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

Bridget falls for a fellow "sporting woman," and when the Buffalo Queen is threatened, she must determine

Adunni is a tough young woman determined to have a voice and emerge from her oppressive situation, and She's a tough young woman determined to have a voice and emerge from her oppressive situation, and she's

look at the music business, musical creativity and songwriting processes, and body-image pressures on women otherness, Elise begins to see that the world outside of her claustrophobic high school is enormous, strange

The other twin marries a dark-skinned black man and lives as a black woman.

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

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

character of Maud Blyth expects plenty of adventure when she agrees to serve as companion to an elderly woman

She wonders now whether she might have caused other women in the midst of their own crises to feel that

But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might

these books . 05 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino In Beautyland , Bertino offers a poignant, funny, strange 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's asked to play the role of maid to an unassuming, wealthy young woman in a dastardly plot to take the woman's inheritance and leave her to rot in an insane asylum.

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

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

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

The author explores her own wonder, joy, loss, and peace as she reflects on the formidable woman after

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

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

and she believes they're linked to the curse that the community believes has its hold on the Farrow women June would love to end the curse, the fraying of the Farrow women's minds, once and for all--by never

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

Can't a woman retain her clearheadedness even when she's doing battle?"

third novel in French's series, the community reels over the disappearance and death of a local young woman

Fizzy is a straight talker, a sex-positive woman, and a successful romance writer, but she's never been

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

A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious

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

The boy-band mania is fun, and Straub doesn't look down on the fandom; she made me admire the women's

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

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

There in the sharp teeth of the Gilded Mountains, where the snow and murderous cold conspire to ruin a woman

The retelling swirls with family drama, intrigue, bravery--and a young woman determined to make her mark

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

to Charm You, and I recently mentioned it again in my review of Natalie Haynes's A Thousand Ships, a woman-centered

Regarding race, she specifically explores white people's involvement in the oppression of women in Korea

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

that someone is plunging the party down through layers of reality, through echoes of time in which strange stop the sinister game causing deaths (both reversible and permanent), how to outwit the increasingly strange

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?

eager to find out if, as I hope, she's offering a straight-talking, funny, compassionate missive to women

04 Far from the Tree by Robin Benway In Far from the Tree, Benway examines the pain of a young woman’ I loved the strong female protagonists and their fire and grit and growth.

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

But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually a highly skilled Executive Protection

Charlie begins to realize he feels more of a connection to Dev than to any of the twenty beautiful women

Festival Days is not light reading: "Cheri" delves into the last days of a woman who is terminally ill

Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually a highly skilled Executive Protection

Now it's 1964, and times are changing for women, people of color, people who are gay, and society in

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

The limitations and cruelties Ruth experiences because she is a woman feel realistically (and maddeningly

Having inspired women for years as a leader in authenticity and a proponent of healthy relationships,

This is charming, creative, and wonderfully strange.

She's asked to play the role of a maid to an unassuming, wealthy young woman and play a key part in a dastardly plot to take the woman's inheritance and leave her to rot in an insane asylum.