Orphan Train (which I really liked) and A Piece of the World (which I loved), tells the story of three women's becomes pregnant and is ultimately sent to prison in “the land beyond the seas"; Hazel, a savvy young woman

and she believes they're linked to the curse that the community believes has its hold on the Farrow women

billions, those who willfully, blatantly, and continually threatened and stole from their countrymen and -women Browder's writing occasionally stopped me with clunky-feeling descriptions (for example, women's looks

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

rural art commission to a leisurely country-wide search, an unlikely obsession, moments of brutality, strange Heart by Emma Donoghue Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women

Hannah Brooks, an innocent-looking bodyguard for a superstar action hero; I'm listening to The Book Woman Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually an Executive Protection Agent- prepublication audiobook version of this book courtesy of MacMillan Audio and NetGalley. 02 The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Kim Michele Richardson's The Book Woman of Troublesome The book's sequel is The Book Woman's Daughter, published earlier this year. 03 Weather Girl by Rachel

mysterious box with an inscription on the outside reading "The measure of your life lies within" and a string The source of the boxes is unknown, but it quickly becomes clear that the string length correlates to Some choose not to look into their boxes at all, while others use the knowledge of their short strings as excuses to act without the same consequence as before; some with long strings question the participation

Cribb, Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott, and Enemy Women It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have detail the hardscrabble life of a newly freed Black person—and the often desperate circumstances of women (especially Black women) without men to protect them at the time.

01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, it's 1948, and Iris Digby, her American I loved Williams's immersive story so much, I was in for all of Our Woman in Moscow's elements: Russia For my full review, check out Our Woman in Moscow. 02 In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom Stout Stout's middle-grade story is irresistibly strange, full of difficulties and a tough young heroine's

This is a slim book that's full of heart and strange, captivating details of Chambers's imagined world 03 Hester: A Novel by Laurie Lico Albanese In Hester: A Novel, Laurie Lico Albanese reimagines the woman

persons detective who experiences a personal tragedy and dives into solving the disappearances of young women anonymity and an escape to the woods to grieve and be alone, but she quickly finds out that a young local woman forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of a young woman's this book, please see Deadly Education. 05 Normal People by Sally Rooney Marianne, a solitary young woman This sci-fi thriller is about the forces that drive apart a husband and wife, but it's not the other-woman

This is the third and final book in Katherine Arden's strong, fanciful, often wonderfully dark Winternight

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

The swirl of events draws other innocent young women into Miryem's complicated web and toward potential Ji Lin doesn’t fit the mold of a typical woman from 1930s Malaysia or that of the British colonists living She speaks her mind and ruffles feathers even as she exploits assumptions about women, sexual attraction The Dragon keeps them safe from the Wood, but at a high price: each year he demands one young woman from

Mystery series with strong female protagonists?

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

is caught in the bardo, a limbo between life and death, and she encounters other stuck characters in strange There's a scene made up of strange dynamics in which Sandra is perilously stuck in a cave tunnel during

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

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

The book seems to lend itself to an audiobook format because of Odenkirk's strong voice and manner of

And he emphasizes his own strong belief (and the supporting data) that what a young person does with

I love the tone of this trilogy: playful, otherworldly, and with faulted, greedy, scared, strong, angry

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

To honor his friend, he'll need to be strong enough for Maisie and Grant, despite his own pain and fears

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

Bridie is a strong female protagonist, and Things In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of

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

her grandparents lived and where she was born, here offers stories spanning forty years, featuring women

shared with her deceased husband, and issues surrounding the secret threaten to crack her formerly strong

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

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

lives of the Earp brothers (and also includes some of the story of Doc Holliday), the men’s various strong

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

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

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

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

situation of trapped girls devolving into paranoia, mayhem, fury, and destruction, with a wonderfully strong thought the teen girls’ “magic” and its perception by the girls themselves (and especially by the men and 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

To honor his friend, he'll need to be strong enough for Maisie and Grant, despite his own pain and fears

“I’m a woman, kid.

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