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The women's lifelong friendship felt like the heart of the story and was a fantastic element. The grown women's lives aren't what they envisioned, but they remain tightly bound and even (somehow, The women's lifelong friendship felt like the heart of the story and was a fantastic element.

who resents Penny's long-ago abandonment of him but knows that the girl he once adored is an innocent woman

From dung beetles to a 44,000-year-old shrub; from the incredibly strong, tiny peacock mantis shrimp

Then something really strange happens. As Evie's putting her former favorite romance books into a Little Free Library, a wizened old woman approaches

newest Western-set story by Olivia Hawker, she tells the tale of the interconnected lives of three women

I really enjoyed Fowler's book A Well-Behaved Woman. The outdated views of women, purity, careers, and education expressed repeatedly and in detail by Juniper's

navigates danger and helps achieve justice by using her smarts, eschewing societal tradition and limits on women

coast of California; and Dark Roads, Chevy Stevens's suspenseful novel, out next week, about young women is set in the wilderness and rugged terrain of British Columbia, along a highway where unsuspecting women

“In the end, the courage of women can’t be stamped out, and stories—the big ones, the true ones, can gasped and enveloped law firms, and PR shops, and executive suites, and industries; that swallowed women was so distracted by Farrow’s versions of others’ voices and accents—*especially* the way he voiced women

In a life-and-death moment, the kids laugh and try to insult the woman who is threatening them and possibly easy to imagine that as a kidnapped teen who has demonstrated a rebellious streak and an increasingly strong

seemingly insurmountable complications; chosen family; and the healing power of love--in this atmospheric, strange Birdie allows herself to overlook his strange behavior because he cares for them and offers an immersive

be cruel, ruthless, and he's Wren's sworn enemy, a deadly force who has destroyed her countrymen and women Hoffman's The World That We Knew--featured in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

Barker's novel features Janet, a misunderstood, mocked, badly treated young woman coming of age in a

study conclusions: "The average SAT score of schools that rejected a student is more than twice as strong

rural art commission to a leisurely country-wide search, an unlikely obsession, moments of brutality, strange Bracken's story offered sassy banter that I loved, a great enemies-to-(not-quite)-lovers setup, a strong

that someone is plunging the party down through layers of reality, through echoes of time in which strange stop the sinister game causing deaths (both reversible and permanent), how to outwit the increasingly strange

Miller has a strong, passionate grasp of widely experienced inequalities—and ideas of how to chip away

Hazel is a strong personality, and I found myself bristling at her questioning whether she's too much about the unrealistic body images of the stars of Main Squeeze (a reality TV show in which a single woman

is Benedict and Murray's historical fiction based on the real figure of Belle da Costa Greene, the woman She was a Black woman who hid her heritage in order to serve in this powerful role—one that was unusual for a woman to serve in at the time, but would have been all but impossible for a Black woman.

the United States are suffering from Alzheimer's at any given moment--and that two-thirds of them are women

violence is so out of character for Luke, the hostages are never identified, and Luke was behaving strangely Are the strange coordinates she's receiving on her phone after seven years a message from Luke?

I loved the Ottoman Empire setting, the strong female main protagonist, and the complications and sometimes

As a woman, she won't be accepted into the guild without a chaperone, and her most likely candidate is single-mindedly set out to learn enough complex, intuitive, precise, powerful magic to become the first woman

twisty mystery is set against the backdrop of an unforgiving winter on an Australian island, with two women Only when the two women's worlds intersect can they piece together the full stories of their husbands

ten stories you may never have heard before that take place around the world, and it showcases young women There are such strong messages of acceptance, embracing diversity, and practicing intense loyalty to

a reason to kill you; witch might be someone to heal you; witch can be the Devil, or witch can be a woman In Hester: A Novel, Laurie Lico Albanese reimagines the woman who inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester needlework and the colors she sees in the world are captivatingly described, and the tenuous situation for a woman

school, where she struggles with imposter syndrome and individuality--and befriends Mathilde, a young woman

But Divya is too busy crafting strong female main protagonists (complete with working mother guilt, which

, she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different potential paths for interlinked young women

Yet Kingsolver keeps Demon's voice strong even as he falters and as everything he has counted on seems

II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

But as the wedding week goes on, each woman is surprised by what she discovers about herself and the In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious building bonds deeper than either could have imagined; the love story between the bridge and Gore is strange

she pokes fun at her fellow writer in a sketch about talented but average-looking men dating gorgeous women I read Illuminations with a group of women over a period of months, and we were captivated by the details

world as World War II looms; I'm reading When the Day Comes, Gabrielle Meyer's time-travel story of a woman Amita Parikh In Amita Parikh's upcoming (to be published December 6) novel The Circus Train, a young woman In 1914, she's an independent single woman and suffragette, wealthy and expected to marry a man appropriate

single-mindedly set out to learn enough complex, intuitive, precise, powerful magic to become the first woman

After recently pulling together the Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

“I’m a woman, kid.

But as the wedding week goes on, each woman is surprised by what she discovers about herself and the

When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--her persistent presence The shift has made for strange bedfellows—and a prickly partnership between our main protagonist, Ellen

Meanwhile, privileged Charlotte has her own secrets, and when both women's true situations begin to be the Irish and other immigrant groups, as well as introducing a heart-wrenching unrequited love of one woman

I also loved seeing two strong, clever, diametrically opposed queens savvily playing with the lines of

But a strange feeling pervades everything on the island. Meanwhile, flashes of her past seem to be resurfacing on this strange island, the other couple staying

But when a young woman shows up bleeding at his home, then mysteriously disappears, he is shocked into

In Hester, Laurie Lico Albanese reimagines the woman who inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne Everhart includes one of my favorite setups, in which a woman dresses as a man in order to achieve some For my full review, please check out The Marriage Portrait. 06 The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek was a winning read for me. Appalachian setting? Check. I'm not sure why it took me so long to read Kim Michele Richardson's The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

I'm happy to tell you that this one lived up to its strong start.

friendship with Matt Lauer, and her healthy professional competitiveness with Diane Sawyer and other women

Pines , the first book in Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines trilogy, secret agent Ethan Burke wakes up in a strange But as Ethan learns more about the car accident and about the strange town of Wayward Pines, he develops

Our main protagonist puzzles and angers those around her by challenging the limitations of what women or say in the year 1400, and the Church is particularly galled and upset by the audacity of such a woman

book in Martha Wells's Murderbot series (this is the first full-length book in the set) starts off strong

Kimmery Martin's Doctors and Friends begins with a group of seven women, friends since medical school Stout Stout's middle-grade story is irresistibly strange, full of difficulties and a tough young heroine's