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What other series that have to do with court, queens, and royalty would you include on this list? this was possibly my favorite among favorites), Thick As Thieves , and Return of the Thief are the other of the Tearling series by Erika Johansen Exiled Princess Kelsea is trying to reclaim the crown her mother

Circe, daughter of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, is an odd child.

Which other books would you include on this list? What fairy tales for grown-ups have you loved? The Girl in the Tower and The Winter of the Witch are the others, and I think Arden's stories get even The swirl of events draws other innocent young women into Miryem's complicated web and toward potential would have dreamed of becoming a doctor if society would allow it, but she's stuck working off her mother's

have BFF Marco along, and it's satisfying to witness Bree attempting to understand with compassion her mother's

Russians are systematically eliminating scientists who betrayed Mother Russia to England and MI6 years

Did you read any other science fiction novels in the past year (or otherwise) that you loved? Her mother is a street-smart, scrabbling single parent, while Adina is an unusually perceptive child- Some choose not to look into their boxes at all, while others use the knowledge of their short strings Now they must rely on each other to survive--and together they stumble upon a widespread plot with corruption majestic beauty of earth, feel emotional distance from those they've left behind, forge bonds with each other

when tragedy strikes the community (and specifically Frank's family: his minister father, artistic mother

The book's sequel is The Book Woman's Daughter, published earlier this year.

Arsonists' City, Hala Alyan presents a complicated situation for an extended family in which a Syrian mother clumsily come together, fighting through pain, working through misunderstanding, and forgiving each other

She frequently focuses on her obsession with Real Housewives, the Kardashians, and other reality television Her account of coping with the loss of her mother and her fears about her son's development feel more Without other options, she skulks back to her hometown in New York.

Island, Notes from a Big Country, and Down Under, as well as two books about the English language, Mother

Donna Everhart is also the author of The Road to Bittersweet, The Moonshiner's Daughter, The Education

Casey Peabody is an aspiring writer struggling with her novel, her mother's recent death, crushing financial For much of the book Casey is unraveling--her mother has died, she's estranged from her father, her grim

Ash is struggling with her own imperfections as a mother, wife, and friend as she tries to figure out

And which other books should I add to my food memoir to-read list? Reichl explores how one's appearance affects how others treat you--not a revolutionary concept, but I I found her teenage daughter's sections irritating, but it has to be tough to be a teenager drawn into She credits those who shaped her culinary journey: the Queen of Mold (her mother, a notorious food poisoner

title about retired middle-aged assassins, Killers of a Certain Age , and its sequel Kills Well with Others scenes didn't invite involuntary squealing or cringing on my part--they couple is really drawn to each other her beloved young niece the sky and serves as a second parent alongside her sometimes-trying single-mother You might also want to check out these other Bossy reviews of books about astronauts  and space . 04 Gerritsen In the second installment of the series, retired CIA agents build stronger bonds with each other

Catherine Newman is also the author of other books I love: We All Want Impossible Things , Waiting for outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing one eye, whose mother Characters frequently offer grand speeches to each other about how the world works, and these didn't If this book sounds appealing to you, you might also be interested in my Bossy reviews of other historical Winn's account of the unrelenting slog of World War I and the beautiful young men set against each other

For my full review of this book, please see The River. 03 Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera ​ I worried But she and the other characters were developed fully. For my full review of this book, please see Call Your Daughter Home. 04 The World That We Knew by Alice The golem and heron and other ethereal elements could have been distracting, but they worked. I kept thinking about it while I was doing other things, and I just wanted to get back to Edward to find

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

Do you have all-time favorite reads that you often recommend to others? The other doctors have all left. As she digs into the inspirations for her music she quotes her own lyrics--along with, occasionally, others The story begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late one night.

novel about a family straddling cultures and in which family members to find their way back to each other In the novel The Arsonists' City, Hala Alyan presents a family in which a Syrian mother, a Lebanese father Some are notable, others comfortable, and still others are full of destruction and pain. There's a lot to unpack from Haig's (also the author of How to Stop Time and others) fascinating premise

McConaughey mines his decades of diaries, lived experiences, memories, and other frequently unexpected or young adult sons; McConaughey recognizes the brutality and the unorthodox approach, but as with other occurrences of ferocity he mentions (his mother's broken fingers and varied instances of his parents ' volatile relationship are other examples of this), he accepts it, finds what wisdom or understanding

author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, writes about three sisters who were raised by a powerful mother young women is in the middle of her own high-stakes crisis, and none of them expects to ever find the others But when they unexpectedly cross each other's paths, the world's seams split, offering a glimpse into

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, and Ron Rash's Something Rich and Strange. 01 Thunderstruck & Other scenes (the artist's exhibition, the actual on-the-spot printed and posted corrections of "fact," and others Meloy is also the author of Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter as well as the story collection Half North Carolina's Rash (he teaches at Western Carolina University) is also the author of other Appalachia-set Made Straight, Burning Bright, Above the Waterfall, The Risen, The Cove, and One Foot in Eden, among others

