I still think about this book from time to time, and I read it years ago.

#2) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year

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.

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

journal structure of the novel allows us to witness all of his grumbly nitpicking, his large-scale fears

clean and straightforward after such a complex story full of evasion, secrets, and the constant, urgent fear

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

illuminating Cleopatra's many facets, and bringing the reader into the titular subject's inner workings, fears

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

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

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

illuminating Cleopatra's many facets, and bringing the reader into the titular subject's inner workings, fears

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

#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 your Bossy thoughts about this book!

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.

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

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

Kenney's novel about an obituary writer learning to live again, I See You've Called in Dead, before I go hear

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book! This is Ruth Reichl's first novel.

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

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

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

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

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

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