She relocates to Los Angeles and is adjusting to the showy personas she's encountering and the process I'm having a tough time with the premise of this one but am curious as to whether I'm missing something

Iris's beloved brother is missing in action in the war among the gods, and sending letters through a But the person receiving these missives is not Forest, but Iris's work nemesis, Roman. systematically assassinated in public shows of retaliation for their past crimes, Emi's mother Kristina goes missing

friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing

developed memoir in which she explores her musical influences and influential high and low moments in her personal Williams shares stories of her childhood, her musical influences, and pivotal moments in her career and personal young woman she felt hemmed in by hippie culture and also by the societal opposition to it; how she missed

In The Summer Guests , they operate as a team to try to find a missing teen--both helping and annoying

much enjoyed the French Resistance storyline, with its details of safe houses, document drops, near misses , and quick thinking--and resistance members' fervor, often inspired by personal tragedies at the hands

surprises, and Molly seems more than capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the very same personal Mary Garrett focuses on finding missing girls, and she keeps her own past, her secrets, and her emotions Jim Crow South to investigate a girl who has disappeared, she finds that two Black girls have gone missing As Mary's search for all three girls intensifies, we find that Mary herself was a "missing girl," Paula

cognitive challenges until late in the book when multiple mentions were made regarding this; maybe I simple missed

time their sophomore year is half over, one of the fraternity boys from next door is dead, Lucy is missing

Eddie Winston is a 90-year-old gentleman who has loved but somehow has never been kissed. Luckily for Bella and those like her, who might regret the culling of personal belongings from those We see glimpses of Eddie's past and understand more about how he came to be in this never-been-kissed

The summer Chloe Davis was twelve, six girls went missing in her rural Louisiana community. When a local young woman goes missing, Chloe fights her rising panic.

tragedy; Quantum Girl Theory, Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction-mystery-speculative fiction work about missing His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to Mary Garrett focuses on finding missing girls, and she keeps her own past, her secrets, and her emotions Jim Crow South to investigate a girl who has disappeared, she finds that two Black girls have gone missing As Mary's search for all three girls intensifies, we find that Mary herself was a "missing girl," Paula

While Molly herself frequently misses the implications of the details she meticulously observes, the surprises, and Molly seems more than capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the many personal

In case you missed them the first time around, I'm reposting them as this summer begins so you can add wonderfully faulted character. who when not in crisis takes stock of himself and aims to be a better person and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years, intensely spiritual young person

When his best friend goes missing, he'll do anything to find out what's happened to her.

Nessa, Jo, and Harriet work together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of a missing If you like books about strong women searching for missing girls, you might also like the book Before

-before the devastating car crash upon his arrival in town that left him reeling--was to locate two missing

friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing

Have they missed thirteen years of their lives--and the chance to figure out how the heck they ended

including, in her view, her raising of her only child (to be a confident, noncomforming, open-minded person begins the book by reflecting on her youth and longtime interest in history, her travels as a young person As Emery misses yet another important anniversary, an unfathomable tragedy throws everything into a spiral But afterward, Luca retains no memory of Emery, their life, or his own personal past. Halifax, Nova Scotia, and two women are coping with the ripple effects of World War I--and their own personal

In the case of Blue Hour, I missed the very clear note "A Novel" on the cover while downloading the audiobook

intersection of Gwendolyn and Ma Coker's golden child, her eldest son Niven--along with the mystery of missing

Her young daughter is missing, and Ella is in limbo, desperately hoping she hears news soon.

