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Silver offers a story with a missed-chances premise in which romance, drama, and an unwavering hope in One Day in December offers a missed-chances setup with enormous repercussions. Josie Silver also wrote an irresistible second-chances premise in her book The Two Lives of Lydia Hill

I didn’t want to know all these words, charged with urgency and crisis.

In We Are Called to Be a Movement, Barber makes an impassioned case for change and a "moral revival,"

Andrew Sean Greer offers a story of enduring love, loss, chance encounters, friendship, adventure, and

kingdom's evils are intensely detailed and extensively explored; this motivates characters to seek change

could have been an interesting and charming memoir about growing up in Appalachia and the incredible changes

imperfect parenting, compounding mistakes by clinging to fear or regret, and against-the-odds second chances into an engrossing, complicated family story of forbidden love, secrets, impending death, and second chances

significantly complicated by the fact that the potential victim is unknown-- and by the fact that those in charge

assume the conflicts and political upheaval won't touch them out in the wild, and they figure that the charged

A chance meeting shifts the paths of their lives forever.

As Khayyam eagerly discovers more of Leila's mysterious history, she begins to grow and change in this

Or will they have missed thirteen years of their lives--and the chance to figure out how the heck they

exception, are Sedaris's unflinching observations of moments in time, desperate scenes, and emotionally charged

And the homicides seems to be shifting the tide of power and changing men's behavior in general.

Those who seem without hope fight and claw for a chance, while those who seem to have it all fall to

about an emotionally sensitive NFL player and his quirky, irresistible female agent is a sweet second-chance I loved the fake marriage, the push and pull of career and love, and the second-chance romance.

The next day, the world is changed. Carls have cropped up in cities throughout the world.

I love stories about returning home, reconnecting with old flames, and chances for redemption, and Every

One Day in December, which looks like it plays with the idea of "what could have been" in a missed-chances

deprivation that kept her and other cult members under control of the Uncles, as the group called the men in charge

The messy zigzags Edward takes toward growing and changing and understanding himself and what life should

But he had been one of two men charged with the rape of one of Martha's best friends, and now the sole

and beauty of blended families, breaking unhealthy familial patterns, and unlikely, hard-won second chances

When a dead body shows up in her tea house, Vera takes charge of the investigation of what only she is

She has the incredible chance to make the same decisions or to consider her choices and do things differently The following morning, she gets yet another chance at reliving her first day.

her own eventual personal growth drove a rift between her and the mother she idolized, a shift that changed

December and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd, a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance

But when her charge drops dead on day one, Maud must identify the murderer, try to get her hands on a

interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six Second-Chance

twentieth anniversary of The Moth Radio Hour by offering 45 tales of ordinary and famous people forever changed

Because Jessica's body is usurped so quickly in the story, we don't get a chance until the very end to

When a dead body shows up in her tea house, Vera takes charge of what she is certain is a murder.

they repeat the same patterns and manipulations while making mental excuses for their diminished or changed

December and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd, a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance

Logan Ramsey is in charge of investigating suspected gene scientists who are up to illegal activity, Ryland Grace wakes up as the sole survivor of a last-chance effort to save Earth and its inhabitants.

Abriel has said that this story is so fully inspired by her grandmother's story that she didn't even change

When her mom shows up, Maddie jumps at the chance for some independence; a late bloomer, she finds a

jumps back in forth in time from when Paris was a young victim to her present, in which she's taken charge

Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, and Six Second-Chance

savviness she's gained through tracing the steps of her many other selves if she's going to stand any chance of each is dramatically affected by her own various small and large decisions, others' choices, and chance

Because if that were true, we wouldn't deserve another chance. And we do."

Scorah tells a fascinating personal story of growth and fear and change.

Carton was abducted by faeries when he was a small child, and his doppelgänger Charles Darnay is a changeling

Carton was abducted by faeries when he was a small child, and his doppelgänger Charles Darnay is a changeling

The six New York-set stories all take place around the year 2000, and they consider the impacts of chance

kingdom's evils are intensely detailed and extensively explored; this motivates characters to seek change

too rigid) but also for how to become more aware of issues surrounding local eating and how to effect change

But he had been charged with involvement in the rape of one of Martha's best friends, and now the sole

These days there's no more witching and no more will for spells and change in the world.

Sadie Green are brilliant, creative collaborators and a wonderfully complementary pair since their chance