based Black family, the Fleets, and her To read other Bossy fiction and nonfiction reviews on the site of books that address issues of race, Marie Benedict is also the author of The Other Einstein, The Mystery of Mrs. the author of Stand Your Ground, A Sin and a Shame, Too Little, Too Late, Never Say Never, and many other

Click here   for my full review of A Song to Drown Rivers --and for links to my Bossy reviews of other The children are largely unattended during this time, but their bonds to each other are solidified. They're from other times in history. What brings the book to life are versions of the real-life figures of Mother Jones (the elderly woman He teaches English to children and adjusts to the shock of living in a flat with many other people--and

Wong structures her memoir into letters for her daughters without editing out her intimate experiences What others am I missing? #memoir, #threestarbookreview

Mick, whose mother is emotionally unavailable (and barely physically present), has a lot to figure out The girls fall hard for each other--but they've built their early relationship on lies that could destroy Veronica and Mick will have to figure out if they can trust each other with their lives. realistically messy mistakes and experience devastating betrayals, but to also bravely try to trust each other

Her daughter cut her own hair (and bloodied her scalp), her babysitter didn't show up, and the unpaid Finlay's suspense novel--along with the bloody cloth in her bag that she used earlier to stanch her daughter's still flares, he behaves spontaneously when he might stop and consider, his grudging affection for others

Her sister dates boy after boy, two of her best friends are making eyes at each other, and she's sick Her mother starts dating again. And to top things off, her father announces his engagement.

Walsh's The Love of My Life, Emma is a marine biologist who's devoted to her husband Leo and their young daughter

Belle's elaborate efforts to disguise her family’s background (her mother was from a longtime, well-respected I listed other heartbreaking and beautiful memoirs about facing death and loss in the Greedy Reading

His father and mother were similarly brutally damaged by Amy's disappearance. spend much of the page time that leads up to that moment--that is, by far the bulk of the book--with other the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories or some of the other

delving into the all-consuming obsessions the desperate young Alva likely had with appearances and others She still loves architecture, fashion, and travel—and secures a financially stable future for her daughter

You can click here for other mysteries I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. In order to keep her husband, young daughters, and partner safe, Elise may have to keep some crucial For my full review (and links to my reviews of the other books in this series), check out As Good As Veronica and Stoker's pasts, partnership, and their growing fondness for and vulnerability with each other But when the shop owner, Clay Cooper, who owns several other local businesses, is a town council member

Since her mother Defne went into a coma and never woke up, young loner Ada Kazantzakis has continued He teaches English to children and adjusts to the shock of living in a flat with many other people--and to accept impending doom, their wavering hope, and the incredibly powerful bonds they build to each other They're polar opposites, and they drive each other crazy. They're from other times in history.

But a hotshot racer, a has-been treasure hunter, and others in their secret society know that the ship brother, and she's learned to make light of everything from cracks about her plus-sized figure to her mother's

four-year-old brother, and she's learned to make light of everything from cracks about her full figure to her mother's

Untamed, she shares lessons she's learned through being true to herself, loving herself and caring for others In often very short essays, she explores living genuinely despite others' criticisms; giving herself and expressing a full gamut of emotions rather than keeping the peace; rejecting the myth of ideal mothers

Wilder's rom-com takes us behind the scenes of a hit teen TV show whose lead characters once liked each other in real life but now can't stand each other. the popular paranormal television show Intangible, and for multiple seasons they've yearned for each other Shane and Lilah detest each other. In order to keep her husband, young daughters, and partner safe, Elise may have to keep some crucial

But to be fair, she's emerging from a fog of trauma after her mother's death, her father has abandoned The Maid, main protagonist Molly finds a hotel guest dead in his room, and her eccentric manner--and other's than capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the many personal qualities that have led others But things quickly take a turn as pirates and other dangers threaten the makeshift family on the Wayfarer They each have reasons to mistrust others, but they'll have to trust and rely on each other more than

Anniversaries of the event, her mother's book about the experience, and a community that wouldn't allow drove Arden to move and then move again, eventually changing her name to Olivia, leaving behind her mother

to be more layered and complicated than it first seemed; and Devlin can't seem to keep her teenage daughter girl" greeting from the recently met grown-man male detective partner to Devlin's thirteen-year-old daughter To a lesser extent, so was the daughter's telling her traumatized aunt how pretty she is (while soothingly

Jost begins A Very Punchable Face with a story that is really his mother's (to be fair, it's gripping But his mother's story helped Jost set the scene for his own origins and his strong Staten Island roots sketch's producer, for example, a dynamic whose implications Jost explores somewhat, and he also shares other

She's the primary caregiver for her father, who has Parkinson's disease; her mother spends the majority

Which other books should I add to my to-read robot book list? It gleans tips about holding conversations and functioning around others by watching its favorite show She's a little creaky and sore, sure, but she's ready to be reunited with the team, which includes her mother and the rest of her family, plus many others involved in the complex project. But Divya is too busy crafting strong female main protagonists (complete with working mother guilt, which

Now I'm reading The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller's novel about a middle-aged woman exploring other Chin Man; her brother Nana's athletic obsession, his injury, and his subsequent drug addiction; her mother's

Let's Not Do That Again is largely focused on Nancy's daughter Greta's self-obsessed, revengeful, immature

Toni grows up feeling like a painful afterthought to her mother's desperate efforts to advance her own Axelrod has numerous other books, so if you're in for this one you have many more offerings from her

When Miriam stumbles across her daughter's elaborate road trip plan, which Talia created for her then-soon-to-be-empty-nester I had already become satisfied with the lead-up and the shifts in Miriam's situation, so it didn't bother

Her daughter cut her own hair (and bloodied her scalp), her babysitter didn't show up, and the unpaid the plot of Finlay's suspense novel--along with a bloody cloth (which she used earlier to stanch her daughter's

The family farm in Nebraska has been foreclosed upon, his mother is gone, and his father has recently

A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious

What other series that have to do with court, queens, and royalty would you include on this list? this was possibly my favorite among favorites), Thick As Thieves , and Return of the Thief are the other of the Tearling series by Erika Johansen Exiled Princess Kelsea is trying to reclaim the crown her mother

Circe, daughter of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, is an odd child.

everything about families and love and life, he had never recognized having had any romantic feelings about other open to life and experiences, idolized an openly gay senator, and who (along with his president of a mother