"I nearly missed you, Doctor August," she says. "I need to send a message." The first-person perspective drew me deeply into Harry's life. Now she's coming to terms with the recent and tragic loss of the person she loved and the future she

frequently feels geared toward young readers to me, and I had no trouble predicting the twist regarding the missing

She's an unassuming middle-aged woman and a recovering alcoholic who has a compulsion: to locate missing In One Step Too Far, she turns her attention to a cold case in Wyoming: a man went missing in a national

criminal mastermind Jacob Fagin into a character with a rich backstory, showing him to be a man shaped by personal When Sally Samuelson was eight, her idolized golden-boy older brother Ellis went missing after his high And Quinn's inspiration for the Grace March storyline is a personal favorite; The Americans  is one of abandonment on an unforgiving, uninhabited island after our main protagonist falls in love with the wrong person points of view, which together present fascinating questions about the true story of two disparate personalities

Or will they have missed thirteen years of their lives--and the chance to figure out how the heck they

Rumors, long-simmering conflicts, clashing loyalties, and Barnes's personal tragedy all complicate the Stay tuned for my upcoming ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) review of The Last Ballad.

The situation may lead to personal and career frustration--and maybe heartbreak. America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share If you've missed the text of real-life one-star reviews left by disappointed or disgruntled visitors who frequently miss cookbooks for kids in prior gift lists, but this book combines a couple of things I love for a young person

drawn back into complex detective work when no one else can or will help her friend whose brother is missing His twenty-four-year-old brother Jamie is missing, the police aren't responding with any urgency, and

Elif Shafak also wrote the lovely The Island of Missing Trees . trans high school teacher in a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other transgender person Culpability  explores accountability and questions around the use of AI, making them personal, life-and-death

Mary Laura Philpott is also the author of the memoir I Miss You When I Blink.

criminals are assassinated in public show of retaliation for their crimes, Emi's mother Kristina goes missing

developed memoir in which she explores her musical influences and influential high and low moments in her personal Williams shares stories of her childhood, her musical influences, and pivotal moments in her career and personal expectations related to gender and relationships while Sittenfeld builds characters whose lives are shaped by missed

If you missed this book when it came out, it's one that's worth a slot on your to-read list. note as I read the novel because of how much of the stories of the women’s lives was pulled from first-person

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Carley Fortune's newest light fiction about a missed opportunity

for gossipy entertainment from Mom and becomes a meaningful venture into exploring Lara as a complex person

Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”

Then tragedy struck: Flora went missing and was presumed to be dead.

Nepenthe came along, lots of people were living happy and productive lives with parts of their memory missing secrets, how memory is connected to a sense of self, and the complicated web of memories, experience, personality

Veronica Speedwell series, set in 1888 London, Veronica and Stoker seek the whereabouts of a man who went missing

I missed the clever banter and heartwarming moments of Better Than the Movies , which I rated five Bossy

A book I loved, in case you missed it: Wood's memoir is captivating and lovely, poignant, sweet without ICYMI: A Book I Loved I had to post about this book in case you missed it when it was first published

But because each person's mind wandered during the performance--and each person drank copious amounts It was as if credulous medieval masses had burst through into modernity, rushing into the wrong theatre Written personal histories are shown to be heavily curated, outrageously selective, and powerfully manipulative The assessment of our complex current-day messes, soaring successes, sweeping promise, and looming sense

characters from Ink & Sigil, but I felt bogged down by recounted stories and detailed logistics, and I missed I missed the character growth from book one, and I found myself wanting a little more of the flashy,

Torrence and Seth, who are exes, seem more concerned with their long-term petty arguments and with airing personal I loved this story about relationships, complications, famous/everyday person romance, and a love of the embracing of the beauty in an everyday life and in straightforward affection, the heartbreak of missed

When a local young woman goes missing, Chloe fights her rising panic. the other's loyalties begin and end, nor are they intimately acquainted with the other's history or personal I think this was because of personal timing and my reading-during-vacation distraction circumstances, by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising preferences for personal I did find the personal, passing sharing of others' intimate details jarring, however (regarding lascivious

incorrect but didn't seem to be so on purpose, and the convenient dismissal of inconvenient elements (the missed

Nessa, Jo, and Harriet work together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of a missing science fiction writer from two centuries later, our current day, who writes about an almost identical personal