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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/29/21 Edition

    that may get them both killed; and Jennifer McMahon's dive into a family's haunting history that has mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/24/21 Edition

    the attention of a nearby diner, who mistakenly interprets what's happening and leaves Finlay with a mysterious

  • Review of Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

    The best-friendships are fantastic. I think Emma's best friend Maddy probably needs her own book (a la Christina Lauren's fantastic True

  • Review of Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy

    made famous by a well-known author that is directly referenced within the text), so there isn't much mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition

    thriller, which is set in the wilderness and concerns old lovers thrown together in hopes of finding a mysteriously

  • Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    It's Real by Ann Liang I was hooked by Liang's fake-dating, famous-everyday relationship duo setup, fantastically In town, she'll always be known as The Girl Who Solved a Murder Mystery by Talking to Ghosts, with all

  • Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West

    The two disparate stories intersect in an unlikely way in 1890s Arizona Territory, and fantastical elements Jess's voice was fantastic. If you like historical fiction mysteries, you might try the books listed here: Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.

  • Six More Short Story Collections I Loved

    In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, the fantastic Jo Ann Beard explores MacArthur is also the author of the mystery Heart Spring Mountain. With masterful storytelling, King builds a world within each short story that feels immediate, sometimes

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/20/23 Edition

    Until June witnesses Athena's death and mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers during

  • Review of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

    It's necessary for the plot for Alex to wait an interminably long time to review mystery items she is when these individuals then disappear, Alex doesn't feel the impetus to explore their letters or a mystery

  • Review of Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

    working for the charming complex's owner, all the while cultivating her obsession with a reclusive, mysterious

  • May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Then their run abruptly ended, and for the public, the reasons for their breakup were a mystery. Definitely Better Now . 06 I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Harpman's slim novel poses a mysterious

  • Review of The Trackers by Charles Frazier

    In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly hiding something

  • Review of Funny Story by Emily Henry

    The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one. I listened to Funny Story as an audiobook (narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan) courtesy of Libro.fm

  • Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

    , comfortable current life, the husband she loves, and her kids--or upset everything to explore the fantasy

  • Review of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

    Then a mysterious package arrives at the shop, and A.J. Fikry is suddenly...changed.

  • Review of Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

    great series by Neuvel, in which a girl stumbles upon pieces of a giant robot and makes solving the mystery to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious artifacts she stumbled across as a child, but the mysteries

  • Review of Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall

    Looking for Jane is a story of women living in three timelines who are linked through decades by a mysterious

  • Review of Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine

    That is, until the mysterious Maddalena arrives.

  • Review of The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

    And my heart raced while I read to find out if this fraught situation would blow up in fantastic form

  • April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    are the books I most loved reading in April: Exiles, the third in Jane Harper's Australian Aaron Falk mystery Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at

  • September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking Notice, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after its breakup--and the crimes, mysteries For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/14/22 Edition

    during the communist coup of 1978, Sparks Like Stars; I'm reading Lisa Gardner's recently published mystery Stars as an audiobook. 02 One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin #2) by Lisa Gardner Lisa Gardner's recent mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/28/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham's recent mystery about twisty mystery The Missing Piece continues his popular Dismas Hardy series.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/4/23 Edition

    Beresford pieces together the story of Hannah's life from her first-person account--and tries to solve a mystery

  • January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    reads of the past month include, in no particular order: The Maid, Nita Prose's recently published mystery Prose offers a surprising amount of heart and a unique main protagonist in this lighthearted murder mystery In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, the fantastic Jo Ann Beard explores

  • Review of Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

    When June witnesses Athena's death and then mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers

  • Review of Gregor the Overlander (The Underland Chronicles #1) by Suzanne Collins

    talking) creepy-crawlies in this middle-grade novel, you'll find a noble quest, unlikely heroes, a mysterious

  • Review of Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

    the story, Sager does a good job of providing her with a stubborn grip on what she sees as truth over fantasy #mysterysuspense, #gothicnoir, #booksaboutbooks, #unreliablenarrator, #ghosts, #spooky, #hauntedhouse

  • Review of Foster by Claire Keegan

    Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'.

  • Review of Something Wilder by Christina Lauren

    early turns and surprises didn't always feel as though they followed logical paths, I appreciated the mystery-lite

  • Six of My Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Historical Fiction But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might

  • December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    When cool Leo at school reveals that he's into comedy too, Haylah jumps at the chance to write material Elliott offers a fantastic, boy-crazy, British story about missteps, facing change, accepting the past In the fifth installment of the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J.K. A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/10/23 Edition

    In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly shady, and certainly

  • August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    The list skews toward light fiction, but I've got a mystery, a great novel by Allison Larkin, and a wonderfully

  • Review of Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

    is accessible and her examples come from years of experience with clients and their varied dilemmas, mysteries

  • My Six Favorite Book Club Books of 2022

    Prose offers a surprising amount of heart and a unique main protagonist in this lighthearted murder mystery check out Doctors and Friends. 05 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery The mystery skips back and forth in time, and four years later, Iris's twin sister Ruth finally receives

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/8/21 Edition

    of seeking and exposing the truth around her as a journalist, while Bea retreats into a reclusive, mysterious When mysterious events come to light that seem linked to the publicly harmless, seemingly benevolent

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/30/22 Edition

    Now I'm reading A Rip Through Time, the first in Kelley Armstrong's time-travel historical fiction mystery But she quickly realized that being a princess involved responsibility, political maneuvering, and mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/21 Edition

    my review, see Today Tonight Tomorrow.) 02 The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins In Rachel Hawkins's mystery

  • Six Fascinating Stories Set in Space

    these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans, and Alien Life and AI Six More Fantastic and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/26/22 Edition

    When Jaryk learns that his father has been killed under mysterious circumstances in India, he travels

  • Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI

    SecUnit is a fantastic main character; it's grumpily and charmingly obsessed with keeping its people A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin world-renowned physicist working to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious artifacts, but the mysteries

  • Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    for my full review of The Last Green Valley. 03 Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson Atkinson's newest mystery in vivid Roaring Twenties London as Nellie Coker struggles to hold on to her empire of clubs while mysterious by the intersection of Gwendolyn and Ma Coker's golden child, her eldest son Niven--along with the mystery

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads

    Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'. Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time. 08 Happiness Falls by Angie Kim Angie Kim's sophomore novel is a mystery Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what

  • Review of The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

    In town, she'll always be known as The Girl Who Solved a Murder Mystery by Talking to Ghosts, with all

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads

    I read so many fantastic books this year, I was considering another 29 titles for this Bossy Best of and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. 05 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious Weir provides Grace with unexpected company, fascinating collaboration, fantastic interpersonal relationships making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical fiction storytelling master

  • Review of The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

    Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye , The Huntress , The Rose Code , and

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/14/22 Edition

    Frankie and Zeke come up with an enigmatic phrase and attention-getting artwork, and they spread the mysterious

  • March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Our Woman in Moscow, Beatriz Williams's historical fiction mystery, based on real-life double agents broken up by and bound together by tragedy; Quantum Girl Theory, Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction-mystery-speculative Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is Revival of Opal & Nev. 06 Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan In Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction mystery

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