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The woman's greed and desire for greater social standing mean that Luzia attracts the attention of more

is caught in the bardo, a limbo between life and death, and she encounters other limbo characters in strange

These three women's stories seem like they couldn't be more disparate, and I imagine the tones will be

The men in this story largely control the women, including their abilities to voice concerns, contact

is difficult to pin down; there's dark humor, a haunting thread of tragedy, some irreverence, strange

and class, a deadly fear of scandal, and terrible mistreatment of those in lower castes, especially women When Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire

Etaf Rum is also the author of A Woman Is No Man.

Summer War reads like a fable, with unexpected twists and turns; duty, clever evasion, and curses; a strange

a young volunteer, Bridie, over the course of three days as they work desperately to help both the women

Donal Ryan is also the author of The Queen of Dirt Island , The Spinning Heart , Strange Flowers ,

story that also focuses on racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women

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

And what on earth is her purpose in stringing along Hayden and Alice for a month--if she even intends

The Dragon keeps them safe from the Wood, but at a high price: each year he demands one young woman from

—man just waiting for a woman to bring out his playful side).

reading Wiley Cash's upcoming Southern mystery, When Ghosts Come Home; A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes's woman-centric Morrow. 02 A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes I'm listening to Haynes read her highly entertaining woman-centric

She made me feel that I deeply understood the potential circumstances of how a woman without grand ambitions

or acknowledge race; the differences between prejudice, discrimination, and racism; and how "white women's

displaced and discounted them; and I'm reading Alice Hoffman's newest novel about a cult and a desperate woman

In Kelly Link's strange, intriguing debut novel, The Book of Love , teenagers Mo, Daniel, and Laura have

She had never recognized any curiosity or attraction to women before, but in this memoir, Wizenberg recounts

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.

she's taken will be taken from her, and because she's a petty, narcissistic, selfish, greedy young woman

This is a clever, strange, dark, and often darkly funny fantasy.

World War II Warsaw Ghetto, Jaryk Smith arrives in New York City and falls in love with a Southern woman

love a Gold Rush story, and a young adult story, and a story about "otherness" and about brave young women

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

McCurdy has had a one-woman show "I'm Glad My Mom Died," and she writes and directs films and writes

01 The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley In a world of the near future, a young woman is one of many

rural Idaho; Wendy Heard's fast-paced California-set thriller about an infatuation between two young women

The war and all its deprivations seem relentless, but for Cristabel, there is a strange and guilty thrill

Crouch In the first book in Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines trilogy, secret agent Ethan Burke wakes up in a strange

navigates danger and helps achieve justice by using her smarts, eschewing societal tradition and limits on women

Theatre by Joanna Quinn The war and all its deprivations seem relentless, but for Cristabel, there is a strange

what many of her fellow female students put up with from young men who won't hear no and don't treat women

particularly urgent to stop the current-day killing--was necessary for the story, yet throughout, this seemed strange

She goes to sleep satisfied, but wakes up in another life: a strange apartment, a different boyfriend This was strange and compelling. For my full review, please check out The Bone Clocks .

I was fascinated by her one-woman trial and error method of determining her triggers, impulses, and coping

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Amy Harmon's Revolutionary War-set historical fiction about a young woman

As a woman once reminded her a long time ago, the common denominator in all the terrible things that

Strange things begin happening to Cassie and Izzy when Cassie takes possession of the book, and soon

modern day, she serves primarily as a catalyst for Jess's arrival and amateur sleuthing, and it seemed strange

01 Maame: A Novel by Jessica George Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means woman

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

I’m not sure how to feel about the construct of having a young woman’s desire to gain acknowledgment her brother’s likely future levels—which she also deserved but which were seemingly impossible for a woman

explores his Jewish faith, forms a community of friends, ponders life, then falls in love with a Southern woman

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

morning self-greeting), but I thoroughly enjoyed and felt calmed by listening to this wise, kind, savvy woman

detail the hardscrabble life of a newly freed black person—and the often desperate circumstances of women (especially black women) without men to protect them at the time.

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