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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

“In the end, the courage of women can’t be stamped out, and stories—the big ones, the true ones, can gasped and enveloped law firms, and PR shops, and executive suites, and industries; that swallowed women was so distracted by Farrow’s versions of others’ voices and accents—*especially* the way he voiced women

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

In a life-and-death moment, the kids laugh and try to insult the woman who is threatening them and possibly easy to imagine that as a kidnapped teen who has demonstrated a rebellious streak and an increasingly strong

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

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

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

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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

ten stories you may never have heard before that take place around the world, and it showcases young women There are such strong messages of acceptance, embracing diversity, and practicing intense loyalty to

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

She's lived next to the local Liverpool tennis club for years but hasn't played since she was a young woman

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

have felt overused from use in other stories (a tough, closed-off investigator, broken by her past; a strong

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

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

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

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

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

As in Murphy's novel Dumplin', the main protagonist is a body-positive, plus-sized woman.

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?

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

The long-ago brutal death of a young woman in the town was introduced early but faded in weight in what

disastrous addiction, and his town's blind focus on piety and its unfailing inflexibility, we also witness strange She's lived next to the local Liverpool tennis club for years but hasn't played since she was a young woman

in the story Grey, Kier, and choice members of their army are assigned to the protection of a young woman

author of The Island of Missing Trees . 03 Spellslinger (Spellslinger #1) by Sebastien De Castell “I’m a woman

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

1960s girl groups, their often working-class backgrounds, and the power disconnects between the young women

Williamson In an alternate 1923 London, a young woman inadvertently disturbs the peace between humans

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

which peripherally involved Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Sedaris's order for a custom vestment; and offers a strange

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

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