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impossible balance of femininity and power within a male-held power structure, Shoulder Season spans forty years

seemingly implausible premise: Nick, a rock star, doesn’t recognize the person who provided the pivotal, years-long

was a temporary break or permanent--yet she is able to sit within the feeling that Connell and their years

Malibu Rising tracks each hour leading up to and into the wee hours of the legendary party (and this year's

characters ranging from activists to performers and murderers to idealists; a memoir about a young woman's yearning about her childhood in 1980s Mexico, living in poverty with her siblings and a cold grandmother, and yearning After eight long years, Reyna convinced her reluctant father to bring the children to Los Angeles, but

outlandishly brave decision-making in trying to unravel the tangled web that's been evolving for many years

In Leavitt's novel, Simon and Stella have been in New York City for twenty years, living through the

story of childhood, hope, love, and loss that is spare, lovely, heartbreaking, and that brought me to tears I was brought to tears at the end.

Many years ago I would have been asking why is this happening?

I prefer listening to my memoirs read by the author, and I loved hearing U2's songwriter and lead singer I loved listening to the book in order to hear each of these played.

Woodworking explores interconnected transgender characters' experiences, fears, challenges, and joys

01 A Burning by Megha Majumdar “Many years ago I would have been asking why is this happening?

into the gruff but hopeful mindset of a young woman forced to grow up too quickly--a woman who for years This book was mentioned in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past Year.

It was published five years after the first book, but I read them without a large gap of time in between

allow feelings to grow, and all is shaped by the constancy of life-and-death danger and the deep-seated fear

It's been five years since a local young woman, Andie Bell, was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh.

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women demand even more from their lives, refusing to be limited by other women, by expectations, or by fear

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King also wrote Euphoria, which I read with my book club a few years ago and which I gave four stars.

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exceptionally elaborate crafting of messages to each other (hidden in the rings of trees over many years

With looming fears of betrayal and destruction at the hands of Mary Queen of Scots loyalists looming I'm listening to this as an audiobook, and I love hearing this in Kendrick's voice.

darkness, powerful superstition, and magical realism through a wide-ranging story about family, tradition, fear

since learned that if you plan to survive in the Arctic, you must choose one of two paths: emulate the bear

people might choose to better understand, acknowledge, and name racism, as well as learn to be open to hearing acknowledge race; the differences between prejudice, discrimination, and racism; and how "white women's tears

I loved hearing how she got into music--really, how music took hold of her and never let go, and how I listened to Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You as an audiobook and enjoyed hearing

I read this book years after the hubbub about it died down, but I don't think (?)

Occupants; and I'm reading Kate Bowler's absolute gem No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear Books I'm Giving as Gifts This Holiday. 03 No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) Annnnnd I'm going to get to hear Kate speak this week to my book group!

The story keeps in the forefront the looming dangers, the fear of disease and ill intent, and the bone-weary

Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

In one timeline, an abused wife makes a stand for a whimsical name suggested by her daughter Maia, Bear

in which Sandra is perilously stuck in a cave tunnel during an expedition in Nepal and rather than fearing

I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book! This is Yael van der Wouden's first book.

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financially and emotionally upon achieving them, and meanwhile we can see how shocked others are to hear

These Memories Do Not Belong to Us by Yiming Ma In a future land ruled by the Qin Empire, citizens all wear

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When he meets the elderly Carl Iverson at a nearby nursing home, he's eager to hear Carl's life story

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Steve Cavanagh In Steve Cavanagh's twisty mystery Kill for Me, Kill for You , two strangers, women bearing

Ellie's sick of what many of her fellow female students put up with from young men who won't hear no mysteriously not, a silent companion (a painting cut out and supported as a freestanding figure) waits, bearing

I enjoy a novel about imagined near-future advancements, and the Poppy Fields's founder delves into moral

terms with it, while Abby is an island local whose husband has hidden something significant, and she fears

When an important telegram arrives, they fear the worst.

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creations (one writes what she calls proems, “etched on panes of glass using a dagger-shaped diamond she wears

It's tough to feel sympathy for a seventeen-year-old who is without money, hungry, and desperate to please

rings the bell at the finish of treatment and in the car immediately afterward, Nate, her husband of 24 years

The men have no common language, and John, at first fearful of his vulnerability, then overtaken with