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Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing

For my full review, please see The Exiles.) 02 The Comeback Grace Turner was one movie away from Hollywood Now Grace is back and ready for her comeback, but she's realizing that the only way she'll be able to

This isn't a fast-paced series, yet I've consistently felt hooked on how the cases build--and on the Galbraith's pacing pulls you along without cheap twists, and the writing is precise and wonderful, with

young brothers desperately trying to stay together and stay alive in rural Idaho; Wendy Heard's fast-paced With Nico's troublemaking and incessant challenges to the status quo serving as a catalyst for fast-paced

I found all of this extensive description fascinating, even as it slowed the pacing of the story and

author posits that when grief, worry, or challenges feel overwhelming, shifting your schedule and your pace

As he faces the scheduled yearly vacation to Hilton Head, he attempts to get rid of her belongings--and

, with a fun Parent Trap-style backdrop--and weighty issues like depression that are addressed with grace This is an excellent example of how authors of light fiction can take on weighty issues with grace and

undocumented workers; the family members experience years of constant fears of deportation; and then they must face The title may be a little self-conscious, but the book itself is darkly funny, with wonderfully paced Yet there are bright points: some rare friendships emerge, sisters build intense loyalty to each other

Margot by Marianne Cronin, another debut novel, this time about friends from different generations facing

optimistically planned during her mom's illness, and she's set on revisiting the places her mom has raved When Katy wakes up one day faced with her actual own mother standing in her hotel lobby in the prime

Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing many moving parts and family characters are fluidly shaped into compelling reading by Willner, and the pacing

what would come to pass, and what the real story was to read somewhat slowly compared to the energetic pacing

The book started off at a measured pace.

This is a fast-paced book, as Dolly talks about various thoughts as related to 175 of her songs, while

I listened to Katie Couric's memoir Going There, in which she traces her media career from its modest Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing

In book two, Less Is Lost, Arthur faces the death of a former lover and a financial crisis--and again

Faced with witnessing growing and varied injustices at Betty's hands, Annabelle must determine what she's

Can they learn to trust each other and face the past in order to move forward?

Elizabeth McCracken After her larger-than-life mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book faces

Krueger also wrote Ordinary Grace, which I reviewed on the blog here, and he writes a mystery series

She reflects on how to best bravely and honestly face the reality of her experience and its implications She faces the myriad challenges of reliving and asserting her decades-old case yet again, against continued account of her teenage years and all that occurred after her attack inspired a simmering, murderous rage

the family is driven onward--for better or worse--by what their son, Trelawny, calls “the exquisite, racking

letting someone in again to two tragically reunited former college roommates; from a mourning elderly man faced

After Playlist, takes on a meet-cute between a rural renaissance man (he's the small-town mayor, a graceful

One standout for me was the strong women in the face of men's abuses of power and physical cruelty.

Flying Solo, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown, stinging from her recently canceled wedding, facing

this book courtesy of NetGalley and Fire Drinkers Publishing. 02 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Ryland Grace

whose answers her mother took to her grave, establishes the link between the secrets and the dangers facing

I really enjoyed Robuck's writing style, the details of the time, the pacing of the book's events, and

Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing

While facing what feels like disaster after disaster, Jill struggles to give her boys the support, structure

together fascinating facts she had never recognized; and as she wonders what else could go awry, she faces

one was jointly written by two authors, one was set in London, two have contemporary settings--and I rated Stay tuned for my rave review of the sequel! Click here for my full review of The Box in the Woods. 04 Alias Emma by Ava Glass Alias Emma is a fast-paced This fast-paced thriller tracks Emma and Michael, the distractingly handsome son of Russian dissidents

in small-town Australia with dark secrets and twists and turns; and she offers more of her excellent pacing

She is facing her mother’s decline in health and exploring her own identity and meaning in her life,

There's a freckle-faced young lady staring unflinchingly at the reader from the striking cover of Adrienne

When grief, worry, or challenges feel overwhelming, treating your schedule and your pace as though it

The Five-Star Bossy Favorites Someone asked me a while back if I ever give five-star ratings to the books In her memoir In Love, author Amy Bloom shares the story of an impossible situation: how she faced the offers meaningful insight, gritty truth-telling, and wry humor as she shares her experiences surrounding facing

Emil cements his atheist views in the face of unimaginable evils.

Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) in the Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing

Bess, stuck at home, traces Cy's optimistic travel route on a map (and, disturbingly, struggles multiple When a sudden upheaval results in both husbands' absences, their wives must face their hard feelings This was really nicely paced with gripping details of the trek and of Lee's life on the road. This is the first book in Rae Carson's young adult Gold Seer trilogy set in Gold Rush-era America; the

There's also draaama, drawn-out aaangst, and romaaance, plus some steamy-racy scenes.

And that was enough for me to show up, and say so to his face.”

racism; and digs in to try to be one of what he hopes will be the ever-increasing number of diverse faces Francisco DA Wes Farrell helped send Paul Riley to prison years ago when Riley was convicted of the rape

So far it feels nicely paced, and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's

in small-town Australia with dark secrets and twists and turns, and she offers more of her excellent pacing

lost her husband and teenage twins a year ago and, unsurprisingly, since then she hasn't been able to face

on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is vividly set in Europe and Russia and was a rare of typos here distracting, but I really enjoyed Robuck's writing style, the details of the time, the pacing

feels real, and for a year Laurie can't get him out of her head, searching everywhere she goes for that face