This is a wonderfully paced and recounted Cold War-era true story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, The Spy and the Traitor is a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue Ben Macintyre deftly traces the webs of deceit, greed, bravery, and the desire for heroic glory that

I will tell you, if there is a thing harder than facing danger, it's knowing it's headed your way. Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1) by Rebecca Ross I liked Divine Rivals and the gutsy characters facing Click here to read my rave reviews of Claire Keegan's novels Foster and Small Things Like These and her

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

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

, 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

unorthodox searches for self and meaning--while coping with versions of the universal challenges women have faced

--she has to face facts: It really seems undeniable that Max...is a superhero.

I thought this was wonderful. 02 The Grace Year by Kim Liggett It feels like freedom, but we know it's The Grace Year is the type of book I could’ve stayed up all night reading.

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

When a supervillain breaks into Astrid's apartment, she has to face facts: It really seems undeniable

Harris's book is fast-paced, without a lot of page time spent setting a background or lingering on self-reflection

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listening to this as an audiobook, and it's such a slow build, I'm both eager for it to ramp up in pacing in small-town Australia with dark secrets and twists and turns; and she offers more of her excellent pacing

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whose answers her mother took to her grave, establishes the link between the mysteries and dangers facing lost her husband and teenage twins a year ago and, unsurprisingly, since then she hasn't been able to face through the destructive gossip app taking down reputations and revealing secrets, and they managed to trace Friends and siblings are pitted against each other, and some of our main protagonists are faced with characters of Maeve, Nate, Phoebe, Bronwyn, and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites and new faces

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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