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Rich's livelihood feels on the verge of becoming obsolete as the heavily harvested woods dwindle. Every character grapples with obligation, safety, and family issues.

The author saved every one of her grandmother's voicemails, and here she uses them--along with emails

Greenwood's skillful unfolding of the often brutal story, the characters' many layers, and the varied

The story has been optioned by actress Emma Stone to be produced as a limited television series.

"By its nature, every secret contains the power to destroy something."

I loved Raybourn's A Curious Beginning, the first in her Veronica Speedwell series, which I can't wait

their passions, and I enjoyed Duckworth's interviews with highfliers and successful individuals across varied

Shipstead is a wonderful writer, and I loved every word of this.

Faced with witnessing growing and varied injustices at Betty's hands, Annabelle must determine what she's

As with book one in the Arthur Less series, I was pleasantly surprised by the heart and vulnerability

Who are the villains and who are the heroes--or is everyone and is every creature a mix of both?

Krueger also wrote Ordinary Grace, which I reviewed on the blog here, and he writes a mystery series

I could have read about her for a full series of books, and I devoured The Hired Girl in twenty-four

The detail with which Frances picks apart and analyzes each nuance, each look, and each word of every

Mary Jane eagerly learns about varied music and musical expression, about sharing raw emotions, and about

There are fears and disappointments and failures every day, and, in the end, the hero dies.

shaping force in her life, and she speaks with grace and openness about the disease, her challenges, the varied

I haven't watched the ten-part Netflix series based on this tale--the cast looks great, but I'm not sure

As an adult, Gifty sinks every waking hour into her pragmatic search for scientific answers that might

Harley is also the author of the wonderful seven-book, middle-grade, humor-filled Charlie Bumper series

Gardner has written many, many books in multiple series, but I'm excited that her books are new to me

, offhanded mentions of characters we've met before (like Olive Kitteridge), and Lucy's incessant, varied

Interestingly, he also writes for the TV series "This Is Us."

a casual mention around the neck of another character across the world in another time; and we see varied

There are additional books in the Sarah Agnes Prine series: Sarah's Quilt, The Star Garden, and Light Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, which is made up of four young adult fantasy

) by Lisa Gardner Lisa Gardner's recent mystery One Step Too Far is the second in her Frankie Elkin series

I adored every bit of Jiles's story--Captain Kidd's reluctant but gentlemanly involvement and his voice

time travel; I'm listening to Marie Lu's young adult science fiction book Warcross, the first in the series She's hacked into the game plenty of times and glitched the system to work in her favor.

Human Croquet are two other Kate Atkinson books I've enjoyed; she has also written the Jackson Brodie series

A ten-part Netflix series is based on this tale.

Mystery series with strong female protagonists?

straddles the line between meek and mild helpmeet and spirited, strong woman, and I was cheering for her every

These three memoirs have commonalities I didn't expect--though they offer varied voices and tones--and

role as the sleazy lawyer with a heart in the show Breaking Bad, or from his lead role in the spinoff series

01 Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories

unfair to take any issue with the sometimes overwrought (to me) romance and extensive talking about every

We get to know something about life in contemporary Britain through the varied interconnected friendships

Emmy-nominated writer Kalb saved every one of her grandmother's voicemails, and here she uses them to

Press and NetGalley. 02 Steelstriker by Marie Lu In Skyhunter, the first book in Marie Lu's Skyhunter series

He's written many other books, including The Hush, the second in the Johnny Merrimon series, and the

(Jennings has also authored a series of Junior Genius Guides to U.S. presidents, the human body, dinosaurs Rowling I'm just finishing the Harry Potter series for the third time (I read it once on my own before I've been resisting reading this year's Troubled Blood, the newest book in the Cormoran Strike mystery series

weight even as she notices others' judgments about it; and young people living as their authentic, varied

This is a nice mix for me to have going on at once: a fictional, varied look at modern feminism and race

ranging from madams to activists, feminists to magnates, well-read wanderers to brutal murderers, and every

Now I'd like Miller to write more books about varied topics, because I like spending time in her head

that we have the capacity to effect change--if we overhaul some traditional tools and frameworks in favor Harvey is specific and practical throughout the book, and she provides a series of valuable messages

Not all of the members of my book club felt as strongly about this one as I did, but I adored every bit

In Hillbilly Elegy, Vance mainly shares the story of his own many, varied, and enormous life challenges

women's stories seem like they couldn't be more disparate, and I imagine the tones will be refreshingly varied

This is the second in Wolfe's Elizabethan Spy Mystery series; the first was A Murder by Any Name. 03