Dodd, who has slaughtered various innocents and, Chenneville believes, requires Chenneville to exact They regarded each other silently. Something had happened, something he had not wanted to happen. these things were orbits and they heavenly bodies flung into certain trajectories to accompany each other

The characters' peering at and studying each other’s body patterns felt extremely invasive and intrusive (The father-daughter examination tradition at puberty--!

are orphaned siblings who must become tough as nails to make their way in the world and to boost each other journey with stories of the youth and origins of the siblings' recently deceased parents--their beloved mother

But her older sister Autumn has been emotionally closed off since their mother died and has become involved with the evolution of a love triangle; Ivy's reinforced comfort with her weight even as she notices others

O'Farrell, author of Hamnet, turns her attention to Renaissance Italy to tell a story of a precocious third daughter

taken out of the country to Nightlight, a secret conversion camp for homosexual minors, because of his mother's million" versions (including a fantasy version--which I'm intrigued by--as well as one set in England and other Connor's grasp of his mother’s involvement in shipping him off seems confused to an unlikely extent. feel deeply real and intimate: the fumbling scenes with Ario, the growing affection for Marcos, the other

and willing to go to great lengths to get her smart, emotionally unavailable, critical, passionate mother

every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and unforeseen connections to each other Code. ​6 Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben McIntyre Ursula Burton, an unassuming mother The unassuming-seeming mother and wife was actually a legendary spy who evaded capture by China, the

Meanwhile, Winston's wife is in cancer treatment and his daughter has just experienced a devastating

longtime friends and exes live in intimate solitude together, wondering about and worrying about their daughters

solitary young woman living in a large house outside of town, and Connell, a popular athlete whose mother She considers the fact that no one can be completely independent of others and tests out periods of fully

But others' visions for the story involve her eco-warrior main character morphing into a teen beauty joy-filled, energetic orbit--and into her loving family, which includes her volatile and no-nonsense mother bonds and reconsider their places in the world when they make choices that separate them from each other attention and sales, emerging with an enormous hit (and new pen name) overnight, as she would have others You might also like some of the other books with Indian settings I've reviewed on this Bossy site. 06

In The Once and Future Witches, Harrow writes about three sisters raised by a powerful mother who refused a young woman in the midst of her own high-stakes crisis, and none of them expects to ever find the others But when the long-lost sisters do unexpectedly cross each other's paths at last, the world's seams split I was especially taken with the sisters' complicated relationships with each other in The Once and Future

Have you loved any other romantic comedy or lighter fiction stories lately? in real life but now can't stand each other. But in real life, Shane and Lilah detest each other. I found the family dynamic related to her mother's demands of Elsie absurd. Margot Hammer, on the other hand, is miserable.

They wake up texting each other their usual taunts and challenges. Her youngest daughter died in an unthinkable accident, and for Molly, making her way through each day So she walks away--from her distant husband, her always-furious oldest daughter, her absent middle son

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

Much of his largely autobiographical fiction explored loss--he was haunted by losing his own mother when

But to be fair, she's emerging from a fog of trauma after her mother's death, her father has abandoned

beginning of Arudpragasam's A Passage North, twentysomething Krishan has moved home to live with his mother

Turner has also written a couple of other historical fiction books that look promising. 03 West by Carys So Cy leaves his ten-year-old daughter Bess with his sister, Bess's short-tempered aunt, although he to the land, they're connected to each other. and humans' desperate need for food and safety, the wives must face their hard feelings toward each other If others knew of it, they'd likely use it--and Lee--to their own advantage.

Light Fiction Favorites When I posted a few weeks ago about favorite light fiction reads and asked for other's Emmie Blue) the Hedgehog books by Jessica Redland books by Rachel Hauck Trish Doller's Float Plan and other What other lighter fiction authors or books do you love? She's good at crunching the numbers for work, taking care of her daughter, and leaning on her grandparents Click here for my reviews of Lauren's books The Unhoneymooners, In a Holidaze, Love and Other Words,

Eason In Eason's science fiction mystery, an unlikely pair who get on each other's nerves work together to determine who is responsible for a puzzling murder and other strange occurrences that threaten their the other's history or personal motivations. They begin to forge a stronger bond (despite how irritating they each find the other), but there's no She takes us through falling in love with her first husband Jay Molner, having their two daughters while

Mick, whose mother is emotionally unavailable (and hardly physically present), has a lot to figure out The girls fall hard for each other--but they've built their early relationship on lies that could destroy serving as a catalyst for fast-paced changes, the girls will have to figure out if they can trust each other McMahon The Drowning Kind is the newest story by McMahon, the author of The Winter People and many other

honesty about what Bloom perceives as her own instances of weakness and pettiness; intense kindness from others You can find my full review of In Love here. 02 No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear Ollie's attempts to make sense of things after his father Rich's death from cancer; it follows his mother heartbreaking to witness various family members' attempts to do what they think is best for themselves and for others

But when he returns home to bury his mother, magic bursts and gleams on the island--and long-held secrets

tracks Ollie's attempts to make sense of things after his father Rich's death from cancer; follows his mother