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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?

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

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

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

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

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

“I’m a woman, kid.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A recent murder victim's DNA matches a long-dead serial killer, and a string of bodies hold clues that

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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