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Jessica is a single, middle-aged mom, a successful lawyer, and a helpful mentor to the younger women

wasn't the only Dolly Parton book published this year (She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Pyle Last year I gave Strange Planet to teenagers and young-at-heart family members on my gift list;

mentions of endless projects, ideas, collaborations, and plans make clear she's one of the hardest working women

These are my current Bossy book wishes, whether because my library doesn't have a copy (Strange Gods; Click here to check out my full review of The Book of Delights. 03 Strange Gods by Alison Kimble In Alison Kimble's Strange Gods (published in 2021), Spooky arrives at a wilderness camp for troubled teens bracing generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven’s freighter the Jonah breaks down in a strange

really liked; and other books set in the American West (such as Epitaph); historical fiction (2019's Women

But the revealed backstory in the second part of the novel was dark and strange and creepy, with surprises

Catalina is a high-energy coming-of-age novel about a spirited young woman trying to save everyone she

Is it strange that I was so fascinated by a book about tuberculosis that I kept setting it aside so that

characters are presented as selfless but are shown to in truth be horribly selfish; some of those who seem strange

It also features racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women, an element Women explore traditional roles and push back against infuriating chauvinism; characters consider their

Meanwhile, his small-town mother is exploring her feelings for a wealthy woman who is also her business

elusive Irish musician, and Christy reveals that he is on a greater mission to find and apologize to a woman

references a scene in which the main character's sculptor friend is working on a headless piece of a woman

French's book is starting off really strong, and One of Us Is Lying has me hooked.

Veronica and Stoker; the allusions to each of their complicated pasts; their hilarious banter; and their strong-willed

that someone is plunging the party down through layers of reality, through echoes of time in which strange “I’m a woman, kid.

out of the moment by multiple instances of odd tone shifts and what felt like repeated nonsensical or strange and youthful exclamation "I miss sex" seems to come out of nowhere; sexual innuendos seem to come at strange

I love a Gold Rush story, a young adult story, a story about brave young women meeting challenges.

A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings by Leanne

nonfiction book about a famous female Russian spy during the Cold War; and I'm reading The Invisible Woman Princess Diarist was Fisher's last book, published in 2017 and based upon the diaries she kept as a young woman It was fun but also poignant, and I loved it. 03 The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck The Invisible Woman

characters ranging from activists to performers and murderers to idealists; a memoir about a young woman's hometown leads her into the middle of a missing person case there: the disappearance of a local young woman But when she arrives, she finds out that a young local woman has gone missing.

and I loved that the relationship between Clementine and her aunt is said to have been special and strong

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.

She's falling for her famous client, the musician Trace Thorne--but when a woman shows up claiming to

I'm reading I Am Not Jessica Chen , Ann Liang's newest young-adult novel, about an unassuming young woman

But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and

Montague; an unorthodox woman with an open mind and brave disposition, Theodora; a young woman who has

reasons for their fractured relationship (ahem, Doug wanted a "cuddle bunny" robot instead of a complex woman

And oops again, their no-strings-attached agreement is quickly becoming complicated, serious, and full

Hester and her friends--with Cordelia's help--set out to fend off the woman's murderous intentions.

she pokes fun at her fellow writer in a sketch about talented but average-looking men dating gorgeous women

of The Mars Room , The Flamethrowers , and Telex from Cuba , as well as a book of short stories, The Strange

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Nadia Hashimi's story of a young woman in Afghanistan during She's an unassuming middle-aged woman and a recovering alcoholic who has a compulsion: to locate missing

recent Kevin Wilson gem; his quirky characters are irresistible, and his heartwarming story is messy, strange

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

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Woman of Light, Kali Fajardo-Anstine's upcoming fantastical, indigenous 01 Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories

belatedly recognizes his parenting and household ineptitude and also falls into the arms of the local woman

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

charming Japanese story We'll Prescribe You a Cat , a winding, hard-to-find Kyoto alleyway leads to a strange

I loved the key elements of this story: the capable con woman, the past coming back to haunt her, the Survival Story 02 Isola by Allegra Goodman Isola , based upon the story of a real-life sixteenth-century woman

of The Mars Room , The Flamethrowers , and Telex from Cuba , as well as a book of short stories, The Strange

I was intrigued by the intersection of the women's personalities and lives, and Beagin kept me consistently

friend in her last remaining roommate, who until then seemed primarily a source of rent; she finds a strange

Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something

with studying biographies, other books, and conducting more extensive research—and she channels each woman

an immersive online game; and for my book club I'm reading Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations, about a woman The Kingdoms is her second book. 02 Warcross by Marie Lu Emika Chen is an orphaned young woman in a futuristic

In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried,

In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried,

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

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller's novel about a middle-aged woman A scholar of the occult, his assistant, a young woman with ghostly experiences, and the future heir of