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  • A Short Bossy Break

    fantasy-historical fiction, the second in a mystery series set in Maine, a novel about an unconventional family

  • Review of Dead Beat (Ninth House #3) by Leigh Bardugo

    out how to close the gates to hell--while fending off the nefarious Yale faculty members, malicious family Bardugo is the author of the first two books in this series, Ninth House and Hell Bent, as well as The Familiar

  • Six More of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year

    Drum-Time , it's 1851 in the Arctic Circle, and a small community of reindeer herders, a minister's family built period, we track Maria's path from the nunnery to her position at the heart of the von Trapp family For example, the depiction of the Captain in the script at hand is as the family disciplinarian, but The family's singing is romanticized, but Maria reveals that one daughter had extreme anxiety about performing public, the grueling touring schedule was rooted in a desperate bid to put food on the table for the family

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/28/24 Edition

    The enormous extended family lives in houses scattered all over the neighborhood, with cousins racing , and other novels. 03 Trespasses by Louise Kennedy Cushla is a young teacher (who fills in at the family

  • November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    he makes up for with the desire to learn more about the forces that may have long ago destroyed his family Amanda makes a special connection with a mountain family on her route that's facing tough times despite our heroes' missteps when they tell the truth about others' wrongdoings, and a heartwarming chosen-family close quarters, for many months--and inspiring reflections on life, death, loss, the past, the future, family fresh start--which might push the bounds of realism but offers a hopeful, heartwarming tale of chosen family

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition

    I'm reading Sandwich, the wonderful Catherine Newman's newest family story about a summer spent struggling 01 Sandwich by Catherine Newman Rocky's family has been vacationing in Cape Cod for twenty years. To save their treasured family time together, Rocky may have to share secrets she never intended to reveal

  • Review of The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber

    In The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Are there ways to cut the ballooning cost of college that's breaking the bank for many American families enormously important process--which can largely determine the timing of your own retirement and may put your family partner to build a product--a thinking, sociable, working adult--and less as a dutiful, supplicant family

  • Review of Burn by Peter Heller

    Flashbacks delve into their friends-like-family years of linked lives--and a disturbing revelation that I love Peter Heller books--the connection to the wilderness, the layered friends-like-family relationships

  • September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried, while Belle has learned to keep the family's For her intended husband Worth, his tragic family past and complicated present seem to be stumbling blocks built period, we track Maria's path from the nunnery to her position at the heart of the von Trapp family For example, the depiction of the Captain in the script at hand is as the family disciplinarian, but public, the grueling touring schedule was rooted in a desperate bid to put food on the table for the family

  • Review of The Blighted Stars (Devoured Worlds #1) by Megan E. O'Keefe

    why newly discovered planets are being destroyed--and it all comes down to the greed of the Mercator family Disguised as Tarquin's new bodyguard, Naira is celebrating her access to the Mercator family--until she

  • Review of The Levee by William Kent Krueger

    In William Kent Krueger's audio novella The Levee, four men in a rowboat struggle to rescue a family balloons to 80 feet wide, and three convicts and their leader arrive at the ancestral home to rescue the family is largely about the buildup to the flood, and it centers specifically on the attempted rescue of a family The widower patriarch of the family is stubborn and refuses to leave despite the rising waters. His devoted daughter is determined to stick by him, and the family's servants stay in order to keep an

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/21/24 Edition

    Elif Shafak's magical novel about a young girl in London yearning for a connection to her extended family She's from a working-class family, and this sets her apart from the other students at Highfield. Ada is seeking a meaningful link to her past and extended family; could a tree possibly be the answer

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/13/25 Edition

    But now her family is in prison and her sister is missing. If Vivienne succeeds in breaking dragon-language codes at Bletchley Park, her family will be freed.

  • Review of Wolvers by Taylor Brown

    Trace Temple is a disillusioned, angry young man whose family lost its ranch after hard times.

