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817 results found for "strong women"
- Review of The Harpy by Megan Hunter
A woman he'd invited to their home. Vanessa.
- Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility is strange and ethereal, with a surprise toward the end that I delighted in.
- Review of Fallen: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo
A rebellious young woman who left her Amish culture behind and became estranged from her family has returned
- Six Short Story Collections to Wow You
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.
- Review of And Then She Vanished (Joseph Bridgman #1) by Nick Jones
But at one point in the book, when he's preparing to have a woman at his house, he looks around at how
- Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
the mark of the Prophet and was promised to him, but she was far from the submissive, obedient young woman
- Review of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The other twin marries a dark-skinned black man and lives as a black woman.
- Review of The Humans by Matt Haig
The Humans is funny, strange, deep, and lovely. I loved it.
- Review of With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt
artist being able to see the true secrets in her subjects (she is able to see just from studying a woman's
- Review of The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
This was strange and compelling. What did you think? Mitchell is one of a kind, and I love it.
- Review of In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
She goes to sleep satisfied, but wakes up in another life: a strange apartment, a different boyfriend
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/12/21 Edition
A rebellious young woman who left her Amish culture behind and became estranged from her family has returned
- Review of Normal People by Sally Rooney
Marianne, a solitary young woman living in a large house outside of town, and Connell, a popular athlete
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition
school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction about a young woman
- Review of My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
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
- Review of Moonlight Drive by A.R. Hadley
receives oral sex from a stranger with his soulmate sitting next to him rather than having sex with the woman
- Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
She goes to sleep satisfied, but wakes up in another life: a strange apartment, a different boyfriend This was strange and compelling. 06 All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai There are flying cars in the
- Review of People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
She'll just push down her strange feelings about Alex and pretend that fateful time never even happened
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/20 Edition
Kathi Kannon is a woman with a big, wacky personality who is also Hollywood royalty.
- Review of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson
It's been five years since a local young woman, Andie Bell, was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh.
- Review of Skyhunter by Marie Lu
So as I started this book I realized something strange.
- Review of Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
some significant repetition (for example, the idea of “you’re allowed to ask questions, it would be strange
- Review of The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi
Are the strange components intentional? Are they connections to a real-life murder from the past?
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/22 Edition
Girls, the newest novel by Rachel Hawkins (author of The Wife Upstairs), Lux is a frustrated young woman
- Review of Wingwalkers by Taylor Brown
of her own story or if there were another hand out there, unseen--god or author or fate--pulling the strings
- Review of Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
But Jaouad had developed a strange itch in her foot that spread.
- Six Short Story Collections to Wow You
McCracken is a fantastic writer who highlights odd, strangely beautiful elements in small moments.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/18/22 Edition
The shift has made for strange bedfellows—and a prickly partnership between our main protagonist, Ellen
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Barker's novel features Janet, a misunderstood, mocked, badly treated young woman coming of age in a
- Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories I Loved
She goes to sleep one evening satisfied--but she wakes up in another life: with a strange apartment,
- Review of The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
But the young woman who has taken on the name of Jane and is desperate to leave her dark past behind
- Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In
codependence on her adolescent daughter, and how the author unraveled the many smothering ties to the woman
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into
It had shaped who she was in many senses, but now she was a grown woman with a full life, and she was
- Review of Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
Sam's father left his mother for a younger woman years ago, which deeply fractured their father-son relationship
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/21 Edition
She'll just push down her strange feelings about Alex and pretend that fateful time never even happened
- Six Riveting Backlist Reads
The other twin marries a dark-skinned black man and lives as a black woman.
- Review of A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic #3) by V.E. Schwab
Necessity makes for strange bedfellows; as crisis after crisis erupts, situations require ingenuity,
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/18/21 Edition
has me completely hooked: Xio Axelrod's novel The Girl with the Stars in her Eyes is about a young woman
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/9/21 Edition
Sam's father left his mother for a younger woman years before, deeply fracturing their father-son relationship
- Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/3/20 Edition
heartwarming, #booksaboutbooks 03 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder It's been years since a local young woman
- Six of My Pandemic-Era Book Buys
that we are all called to be part of the movement. 04 A Witch in Time From the publisher: "A young woman
- Six Great Stories about Robots
on each other's nerves work together to determine who is responsible for a puzzling murder and other strange
- Review of Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer
love of music in her, and raised her--although not always competently--until she was a young teenage woman
- Review of Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
It had shaped who she was in many senses, but she was a grown woman with a full life, and she was not
- Review of Rule of Wolves (King of Scars #2) by Leigh Bardugo
Nina lives out a secret identity as a meek and mild young woman in Fjerda while attempting to uncover
- Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas
loved one's particular interest (see: multiple bird books in past gift lists) or quirky curiosity (see: Strange
- Six More of My Favorite Romantic Fiction Reads from the Past Year
Fizzy is a straight talker, a sex-positive woman, and a successful romance writer, but she's never been
- Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into
Summer by Rebecca Serle Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy plays with time to allow a grieving young woman
- Review of Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
(Eventually I just had to brace myself with reminders that I am a grown woman capable of reading a spooky
- Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
Fizzy is a straight talker, a sex-positive woman, and a successful romance writer, but she's never been














































