Ali Hazelwood is also the author of Bride as well as numerous other contemporary romcom novels about women Fizzy is a straight talker, a sex-positive woman, and a successful romance writer, but she's never been

initially annoyed, then inexplicably drawn to Eva--and eventually a torrid love affair begins between the women the form of a detailed hand-written ledger of Isabel's household items) come to a head and cause the women For a resolution to their personal and romantic troubles, both women will need to be more brave and more

hand, and dabbling in the Sami traditions of runes, poppets, or the playing of drums—or simply being a strong-willed woman helping to feed a village by manning fishing boats when the men are all lost—is enough to lead One standout for me was the strength of the women in the face of men's abuses of power and physical cruelty When Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire , adventure, strong female loyalty and friendship, love, and lots of fascinating details of life at the

author of The Island of Missing Trees . 03 Spellslinger (Spellslinger #1) by Sebastien De Castell “I’m a woman

heartbreaking relationship "rules" that prevent her from becoming attached, for fear that she won't be strong

Williamson In an alternate 1923 London, a young woman inadvertently disturbs the peace between humans

The secondary subjugation explored in the book is that of women by men, and various instances and examples of women's powerlessness are apparent throughout the story. in which the real-life figure of Sarah Grimke makes a slow, twisting shift from her role as a young woman

third novel in French's series, the community reels over the disappearance and death of a local young woman

elusive Irish musician, and Christy reveals that he is on a greater mission to find and apologize to a woman

company...but she and her grandmother are folded into what feels like an oddly tight-knit community of women about the premise of a sleek, powerful company serving as a front for a coven of witches pulling the strings

A benefactor wants her to lead a team of twelve women into the Arctic to locate the missing Franklin Each of the women brings unique skills and strengths to the team, but each also holds secrets of her and a half afterward, Macallister pieces together what really happened to the brave, motley crew of women modern-day, small-town mystery with beautifully imperfect characters bringing it all to life; and a woman-powered

Yet she is strong enough to cut to the heart of tough situations and to sit within the pain of them-- a bookstore when it was first published in 1998, forgetting the title, remembering that it was two women's

When Jenna finds out she didn't get into Harvard (or any Ivy League schools--side note: her strong but

But she developed a strange itch in her foot. In and among these scenes, Sedaris shares strange, sweet, funny, pivotal moments with each of his living Through Bell's voice we also learn what has shaped the other women of the family: we hear rich stories the difficult relationship between Bobby and her daughter (Kalb's mother) and how it affected each woman's

There are twists, and I enjoyed Grace's strong stand at the end, but by that point I had lost my feeling

situation of trapped girls devolving into paranoia, mayhem, fury, and destruction, with a wonderfully strong thought the teen girls’ “magic” and their perception of it (and especially the perceptions of the men and women

01 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino In Beautyland , Bertino offers a poignant, funny, strange story The source of the boxes is unknown, but it quickly becomes clear that each person's string length correlates Some choose not to look into their boxes at all, while others use the knowledge of their short strings Some with long strings question the participation of "short stringers" in delicate jobs; some couples You may not be surprised by any of the turns each storyline takes here, but the string dilemma leads

horror might possibly come next, and at times it felt as thought the violence were gratuitous, but the strong

Chona is one link between the two groups, serving as the key nonjudgmental middle-woman in the story.

disastrous addiction, and his town's blind focus on piety and its unfailing inflexibility, we also witness strange She's lived next to the local Liverpool tennis club for years but hasn't played since she was a young woman

review of See You Yesterday. 04 The Change by Kristen Miller The Change explores the power of menopausal women In Kristen Miller's novel The Change, set in Mattauk, Long Island, three women cope with various challenges The tone of The Change is largely campy, as middle-aged women heroines unite against the book's sometimes But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might

references a scene in which the main character's sculptor friend is working on a headless piece of a woman

She's reporting on the case of Meena, a Hindu woman who was brutally punished by her village and her could enter a casual romantic entanglement--while she desperately fights for justice regarding another woman's While throughout the book Smita is (at least initially) reluctantly working to aid a woman in need, various

I loved the key elements of this story: the capable con woman, the past coming back to haunt her, the Survival Story 02 Isola by Allegra Goodman Isola , based upon the story of a real-life sixteenth-century woman

