wreak havoc on the Soviet Union, she joins the Night Witches, an all-female regiment of night bombers pushing I thought this character-driven post-WWII story was wonderful, with compelling and lush detail about the desperate young Alva likely had with appearances and others’ opinions in order to grasp and keep hold Fowler also wrote A Good Neighborhood. hopeful mindset of a young woman forced to grow up too quickly--a woman who for years feels she must push

They must determine how many boundaries they can push and how many lines they're willing to cross in

I'm listening to this as an audiobook. 02 Sunny Side Up by Katie Sturino Sunny Greene is a 35-year-old But when Jane becomes a teenager and starts to push her father for freedom--and for answers--she begins

Abuse, rape, cycles of aggression and emotional coldness, misogyny--her childhood is an avalanche of brutal, swift kick of justice for the person responsible, the person who held a horrifying amount of crushing the story, McDaniel generally stayed close to the facts as presented to her in family stories and as told

power of books takes a tough situation that ends in a death and allows for a fresh start--which might push

Sarah Manguso is also the author of Very Cold People . 02 Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicenzio Catalina

A prickly professor has turned up dead, his head crushed by a bronze bust of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and

Alan Hollinghurst   is also the author of The Swimming-Pool Library; The Folding Star; The Spell; The

getting engaged, moving back to Peter's hometown, buying a house, and, in Daphne's case, seamlessly folding

Her intense push to achieve is accompanied by doubt, periods of low self-esteem, and feelings of unworthiness

01 Fallow by Sarah Anderson Natalie is in a soul-crushing job at a call center when is offered what feels

The story is told partially through illuminating letters from Ruby laying out the unflinching facts of When Cam returns to North Carolina to sort out the mansion's repairs, tensions run high with his cold

In Lynn Painter's rom-com Betting on You , rule-following seventeen-year-old Bailey and sarcastic, joking I loved the fake marriage, the push and pull of career and love, and the second-chance romance. nuptials, it doesn't take long for them to realize that Art has been kissing a boy and that Gwen has a crush Sadie's one vice is writing scathing, no-holds-barred email drafts.

Her precocious ten-year-old kids secretly reach out to family for help--but even India doesn't realize course of the story and a more dastardly one emerges and prolongs the conflict with Cassie and the good The story's pacing felt quite slow and the tone extremely dark and hushed for the majority of the book The slog of fighting and of the horrifyingly deadly war is conveyed with vivid, crushing, uncomfortable

So when a reclusive, wealthy man invites Charles to spend the winter of 1918 on his remote, cold, private

And if Del wakes up, he's going to be as shocked as the sponsors that the rest of the Newmans are pushing

They formed more full versions of themselves as individuals--versions that sometimes pushed against the In the end, I was more taken with the writing voice than the story being told, and the writing made me

After pushing him to return home and head to college, he died in a freak accident.

collection, we meet imperfect characters, often fortysomething women, in moments large and small that push

book early on because I felt whiplashed and steadily confused about what the heck was going on, but I pushed More from Amie Barrodale Amie Barrodale is also the author of You Are Having a Good Time and William

useful to readers of any age--that considers how the constitution was shaped, factors that continue to push

The Second-Chance Books I've been reminded lately how much I love a good second-chance book in which in-between state that is not life and not death, in the form of a library that exists outside of time and holds buoyed or hindered by a feeling of déjà vu, and occasionally she feels compelled to take another path, rush The characters' feelings of anger, crushing grief, and hope feel real in both realities she's created

Twenty-year-old Violet was hoping to live out a studious, satisfyingly quiet future in the Scribe Quadrant That is, until the cutthroat commanding general--who also happens to be Violet's mother--pushes her to various dangerous scenarios, it repeatedly seemed that Violet might well do herself in by ignoring and pushing I'm a fan of varying language and also of creative cursing, so at the risk of being a Grumpy Old Lady

But she seems destined to be continually pushed around and taken advantage of--by her family, her boss big issues of race, loss, anger, lies and betrayal, and underneath it all, the constant, stressful push

Somewhat annoying, forever pushing you to do what you don’t want to do. The story is told in two timelines.

series of the same name, young Feyre (in the audiobook this is pronounced very emphatically as "FAY-ruh spotty success with hunting is the only thing standing between her (largely insufferable) family's cold The Australian bush setting (along with Harper's sometimes spare writing style, which complements it)

the residential River Valley School for the Deaf are trying to get through finals, maintain teenage crushes that also explores the importance society places on language; past and present political and social pushes And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush

incredible details of life in seventeenth-century and early World War II Paris and showcases characters pushed Paula McLain's Skylark  is historical fiction set in Paris and told through dual timelines.

