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Set in sixth century Scotland, The Forgotten Kingdom traces the story of Languoreth, a strong, imprisoned

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

Crosby Eckstine's richly detailed historical fiction explores the life of Junie, an enslaved young woman

Inland by Téa Obreht Much of Téa Obreht's Inland is centered around Nora, an impulsive, hot-tempered, strong woman fighting for a hardscrabble life for her family in a remote town during a devastating drought.

The Piano Tuner is a strange, slowly paced adventure story but also an anti-imperialist, pro-music take

Carrie Fisher The Princess Diarist is based upon the diaries Carrie Fisher kept while she was a young woman A Writer's Life by Lee Smith “...the linear, beginning-middle-end form doesn’t fit the lives of any women

In the charming story We'll Prescribe You a Cat , a winding, hard-to-find Kyoto alleyway leads to a strange

He's struggling to maintain two relationships--with Naomi, a playful and uninhibited younger woman, and

It's a fairytale-like love letter to Paris in which a staid young woman has almost magical encounters

his 1940 Ford, driving fast, avoiding federal agents, and living with his grandmother, a healer with strong

and Irish Stories Donal Ryan is also the author of The Queen of Dirt Island ,  The Spinning Heart ,  Strange

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

used to love, who resents his own abandonment but knows that the girl he once adored is an innocent woman

This was sweet and strange, and I really liked it.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Our Woman in Moscow, Beatriz Williams's story of Cold War espionage 01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow

Chona is one link between the two groups, serving as the key nonjudgmental middle-woman in the story.

indicate Cozy Mystery (well, aside from the blood in the teacup), while the story feels more intricate and strange

In City of Girls, Gilbert writes about a young woman's coming of age in 1940s New York City and traces Vivian, now an older woman, is writing letters to a younger woman about her own youthful indiscretions entertaining, sexy, and an interesting burst of feminism and freedom in an era when many believed that a woman's

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

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

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

But his mother's story helped Jost set the scene for his own origins and his strong Staten Island roots

and unrest--which spurs on some citizens to attempt to shift the kingdom toward becoming a land with strong

1960s girl groups, their often working-class backgrounds, and the power disconnects between the young women

The Humans is funny, strange, deep, and lovely. I loved it. on each other's nerves work together to determine who is responsible for a puzzling murder and other strange But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study could

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road, fantasy about a headstrong young woman In Hartman's Tess of the Road, Tess doesn't fit the mold of an obedient, quiet young woman in her medieval (I love a "woman dresses as a man to achieve an end" trope!)

author of The Island of Missing Trees . 03 Spellslinger (Spellslinger #1) by Sebastien De Castell “I’m a woman

The long-ago brutal death of a young woman in the town was introduced early but faded in weight in what

Williamson In an alternate 1923 London, a young woman inadvertently disturbs the peace between humans

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

They were all strange. They were all flawed. Together, they managed to survive.

Clever beavers feature heavily in this book, and I never felt as though this strange element gelled with

Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy plays with time to allow a grieving young woman to know her mother I enjoyed how Serle played with time to allow a young woman to know her mother at her same age.

Jessica is a single, middle-aged mom, a successful lawyer, and a helpful mentor to the younger women

I loved the dark academia setting; the brilliant, socially awkward, unlikely heroine Neema; and the strange

wasn't the only Dolly Parton book published this year (She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Pyle Last year I gave Strange Planet to teenagers and young-at-heart family members on my gift list;

These are my current Bossy book wishes, whether because my library doesn't have a copy (Strange Gods; Click here to check out my full review of The Book of Delights. 03 Strange Gods by Alison Kimble In Alison Kimble's Strange Gods (published in 2021), Spooky arrives at a wilderness camp for troubled teens bracing generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven’s freighter the Jonah breaks down in a strange

really liked; and other books set in the American West (such as Epitaph); historical fiction (2019's Women

mentions of endless projects, ideas, collaborations, and plans make clear she's one of the hardest working women

But the revealed backstory in the second part of the novel was dark and strange and creepy, with surprises

Catalina is a high-energy coming-of-age novel about a spirited young woman trying to save everyone she

characters are presented as selfless but are shown to in truth be horribly selfish; some of those who seem strange

It also features racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women, an element Women explore traditional roles and push back against infuriating chauvinism; characters consider their

Is it strange that I was so fascinated by a book about tuberculosis that I kept setting it aside so that

French's book is starting off really strong, and One of Us Is Lying has me hooked.

Meanwhile, his small-town mother is exploring her feelings for a wealthy woman who is also her business

I love a Gold Rush story, a young adult story, a story about brave young women meeting challenges.

references a scene in which the main character's sculptor friend is working on a headless piece of a woman

out of the moment by multiple instances of odd tone shifts and what felt like repeated nonsensical or strange and youthful exclamation "I miss sex" seems to come out of nowhere; sexual innuendos seem to come at strange

Veronica and Stoker; the allusions to each of their complicated pasts; their hilarious banter; and their strong-willed