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

abandonment on an unforgiving, uninhabited island after our main protagonist falls in love with the wrong person Elif Shafak also wrote the lovely The Island of Missing Trees . in passive, reactive behavior, but as she grew older, she found her voice, rode a roller coaster of personal Bono (eleven years older) began when she was a teenager, and his control over her professional and personal and disappointment, through her unlikely journey to stand-up, to the embracing of her Southern mama persona

character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving the cold cases of missing She's an unassuming middle-aged woman and a recovering alcoholic who has a compulsion: to locate missing

reading Blackwater Falls, a recently published thriller by Ausma Zehanat Khan about the mystery of missing

Silver offers a story with a missed-chances premise in which romance, drama, and an unwavering hope in One Day in December offers a missed-chances setup with enormous repercussions.

The small plane is missing its black box, the pilot's flight bag--and the tenth passenger.

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

She's curious about everything and is the smartest person Sander knows. And Princess Gisela of the Alpenwald, a dear friend of Alice's, goes missing just after Veronica shares

listed on the recent Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II. 01 Miss For my full review, check out Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook. 02 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams In this case, Kat wasn’t fully developed as a character so she felt more like a concept than a real person

He is, after all, an imperfect person whose fear of failure caused him to abandon each chance at a wonderfully The most tragic aspect isn't that his children were left, but that he missed out on time with these quirky

California; and Dark Roads, Chevy Stevens's suspenseful novel, out next week, about young women going missing and rugged terrain of British Columbia, along a highway where unsuspecting women traveling alone go missing

A book that fascinated me, in case you missed it! Is remorse useful, and does it make a person more redeemable? Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments?

of Ginder's novel is focused on a revenge fantasy, but I was drawn more to Nancy Harrison's strong personality She’s kissed all the babies and passed all the right legislation and said all the right things. Whereas Greta is an unsympathetic, aggressive, and misled character, her brother Nick is unfailingly

He explores shifting realities and asks how much of a person's happiness and life course is determined around a new town, or to understand how she ended up where she finds herself, yet she's altogether missed her own decision-making, private jokes, clarifying moments, sadness, and joys that made her that person who was alive and thriving in certain life threads because of Nora's care or attention, and who was missing at the same time my mom did; as part of an online book club for March; and in preparation for my in-person

author of The Silent Patient, to be published next week, Mariana, a group therapist coping with her own personal When her beloved niece Zoe calls from her Cambridge dormitory, frantic that her friend is missing, Mariana

didn't feel as vividly wrought as the unforgivingly cruel ice of the first book, and I found myself missing

reminder that a classmate is dead, a character "quips," for example; the silly and youthful exclamation "I miss

more page time spent with Murderbot sorting through situations and humans' feelings; I found that I missed

He is, after all, an imperfect person whose fear of failure caused him to abandon each chance at a wonderfully The most tragic aspect isn't that his children were left, but that he missed out on time with these quirky

Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad. There's a character in common between the two books; this person appears at the end of The Boy on the

A book I loved, in case you missed it! God is a complex personality. I wanted to explore that complexity and that moral ambiguity.

While Molly herself frequently misses the implications of the details she meticulously observes, the and Molly may end up being more than capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the many personal make room in the mix for Rosemary, who's grateful--and who's frankly glad to leave her significant 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

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

She lays a journalistic view over some of her personal experiences and offers advice to those affected In What Doesn't Kill You, Miller explores the isolation of enduring chronic disease and her own personal I also found it somewhat personally triggering, which isn't a judgment, but it was my reaction. “…I sometimes miss being in the hospital…. Her particular personal experiences, her hard-fought wisdom, and her thoughtful reflections about her

If you've missed my prior lists, take a look on the blog! Why is Margaret willing to share her personal tale now? What is she hiding?

