Meanwhile, she has bigger concerns than her career--her family is in grave danger, a man from her past

Just you, your family, and our grand outdoors. Find your peace."

skillfully builds the pool of potential culprits for Nathan to examine in this story of uncovering truths, family But the rest of his family is a well-known, entrenched, powerful bunch of moonshiners (they operate in law enforcement career and the rest of the Burroughses' relentless lawbreaking make for difficult family Panowich offers a story about a complicated family and sense of duty, with ruthless mountain gangsters

I loved listening to his soothing voice extol the virtues of dishes that were familiar to me and many calmly list ingredients, make a few corny-but-funny jokes, poke fun at himself or other cooks in his family

overwhelming emotions, the pressures of the world around him, and his reliance on his now-wife and family

Carolina setting, the character of Sherriff Winston Barnes, and the pulsing racial, class-based, and family

with the implausible details but appreciated the strong female characters and the cobbled-together family toward the end, with a search and some resolution, strong female characters, and a cobbled-together family

He's hardworking and loves his family, and he isn't planning on going anywhere. But competition for his business is pinching his ability to help support his family, and some old, bad-news

Duchess is a thirteen-year-old girl trying to keep her family together. Vincent, and when Vincent reappears, he disrupts the tenuous peace and calm that Duchess and her steady family

Roberts's Dragon Heart Legacy series, she set up a romantic fantasy about a chosen one, a long-lost family

The retelling swirls with family drama, intrigue, bravery--all centered around a young woman determined

And that it's the same pattern she's experienced within her own family.

Family is pitted against family; those who worship the old gods clash against those who embrace Christianity

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maid in love with the lady, racy scenes, angst, wonderful details of a life in service to a wealthy family and by never realizing the value of the important and continual sacrifices she willingly made for her family

They have no electricity, no family, and almost no connection to the outside world.

is the only time I post about books I may not have read: promising reads for particular people in my family

make changes--then increasingly felt that doing so was imperative and beneficial for herself and her family

Andrew, a second son, is exiled by his family from England to Canada for voicing unpopular opinions at

Rachel seems to know things about Helen's life and family that she shouldn't.

She and her family are surrounded by a cast of mountaintop characters intent on avoiding the constraints with words and faith rather than emergency medical attention, everything begins to unravel for the family

It's been years since the tragedy, and Emery is home on the island of Saiorse, running her family's business

As the story progresses, Martin mentions each of women and their families, but keeps the story relatively happening and determine how best to cope with various aspects of the virus, and this felt uncomfortably familiar

Meloy is also the author of Do Not Become Alarmed , Liars and Saints , and A Family Daughter as well

In 1774, she is a printer with a husband and family, trying to protect them and prepare for the upheaval

recruitment for independent prep schools, she finds herself debating whether or not she should advise families

Tytus Broz, a powerful drug dealer (an association with whom left Eli's family in shambles), is successfully increasingly able to see shades of gray, and who is singularly focused on the long game in order to save his family

But things quickly take a turn as pirates and other dangers threaten the makeshift family on the Wayfarer

But Jack's mother is sick, he wants to return home to Texas, and he doesn't want his family to know he's Jack's family is lovely, and there's a subplot in which Jack and his brother Hank are furious with each

When handsome, bestselling author Vaughn Orr stumbles into her family’s remote world, Riley senses that

The tone of the book is joyful and vibrant, and Abu-Jaber intermingles thoughts on faith and family ( multiple television series featuring Anthony Bourdain traveling the world, inserting himself into both familiar Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver "Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family lay out the baby steps of her shifting views of food and of her process for growing or obtaining her family's Reichl traces the roots of her interest in food, cooking, connecting, family, and the intersections of

Sunny Shelton shapes an oral history of two music idols, tracing their family lives, youthful experiences

the imagined, robust details of life on two neighboring farms and within two inescapably connected families

Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop, shakes their makeshift household and family

A couple of cutie-pies, a long-lost family member, and some friends who are like family help her find

Because I was back in my old stomping grounds of Maine last week, seeing family and old friends in my

doesn't feel that way) short segments in varied points of view surrounding a Palestinian and an Israeli family and general hubbub, is the backdrop for the story of a few summer months in the life of an extended family There’s an undercurrent of concern about Hitler and his increasingly punitive behavior toward Jewish families

once in the area, and she interviewed workers and guests from the Midwestern hub where hit musicians, family

part of the close-knit network of community members) and a successful city doctor with an impressive family

silver spoon; and Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of an Aboriginal chief, adopted by a white British family although that book had a premise that didn't really make sense, since the author seemed surrounded by family

We were trying to build a machine that saved our families.

Turner's story is inspired by her family's memoirs, and her Sarah Prine is a strong woman living on the In Wyoming in 1870, the Bemis and Webber families have no other neighbors for miles, so they're not only wives must face their hard feelings toward each other and forge an unlikely alliance if they and their families Her gold sense has kept her family fed and sheltered, but it's dangerous too.

, she spent months sleeping in a tent, cooking over a campfire, carrying out tasks essential to her family's and force troubling contact with humans; and circumstances highlight the stark contrast between her family's

Rachel seems to know things about Helen's life and family that she shouldn't.

appealingly strong young women split by time (and, secondarily, the complex male characters they each love as family

her older sister dies suddenly before her scheduled marriage to the ruler of Ferrara, the men of the families After her larger-than-life mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book faces the sale of the family

Donati shapes a story in nineteenth century New York City based upon an unconventionally built family

book; it's structured into 1,001 short segments in varied points of view: a Palestinian father, his family , and their experiences and loss; an Israeli father and family and his tragedy; migratory and other habits came to define everything for these two seemingly different but ultimately heartbreakingly similar families

joy-filled partner; and tracks the grief and the resulting shifts within their close-knit extended family

In Hartnett's tragicomedy Unlikely Animals, the author explores friendship and family loyalty, mistakes