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But two years ago on their vacation, something BIG happened. Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List

I mentioned another title (The World's Most Adventurous Kid) from the Atlas Obscura series last year the co-owner of Nashville's Parnassus Books. 06 A Course Called America by Tom Coyne Coyne spent a year indies that keep readers swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year

I love a brave-young-protagonist setup, and the brothers' love and determination were fantastic.

The sisters are meanwhile trying to find a way back together after grave betrayals and years of broken Harrow provides a villain you'll love to hate: he oppresses women, smugly and sneakily instills fear,

explores what she realizes may be a more complex sexuality than she had previously understood, and she fears If you like memoirs, you might also like Six Illuminating Memoirs I Read This Year.

of The Ragged Edge of Night, which I mentioned in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past Year

indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year Mike Ayers I've given this book to two of my most music-loving people for their fall birthdays this year the multiple rabid Seinfeld fans in my circle, a new Jerry Seinfeld book--his first in twenty-five years favorite notes from his career in stand-up comedy, featuring selected material he's saved over the years illustrations and his in-depth, extensively tested recipes and meticulous product reviews, and last year

Mariana lost her husband a year ago in a holiday accident in her coastal Greek hometown, and she's still its accuracy or inaccuracy seems likely to create a crisis for her later in the book, but we don't hear

but fiercely loving life lived under one roof with extended family, and a young but tough main twelve-year-old wrote Beyond the Bright Sea, a middle-grade adventure story with sweet character development, and last year's

I looooooved the wonderful dark humor and unexpected details in A Deadly Education and the fantastic

I'd love to hear: What are your favorite (fiction or nonfiction) books about tough lady spies? Yael, a tough young woman who escaped from a concentration camp, has been training as a spy for years

Maisel," and the extensive reminiscing about the hotel's heyday years is really fun. But the book's present pales in comparison to the golden years of the past, and current events begin

Geraldine Brooks is also the author of The People of the Book, March, Year of Wonders, Caleb's Crossing

At various turns, DeLozier showcases historically accurate, dangerous demonstrations of men's fears of The religious fervor, fears, and the queasily specific medical practices of the time (lancing buboes!

Luna has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old girl. Luna has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old girl. simultaneously wanted to scoop her up and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years

Russians are systematically eliminating scientists who betrayed Mother Russia to England and MI6 years

Except...Andra soon realizes she wasn't sleeping for 100 years. She was asleep for 1,000. language spoken by those in the future world is slightly shifted, as though it has evolved over 1,000 years At one point Andra calls her friend Zhade (who is from a time 1,000 years past her origin time) an insult I reck [reckon] I was born about a thousand years too late. I missed all the best words."

books I loved), check out the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year

I'm starting the year off reading two brand-new (published tomorrow!) The Maid is a book my book club is set to read this year. 03 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers

The book's sequel is The Book Woman's Daughter, published earlier this year.

The young men Orenstein interviewed share their experiences with intimacy, yearn for bigger conversations So she spent two years interviewing young men ages sixteen to twenty-two of different races, straight their sexual activity and intimacy and related matters, including pleasure, consent, asserting limits, hearing

established of Alzeimer's disease, he considers the cases of those he has known who suffered for many years

Scruffy, hot-tempered, baby-faced Simon evaded a position in the Confederate Army for years by passing He's playing in a "scratch band" near the Texas coast with other big-hearted characters to try to make

on the farm where her grandparents lived and where she was born, here offers stories spanning forty years

As he faces a scheduled yearly vacation to Hilton Head, he attempts to get rid of his wife's belongings Her young daughter is missing, and Ella is in limbo, desperately hoping she hears news soon.

She's in--for a fantastic wardrobe, incredibly awkward moments, scripted romance, and a beautiful Malibu

In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's

My smart friend Kathy mentioned these books on social media and was correct that these are fantastic.

If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? But tea monk Dex finds himself wandering and yearning--for long-lost crickets' nighttime noises, and I'm watching The Good Place for the third time, this time with my youngest, and I love hearing his references to the inspiration for the show and hearing his references to specific scenes, currently fresh in my

Growing Up by Selma Blair Long before she appeared in Cruel Intentions, well before Legally Blonde, and years

in 1924 South Carolina were wonderful, and I still think about this book although I read it almost a year I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year.

Yet she desperately yearns for some measure of independence, which is not easily available to the women other girls at school only know that Maddalena draws them into her orbit, and everyone wants to be near

always seen associated with letters, voices, and emotions--which she has always been told to ignore, for fear themselves--and their mysterious goings-on, which Isobel suspects may be related to the runaway slaves she hears

Through Bell's voice we also learn what has shaped the other women of the family: we hear rich stories It made me laugh out loud and brought me to tears. I just adored this gem.

the carelessly cruel, selfish, emotionally distant behavior that occurs at the end of the couple's years

#timetravel, #fantasyscifi, #alternatereality, #fourstarbookreview 03 In Five Years ​ Dannie is on the path to achieving her five-year goals in spectacularly efficient fashion. Serle's In Five Years totally hit the spot for me, and it also wasn’t exactly what I expected. I'd love to hear about others you love!

After twists and turns and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes the star of a hit

But the brave GIs didn't survive years of brutal battles and ensure returning in a much-anticipated homecoming nonfiction, you might also want to check out the post Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year

Rebecca Serle is also the author of In Five Years, The Dinner List, and When You Were Mine.

60s band on its rocky rise to popularity, particularly through exploring its members' crises, joys, fears Daisy Jones and the Six explores multiple layers of love and heartbreak, all against a fantastic backdrop I imagine those could be tough to write in an engaging way when the reader obviously can't hear any of

After she spoke at our library foundation event last year, my book club read this book together.

She dove back into pages of interviews and information detailing the fifteen-year-old she was then--a Crawford's often brutal account of her teenage years and all that occurred after her attack inspired I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List (along with I'm Still Here and The Year of the Witching

The Scottish speech patterns were fantastic (but what a job for the copy editor!).

It's been ten years since she made the biggest mistake of her life in the wondrous place where she spent

I listened to Here One Moment  as an audiobook, and I loved hearing the Australian accents. I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this story!

published in 1998, forgetting the title, remembering that it was two women's names, and then a few years This book is part of the Greedy Reading List Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year.

I look forward to hearing about your favorite summer reads once I'm back to the blog! xoxo, Amy

that their differing life plans may not intersect in any long-term way. ...she had spent the last few years

Here's the basic premise of The Cuckoo's Calling: Cormoran Strike spent a couple of years at Oxford before Billy and working against the formidable challenge of time to uncover the truth of what occurred many years

--and not just any stalker, one who may have unnerving similarities to a local serial killer caught years