But she's soon faced with issues beyond missing him: he had secretly sunk all of their savings into ramshackle

When Jax, a social worker, receives a series of frantic missed calls from her sister Lexie, she assumes She has a lot on her own plate, and she'll have plenty of time to deal with her estranged sister's mess

His mind seems to be failing him just as the proceeds from his gold mines go missing, and Dulcy is suspected

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. shocking loss of freedom and rights she suffered for years while her parents abused their control over her person The tone feels carefully crafted, and the book reveals disturbing, ongoing abuse and frightening misuse The side plot of a rival detective agency and the links between the UHC and Strike's personal past were

the author of other books I love: We All Want Impossible Things , Waiting for Birdy , and How to Be a Person friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing

After a few days you receive multiple personalized reading recommendations in an email. Voila! a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library member--or if your local library system offers a similar feature of personalized And have you read any of my Personalized Recommendations from Librarians, hmmm?

She's in danger of being sued for libel by Max Freaking Hastings, who Pip knows is a terrible person And she can't shake a general sense of unease, as though she's missing something. The side plot of a rival detective agency and the links between the UHC and Strike's personal past were

direction for her future, Emma discovers that her beloved but estranged best friend from high school is missing

This gorgeously written set of fifty-two love letters to nature encourage reflection and urge the reader to pause to honor even the less glamorous wonders of wilderness. Pull up a weed from the wet soil of the drenched garden and smell the rich life the earthworm has left behind. Just a whiff of it will flood you with a feeling of well-being. The microbes in freshly turned soil stimulate serotonin production, working on the human brain the same way antidepressants do. In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl offers a literary, nature-focused devotional of 52 chapters, each meditating on an element inspired by her close examination of the goings-on in her backyard. Renkl's beautiful, striking observations range from a New Year's Day sighting of a crow and her exploration of crows' senses of community and cleverness, which she hopes set a tone for the year to come; to a grief-stricken examination of deadly fads such as the desire to have a vibrant green yard, free of weeds, and the widespread impacts of the poisonous chemicals required to achieve such a thing. So much of what I do in this yard is only ever an exercise in hope. The author is deeply connected to nature and has a poet's way with words as she explores the wonder of migration, nature's cycles of life and death, and wild creatures' behavior. Renkl weaves in stories of her pivotal childhood encounters with nature, and for me the book really shone when she included her family's current shifts and changes in poignant passages she linked to her observations of nature. I adored this element--possibly because with a senior in high school, I am also facing enormous pending alterations to the makeup of our household. Epigrams appear at the beginning of each essay, setting a tone for what's to come. Nothing in nature exists as a metaphor, but human beings are reckless metaphor makers anyway. I listened to The Comfort of Crows as an audiobook, but I think this one would have been even better read as a physical book for easier pausing and pondering. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? Renkl is also the author of Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss and Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South.

I did find the personal, passing sharing of others' intimate details jarring, however (regarding lascivious

hates: lead and be responsible in order to keep his people safe; and the gloriously angsty, romantic, missed-chances Josie Silver Josie Silver, who also wrote The Two Lives of Lydia Hill, in One Day in December offers a missed-chances

A book I loved, in case you missed it!

Veronica Speedwell series, set in 1888 London, Veronica and Stoker seek the whereabouts of a man who went missing Stoker's past, and Raybourn offers a number of explanations for some of the previous book's alluded-to personal I loved the father-daughter bond, and Opal is a wonderfully quirky, self-possessed young person.

Willingham's past and present storylines and by her unreliable narrator Isabelle, who is desperate to find her missing Is she paranoid, or is the podcaster taking too deep of an interest in Isabelle's personal past rather

#mysterysuspense, #deadlywaters 02 Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook ​ It's 1945. For my full review, see Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook.

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

But while William Tear inspired a (fragile) cult of personality, his heir and son Jonathan is no politician I already miss my favorite characters from the series.

An unreliable narrator setup can be hit or miss for me, but in this case, I felt Faulkner deftly crafted Therefore the omissions and confusion on her part--which allow the tricky situations at the heart of

When Jax, a social worker, gets a series of frantic missed calls from her sister Lexie, she assumes Lexie She'll have plenty of time to try to cope with her estranged sister's mess later.

A book I loved, in case you missed it!

Then Emma discovers that her best friend from high school is missing.

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

A book I loved, in case you missed it: I loved the deep friendship; details of outdoorsy expertise and

situation is wonderful; other brief side stories (Iron Druid, for example; or how Al processes patience/personal (I wonder if these might be Iron Druid Chronicles references that I'm missing since I haven't yet read