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- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
When she pushes against her restrictions in a brilliant yet shocking manner in order to shift her future beginner's primer on Deaf culture, and a captivating novel about romance, disappointment, fury, and loyalty adults), the rebellious new transfer student who doesn't know ASL, Charlie, and teacher's pet (and Deaf royalty
- Review of Out of Love by Hazel Hayes
Hayes's Out of Love lays bare the painful end of a couple's relationship, and each subsequent chapter shifts disjointed moments without an exploration of the external or internal reasons for important changes and shifts
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Neither is quite sure where the other's loyalties begin and end, nor are they intimately acquainted with the interplay of characters--particularly the grudging friendship and grumpily built but rock-solid loyalty The shift has made for strange bedfellows—and a prickly partnership between our main protagonist, Ellen I loved how Clinton and Penny made me question the loyalty and intentions of almost everyone in State
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/25 Edition
She's never welcomed change before, but maybe, just maybe, she will be able to shift her perspective
- Review of Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
The end sections where events are clicking along, alliances are shifting and changing, and dramatic justice
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/5/25 Edition
Then a shocking realization upends her carefully curated life and shifts her understanding of all she
- Review of Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch
It's nominally a mystery, but it's mainly a heartwarming story about determination and honoring old loyalties
- Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books
I also have a t-shirt with this book title on it. And I also adore the author. the attraction between Gwen's lady's maid and Arthur's right-hand-man); the unorthodox and touching loyalty The story celebrates true friendship, loyalty, and fantastic, clever, clever ladies overcoming obstacles
- Review of I'll Be Right Here by Amy Bloom
subsequent years, and I didn't feel immersed in the novel; I was told that deep feelings (of friendship, loyalty
- Review of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
of other's experiences, the author posits that when grief, worry, or challenges feel overwhelming, shifting It also feels like a celebration of winter and of the shifts the season necessitates.
- Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories
second-chance book in which the main character gets the opportunity to go back and try again, redo their life, shift But Atkinson's thrusting of Ursula back into her same existence as she shifts her circumstances slightly Dannie can’t shake the possibilities and uncertainty created by what felt like an actual, temporary shift The setup seems like it’s a romance, but it’s really a story about loyalty and devoted friendship without
- Review of North Woods by Daniel Mason
here is Gothic, as those who are wronged come back to haunt certain later inhabitants and are able to shift
- Review of Antarctica by Claire Keegan
Judgment fails; unforeseen repercussions shift lives; grief is borne; and temptation, tragedy, and punishment
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Miller allows the frequently dreaded and bemoaned middle-aged shifts and changes to lead her female characters in a really fun, interesting way, and through the time-jump premise McQuiston's characters explore loyalty Young Mungo explores ideas of masculinity and loyalty, a gay relationship forged in an intensely unforgiving
- Review of Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
nineteenth-century Dodge City, Kansas, offers up a tough young heroine who makes mistakes but whose perseverance and loyalty for a fellow "sporting woman," and when the Buffalo Queen is threatened, she must determine where her loyalties
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
redefined, redemption is always possible, revenge is sweet, and rewriting the story doesn't always shift When Rae begins tinkering with characters, trying to shift the plot--posing as a prophet telling the Everett turns multiple situations from Huckleberry Finn on their heads, frequently empowering James to shift
- Review of The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
The pacing of the story picks up, appropriately, when World War II begins to shift the world, exerting
- Review of Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
But I felt as though the last hundred pages or so of Malibu Rising shifted into melodrama and too-convenient But I felt as though the last hundred pages or so of Malibu Rising shifted into melodrama, and from that
- Review of Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey
she impulsively writes a letter to the calm, kind, handsome host, starting a correspondence that will shift that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise of a new romance for Teddy, and wonderfully loyal
- Review of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose
And Anequs is just the fearless catalyst who might be able to shift it all.
