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- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
When her mom shows up from Ghana, Maddie jumps at the chance for some independence; a late bloomer, she
- Review of When These Mountains Burn by David Joy
Every choice he makes is to further his chances of snatching the next fix.
- Review of The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
But approximately three quarters of the way through the book, the story's perspective changes to Eva's
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/21 Edition
explores shifting realities and asks how much of a person is determined by circumstance, by choice, and by chance
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/20/25 Edition
If Una and Owen are going to change the way history is remembered--or simply get Owen back to his own
- Shhh! Kid and Teen Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
When cool Leo at school reveals that he's into comedy too, Haylah jumps at the chance to write material
- Review of Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
energy budget and policy papers under President Ford and President Carter, then a flight of fancy that changed
- Review of Hello, Molly! by Molly Shannon
Molly Shannon explores the childhood tragedy that changed her life forever, but her general optimism A horrific car accident with her father at the wheel changed her family forever when Shannon was very
- Review of The Knight and the Moth (Stonewater Kingdom #1) by Rachel Gillig
Gillig builds a layered fantasy world on elements of stone and water, and the moth symbolism changes
- Review of Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith
could have been simply a charming memoir about growing up in Appalachia and an account the incredible changes
- Review of American Mermaid by Julia Langbein
Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at glimpses of the novel that is the basis for Penny's trajectory--while digging into themes of climate change
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/25 Edition
The book takes off like a rocket, changing almost everything in her life.
- Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
They've got so many ways of calling you a witch, they just change it to how it suits them. Often in Albanese's Salem, classes who are underestimated or dismissed may be achieving hidden changes
- Review of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
encounters with nature, and for me the book really shone when she included her family's current shifts and changes
- Review of Long Live Evil (Time of Iron #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan
the rest of the plotting, dark, moody, sometimes exasperating bad guys (and girls) in an attempt to change
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/20/25 Edition
different times, interconnected by a single drop of water and the power of an ancient poem that may change
- Review of Clear by Carys Davies
But time was the worst thing; time, it seemed to him now, was the only thing you couldn't change; whatever
- Review of Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey
Arthur, a recluse who only comes into town at the change of seasons--and who others avoid as actively
- Review of The Fraud by Zadie Smith
attempted to lay claim to the Tichborne family fortune, insisting that he was a long-lost noble son much changed
- Review of A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
What does it matter, who wears the crown, if they will not change any of this for us?"
- Review of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
The women frequently see the clear way but are usually powerless to effect change, so the men's missteps
- Review of Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
The end sections where events are clicking along, alliances are shifting and changing, and dramatic justice
- Review of Break Wide the Sea (Break Wide the Sea #1) by Sara Holland
She may so far be powerless to enact major change, and she is certainly dismissed by the men around her
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/5/25 Edition
But a tragedy the day before their planned departure changed everything--and led her to a newly imagined
- Review of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison
Michaels developed SNL , his ups and downs, his vision, and how he created the institution that would change
- Review of Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth
But Libby receives a devastating diagnosis that changes everything: early-onset Alzheimer's.
- Review of Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
The book Rusted Robots takes off like a rocket in popularity, changing almost everything in her life
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/21/24 Edition
But Libby receives a devastating diagnosis that changes everything: early-onset Alzheimer's.
- Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading
Fiction Favorites At the start of the pandemic, I was particularly drawn to lighter fiction because the chances
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/14/24 Edition
But teaming up with their new client--a powerful male witch who's got it in for the king--could change
- Review of Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
the fraternity boys from next door is dead, Lucy is missing, and Margot is keeping secrets that could change
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Sadie Green are brilliant, creative collaborators and a wonderfully complementary pair since their chance
- Review of So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan
layered situation and then turns it on its head; a wisp of a moment, a careless remark, or a premeditated change
- Review of North Woods by Daniel Mason
the only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss is to see it as a tale of change
- Review of An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor
And yet these are the same activities that change lives, sometimes all at once and sometimes more slowly , the way dripping water changes stone.
- Review of Antarctica by Claire Keegan
A few small moments change everything; a dance, a look, a careless word, a cruel reminder.
- Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle
and the devastating idea that a greater understanding and different decisions might have dramatically changed
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/5/24 Edition
one-night stand with a cute neighborhood bartender leads to an unplanned pregnancy, and suddenly everything changes
- Review of Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, in which vampires mainly serve as catalysts for change
- Review of The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
pacing of the story picks up, appropriately, when World War II begins to shift the world, exerting changes
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/10/24 Edition
considering individuals' views of fulfillment and whether two people can come together in a marriage, change
- Review of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose
Anglish world--and its selective history of the destruction of the Indigenous people--is due for some changes
- Review of Love, Lists and Fancy Ships by Sarah Grunder Ruiz
title) serves up depth: grief and loss, fractured futures, clinging to familial relationships, fearing change
- Review of A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
I can't stop thinking about this fascinating near-future climate-change story of desperation, loyalty
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Ryland Grace wakes up as the sole survivor of a last-chance effort to save Earth and its inhabitants.
- Review of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
Harvey emphasizes the urgency of the need for change and offers age-appropriate examples to help build which privileges your racial group at the same time," and she notes that we have the capacity to effect change overhaul some traditional tools and frameworks in favor of equipping white children to be part of the change book can go hand in hand with other excellent examinations of race, racial injustice, and effecting change
- Review of The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
Authors of time-travel books must decide whether characters may change past events or simply witness
- Review of Homecoming by Kate Morton
a catalyst for Jess's arrival and amateur sleuthing, and it seemed strange not to witness the life-changing
- December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
layered situation and then turns it on its head; a wisp of a moment, a careless remark, or a premeditated change book yet of the seven in the Cormoran Strike series, we see some emotional growth, potentially game-changing deliberate in his life choices as the book progresses, ultimately (briefly) showing a potentially game-changing
- Review of Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck
Lewis's transformation stirs up difficult memories and complex emotions surrounding Wren's mother's change
















































