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

I loved this fictionalized peek at life with a beloved star. Have you read anything like this?

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

can write about almost anything and make it interesting and comprehensible (as evidenced by his Short History decade-by-decade look at Seinfeld's favorite notes from his career in stand-up comedy, featuring selected material I've got lots of e-reading giftees on my fall and holiday gifting list--and I already offer many of my fiction

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

audiobook but when it came up, I didn’t remember at first what the book was about; the beginning reads like fiction The vast amount of genetic material from the family--both those affected by and those free from mental The significant advancements wouldn’t have been possible without the genetic material from and the cooperation

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

That is, until the mysterious Maddalena arrives.

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.

immersion program felt expected; I most appreciated Lily's eventual examination of her own family's history of what she had been seeking from her Taiwanese experience, her eventual exploration of her family's history

and backgrounds in those books, I find myself actively trying to separate this immersive, love-filled fictional found I've been resisting reading this year's Troubled Blood, the newest book in the Cormoran Strike mystery

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

conflicts and political upheaval won't touch them out in the wild, and they figure that the charged friction

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

The understated dark undercurrents felt powerful and mysterious.

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

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

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

Rum's female characters--but also many other real-life women in comparable situations--to write a new history But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles are some that have stuck with me in one way or

She's been cobbling together enough to get by, but when a mysterious draw to the spooky Starling House

Billy's witnessing of the mysterious crash aftermath seems bound to bring him trouble.

moment with some implausible early details in Holidaze, which I sometimes struggle with in lighter fiction

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Wiley Cash's upcoming Southern mystery, When Ghosts Come Home; Come Home by Wiley Cash Cash, author of A Land More Kind than Home and The Last Ballad, here offers a mystery

her sister Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, Mickey's need to solve the mystery disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery I like a mystery that makes me care about the characters and doesn't foreshadow too much.

When Jaryk learns that his like-a-brother friend Misha from his childhood orphanage has died under mysterious

In Strout's newest novel, we meet an irresistible new character in high school history teacher Artie In Elizabeth Strout's newest novel, we meet Artie Dam, high school history teacher, father to a grown

Webb provides multiple mysteriously missing persons, mixed motivations, naive characters who might be I also loved Falco's back story and his mysterious contact Cross, and I'd love to see more of both of If you like mysteries, you might also want to look at the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

But she quickly realized that being a princess involved responsibility, political maneuvering, and mysterious

Gardner's brand-new character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving This is my first Lisa Gardner book, and I love how character driven the mystery was.