Cribb, Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott, and Enemy Women It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have 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.

There are women who take care of your grandfather...women whose own families are thousands of miles away , women who are washing your plates and washing vegetables for your dinner.

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

Marianne, a solitary young woman living in a large house outside of town, and Connell, a popular athlete

I read Illuminations with a group of women over a period of months, and we were captivated by the details

This is a feminist historical fiction story in which women--long kept quiet and still, supervised to that haunts, challenges, and pushes them to take the form of a beast, whose presence only the bravest women

the mark of the Prophet and was promised to him, but she was far from the submissive, obedient young woman

is set in the wilderness and rugged terrain of British Columbia, along a highway where unsuspecting women Cold Creek Highway setting is based on the real-life "Highway of Tears" in British Columbia, where women have gone missing since the 1970s, and where a disproportionate number of Indigenous women have been

reading A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham's recent mystery about the disappearances of young women the crimes of decades earlier--or if she's about to help identify another killer who preys on young 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

eccentric family and a broad surrounding cast of characters--and it's all centered around independent women with unconventional women's roles in society in nineteenth century New York City. The Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of

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

artist being able to see the true secrets in her subjects (she is able to see just from studying a woman's

But his mother's story helped Jost set the scene for his own origins and his strong Staten Island roots

, but the fifty-two sections and rambling pace of the book left me feeling unmoored. “...I’ve known women And I have also seen women driving Cadillac cars wearing furs who have never voted. Hoffman's The World That We Knew (featured in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

Summer by Rebecca Serle Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy plays with time to allow a grieving young woman

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

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

Sloan is a heavily tattooed yet romantically traditional woman sometimes presented as so broken that

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

Women had the babies, and men, if they felt like it, began to distance themselves the moment they pulled

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

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

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

ten stories you may never have heard before that take place around the world, and it showcases young women There are such strong messages of acceptance, embracing diversity, and practicing intense loyalty to

historical fiction, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

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

sex scenes were extremely specific, at times pages long, and at certain points the sexual elements so strange

The two women clash, resisting their reliance on each other as they become more deeply intertwined.

of being a Black female lawyer in what seems like an Atlanta company that is increasingly hostile to women

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

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

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

rural art commission to a leisurely country-wide search, an unlikely obsession, moments of brutality, strange Heart by Emma Donoghue Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women

male-dominant battle system and their qi is used to boost the men's efforts, often at enormous cost to the women begins to suspect that none of the fighters know the true hierarchy of pilot qi power and believes the women's

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

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

billions, those who willfully, blatantly, and continually threatened and stole from their countrymen and -women Browder's writing occasionally stopped me with clunky-feeling descriptions (for example, women's looks

Caroline O'Donoghue is also the author of Scenes of a Graphic Nature, Promising Young Women, and the

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

colleges and programs; college abroad; diversity and compatibility of peers and potential partners; women's

Yet it makes sense that this thoughtful woman would be eager and starving for connection after her painful consequential for her) encounter with an author in New York City years earlier when she notes that because the woman

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

--and strange, out-of-this-world occurrences puzzle Ari for years to come.

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

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

Ursule Orchière watches her mother fooling local women with her false spells, using her family history

Kathi Kannon is a woman with a big, wacky personality who is also Hollywood royalty.

Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s

A friend's borrowed, rambling home becomes a house for unwed mothers and mothers-to-be, with the women