  • Six More Contemporary Novels I Loved in the Past Year

    review please check out The Favorites . 02 Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey Eowyn Ivey offers elements familiar unforgiving setting; magical realism; attempts to overcome seemingly insurmountable complications; chosen family And by happenstance, this revenge also threatens Ma's family's ability to travel to a land of plenty. The Cassidy-Shaws are riding in their family's autonomous minivan when it crashes into another vehicle the characters in Culpability , but I was interested in the lavish setting for the tech mogul, the family's

  • A Bossy Summer Break

    I'm going to take an unprecedented Bossy break to spend time with family, but I hope to be reading a

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/1/25 Edition

    War II, we follow the story of a young couple in Bonhomie, Ohio, as they meet, fall in love, build a family both their parts (confusion about arrival dates, the consistent use of nicknames, and a lack of recent family

  • Review of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

    wrestler; and she dives into an unorthodox new profession in order to secure a financial future for her family judgments (a custody battle; ominous Child Protective Services visits), all while navigating complex family

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/24/24 Edition

    In fifteenth-century Venice, a family of glassmakers is living a charmed life on the island of Murano craft, and when her father passes away, Orsola secretly begins to make glass beads, supporting her family Tracking the family for six centuries, from Renaissance Italy to the present day, Chevalier's story skips

  • Review of A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar

    And by happenstance, this revenge also threatens Ma's family's ability to travel to a land of plenty. The thief comes from devastating poverty and has clawed for survival and in hopes of helping his family

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/4/24 Edition

    to James McBride's novel exploring a poor 1930s Pennsylvania neighborhood and its' Jewish and Black families Chicken Hill is a hardscrabble neighborhood where Jewish families live alongside Black families--outside

  • Review of The Book of Love by Kelly Link

    Their friends and family all believe the three teenagers have been in Ireland at a music program--but The teens are trying to come to terms with what their existences might look like now, and their families

  • Review of The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

    June struggles with the complicated implications of her family's curse of hallucinations and mental illness June Farrow is biding her time on her family's flower farm in the small town of Jasper, North Carolina

  • Six Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    against-the-odds attempt to evade evil and develops into a beautiful heartbreaker of a story about duty, family The two had eloped just months after meeting, which led to Jacob's being disowned by his wealthy family While there, Jessica discovers a true-crime account of The Turner Family Tragedy of 1959--and her own family's connection to the unthinkable events. Morton's story explores secrets, loyalties, mysteries, and the complicated matter of family--those you

  • Review of Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

    teenagers drinking in 1985, a car accident, a young doctor Ben Wilf, who comes upon the wreck and whose family Time passes, and a young family moves onto Division Street.

  • Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

    Family, pain, love, music, influence, trust, wonder, brutality, invention, discovery, loyalty, and most But when Monica's father dies suddenly, Monica and her three sisters begin to drift, and the family seems When We Were the Kennedys is a memoir about grieving deeply, leaning on family and community in a crisis Wood gorgeously evokes the many characters and unfathomable events that changed her family's existence Hour by Sara Donati In The Gilded Hour, Donati shapes a historical fiction story about an eccentric family

  • Review of The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

    Meanwhile, Quinn’s family is harboring dark secrets that stretch back decades. And even Brody and his family have secrets that would destroy them if they came to light.

  • Review of Forty Autumns by Nina Willner

    ICYMI: Forty Autumns offers fascinating, wonderfully detailed perspectives in a rich, layered family The subtitle of Willner's Forty Autumns is A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall, and her memoir details the former American intelligence officer's true story of her family Hanna raised a family in the United States. And in an intriguing turnabout within the family, her daughter Nina, the author of this book, became

  • January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    James Willoughby is a na ï ve young medical student whose family fortunes have taken a negative turn, Castell Kellen begins as a principled, headstrong young man lacking in the magic crucial for power, familial And the struggle feels even worse because his younger sister is living up to the family's powerful name unlikely allies, and his loyalty to get by, he finds himself discovering uncomfortable truths about his family tamped down, and diminished his particular type of magic, deeming it destructive to Kellen and to the family's

  • Six Historical Fiction Favorites

    but the book doesn't feel that way) in varied points of view surrounding a Palestinian and an Israeli family Forever by Rachel Beanland The backdrop for the story of a few summer months in the life of an extended family There’s an undercurrent of concern about Hitler and his increasingly punitive behavior toward Jewish families

