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The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading comedian Zarna Garg's upcoming memoir, This American Woman ; I'm 01 This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg Zarna Garg avoided an unwanted arranged

In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried, When she comes home alive, only Chelsey finds it strange that Ellie has left her captor and remains alive friend in her last remaining roommate, who until then seemed primarily a source of rent; she finds a strange In Michelle Moran's novel Maria , she uses two timelines to shape the story of the real woman behind

Luke Brooks is a bar owner, womanizer, Emmy's brother's longtime best friend, and an honorary member Barker's novel features Janet, a misunderstood, mocked, badly treated young woman coming of age in a

is set in the wilderness and rugged terrain of British Columbia, along a highway where unsuspecting women Cold Creek Highway setting is based on the real-life "Highway of Tears" in British Columbia, where women have gone missing since the 1970s, and where a disproportionate number of Indigenous women have been

reading A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham's recent mystery about the disappearances of young women the crimes of decades earlier--or if she's about to help identify another killer who preys on young women

Bridie is a strong female protagonist, and Things In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of

eccentric family and a broad surrounding cast of characters--and it's all centered around independent women with unconventional women's roles in society in nineteenth century New York City. The Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of

, but the fifty-two sections and rambling pace of the book left me feeling unmoored. “...I’ve known women And I have also seen women driving Cadillac cars wearing furs who have never voted. Hoffman's The World That We Knew (featured in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

But on today's flight, an elderly woman is causing a major disruption. He's struggling to maintain two relationships--one with Naomi, a playful younger woman, and one with

navigates danger and helps achieve justice by using her smarts, eschewing societal tradition and limits on women

historical fiction, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

mysterious box with an inscription on the outside reading "The measure of your life lies within" and a string The source of the boxes is unknown, but it quickly becomes clear that the string length correlates to Some choose not to look into their boxes at all, while others use the knowledge of their short strings as excuses to act without the same consequence as before; some with long strings question the participation

nonfiction account of the immense power of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and how the bravery of a young woman 01 A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Stephenson was a con man and womanizer who had told enough enormous lies to reinvent himself into one But when he met a young woman and promised her career assistance, then abused his position, she threatened

I love the tone of this trilogy: playful, otherworldly, and with faulted, greedy, scared, strong, angry

lives of the Earp brothers (and also includes some of the story of Doc Holliday), the men’s various strong

The two women clash, resisting their reliance on each other as they become more deeply intertwined.

twentieth century New York and his mysterious death; and a science fiction-slanted story about young women Her mother's disappearance leads Josie to track down the other Girls, and together they discover strange

of being a Black female lawyer in what seems like an Atlanta company that is increasingly hostile to women

Orphan Train (which I really liked) and A Piece of the World (which I loved), tells the story of three women's becomes pregnant and is ultimately sent to prison in “the land beyond the seas"; Hazel, a savvy young woman

Caroline O'Donoghue is also the author of Scenes of a Graphic Nature, Promising Young Women, and the

colleges and programs; college abroad; diversity and compatibility of peers and potential partners; women's

The author has created two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young women split by time (and, secondarily , complex male characters the women love as family or romantic partners).

she pokes fun at her fellow writer in a sketch about talented but average-looking men dating gorgeous women

Mystery series with strong female protagonists?

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

Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s

A friend's borrowed, rambling home becomes a house for unwed mothers and mothers-to-be, with the women

billions, those who willfully, blatantly, and continually threatened and stole from their countrymen and -women Browder's writing occasionally stopped me with clunky-feeling descriptions (for example, women's looks

male-dominant battle system and their qi is used to boost the men's efforts, often at enormous cost to the women begins to suspect that none of the fighters know the true hierarchy of pilot qi power and believes the women's

Reading Now I'm reading Emma Donoghue's newest historical fiction, Learned by Heart, set at an 1800s women's

To honor his friend, he'll need to be strong enough for Maisie and Grant, despite his own pain and fears

The book seems to lend itself to an audiobook format because of Odenkirk's strong voice and manner of

Cribb, Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by 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.

shared with her deceased husband, and issues surrounding the secret threaten to crack her formerly strong

Hannah Brooks, an innocent-looking bodyguard for a superstar action hero; I'm listening to The Book Woman Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually an Executive Protection Agent- prepublication audiobook version of this book courtesy of MacMillan Audio and NetGalley. 02 The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Kim Michele Richardson's The Book Woman of Troublesome The book's sequel is The Book Woman's Daughter, published earlier this year. 03 Weather Girl by Rachel

collaboration; and historical fiction with a touch of magical realism about a brave young enslaved woman 01 Isola by Allegra Goodman Isola , based upon the story of a real-life sixteenth-century woman, shifts A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings by Leanne Her voice is a striking, uniquely nasal Southern drawl, and her Netflix special "I'm Every Woman" features Crosby Eckstine's richly detailed historical fiction explores the life of Junie, an enslaved young woman

from the decades-old mystery and deaths at the villa to the growing unease in the present between two women

Night, Fast the Wolves, Meg Long's debut young adult science fiction about a wolf and a gritty young woman's Festival Days is not light reading: "Cheri" delves into the last days of a woman who is terminally ill mentions of endless projects, ideas, collaborations, and plans make clear she's one of the hardest working women

released after 22 months' imprisonment for the drunk-driving accident in which she killed an older woman But as the wedding week goes on, each woman is surprised by what she discovers about herself and the

This is a slim book that's full of heart and strange, captivating details of Chambers's imagined world 03 Hester: A Novel by Laurie Lico Albanese In Hester: A Novel, Laurie Lico Albanese reimagines the woman

is caught in the bardo, a limbo between life and death, and she encounters other stuck characters in strange There's a scene made up of strange dynamics in which Sandra is perilously stuck in a cave tunnel during

persons detective who experiences a personal tragedy and dives into solving the disappearances of young women anonymity and an escape to the woods to grieve and be alone, but she quickly finds out that a young local woman forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of a young woman's this book, please see Deadly Education. 05 Normal People by Sally Rooney Marianne, a solitary young woman This sci-fi thriller is about the forces that drive apart a husband and wife, but it's not the other-woman

01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, it's 1948, and Iris Digby, her American I loved Williams's immersive story so much, I was in for all of Our Woman in Moscow's elements: Russia For my full review, check out Our Woman in Moscow. 02 In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom Stout Stout's middle-grade story is irresistibly strange, full of difficulties and a tough young heroine's

The swirl of events draws other innocent young women into Miryem's complicated web and toward potential Ji Lin doesn’t fit the mold of a typical woman from 1930s Malaysia or that of the British colonists living She speaks her mind and ruffles feathers even as she exploits assumptions about women, sexual attraction The Dragon keeps them safe from the Wood, but at a high price: each year he demands one young woman from

And he emphasizes his own strong belief (and the supporting data) that what a young person does with

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

and she believes they're linked to the curse that the community believes has its hold on the Farrow women

To honor his friend, he'll need to be strong enough for Maisie and Grant, despite his own pain and fears

rural art commission to a leisurely country-wide search, an unlikely obsession, moments of brutality, strange Heart by Emma Donoghue Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women

her grandparents lived and where she was born, here offers stories spanning forty years, featuring women