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or the power of monumental cover songs, or the poignancy of creating a community orchard that won't bear

the cold and by the mentions of the Kennebec River flowing through the town of Hallowell (which is near

It's perfectly charming, funny, quirky, and sweet, yet it deals with grief and fear, hope and forgiveness

fully are poignant and lovely, and the last ten percent of this book is so beautiful, it brought me to tears

If a person pleads ignorance or credits terrible actions to the power of fear, can such acts ever be

Charlie has developed heartbreaking relationship "rules" that prevent her from becoming attached, for fear

mother, and when a student in one of her classes fights for his life fighting police brutality, her fears

But, dear reader, I've now incorporated Libro.fm into my book-devouring system--and Libro supports independent

The hearing headmistress (a CODA--a child of deaf adults), the rebellious new transfer student Charlie

very much enjoyed the French Resistance storyline, with its details of safe houses, document drops, near

can't fight her immediate attraction to the no-nonsense Nathaniel Bonner, a white man dressed in Mohawk gear

Kart, the Bonneville Salt Flats, whispering, the World's Largest Ball of Paint, wintry mix, and teddy bears

exploration of mortality in the text and there are allusions to intimacy, the tone of the book feels geared

Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it.

a Queen was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past Year

It hooks you when you’re vulnerable, scares the shit out of you, holds your deepest fears as collateral

titillated by the dark activities recounted and wild accusations raised, and the men drum up hysteria, fear Powerlessness, despair, fear, and fury fuel Rebecca, but she must keep secret her intelligence and her

the unthinkable is happening: Edi is dying from ovarian cancer and living out her days in a hospice near

rethinking their roles and worth by taking control and power and by making faulted men and meek women fear

Who would be brought to tears and then move in to help him, without his having shown remorse, reflection

ongoing search for and her innate need to find a group where she might focus her energy and satisfy her yearning

didn't leave me with the information I'd need to recreate anything, but I found it irresistible to hear

"When the colors are gone, ye're left with some muddied water, and naught else.

to come to Green Bank on the presumption that the less connected life was richer--which seemed to be bearing

Some of the wrap-up details near the very end felt a little bit unsatisfying, but resolving them cleanly

But members of the group are keeping weighty secrets, and Frankie fears they may not all make it out

But others' visions for the story involve her eco-warrior main character morphing into a teen beauty wearing

After being involved in multiple disasters in only her first day of classes, she fears college may become

universal connection of music, the temptation to change the past, portals and time loops, loyalty, fear

Yet she often yearns for her more carefree youth and connection to nature.

Zauner also digs into her often difficult relationship with her father, her fears that after her mother

amazing facts known about a real-life freed black man—with imagined details and events elaborated on in fantastic

Love Story is set during the late 1980s AIDS epidemic and is wrapped in the music, culture, activism, fear

This book follows the other books in the series, The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower

novel The Light Pirate, pregnant Frida and her husband and kids prepare for a catastrophic hurricane bearing

Lo just knows The Unity Project is dangerous--and she fears how her sister may be involved.

Feared and mysterious, Zetian is paired with the most controversial male pilot around, Li Shimin.

often she encounters it, the more difficult it becomes for Ada to check her temper, her opinions, her yearning

The Bear and the Nightingale is the first in the series, and The Winter of the Witch is the final book

When he's set up as the guide for a famous musician, he baits her line, carries her gear, and sets her

crash course in reading about the Triassic Period (weather, Pangea, dinosaur identification) or to hear

often she encounters it, the more difficult it becomes for Ada to check her temper, her opinions, her yearning

But members of the group are keeping enormous secrets, and Frankie fears they may not all make it out

And that "Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, 'I believe in you.

(You can almost hear Kidd grumbling "I'm too old for this" in the movie version I'm envisioning.)

I feared I'd get turned around in time by listening to the book rather than reading it, but narrator

They suffer, they fear, they grieve, but they endure--and while this story doesn't feel too easy, it's

listening to The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak's magical novel about a young girl in London yearning

making and with his weakness; I also didn’t believe in his “love” for the person he is purported to have yearned

Through Bell's voice we also learn what has shaped the other women of the family: we hear rich stories