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  • Review of Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo

    ED has a whole set of other rules, some written but many not.... points out how college costs have soared--and how many parents go into great debt for a brand-name (or other

  • Review of The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

    support and hatred for Jesus occurs off the page, when the book's main character Ana is off having other Kidd has written numerous other titles too.

  • Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West

    The other plotline concerns Lurie, a man who has adventures and challenges with his surprising, loyal But the atmospheric setting and the tone of it places it firmly among the other books on this list, so at the end of the 19th century, Only Killers and Thieves centers around one family’s conflicts with others and with each other. , foolish choices end in bloodshed, one brother makes justifications and feels no remorse while the other

  • Review of Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

    the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI or other

  • Review of Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

    Through Olive and other connected characters in Crosby, Maine, we see secrets, pain, and disappointments bare—and we also often get to witness true joy emerge during guileless and unexpected connections with others strong enough to cut to the heart of tough situations and to sit within the pain of them--alone or with others

  • Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads

    But these issues are worth looking at under a microscope, and Stevenson and others are using the information and fascinating look at the elaborate schemes undertaken by Harvey Weinstein and associates but also other up instances but altogether deny an existing culture of male sexual power plays, rape, and various other

  • Review of No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

    glimpses into humanity and the swirl of social media--as well as the powerful shifts each makes in the other Gradually it had become the place where we sounded like each other, through some erosion of wind or water Lockwood references the character's frivolity and revolting reliance upon others' attention and esteem

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/18/24 Edition

    frustrated by what feels like odd pacing, soap-opera elements, outlandish events, or too-easy resolutions in other

  • Review of Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

    matter-of-fact acceptance of some of these revelations (those that didn't emotionally or physically harm others

  • Six Fascinating Stories Set in Space

    Instead, Gus and a few other Earthlings are pulled in by a small group of traitorous Vanguards--and tasked with being modified, temporarily melded with the robots, battling other robots--and saving all of humanity like a close-knit group of summer camp counselors somehow, palling around, sometimes irritating each other

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/30/23 Edition

    Winkler explores his childhood and his critical, yelling, stressed parents; his joy in putting on other

  • Review of Pines (Wayward Pines #1) by Blake Crouch

    The two other titles in the series are Wayward and The Last Town .

  • Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

    Edward tries on the mantle of taking responsibility for every life lost; he wallows in the despair of others I kept thinking about it while I was doing other things, and I just wanted to get back to Edward to find She also says "Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, 'I believe in you.

  • Review of Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

    still flares, he behaves spontaneously when he might stop and consider, and his grudging affection for others different perspective in each her books (whether from Gen's first-person or third-person point of view or other

  • Review of Now You Say Yes by Bill Harley

    story about love, duty, self-discovery, disappointment, and pushing through the discomfort of trusting others story about love, duty, self-discovery, disappointment, and pushing through the discomfort of trusting others

  • Review of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

    Cherie Dimaline is also the author of Empire of Wild, The Marrow Thieves, and other books.

  • Six Book Recommendations from Smarty Librarians

    few titles or authors you've read and disliked; preferred setting (domestic or foreign); and a few other Three other titles suggested to me as promising adult and young adult science fiction, fantasy, and dystopian

  • Review of A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell #3) by Deanna Raybourn

    alike, shaped by Nature in the same mold, and whatever that signifies, it means that to spurn each other

  • Review of What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller

    problematic health care providers (this feels somewhat off topic when it stretches into issues of sexual and other abuse by doctors) to health care inequalities and various other subjects. Other books about chronic illness that look potentially valuable and interesting but that I haven't yet

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/14/22 Edition

    When she arrives in the Jim Crow South to investigate a girl who has disappeared, she finds that two other oral history of her two idols, tracing their family lives, youthful experiences, how they met each other

  • Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories

    Which other books should I add to my second-chance book list? these books also made it onto my Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes Greedy Reading List--along with four other Some lives are notable, others comfortable, and still others are full of pain. and occasionally she feels compelled to take another path, rush to check on a loved one, or take some other not seem as though she is grieving him--fortunately, this is made easier by how real he seems in this other

  • Review of White Houses by Amy Bloom

    writing this story, Bloom read 3,000 letters between "Hick" and Eleanor—along with studying biographies, other

  • Review of Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

    Before I read this, I went with some members of my book club and other friends to hear Kevin Wilson speak I haven't read any of his others yet, have you?

  • Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music

    What other rockin' books should I add to my to-read list? The other is a shockingly talented artist who abandoned the creation of new work after an incredibly Reid is also the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Maybe In Another Life, After I Do, and other But when she stumbles into a warehouse party full of misfits embracing their otherness, Elise begins

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/22/24 Edition

    Groff is also the author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, The Monsters of Templeton, and other novels. 02

  • Review of People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

    thinking about how Poppy and Alex only felt that they were truly themselves and fully vulnerable with each other Some of the structure of having one character hold such emotional power over the other was frustrating

  • Review of The Fire and the Ore by Olivia Hawker

    reminders of their new but unflinching, unquestioning faith help drive Tamar Loader, her family, and others well-researched details to bring to vivid life a place and time in history (see my mentions of two other

  • Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love

    real-life, weighty issues such as human trafficking while the characters' banter and affection for each other retelling of the story of a famous Jane) are published, so there will be no impatient waiting for the others and demonstrating her ability to neutralize the supernatural abilities of werewolves, vampires, and other They drive each other batty and couldn't be a more unlikely pair--or do opposites attract?

  • Review of The Last Ranger by Peter Heller

    A couple of other potentially disastrous and complex situations were faced and addressed, and I enjoyed

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/18/23 Edition

    The two are constantly at odds with each other, and each has erected emotional armor around a devastating

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition

    book in the series, Cormoran Strike is cursorily on a health kick, he and Robin remain drawn to each other

  • Review of The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

    “I suppose I could spend time theorizing how it is that people are not bad to each other, but that's Some passages are just a few paragraphs, while others are pages long.

  • Review of books 1-3 of the Murderbot series by Martha Wells

    It's impatient with humans and other droids, and it would prefer to watch the endless hours of media When it's drawn into complicated situations, Murderbot shows a reluctant, grumpy ability to care for others I tore through the first three books in this series with glee and am saving the other two that are already

  • Review of Something Wilder by Christina Lauren

    Christina Lauren also authored the books The Soulmate Equation, The Unhoneymooners, In a Holidaze, Love and Other

  • Review of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey

    This book can go hand in hand with other excellent examinations of race, racial injustice, and effecting change such as So You Want to Talk About Race, White Fragility, and many others. Any other books on the topic of race that you found illuminating and useful?

  • Review of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

    For other postapocalyptic stories I've loved, check out Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/14/21 Edition

    Friends and siblings are pitted against each other, and some of our main protagonists are faced with wonderful established characters of Maeve, Nate, Phoebe, Bronwyn, and Knox from book one, along with other

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/8/21 Edition

    Friedland is also the author of The Floating Feldmans and other titles. 02 The Maidens by Alex Michaelides In other stories, Cohen recasts Sarahs and explores various roles for women, different searches for self

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition

    Catherine Newman is also the author of other books I love: We All Want Impossible Things, Waiting for

  • Review of My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan

    But when tragedy looms for Ellie, Una and the boy who broke each other's hearts must try to come back Did Una and Cullen still love each other, or was their connection naive and without basis beyond friendship

  • Six Great Books about Brave Female Spies

    Only one title on this list is nonfiction, but because I'm nothing if not greedy, other nonfiction books Walder explores her own glowing pride in doing her job well and protecting others from danger. Oh, aaaand Yael has the power to skinshift so that she looks exactly like other people.

  • Review of Changeless (Parasol Protectorate #2) by Gail Carriger

    and demonstrating her ability to neutralize the supernatural abilities of werewolves, vampires, and other

  • Review of The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

    form of love, and important realizations, and some brutal justice, but ignorance and pettiness lead to other This is Hargrave's first book for adults, but she has several other young adult and children's books

  • Review of World Running Down by Al Hess

    Val is an underdog and fights for others who have been dismissed or taken advantage of.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/6/24 Edition

    year; and I'm reading Baby X, Kira Peikoff's near-future-set story of the power of holding and using others

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/9/23 Edition

    life's challenges and difficulties, Obama shares her "toolbox" of emotional, meditative, optimistic, and other

  • Review of Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth

    and aggressive Native Police aiming to eradicate the aboriginal people; the killing drought; and each other in bloodshed, and one brother makes justifications for his actions and feels no remorse, while the other

  • Review of Soulless by Gail Carriger

    needing to demonstrate her ability to neutralize the supernatural abilities of werewolves, vampires, and other They drive each other batty and couldn't be a more unlikely pair--or will opposites attract?

  • Review of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes and Robin Gaby Fisher

    potential motivations, and his dogged determination in comparing notes and working cooperatively with others

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/15/24 Edition

    here, and you might like to check out its spot on Six More Great Light Fiction Stories plus the five other

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