Angry, confused, and filled with dread, Robin drags her daughter Haley back to Four Points in hopes of without her past desperation, she wouldn't have found the strength to persist and take care of her daughter

In order to keep her husband, young daughters, and partner safe, Elise may have to keep some crucial Wish For, Things You Save in a Fire, The Bodyguard, How to Walk Away, Happiness for Beginners, and other

His mother died when he was young, and he has no memory of her. The weight put upon Hiram's inability to remember early moments with his mother felt unfair and its resolution of the real-life Still family for the family portrayed in The Water Dancer but refers the reader to other

She takes us through falling in love with her first husband Jay Molner, having their two daughters while work friendship with Matt Lauer, and her healthy professional competitiveness with Diane Sawyer and other I did find the personal, passing sharing of others' intimate details jarring, however (regarding lascivious

he calls himself "doctor"; his pleasant family pushes Sloane around regarding the wedding plans; his mother Yet by that point I was fully irritated by Arthur's careless cruelty--and others' eager exposure to it

Her mother is a street-smart, scrabbling single parent, while Adina is an unusually perceptive child-

You can click here for other historical fiction books I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. 01 Horse by Geraldine But Brooks also builds rich stories in each of the other interconnected timelines, as we see privileged Sharratt Sharratt offers vivid historical fiction details of the everyday life of Margery of Kempe, a mother No other book seemed to come up in conversation as frequently last year with my fellow book lovers as After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes

His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to strange, affecting situations, including those in which: the virus causes organs to transform into other in-between world of floating, nebulous memories that highlights humans’ struggles to connect to each other chance to look back on pivotal moments from their life, and some do so with regret or wistfulness, while others Characters appear in the backgrounds of others’ stories; a necklace disappears from one story in the

Have you read any other rom-com or romantic novels that you loved? They're polar opposites, and they drive each other crazy. They haven't seen each other since. But Gwendoline and Arthur detest each other. fell into the job years ago while trying to find herself--after a youth in which her father died, her mother

That is, until the cutthroat commanding general--who also happens to be Violet's mother--pushes her to You might also like these other books I've read and reviewed about dragons. 02 The Rachel Incident by

But what if that isn't the whole story of Medea, the daughter of a sea nymph and granddaughter of a Titan

Josie's studies and desire to learn more about her "virgin birth" drive a wedge between Josie and her mother Her mother's disappearance leads Josie to track down the other Girls, and together they discover strange , unique powers as they rely on each other and attempt to unravel their shared history.

Yunxian's eventual arranged marriage means she lives under the thumb of a controlling mother-in-law,

and Simon the Fiddler are two more by Paulette Jiles that I've waxed poetic about on this blog, and others If you like historical fiction, check out these other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists: Six Historical And which other books should I add to my Civil War historical fiction to-read list? This is a gentle, slow-paced story from the heart-wrenchingly gorgeous writer. 05 Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird Bird's Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen is based on the story of a real-life

complicated, sometimes fraught yet affectionate relationship with her dad, her youthful yearning for would-be mother mainly positive, almost dreamlike Saturday Night Live years, her writing and collaboration with various other

Do you have all-time favorite reads that you steadily recommend to others? The other doctors have all left. You might also be interested in other reads with World War I settings . 04 Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets You can also check out other memoirs I've read --and more musicians' memoirs . 05 Wrong Place, Wrong The story begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late one night.

Sharratt offers vivid historical fiction details of the everyday life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of begins to carefully share her vivid (and dangerously disruptive) loving religious visions with trusted others Julian's papers and her own visions; meeting largely with aggression, lies, and immense challenges; at other Sharratt has authored at least seven other historical fiction novels--including Illuminations, about

Kin Stewart will have to break all the rules of time travel to preserve the existence of his daughter Now he lives life as a regular guy; he works in IT, he’s happily married, and he has a beloved daughter When he begins to have memory loss and other odd symptoms, he realizes it’s linked to his past time travel have to break all the rules of time travel to attempt the impossible: preserve the existence of his daughter

I found the family dynamic related to her mother's demands of Elsie absurd.

points of view of the persecuted, disrespected, and dismissed: prostitutes, the poor, unwed teenage mothers Sometimes Dolly lets them fall, but other times her songs about freedom (with her metaphors of butterflies

Mary Sharratt also wrote Revelations, historical fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother

She's facing her mother’s decline in health and exploring her own identity and meaning in her life, and As always, there are references to other parts of the David Mitchell universe, and the links to other She's Hollywood royalty, and her former movie star mother lives in a home on the same compound. Kolker ​ Robert Kolker retraces the lives of Mimi and Don Glavin as they raise their ten sons and two daughters She can serve as a muse; she can inspire music and art in others; she can learn what others want or need

Gould grew up in Australia the daughter of a paramedic, and she follows in her father's footsteps, training Anthropocene Reviewed (which was one of my six favorite nonfiction reads the year I read it) as well as other took shape in the 1970s and 1980s and grew up to terrorize the Pacific Northwest--and, in some cases, other

collaboration, the characters of the president and Adams, political enemies, must quickly learn to trust each other I was particularly taken with the familial angle (Secretary of State Adams's daughter has taken over

On the other hand, Max is always crashing in late for their dates and dashing off abruptly in the middle marry and settle down (something she has no interest in), main protagonist Grace heads to her deceased mother's Holmes inserts the reader directly into the joy and heartache of two people who adore each other and After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes Garmus's characters test themselves and others, shy away from connection, dive into love, question the

If you like those too, you might like to search the site for other books in this vein, or check out the Reliving-Life Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore. 03 Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other her children's health challenges and takes the reader through her son's emergence of epilepsy and her daughter's

is putting a damper on things, in Malibu, California, famous model and skilled surfer Nina Riva--the daughter Nina's parents' tangled love story, Nina's youth, her famous surfer/photographer siblings' stories, and others Stories about Bands and Music, as well as the books The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, After I Do, and others

After a terrible storm that took her mother's life, young Fable was abandoned by her father, who's a He becomes involved with the family whose daughter and ward died as he works to find clues, donning disguises

for the affluent Padgetts, who own the marble-mining company that employs Sylvie's father and many other secrets, and doing "one right thing," a way of navigating the world that Sylvie has learned from her mother

months in the life of an extended family--including a stolid patriarch and matriarch, a free-spirited daughter , a spunky and fantastic granddaughter Gussie, a daughter with another grandchild on the way, a deadbeat Anything that was wrapped up a little too neatly didn’t bother me at all; I was all in and satisfied.

But when she returns to the lake for Sam Florek's mother's funeral, she's swept back into the connection

And all of this seems potentially linked to his deceased, brilliant mother's life's work--from before chases; the most intense sibling rivalry imaginable, interesting scenes of superhumans' outsmarting each other ; and noble desires to "save the world" that conflict with others’ similar desires in crucial ways--and

husband will adhere to her wishes--and begins to carefully share her vivid religious visions with trusted others Julian's papers and her own visions, meeting at times with aggression, lies, and immense challenges; at other Jen married young and is about to become a mother, while Riley is poised to become one of the first Black Their lives have gone in different directions, but the women still care about each other.

Kaikeyi is one of eight children and the only daughter of a king whose lands are ruled by the gods' powerful fights for autonomy, for a voice, for strength, for knowledge--and she is determined to secure these for other

His father's out of the picture, his mother's in jail, his stepfather is gone, and his best friend and If he can just manage his mother's tendency to fall in with the wrong man; get the reporter Caitlyn Spies recurring dreams and his brother August's premonitions might mean; and determine whose voice is on the other He can't face any other possibility. In many ways, Boy Swallows Universe defies categorization. were fully implausible, with questionable, fleeting benefits that felt sure to end badly, and some other

with a potentially dangerous man in the vulnerable middle of nowhere, and her struggle to protect her daughter O'Farrell is also the author of other books I've really liked: Hamnet, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox books I haven't yet read: After You'd Gone, The Distance Between Us, The Hand that First Held Mine, and others

The family farm in Nebraska has been foreclosed upon, his mother is gone, and his father has recently A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious

She's Barbara Van Lear, the daughter of the owners of the camp where many local residents work. house, she discovers a horrible tragedy--two of her sisters (one, her best friend) are dead and two others Other books that center around a podcast are Listen for the Lie   (reviewed above) and also the Good and Tokyo Dreaming  and Tokyo Forever , as well as Mika in Real Life , Empress for All Seasons , and other

The Coneses are a "respectable" family, her mother says approvingly, and the father of the family is suddenly has a front-row seat to wild behavior, musical experimentation, group therapy, and all sorts of other Blau is also the author of six other books.

the medical profession during an era when this was not the norm, and the details of her care for new mothers

In the northern Appalachian mountains, Cooper and his young daughter Finch live in complete isolation This series of unexpected events upends everything for Cooper--some in the best ways and others in the

When her mother faces a health crisis, as they’ve long feared one of them might, the family's security jobs (in a sweatshop, sewing factory, with cold, purpled hands rolling sushi for endless hours, and others immigrants in the US so terrifyingly tenuous and measures that could potentially shift this situation for others

young adult science fiction novel Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, young Sena has lost both of her mothers But first she'll have to trust others for the first time and leave herself vulnerable to them--and she'll

centers around Sunday Brennan, who has returned home to her New York hometown where her own secrets--and others Without other options, she skulks back to her hometown in New York. interesting that within the almost mythological family that is based upon so much lore, the deceased mother

Her widowed mother and her longtime best friend are each in love with wonderful partners, and Shay's exes in order to host a promising radio show about relationships, they're forced to get to know each other

I'd love to hear about others you love! Now he lives life as a regular guy; he works in IT, he’s happily married, and he has a beloved daughter When he begins to have memory loss and other odd symptoms, he realizes it’s linked to his past time travel have to break all the rules of time travel to attempt the impossible: preserve the existence of his daughter There are links to other Mitchell books and characters if you're paying attention, but the book can stand

She frequently focuses on her obsession with Real Housewives, the Kardashians, and other reality television Her experiences in television were interesting, and her account of coping with the loss of her mother

Raised by a codependent, emotionally stunted alcoholic mother who frequently abandons the kids for days

Click here   for my full review of A Song to Drown Rivers --and for links to my Bossy reviews of other The children are largely unattended during this time, but their bonds to each other are solidified. They're from other times in history. What brings the book to life are versions of the real-life figures of Mother Jones (the elderly woman He teaches English to children and adjusts to the shock of living in a flat with many other people--and

Anthropocene Reviewed  (which was one of my six favorite nonfiction reads  the year I read it) as well as other own sometimes dark writing, she is disgusted by the rest of her cohort--childish women who call each other Denny lives a quiet life in small-town Minnesota, caring for his elderly mother with the companionship zing about a secretly trans high school teacher in a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other