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Still, Dorothy was supposed to be in stasis for years after suffering an emotional loss.

I read Mary Sharratt's Revelations over the course of this "school year" with my women's group. Margery sets off on an ambitious pilgrimage across Europe and the Near East, sharing Julian's papers puzzles and angers those around her by challenging the limitations of what women might do or say in the year

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminnick constantly tests her mother's patience, as she's more apt to occupy

these cold cases, from Laci Peterson to Jaycee Dugard to the Pittsburg homicides to, yes, my twenty-year-long Her father's upcoming visit is the only bright spot in the near future.

to marry the cult's leader when she was thirteen and worked as secretary for "The Family" for many years At age 15, after years of excruciating systematic suffering, Young escaped to Texas, enrolled in school She spent years fighting against destructive misogynistic power structures and making her way, struggling Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

"This is the fear they live with now. They want to fear the wolves because they don’t want to fear each other.” Inti has hardened her heart in the years since she was a child, but she begins opening up because of

I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? 01 No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler Touching, honest, raw, funny It made me laugh out loud and brought me to tears. I just adored this gem. Weir provides Grace with unexpected company, fascinating collaboration, fantastic interpersonal relationships Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi This peek into a childhood in Kabul and a lifetime of searching and yearning

fortune tucked away inside) turns out to also hold unexpected passengers: pregnant Nell and her four-year-old When nineteen-year-old orphan and frontier carpenter Benjamin Shreve encounters Nell, he determines to

I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? In twentieth-century Idaho, elderly Zeno has lived a life filled with yearning, war, and unexpected late-in-life surrounding the shooting of a man named Lloyd Wilson in his 1920s rural Illinois hometown of Franklin fifty years can't imagine feeling the full emotions involved and the immersive experience of this book without hearing In book two, El continues to be a fantastically grumpy, powerful, whip-smart, socially awkward, straightforward

afternoon, and included it in my Greedy Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year , Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, and My Bossy Favorite Reads of Summer the year I read it.

exploding in the Midwest but also in states like California and Oregon, and energy was focused on building fear His life was built upon a lie, and his years of unchecked abhorrent, violent, narcissistic, horrifying

There's a love triangle and fantastic details that bring the era1830s to life. But there's a love triangle and there are fantastic details that bring the era to life. This book was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past Year

Dispelling fear. He dreams of being a princess when he grows up, and he would like to be called Poppy and wear the dresses Poppy's family is full of love, and they fear for Poppy out in the world.

Solomon's young adult novel Today Tonight Tomorrow feels like a smart, sweet read to start the new year I'm finally getting around to reading it--I'm actually listening to it as an audiobook, and I adore hearing What are you reading to start the new year? I've just started Today Tonight Tomorrow, my book club's first title of the year, and I do like the idea What are you reading at the start of this new year?

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Woman of Light, Kali Fajardo-Anstine's upcoming fantastical, indigenous historical fiction about the secrets of an Old Hollywood starlet; and A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske's fantastical

novel First Time for Everything, Danny Scudd has spent five years trying to make good on his dreams. Revelations by Mary Sharratt I've been reading Mary Sharratt's Revelations over the course of this "school year Margery sets off on an ambitious pilgrimage across Europe and the Near East, sharing Julian's papers

Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year I read Kitchen Confidential thirteen years ago, well before I spent endless evenings happily watching Wizenberg has more recently written a memoir about marriage, unexpected yearnings, and the messy process books she wrote Delancey, about owning a restaurant with her husband. 05 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year

These are my favorite book club reads from the past year. book club reads from the past, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year It's June 1954, and eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson has just served fifteen months on a juvenile work Emmett's planning to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head west to start a new life. The mystery skips back and forth in time, and four years later, Iris's twin sister Ruth finally receives

indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year Gaiman Author Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by Norse mythology while imagining his novels' many fantastical Beard Award-winning quarterly kids' cooking magazine ChopChop, which I am also giving as a gift this year I'm Bossy about buying and merchandising fiction for my kids during the year, as in: "Here is a tableau

Years later, Rachel runs into someone from her past, which spurs her to think back to the events and relationships that shaped her during her college years. As I learned that year in Shandon Street, there is nothing that my personality or my humour thrives on

debut novel, Thistlefoot, a fairy tale informed by Jewish folklore; and I'm reading The One Hundred Years the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love. 03 The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives in the terminal ward In the hospital's arts and crafts class, she meets 83-year-old Margot, a spirited, rebellious new friend Collectively they've been around 100 years, but it doesn't feel like enough, and they each want to leave

If you've read any of these titles, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? Maisie Dobbs begins Winspear's series as a thirteen-year-old servant in a Belgravia mansion, but Maisie It's hundreds of years after King Arthur's reign, and his descendant and namesake Arthur, a future lord

and Yours Truly, Abby Jimenez's irresistible newest rom-com, which had me laughing and also made me tear If you've read any of these books, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make what feels like an impossible choice: to send their eleven-year-old The Celebrants. 06 Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez Jimenez's rom-com frequently had me laughing, made me tear