Hester and her friends--with Cordelia's help--set out to fend off the woman's murderous intentions.

found it illuminating to consider his rider and elephant analogy to understand how my impulses to feel strong

Meanwhile, his small-town mother is exploring her feelings for a wealthy woman who is also her business

This is epic but never melodramatic, and I was hooked on the Viking-esque elements, the badass women The friends-like-family element and deep loyalty is strong among the members of Jack's group, and the

DeLozier showcases historically accurate, dangerous demonstrations of men's fears of capable, educated women storylines for the twin sisters diverge and serve as important elements in the plot and in the young women's

Cribb, Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy b y Karen Abbott, and Enemy Women It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have detail the hardscrabble life of a newly freed Black person—and the often desperate circumstances of women (especially Black women) without men to protect them at the time.

Catalina is a high-energy coming-of-age novel about a spirited young woman trying to save everyone she

A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings by Leanne

It's the perfect reentry to the wonderfully cheeky, strong, faulted character of Tess as she tries yet

and young gay love; and Tokyo Dreaming, the second in Emiko Jean's young adult series about a young woman The women's lives occurred a century and a half apart, but somehow the two are intrinsically connected

are lied to about their bodies; where women are objects of sexual desire but not subjects of sexual pleasure; where sex is used as a weapon against women; and where women believe their bodies are broken And I am done living in a world where women are trained from birth to treat their bodies as the enemy Come As You Are is about the way women's sexuality works and why. how feelings are at the center of women's sexuality; and explain how women's sexuality is as varied

I'm reading I Am Not Jessica Chen , Ann Liang's newest young-adult novel, about an unassuming young woman

Tell me what you would tell a white woman, her face said. A white woman with money, her clothes said. Please, her tone said. In "Boys Go to Jupiter," a young woman wears a gifted confederate flag bikini, is careless about her "Why Won’t Women Just Say What They Want" focuses on an artist and the many people he has wronged (all

The push and pull of Ginny's strong preferences and opinions and how she is unswayed by consequences

In her journal, she began an imaginary conversation with Harriet Tubman about the woman's strength and

I had a tough time with the implausible details but appreciated the strong female characters and the broken mother-daughter relationship, and elements of misogyny, battle for control of the self, and the strong strongest and most cohesive part of the story came toward the end, with a search and some resolution, strong

01 Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian Bohjalian's newest book takes place in 1662 Boston, where strong-willed women like young Mary Deerfield are suspicious and frequently considered dangerous.

When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest

In Divine Rivals, Iris and Roman, two journalists, are competing for a permanent position as a newspaper But the person receiving these missives is not Forest, but Iris's work nemesis, Roman. Then an unexpected arrival and violent event rip apart everything Iris and Roman had been building.

Then something really strange happens. As Evie's putting her former favorite romance books into a Little Free Library, a wizened old woman approaches

The Bright Hour is a North Carolina woman's thoughtful account of events, written with an aim of preserving Bowler spoke at a virtual women's retreat I attended and has spoken at my church as well.

I adored how Harrow intermingled the women's suffrage movement with the reemergence of witching and women's situations or dialogue distracted me from what felt like the heart of the story (the Eastwoods' helping women 02 The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden This is the third and final book in Katherine Arden's strong reading the Wicked Witch of the West story turned on its head as Maguire traced the origins of Elphaba, a strong-willed

story--Captain Kidd's reluctant but gentlemanly involvement and his voice; Johanna as a tough young woman I haven't yet read Enemy Women but definitely intend to.

The Books I'm Reading Now For my book club I'm reading Lady Tan's Circle of Women, Lisa See's newest story of women in ancient China; I'm reading Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge, Lizzie Pook's upcoming 01 Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See No mud, no lotus. Lady Tan's Circle of Women is my first book club read of 2024, and wow, does this one start off with

01 A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes Natalie Haynes's mythological retellings put women at the center I listened to Haynes read her captivating woman-centric version of events surrounding the Trojan War These are the stories of the women left behind as the men journeyed and sought to inspire songs and stories --often women who may have been able to change the course of events if anyone had listened to them or Haynes's women are vulnerable in order to try to save each other, they carve out meager existences as

Lena, Valerie, and Bev are inexorably connected, and Valerie's survival depends upon the other two women's I love a Maine setting, a missing-persons story, and a tale of brave women thriving in a traditionally