the novel traces each of the unsympathetic protagonist's professional missteps and cutthroat choices, pushing

sister-in-law was enjoying this book while we were at the beach this summer, which is what finally got me to push

When she pushes against her restrictions in a brilliant yet shocking manner in order to shift her future events lead to Charlotte's assuming the identity of a made-up detective, Sherlock Holmes, and putting to good the residential River Valley School for the Deaf are trying to get through finals, maintain teenage crushes that also explores the importance society places on language; past and present political and social pushes Sixteen-year-old aspiring writer Frankie is just trying to get through a late 1990s summer in Coalfield

The book traces The Tearling's attempted ascent from a kingdom crushed by famine, feudalism, and unrest He has written many other books, including The Hush, the second in the Johnny Merrimon series, and the

heartwarming 02 Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel ​ Boy oh boy, this fifth book in the series is so very good installment of Murderbot (here are my glowing reviews of the first three installments and here is my gushing I lurv them, and this one is really, really good so far. Extremely Upper Management sends lonely, steady, pushed-around Linus, a case worker for magical children But stolid Linus may be pushed past the limits of his beloved rules and regulations, because he's juuuuust

magnificent museum, who wander and take it all in or search for specific works of art, who greedily rush

Stein has been working below her abilities as an assistant for her college friend, actor, longtime crush Now Vera, her decades-old, languishing attempt at scriptwriting, her dog Marlon, and her few other possessions The sex scenes involved a lot of encouraging "that's a good girl" type of conversation that seemed likely The misunderstandings that occurred in the past to keep them apart didn't all hold water for me, but

Migrations features a tragic ecological setup of a world in which wild animals are largely nonexistent, a cold emotional and the storyline sometimes feels quite dramatic, while the atmospheric background is gray, cold

I'm pushing through on this bizarre story in hopes that I can find out.

But Alexei's parents have always pushed him so ruthlessly, he never made friends or developed a life [She was] caught between two worlds...one old England and one New. parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make what feels like an impossible choice: to send their eleven-year-old But June is more concerned with her crush on her lab partner, Rhys, and on getting to girlfriend-boyfriend When a documentary shines a light on Margot again, Billy's longtime crush on the musician is renewed.

But when her husband pushes her too far with abhorrent behavior, Del hops a train and dives into the

or hindered by a feeling of déjà vu, and occasionally she feels compelled to take a different path, rush

heartbreaking to be privy to their insecurities and fears as well as their soaring hopes--and their crushing

Ollie pushes down his panic and decides to push on bravely (and possibly foolishly), determined to find

Kuang is also the author of Yellowface , The Poppy War , Babel , The Burning God , and The Dragon Republic So when Emmy's best friend's teen daughter Madison brushes her off, then shows up, needy and asking for

and the Allies; after it, and henceforth, she would be spying against the West, the new enemies in a Cold Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy is made up of vividly recounted behind-the-scenes peeks at real-life Cold interesting revelations about clandestine operations and the workings of the Soviet spy network during the Cold

I have the clear spring water and the rich good pasture that covers the tilted top of the island like I have the old black cow and the sweet grass that grows between the rocks, I have my great chair and secret, Ivar's misplaced trust (and of the looming time when explanations will be forced) and the paused push

As Joseph Campbell once asked, what if the universe is not merely the product of God but also the manifestation of God.... Understandably, because the interplay between science and religion is complex, centuries old, and ongoing revelations that resolve the challenges of reconciling science and religion, nor does she resolve the layered push Brown Taylor is also the author of An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, Holy Envy: Finding God

unexpected events, she is offered a mysterious job at a publishing company...but she and her grandmother are folded

eventually a pivotal point, legal ownership of essential assets she believed to be shared between them in a good-faith She grows more bold, finds healing in speaking her mind, and becomes determined to write her story and

But when she dares to dream of a brief family escape to a nature-filled wonderland (molded on tales they've heard of a lush, past world), her lack of control over her family's fate is shown to be terrifyingly of people craved those good things. power through their surveillance, control of funds and transfers of goods, casual manipulation, and Her ability to hold onto her children ultimately hinges on the whims of a hum who penetrates their inner

retelling of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , we hear a version of that novel's story told delve into the library of books in the big house, including works of philosophy by John Locke (he also holds When the book begins, James's escape is imperative--he hears that he is about to be sold, and that his But the real heart of the book is James: the crushing limitations put upon him due to the color of his