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When a fresh tragedy occurs, it brings the pain and terrible mystery of years past swirling back to wreak

and worth by taking control and power and by making underestimating, smug men and meek women alike fear It's an "I am woman, hear me roar (literally!)" book.

In Williams's historical fiction mystery, four years later, Iris's twin sister Ruth finally receives

Rees has written other books that look fantastic: Pirates!

Abriel offers a vivid account of the fear and dread—intermixed with sparks of hope—that sustained Vera Her grandmother Vera lived with her family when Abriel was growing up, and she grew up hearing tales

In Blood, Moorer, after years of therapy, reflection, and working through her enormous rage and loss, You might also like the list Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year.

Ross Gay resolved to write about a joy or delight, large or small, every day for a year, beginning on

Yet the two have remained connected through the years, and the closed-off William has always leaned on

Cut to years later, when Toni, making a name for herself in the Philadelphia indie music scene, tries

Perhaps you fear writing a memoir, reasonably. Invent a single man and call your book a novel. line between fact and fiction allows the true heart of the book, a daughter's wonder, grief, joy, and yearning

a very different book, The Girl in Green, about a British journalist and an American private twenty years

Mariana lost her husband a year ago in a holiday accident in her coastal Greek hometown, and she's still

His wife Elisabeth fears his involvement in the resistance that plans to assassinate Hitler. This book was mentioned in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past Year.

I'd love to hear what you think about this book!

shocked to identify the victim as Rachael Schwartz, a fun-loving, mischievous free spirit Kate babysat years

Saunders's strange, fascinating novel involves griping, sniping characters in limbo between life and death near

Alyan is also the author of Salt Houses, You're Not a Girl in a Movie, and The Twenty-Ninth Year.

#youngadult, #mystery, #siblings 03 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder ​ It's been years since a local young Two hundred years in the past, Leila is a young Muslim woman struggling to survive.

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

revealing more and more about their own inner selves as they take their weekly walks and become more dear

Now it's been in print for 25 years and is beloved by many readers. Have you read this one?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I'd love to hear your thoughts if you've read this book!

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

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

I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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