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Prose offers a surprising amount of heart and a unique main protagonist in this lighthearted murder mystery The lighthearted aspect of this mystery reminds me a little bit of Finley Donovan Is Killing It, but

former IRA top man Gerry Adams managed to create his own fact-defying narrative, practically erasing his history For me, this was nonfiction that was so compelling it read like fiction.

natural world, she explores three timelines of women connected through the ages by power and by society's historical

Wilkerson is exceptional at laying out absurdities, horrors, disturbing historical events, shocking trends

This is my favorite Harper mystery so far. On the Tasmanian coast, characters explore loss and grief and the swirling mysteries surrounding long-ago Her mysteries are set in Australia, and she makes me care about her characters while keeping me guessing When a fresh tragedy occurs, it brings the pain and terrible mystery of years past swirling back to wreak

Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction

I've reviewed lately include Sarahland by Sam Cohen, Half Wild by Robin MacArthur, and The Office of Historical

There's a low-key mystery Lexie is set on unraveling (key players are keeping secrets about events from I was most struck by the character-driven World War II sections, which were haunting and lovely. But don’t forget that history isn’t just a study in black and white.

The early sections of the book focus on language, but that angle doesn't carry through the book in a you might like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction

compelled to take a different path, rush to check on a loved one, or take some other seemingly odd action In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships

In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with

spoiled socialite—and one of the cons aims to right some wrongs in two of the characters' shared (but mysterious and complicated) history along the way.

Then a mysterious, wealthy matriarch preys upon Amina's need for funds--and her desire for one final,

But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles have especially resonated with me since I read Rum's female characters--but also many other real-life women in comparable situations--to write a new history

heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery justified) intense feelings of responsibility for being the one to not only find elusive answers to various mysteries

the stories across time, he also set up rich glimpses into characters' lives at different points in history by Mary Roach Science writer Mary Roach has a way of immersing readers in what may be unfamiliar or mysterious Entangled Life is Merlin Sheldrake's enthusiastic ode to the supremely important and mysterious life

boast forces Miryem into a position of meeting the tsar's impossible challenge, she finds that the mysterious

She shares that because of the gloomy mystery of years of suffering, her multiple sclerosis diagnosis lays bare her experiences with depression and her attempted suicides after heartbreaks; her long-term, mysterious

feels compelled to take another path, rush to check on a loved one, or take some other seemingly odd action In Life After Life , Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships

introduced her to it; this is a brutal existence buoyed only by thoughts of the past and wonder at the mysteries

thriller, which is set in the wilderness and concerns old lovers thrown together in hopes of finding a mysteriously

And if not, does he have self-mastery to take a loss, stay cool in defeat, and try again undaunted? But issues of race and their inextricable involvement in our nation's history are really the bedrock

Along the way, they face deathly threats, mysterious magic, a tangled web of lore and superstition, and

stark climate-change dystopian future, in which her small community fights to survive and to preserve history --from the roof of the American Museum of Natural History--before a horrific storm sends them fleeing Their settlement is on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH, or "Amen), and they in a confined boundary of existence, wandering the partially destroyed museum and wondering at the history Nonie and her group carry a book holding precious history preserved from Amen, and on their journey they

Until June witnesses Athena's death and mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers during

working for the charming complex's owner, all the while cultivating her obsession with a reclusive, mysterious

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Anthony Doerr's upcoming literary fiction tale of interconnected

But disaster strikes, and Jax finds herself trying to unravel the twisted, complicated history of her family and its land--a history Lexie had been researching and had become obsessed by. or stops abruptly, and I find myself becoming increasingly frustrated by this method of prolonging a mystery

and a web of lies that may get them both killed; and Jennifer McMahon's dive into a family's haunting history that has mysterious, powerful present-day repercussions. But disaster strikes, and Jax finds herself trying to unravel the twisted, complicated history of her family and its land--a history Lexie was researching and had become haunted by.

That is, until the mysterious Maddalena arrives.

The mystery moves along at a nice clip, with Ivy and her loyal friends making plucky efforts to uncover sister Autumn has been emotionally closed off since their mother died and has become involved in a mysterious The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly is a young adult mystery, and the main protagonists are high schoolers The mystery moves along at a nice clip, with Ivy and her wonderfully loyal friends making plucky efforts Greedy Reading List Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/20 Edition, as well as in Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries

Then a mysterious package arrives at the shop, and A.J. Fikry is suddenly...changed.

Beresford pieces together the story of Hannah's life from her first-person account--and tries to solve a mystery

This young adult science fiction story has an irresistible premise: teenaged Romy is the sole survivor

great series by Neuvel, in which a girl stumbles upon pieces of a giant robot and makes solving the mystery to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious artifacts she stumbled across as a child, but the mysteries

and NetGalley. 03 No One Is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood No One Is Talking about This is fiction

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham's recent mystery about twisty mystery The Missing Piece continues his popular Dismas Hardy series.

Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play

featuring unorthodox friendships, the frightening power of social media, the emergence of alien life, and mysterious able to communicate with the Carls--thereby becoming the spokesperson for a movement to protect the mysterious The faulted character of April May was wonderful, and I was fascinated by the way her actions and hopes

talking) creepy-crawlies in this middle-grade novel, you'll find a noble quest, unlikely heroes, a mysterious

Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'.

light fiction novel The Unsinkable Greta James, Greta is an up-and-coming indie rock star whose father

In Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married I loved last year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made

is accessible and her examples come from years of experience with clients and their varied dilemmas, mysteries

Mexico to the U.S. to reunite with her parent--and her disillusionment upon her arrival; and an upcoming mystery Grande digs into her family's complicated history of trauma, disappointment, struggle, and, for some

The understated dark undercurrents felt powerful and mysterious.

of seeking and exposing the truth around her as a journalist, while Bea retreats into a reclusive, mysterious When mysterious events come to light that seem linked to the publicly harmless, seemingly benevolent

I adore a character-driven science fiction tale. Also, time travel! This totally hit the spot.

When Jaryk learns that his father has been killed under mysterious circumstances in India, he travels

assassins was the right book at the right time for me: entertainment in the perfect combination of action Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had lays them alongside Big Moments of Realization--which often require grace and forgiveness, other times action heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery