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Evvie Drake has become something of a recluse in her quiet seaside Maine town ever since her husband's I listened to it as an audiobook while I gardened, and it was a perfect summer story.

I listened to Wintering as an audiobook and very much enjoyed Rebecca Lee's narration. May is also the author of The Electricity of Every Living Thing as well as other books.

"By its nature, every secret contains the power to destroy something."

It requires an engagement of every sense.... neither plant nor animal, live for millenia, and are microscopic yet make up the largest organisms ever spent a year traveling the United States in search of the greatest golf experience available, playing every course ever to host a US Open as well as 200 other well-known and much-beloved courses and hidden gems They need and appreciate our business now more than ever!

Rwanda and through six other African countries—with her tough, hustling older sister Claire—during and after In The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, Wamariya recalls her experiences through

first of five books in Maas's series of the same name, young Feyre (in the audiobook this is pronounced very that she didn’t somehow intuit that she could save an entire kingdom in the nonsensical way specified after

Especially after a point about halfway through the book, abrupt scenes and exchanges, short glimpses

​ Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year after second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this was a series until after

their mysterious artistic creation, and the work's ripple effect, which reaches well beyond what they ever Sixteen-year-old aspiring writer Frankie is just trying to get through a late 1990s summer in Coalfield

So much of what I do in this yard is only ever an exercise in hope. adored this element--possibly because with a senior in high school, I am also facing enormous pending alterations

But when her kind husband passes away suddenly just after the wedding, pregnant Elsie and her tedious

as a young man doing standup and finding inspiration in his grandparents' antics; his pivotal Jewish summer

by misleading details or bogged down by red herrings, and that he struck what was for me a perfectly eerie But when her kind husband passes away suddenly just after the wedding, pregnant Elsie and her tedious

Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose The young men of McMinn County, Tennessee, are coming home after

Fitz-Amobi, an excellent student, workaholic, and perfectionist, has been wondering whether Sal killed Andie after

Anton is searching for redemption after horrific events surrounding his students and school. I would very happily read a full Little House on the Prairie-length series about Bertie and her life.

Shipstead is a wonderful writer, and I loved every word of this.

It was published five years after the first book, but I read them without a large gap of time in between I very much enjoyed Schwab's young adult Shades of Magic series; the first title is A Darker Shade of

After he lost his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, he returned to London, where he's cobbled together strengthening; her fiance is insufferable; his ex-girlfriend is emotionally unbalanced; and it's all very little boy, and while Billy can't recall many of the details, he's clearly been shaped by this trauma ever They're such excellent partners, they couldn't ever jeopardize the career setup so important to each

Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Doctors and Friends. 03 This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub This Time Tomorrow was also one of my overall Very After an encounter with a fortune-cookie message and a flock of ravens who seem to be following her,

She fought to get off the godforsaken island where she'd been stuck for years after her father abandoned

Nora's ex is presented as such a full-on loser, it's hard to believe in their dating-to-marriage story ever Annabel Monaghan is also the author of Sometime Next Summer and other books. Two other light fiction books I've reviewed that involve the celebrity-love trope are Very Sincerely

For example, Clementine's aunt "only ever had two rules in this apartment--one, always take your shoes “My aunt used to tell me that summer nights in the city were meant to be impossible." Uh...what? Several of my Greedy Reading Lists highlight some of my very favorite books that twist time: Six Riveting

My very favorite December reads! This feels like the most representative mix of Bossy Favorite Genres ever! relationship with his father to sharing how he attempted to cope with the loss of his mother decades after

birdwatcher in my household as a birthday gift, and it's been living prominently in the family room ever Almost two hundred years after Darwin discovered the striking, social, crow-like falcons confined to They need and appreciate our business now more than ever!

Who are the villains and who are the heroes--or is everyone and is every creature a mix of both?

protagonists here is a young woman in the midst of her own high-stakes crisis, and none of them expects to ever The sisters are meanwhile trying to find a way back together after grave betrayals and years of broken

my full review of The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything that Comes After of dying, death, appreciating the beauty of the impermanence of our lives, planning for loved ones after

Teenage Andra finally wakes up after being cryogenically preserved for a century-long journey to a new

My very favorite October reads! He takes the reader on a roller coaster of emotions, and I love every bit of it. full review, please check out A Psalm for the Wild-Built. 06 How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every

eventually allowed Field to come into her fully realized adult self, and this journey is satisfying to watch after

I hate that I'm even typing this after my gloriously high expectations, but the middle of this book was

After leaving her position as a pastor and writing a book about the experience, Leaving Church, Taylor

Meanwhile, nearby, Ava's been kept quiet and controlled by her father her whole life--and he's after

book one--is a motivator for action in Rule of Wolves, but Bardugo also delves into the complicated aftermath I need to begin again after refamiliarizing myself with how the books connect; I was overwhelmed by sorting

Will they ever be able to trust each other again? And where is Sam? After the story's twist becomes clear, the rest of the book is a waiting game; the reader stands by while

My very favorite books from October! an older book I heard about while talking with my friend James on his Maybe I'm Amazed podcast last summer The music is all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands Danger and darkness lurk around every corner. Novik builds upon her irresistible Scholomance world in The Last Graduate, and I'm so very glad there

Our sense of self is very resourceful. People are booking restorations every day. People still want deletions....

You can see a satisfying version of happily ever after coming, but I didn't predict the circumstances

along with what I thought were perfect amounts of self-actualization and character development, without ever Vengeance Road is a rough and tumble story with enough suspense that I wasn't ever confident that the The before and after of certain pivotal events almost felt like two separate books, but I was hooked

leaves you wondering if a main character’s accidental role in various tragedies were so unintentional after

But as with every visit home, Kieran is reminded of a careless mistake he made as a teenager that led No one's forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of

historical forces that are at work and that are difficult to address, and he raises more questions than ever I read this book years after the hubbub about it died down, but I don't think (?)

In the months after that, he would sometimes ask her “How’s conquering the world going, my sweet ruthless

I mentioned this book (along with Last Summer at the Golden Hotel and The Maidens) in the Greedy Reading

"If you must look back, try to find the beauty and the benefit in every cruelty done to you.

Every heart-stopping moment; every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer

My very favorite books from May! Father and daughter, brother and sister, and mother and father find their way back together after hurting And he finds that almost everything Emma has ever told him about herself has been a lie.

After Jason Dessen, a physics professor, is abducted from the street in Chicago, he awakens in a different figuring out the other elements at work--turns out to be more high-stakes and dangerous than Emika ever

I had no idea Nora Roberts had written any dragon books because, I realized, I don't know that I've ever So, things are upended for Breen in every way. Dragons are very much a side note in this book, alternately soaring in the sky and carrying Keegan to