Many live and beyond-the-grave souls demand a reckoning with Boone, requiring apologies and recognition This all leaves our main protagonists Doll and Boone in uncharted territory as death draws nearer for and he refuses to take responsibility for grave harm to the earth and those living upon it so that he may Gradually he came to seem, if I may say it this way, inevitable .... But Vigil introduces many other complex questions (about the common earth, selfishness, advancement,

my reading I messaged my friend Hannah, who had just read this book, how I appreciated that the two main

India's capital city serves as an important main character here, and in Age of Vice, New Delhi's cacophony

claustrophobic but fiercely loving life lived under one roof with extended family, and a young but tough main adventure story with sweet character development, and last year's Echo Mountain, set in Depression-era Maine

Arthur McLachlan is a grumpy elderly man and regular patron who regularly excoriates the staff in personal For years they've gone to their friend Sabrina's cottage in Maine with the rest of their group, building And I am more than this man can comprehend.” After sixteen-year-old Bree's mother dies in an accident, she escapes the painful memories of her childhood

In Matt Haig's The Humans, an extraterrestrial arrives on Earth with a mission: to kill the man who has the visitor nevertheless assumes the appearance of Professor Andrew Martin and clumsily takes on the man's best friend Viv, whose parents want her to marry and settle down (something she has no interest in), main Flying Solo is Linda Holmes's Maine-set title about returning to a childhood safe haven and reconnecting Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown, stinging from her recently canceled wedding, facing being

You may want to check my past Bossy gift idea lists (linked below) for quirky books, perennial classics Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what may Listen for the Lie  offers a fascinating story structure, dark humor, and deeply flawed characters as main The main protagonist's focus in her work is Commander Graham Gore (a character based upon a real figure The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one.

This book had many moving parts, evolving points of view and senses of self, shifts between days and Along with the kickass, whip smart, savvy, kind, and irresistible main protagonist Bridie are her striking Raybourn may allow Veronica to benefit from the author's own modern sensibilities in A Curious Beginning , but Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist, and for me this aspect of her character works adult supernatural mystery series of the same name, and in it, author William Ritter provides memorable main

How long do you keep it up, how far do you go to find a man like this? US Marshal's determined search for John himself, the distraction of a clever, brave woman, and the pain As always, her main characters are richly layered, struggle with terrible circumstances, retain strong the end of the story, the text briefly references Captain Kidd from Jiles's News of the World ("...a man

said that this story is so fully inspired by her grandmother's story that she didn't even change the main

Meanwhile our main protagonist is a middle-aged woman appealingly muddling along at times, doing her the vein of "It was the one where [insert specific circumstances of a woman's death at the hands of a man

growing up between two cultures while shining in its details: wonderful dialogue, messy moments, and the main Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means woman.

An overly convenient situation and moment of chitchat pushes the main mystery of the story to a head-

more; it's sweet and funny, it's about writing and books, there are wonderfully faulted love-crossed main After she drunk-blogs scathing comments about the unrealistic body images of the stars of Main Squeeze producer reaches out to her with an unexpected question: Would Bea consider starring in a season of Main

But others' visions for the story involve her eco-warrior main character morphing into a teen beauty Napolitano Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful explores family bonds, broken connections, forging through pain When William's painful history resurfaces, it shakes the entire family with its repercussions. The ways in which the family members reconvene were not neat or without pain, but were intriguing. Kuang This darkly funny story made me cringe while staying riveted by the main protagonist's deeply faulted

My very favorite books from May! But all of these players and times feel mainly to be in place to serve as a structure for our true main upon the framework of facts from the lives of Julian of Norwich and what is known of the life of our main Our main protagonist puzzles and angers those around her by challenging the limitations of what women I underlined many, many meaningful passages in Revelations, and I found exploring this time through Margery's

Scottoline's suspenseful mystery offers surprising depth in exploring grief while the main protagonist who is responsible for his family's trauma will reveal secrets he never would have imagined, and he may

This often makes her books feel like Westerns to me, as with her book The Lost Man. But others' visions for the story involve her eco-warrior main character morphing into a teen beauty

Novik is also the author of other fantasy novels featuring main protagonists I love: Uprooted and Spinning

young adult thriller was a lightning-fast read, and there's a yearning for connection between the two main complicated and disastrous, Heard presents what feels like a true yearning for connection between the two main

Novik is also the author of many other wonderful fantasy novels featuring main protagonists I love. 03

SecUnit is a fantastic main character; it's grumpily and charmingly obsessed with keeping its people Lora Beth Johnson hooked me immediately with the premise of Goddess in the Machine and with main protagonist she's ready to be reunited with the team, which includes her mother and the rest of her family, plus many But Divya is too busy crafting strong female main protagonists (complete with working mother guilt, which A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin

Elliott's book for young readers offers a boy-crazy, truly funny main protagonist in Haylah Swinton.

miss sex" seems to come out of nowhere; sexual innuendos seem to come at strange, inopportune times; a main There are many dramaaaaaatic teen angst moments here ("As if knowing him would somehow make me want him

The other plotline concerns Lurie, a man who has adventures and challenges with his surprising, loyal Through the vividly recounted adventures in this lively narrative nonfiction, Bird shares her many discoveries gives a fittingly old-fashioned quality to the writing that feels as though it suits the time, the main imprisonment; experiences cruel and potentially fatal betrayal by one of their own; faces the wild and its many

I suspected each of the main players at one point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal for I suspected each of the main players at one point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal.

Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue In Caroline O'Donoghue's contemporary fiction The Rachel Incident, main Rachel is an Irish university student working in a Cork bookstore, dating a boring but reliable young man (who does not have sex with her clients, as she keeps explaining to them) who is fake dating a nice man

She's asked to play the role of maid to an unassuming, wealthy young woman in a dastardly plot to take family living two hundred years apart in the same house, making you wonder how reliable any of our main But the great young adult fantasy elements are all in place here: magic, healing, a defiant main protagonist

Keegan's slim book may seem cozy and quiet at first, but she beautifully illuminates tiny moments alongside Small Things Like These illustrates how a series of what may seem like largely inconsequential moments The quiet main protagonist Bill is a hero; he musters forgiveness for painful events in his past while

Just a Few of My Many Historical Fiction Favorites These were just a few of my favorite historical fiction But I love historical fiction, and since 2020 I've shared many other lists of historical fiction favorites of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (and opposite sides of the wall) are at heart the same in their pain Much of the fever pitch of support and hatred for Jesus occurs when the main character of Ana is off Jesus's role in Ana's story is as a faithful man who disagrees with the politics of the faith at the

Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist who finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of Raybourn may allow Veronica to benefit from the author's own modern sensibilities in A Curious Beginning , but Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist, and for me this aspect of her character works

Many people in Harkin's world have elected to have the company Nepenthe remove traumatic or upsetting Harkin tracks four main characters as they cope with what they may have lost, what might be gained from facing the truth, how painful experiences may have shaped them in essential ways, and whether it's best to leave forgotten pain behind. Others are haunted by what may have been lost, but may imagine far worse scenarios and higher stakes

Vasya is an irresistibly and wonderfully strong and defiant main protagonist, and Arden includes lots Vasya is an irresistibly and wonderfully strong and defiant main protagonist, and Arden includes lots

I loved the main characters' fashion, banter, and stubbornness. imminent demise of the human race that the robots seem perched to enact serve as a catalyst for the human main communicate with its handler, it begins to understand that all is not black and white, and that it may Family, pain, love, music, influence, trust, wonder, brutality, invention, discovery, loyalty, and most But then Romy gets word that another ship has launched from earth, with a young man called J as the pilot

(I can’t get over the story of young Anna taking the bus from Maine to New York City with her brother I also have a friend named Anna Kendrick, and not only because the celebrity Anna Kendrick is from Maine

I loved spending time with main protagonist Eli as he navigated tough situations and emerged with hope Eli Bell is a young man in a tough spot. Who is the man? Can he be trusted? Is any of this even real? He wants to grow up and become a journalist, but for now his main goal is trying not to attract too much For my full review, check out The Lost Man.

Douglas Stuart is also the author of Shuggie Bain. captivating retelling of the Indian epic Ramayana, with immersive details and an irresistible feminist main character fighting for a voice and for power in a man's world. She is smart, eager, passionate, and determined--and an irresistible main protagonist.

also explores her mainly positive, almost dreamlike Saturday Night Live years, her writing and collaboration enthusiastic, full of wonder about the world, and unfailingly optimistic (with a slight, wonderful edge), my main

forced to marry the cult's leader when she was thirteen and worked as secretary for "The Family" for many Young's pain in both avenues is substantial and horrifying, and she is brutally honest. Sea, familiar Strout characters Lucy Barton and her ex-husband William flee New York City for rural Maine It's 1926 in London, and recovery from the Great War inspires many in the city to dive into the wild An overly convenient situation and moment of chitchat pushes the main mystery of the story to a head-

and revelations and long-held secrets that seem destined to shake up everything for our modern-day main life--all the heartbreak, career maneuvering, mistakes, joys, victories, the sordid details of her many

In the main character's take on "the portal," as she refers to the internet, she straddles the line between But a dramatic, shocking change occurs in the main protagonist's situation in the second part of the There are too many beautiful, heart-wrenching passages from this section of the book to quote, and Lockwood's

Fletcher And there may be no law left except what you make of it, but if you steal my dog, you can at The main protagonist Griz is tough as nails and determined and wonderful, and things do ultimately improve It's a true life-or-death dilemma for a man with two stark options: safety and loneliness or potential Against enormous odds, the team may just be finding some of the lifesaving answers they were sent to character in common between the two books; this person appears at the end of The Boy on the Bridge but is a main

In Cristina Fernandez's new young adult book How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying), main protagonist

like the heart of the story (the Eastwoods' helping other women advance their everyday struggles to gain balance of magic, religion, love, passion, family duty, adventure, and search for meaning—and all with a main Reid is a straitlaced young man for whom things are black-and-white, clearly right and wrong. than I could have dreamed of, plenty of romance, so very much wine appreciation, and copious older-man-guides-the-young-ingenue

Friends and siblings are pitted against each other, and some of our main protagonists are faced with

Meanwhile, she uses a foundation of the social science of power and belief to explore out the many ways Fernandez's young adult book How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying), to be published tomorrow, our main

Our brave main protagonist (and rebel) Talin is forced to submit to the Federation's morally questionable Lu offers up their smoldering romance from a distance, focusing mainly on their emotional connection

Mary was a captivating main protagonist--alternately desperate and hopeful, but always dogged in her

His golden heart and grit allow him to keep fighting through brokenness, pain, and disappointment in In Caroline O'Donoghue's contemporary fiction The Rachel Incident, main character Rachel is an Irish As always, her main characters are richly layered, struggle with terrible circumstances, retain strong But it looks like she may have to rely on her annoying next-door neighbor Wes to try to gain the attention growing up between two cultures while shining in its details: wonderful dialogue, messy moments, and the main

But others' visions for the story involve her eco-warrior main character morphing into a teen beauty