- Review of Secondhand Daylight by Eugen Bacon and Andrew Hook
The story centers around Green's activities, but because of the shift in point of view away from his
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/25 Edition
infant is left in the care of father and daughter, and as the winter progresses, Jack and Ronnie's roles shift
- Review of The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2) by Richard Osman
handyman prowess and ability to get done anything needed; his unshakeable demeanor; and his complete loyalty
- Review of Isola by Allegra Goodman
Isola , based upon the story of a real-life sixteenth-century woman, shifts between details of a life
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
sometimes grumpy pirate Amina al-Sirafi and her quest, her strategic swearing, her strength, her fierce loyalty unexpected circumstances--and realizes that she may be able to reinvent her path forward--and possibly also shift
- Review of Awake: A Memoir by Jen Hatmaker
If you've read any of Jen Hatmaker's writing, you're likely familiar with her passionate loyalty to and
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/25 Edition
and Hum by Helen Phillips, in which artificial intelligence is king after climate change dramatically shifts
- Review of Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck
Lewis as they adjust to the sudden prospect of a drastic, potentially deadly (to Wren), fundamental shift
- Review of Dream State by Eric Puchner
I often felt as though the story was trying to do too many things, with a shifting tone I couldn't always
- Review of Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
It hooks you when you’re vulnerable, scares the shit out of you, holds your deepest fears as collateral Characters explore connections, loyalties, disappointments, evolutions, and revelations.
- Review of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
Bringley and his wife have two young children by the time he ends his stint at the Met and shifts into
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/25 Edition
mass), the climate is cold (check out these other titles with cold settings ), and climate change and shifting
- Review of Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash
The point of view frequently shifts, and many chapters are short, but I felt connected to each of the
- Review of All the Broken Places by John Boyne
brings memories flooding back from her own childhood, and her resistance to his bond and then her deep loyalty
- Review of An Unexpected Peril (Veronica Speedwell #6) by Deanna Raybourn
into the country's traditions, political interests, and its royal family's interpersonal conflicts and loyalties
- Review of The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path #1) by Antonia Hodgson
the stakes of the competition become ever heightened, characters must forge previously unthinkable loyalties
- August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
She's failing out of school, working some shifts at a diner, and living in a nonfunctioning motorhome But Atkinson's thrusting of Ursula back into her same existence as she shifts her circumstances slightly to read (well, to listen to as an audiobook, which I did), and it focused on quirky friends, family loyalty
- Review of As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson
However, I was completely hooked not only by Jackson's story but by the character evolution, the loyal friendships, the adorable relationship growth between Ravi and Pip--and particularly by this book's dark shift
- Review of Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi
He must delve into his own past connections and dredge up painful, complex past dynamics and loyalties
- Review of Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh
wrapped up with a bow as though according to a formulaic "happy ending" equation, and I found this shift
- Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year
provides some heartbreaking disappointment about family members' emotional limitations and conditional loyalty Yet there are bright points: rare friendships emerge, sisters build intense loyalty to each other, girls ’t shake the possibilities raised and the uncertainty created by what felt like an actual temporary shift The setup seems like it’s a romance, but it’s really a story about loyalty and devoted friendship without
- Six Historical Fiction Favorites
Abriel introduces an enormous shift that shakes things up enormously for both young women before the reimagined faith, the frustrations of societal expectations for women, great adventure, strong female loyalty
- Review of Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
The steamy scenes, the twisty route to the relationship, the career shifts, and the science focus were
- Review of What the Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway
city of tuberculosis sanatoriums; those behind the Grove Park Inn project are working furiously to shift
- Review of Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
religious fervor and faith, secret missions, and more--but I felt frequently jarred by uneven pacing and shifts
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/24/23 Edition
A chance meeting shifts the paths of their lives forever.
- Review of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
In the end, loyalty, resolve, and belief in the power of darkness and the inexplicable clear the way
- Review of Silver Elite by Dani Francis
characters' strongly held assumptions and prejudices surrounding Mods and Primes, and Wren's fierce loyalty
- Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites
reader is able to see events unfolding while the characters remain unaware, but watching the pieces shift 1830s New York, immigrant challenges, Irish gangs, people pretending to be different than they are, shifted
- Review of The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee
Characters shift from upstanding to suspect, from envied to emotionally wrecked, from without hope to


















































