community that wouldn't allow her to forget--all drove Arden to move and then move again, eventually changing

, sweat, and tears, and the appealingly messy second-chance attempts at being true to themselves and

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

And I was annoyed by Dane’s giving up on himself and then, late in the book—and possibly too late to change

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

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.

more stressful and Emma's mother shows up, will the potentially serious feelings between them stand a chance

Nico's troublemaking and incessant challenges to the status quo serving as a catalyst for fast-paced changes

Johnson transports you to her late 1980s teenage bubble and allows you to live through her sharply life-changing Benway In Far from the Tree, Benway examines the pain of a young woman’s pregnancy and her permanently changed

stuck, and friendship, and listening to your instincts, with vampires serving mainly as a catalyst for change

When her mom shows up from Ghana, Maddie jumps at the chance for some independence; a late bloomer, she For my full review, please check out We All Want Impossible Things. 06 Changeless (Parasol Protectorate books and laughed out loud at the dialogue, Alexia's abrupt manner, and the delightful oddities in Changeless review (and a link to my review of the first book in the Parasol Protectorate series), please check out Changeless

includes some footnotes), desperately trying to establish whether there were signs, or if she has simply changed

shifts allow a story to go places it otherwise never could, allowing for unusual perspective, second chances intrigued by time-travel stories, you might also like the books on these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Second-Chance

The elaborate climactic scene was creatively gruesome—and I felt realistic disgust as a result.

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

Wood gorgeously evokes the many characters and unfathomable events that changed her family's existence

their departure before packing up to leave for good--and that's when she encounters something that changes

including her life's one tender connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge

is forced to consider her life and the person she's become--and determine whether she's capable of change

The capable Pamela yet again must take charge despite her fear and rage and pain.

their relationship is discovered, they're cruelly punished by being abandoned on an island with little chance

his teacher and the other thieves in the area--and taking in young people who are also fighting for a chance

embracing of the beauty in an everyday life and in straightforward affection, the heartbreak of missed chances

What types of books are you reading, and have you found that your reading habits have changed during

Bridget has a chance at a stable new beginning--yet she's young and can't stifle her yearning for adventure

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

In "Alcatraz," characters count on officially changing the erroneous facts of their family's history

Appalachian cultural norms—fighting, distrusting the government and media, not believing hard work results in change

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

The elaborate climactic scene was creatively gruesome—and I felt realistic disgust as a result.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A chance meeting shifts the paths of their lives forever.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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