01 A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar In a near-future Kolkata, India, Ma is the manager of a food speculative fiction story, issues of memory, creativity, wealth and power, envy, fame, self-doubt, and fear

is Alexandra Andrews's first book, and so far the mystery's twists and turns are fantastic. Cut to years later, when Toni, making a name for herself in the Philadelphia indie music scene, tries

and tackling another; striving to hold on to culture while navigating unfamiliar pitfalls; and the fears Pachinko is a sweeping generational story of hardship, sacrifice, and fifty years of Korean-Japanese by criminals' financially ruinous scams against undocumented workers; the family members experience years of constant fears of deportation; and then they must face the shocking potential reality of deportation immigrants and a reality that is more brutal and uncertain than the children and their parents may have feared

Twenty years later, Chloe has more good days than bad. But Penn pulls his memoir into another gear when he adds the fascinating layer of accidental political San Francisco DA Wes Farrell helped send Paul Riley to prison years ago when Riley was convicted of the

might also like the books I listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year (last year). I'd love to hear: What are your favorite memoirs? 01 Here For It by R. Pan decided to deliberately put herself into extremely uncomfortable social situations for a year, and She regrets her one-year plan almost instantly but feels compelled to continue her terrifying exercises

these cold cases, from Laci Peterson to Jaycee Dugard to the Pittsburgh homicides to, yes, my twenty-year-long preliminary circumstances, the aftermaths, and the various movements of potential suspects over months and years Nonfiction Reads--and stay tuned for my upcoming list of Six Nonfiction Bossy Favorites from the Past Year

indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year round.) 01 The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney This year we watched (twice) the riveting of the band members as they convened to piece together songs for their first live concert in several years We also watched and loved McCartney 3, 2, 1 this year, and I was fascinated by the discussions between race and class, Burns offers a selection of photos highlighting a range of experiences from our 200 years

it's ridiculous and fanciful, but the idea that they're fated to be together feels real, and for a year Silver provides readers with lots of tears and drama, gasping, longing, and breathlessness. frustrating (for example, calling a moment's sighting without even speaking “love” and clinging to it for years --YEARS! Watch yer livers, characters!

But stress and the constant fear of illness and tragedy—any misfortune that would draw attention to the When her mother faces a health crisis, as they’ve long feared one of them might, the family's security Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

could have been a treacly story about old friends reliving the past and coming back together after many years

Thirty-two-year-old Fern Brookbanks has pinned most of her romantic dreams on Will Baxter--despite the A chance encounter blossomed into a glorious connection and a pact to meet up one year later at her family To complicate matters, guess who shows up to meet Fern, nine years late--and who has also contracted

Geraldine Brooks is also the author of books I've loved like Horse, Year of Wonders, and other novels

Impossibly, the centuries-old figure bears a shocking resemblance to Elsie. Horrors from her childhood are alluded to and contribute to her fear, her reluctance to trust, and her Purcell takes us through the disturbing events surrounding one family living two hundred years apart

I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's memoir of pivotal near-death experiences that shaped her life Her recollections include a childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, an encounter with a The construct of tracing near-death experiences to tell the story of her life didn’t feel forced at all

Sunny Greene is a 35-year-old, recently divorced head of her own PR firm.

Seventeen-year-old Charlie, the twins, their father Noah, and their mother Lorelei, an AI leader, are

Inti has hardened her heart in the years since she was a child, but she begins opening up because of Her account of coping with the loss of her mother and her fears about her son's development feel more 03 We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange In Tracey Lange's new novel We Are the Brennans, twenty-nine-year abandoned her family and friends and anyone tied to her past, including her high-school sweetheart, five years

I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? Some of the wrap-up details near the very end felt a little bit unsatisfying, but resolving them cleanly But two years ago on their vacation, something BIG happened. Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List I feared I'd get turned around in time by listening to the book rather than reading it, but narrator

It's fair to say that January somehow both lasted ten years and got away from me. I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, the fantastic Jo Ann Beard explores

children, past secrets, friendship, romantic relationships, and previously unknown blood relatives near Sybil Van Antwerp has written letters her whole life--letters to dear friends and family, letters of

Eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu reveled in his uniqueness. But several years later, just a few hours after Hua was at his party, Ken was killed in a carjacking. Over the course of many years, the author sorted through his feelings and memories, cherishing a folder He says in Stay True's acknowledgments, "I've been writing this for over twenty years."

Phoebe arrives at the decadent Cornwall Inn in Newport, Rhode Island, wearing a green dress and heels I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

And Princess Gisela of the Alpenwald, a dear friend of Alice's, goes missing just after Veronica shares evolution of Stoker and Veronica's own relationship in this book is understated yet beautifully poignant; I teared

place and time of the story, vividly building the constant undercurrent of tension, the twinges of fear I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

Harris winds her tale through Lilli's journey to the United States and her glamorous years dancing in Then Lilli's path leads back to Marco, who has in recent years risen through the ranks to work for Goebbels After a stranger wanders near their remote cabin, Cooper's longtime struggle to stay hidden seems increasingly

McCracken is a fantastic writer who highlights odd, strangely beautiful elements in small moments. Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy “His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years here is, as always, exquisite, and within these 14 stories, he turns his attention to characters who yearn

Katie Vaughn has been single for a year, since her former fianc é , an up-and-coming musician, hit it