  • Review of Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

    only a few female doctors in 15th century China, and Yunxian is learning all she can from her beloved family thumb of a controlling mother-in-law, who severely curtails her ability to practice medicine, as in the family's

  • Review of The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

    You might also want to check out these books featuring friends like family and these historical fiction

  • Review of Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst

    Dave's scholarship benefactors are a couple flush with family money, interested in the arts and matter-of-fact bull-headed, sometimes cruel son Giles is a classmate of Dave's, and when Dave is invited to stay with the family

  • Review of Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning

    Kate Manning's Gilded Mountain is set in early 1900s Colorado as Sylvie Pelletier leaves her family's However, she is also captivated by the family's wealth and comfort--and by extension, her own. She also finds herself taken with Jace, the treasured son of the Padgett family, who is himself torn between family duty, secrets, and doing "one right thing," a way of navigating the world that Sylvie With her own family's livelihood--and the local industry--in the Padgetts' hands, tensions threaten to

  • Review of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

    Chicken Hill is a hardscrabble neighborhood where Jewish families live alongside Black families--outside

  • Review of Being Henry: The Fonz...and Beyond by Henry Winkler

    All of this is intermingled with his clear adoration and admiration for his family--his wife chimes in with her perspective at some key points--and his family's natural inclination for activism.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/18/24 Edition

    He can't get through to his wife and family in Seattle, no one seems to believe he is who he says he clinging to Coordinated Universal Time as they pass through sixteen sunsets and sunrises, watching familiar Meanwhile each astronaut thinks of family members on earth, prepares dehydrated meals, exercises, engages

  • Review of Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After #2) by Emiko Jean

    She was thrilled to travel to Japan to meet her father and the rest of her royal family for the first quickly realized that being a princess involved responsibility, political maneuvering, and mysterious family dating her gorgeous bodyguard boyfriend, living with her beloved dog, and having figured out the royal family

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/8/25 Edition

    when a prince from another region arrives and demands a bride price for protecting the land Odessa's family But the only ones who have shown her loyalty or respected her abilities are her unlikely new family and

  • Review of Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead by Mai Nguyen

    Cleo's grief, her sometimes socially unacceptable methods of getting through each day, and, much to her family's

  • Review of The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #1) by Laurie R. King

    King's 19-book series builds an irresistibly layered professional partnership and personal, friends-like-family

  • Review of The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook

    against-the-odds attempt to evade evil and develops into a beautiful heartbreaker of a story about duty, family four-year-old son, Tot, who are fleeing from Nell's abusive husband and his vindictive, terrifying "Swamp Fox" family

  • One More List of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year

    mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried, while Belle has learned to keep the family's For her intended husband Worth, his tragic family past and complicated present seem to be stumbling blocks Archie begins wondering about unexplained aspects of his own family history, and when he and his aunts she even ships out, and her parents reject her potential to be a war hero worthy of a photo on the family's

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/19/25 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Kevin Wilson's newest novel, about a surprise extended family and the author of Now Is Not the Time to Panic , Nothing to See Here , Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine , The Family

  • Review of A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

    Despite the many outlandish details of Iris's situation and ongoing secrets, I was taken with the sweet family Then Iris spies a storefront familiar from one of her deceased mother's old photos, a gelato store... where she discovers that they use her exact, closely guarded, definitely secret family recipe. The family members abhor secrets...but want Iris to walk away, creating the ultimate eternal secret,

  • Review of The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon

    But her family's noble expectations are that she marry well and have babies.

  • Review of The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins

    Emi, Kristina, and Larch are a family that survived the immense destruction of the climate crisis, but When a long-term secret is revealed and Emi's safety is endangered, the family must decide whether they

  • Review of This Is Happiness by Niall Williams

    He's simultaneously falling in love with a family of sisters, considering his future, witnessing his

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/24/23 Edition

    01 Go As a River by Shelley Read Victoria is the last surviving female in a family of complicated men She's running her family's rural peach farm in Colorado. : A Novel of Hildegard Von Bingen Hildegard Von Bingen began seeing visions at a young age, and her family

  • Review of Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin

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