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

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

She recalls how as a young woman she felt hemmed in by hippie culture and also by the societal opposition

When her sister Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, Mickey's need to solve the When Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire

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

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.

JungHo's childhood clan all grown up; each of their loves; and the wealthy and influential men pulling strings

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

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

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

be happy to sit around for much longer than an hour listening to Mindy Kaling talk about brunch, a strange

Frankie and Zeke want to create something--something strange, something people will notice, yet something

The women's discoveries of their inner strength during their desperation are wonderful lights in the

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

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

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

anonymity and an escape to the woods to grieve and be alone, but she quickly finds out that a young local woman

and as Veronica and Stoker follow clues they venture from a royal palace to an artists' refuge to a strange

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

In Reckless Girls, the newest novel by Rachel Hawkins, Lux is a frustrated young woman who's just done

Ruth's father, the founder of the colony, preached that men should marry as many women and have as many

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

We built our lives into a set of mutual agreements, a string of small gifts lobbed back and forth.

A strange fellow offers to lead Ollie to Gwen.

The city is soon awash with ghosts of Lola's brief encounters, big loves, strange connections, and heartbreaks

The Princess Diarist is based upon the diaries Carrie Fisher kept while she was a young woman stumbling

Emika Chen is an orphaned young woman in a futuristic New York City.

on each other's nerves work together to determine who is responsible for a puzzling murder and other strange

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

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

In and among these scenes, Sedaris shares strange, sweet, funny moments with each of his living sisters

exploring trust, betrayal, the unexpected bubbling up of grief, and the bone-deep tiredness of a young 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

seventeen-year-old Ada is a newlywed, following contentedly the path set out for her as a young married woman

by Tiffany McDaniel In Tiffany McDaniel's novel Betty, set in the foothills of Appalachia, a young woman

But her adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might just

forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of a young woman's

Her In Pieces account of her relationship with Burt Reynolds reflects a controlling man and a woman without

In Cult Classic, a woman leaving a reunion dinner one night in New York City’s Chinatown runs into a

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

The shift has made for strange bedfellows—and a prickly partnership between our main protagonist, Ellen

One client does make a strange appearance late in the book, which felt jarring and off topic. serial killer danger lurking getting drinks in the early afternoon and going to secluded places with strange

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

patterns, and, most importantly, she transports the reader into the gruff but hopeful mindset of a young woman forced to grow up too quickly--a woman who for years feels she must push away any hopes for a life

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

surprisingly limited, and her witchiness less pronounced than her identity as a thief and as a young woman

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

Informed by Jewish folklore, Thistlefoot is a strange, epic adventure tale.

Sea of Tranquility is strange and ethereal, with a surprise toward the end that I delighted in.

Hampton's F*ckface, Kevin Wilson's Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, and Ron Rash's Something Rich and Strange McCracken is a fantastic writer who highlights odd, strangely beautiful elements in small moments.