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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

memoir by Matthew McConaughey; a thriller that's about a cheating husband, genetic cloning, and the strong

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

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

attention to unspoken bonds, deep and unorthodox friendships, makeshift families, legendary dogs, and strong A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious

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

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

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

have felt overused from use in other stories (a tough, closed-off investigator, broken by her past; a strong

This is a novel, but the spirit of the book felt authentic to what we know about Carrie Fisher's strong

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

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

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

Sabbath and what doing so means to her; she considers alternative interpretations regarding some of the women

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

weighty questions about identity, reality, motives, and events of the past threaten the lives of both women

Hazel is a strong personality, but I found myself bristling at her questioning whether she's too much

challenges of being a Black female lawyer in what increasingly seems like an Atlanta company hostile to women

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

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?

When the women are tipped off by their accidental underworld contacts that there's a hit out on Finlay's

In Michelle Moran's novel Maria , she uses two timelines to shape the story of the real woman behind

When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest

In Beautyland, Bertino offers a poignant, funny, strange story full of extraterrestrial observations Beautyland is strange, poignant, and funny.

into a destructive relationship with a volatile older artist, while Sunny is living with an American woman

have felt overused from use in other stories (a tough, closed-off investigator, broken by her past; a strong Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May, The Arctic Fear by Greer Macallister, Woman

It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have