She was made to offer pleasure without challenge or conflict, after all. Meanwhile, Annie, who was literally created to serve Doug, is learning, evolving, growing, facing internal conflicts

on points that the reader can see are shadowed by her spectacularly misguided and relentlessly held convictions

other states across the country, has been swept by a secession movement, but Jess and Storey assume the conflicts The friends soon realize that conflicting political ideologies have led to this horror here and elsewhere

extensive forays into the country's traditions, political interests, and its royal family's interpersonal conflicts dresses as a boy to explore scientific pursuits, and the palace intrigue that occurs when their allies conflict for more behind-the-scenes peeks at Shakespeare's shows, and I was least interested in the political conflicts and drama, although they were essential to the conflict of the book.

treasures in the book's ancient binding, setting her on a path of exploring forgery and complex political conflicts

The story explores the conflicts between power and faith, and the influence of the appearance or reality

The Nimue-Merlin-Morgan le Fay conflicts were an intriguing side plot, and I enjoyed Grossman's unexpected

Wilson's memoir Rebel Rising , and I listened to the Australian's account of a challenging youth, familial conflicts

and its' Jewish and Black families' purposes and missions, which sometimes intersect and other times conflict Their cultures conflict in some ways, but their stories and existences overlap, and their challenges

Griffin Sisters also takes on deep familial conflicts, coping with loss and a devastating blow for future

Everyone is linked, with shared youths and local experiences, conflicts new and old, and deep loyalties

Kline puts forward plausible doubts, magnetism, conflict, seeming impossibilities, and outsiders' desire

I loved the 1700s wintry Maine setting and the convictions of the historical fiction novel's strong midwife details of life in the time period, as well as the unassuming women who show their true strength and conviction

Her return seems destined to bring up past conflicts, and our main protagonist is left feeling adrift

Mean Girls meets The Parent Trap, Together for Never explores each girl's point of view, and after conflict

In We Are Not Like Them, Pride and Piazza dig into a friendship of opposites, conflicts around race, challenges in trying to dive into each point of view while trying not to favor either one; and the personal conflicts complex, loaded topics the way I was hoping Therese Anne Fowler would do more of in her novel with racial conflicts

historical fiction novel, Libby Steadman lives in Virginia on the edge of the Confederate-Union Civil War conflict

extensive forays into the country's traditions, political interests, and its royal family's interpersonal conflicts

historical fiction tale based on real events surrounding the rise of the light bulb--with compelling conflicts The Last Days of Night is a fictionalized account based on the dramatic Edison-Westinghouse-Tesla conflicts

I was intrigued by the issues raised in Blackwater Falls--police corruption, racial conflict, religious complicated issues surrounding racial injustice, police corruption, political concerns, faith, and religious conflicts

Quinn offers plenty of interpersonal conflict, romance, suspected double-crossing, and details of life By the end of that summer, Chloe's father had confessed to the crimes of killing those girls, was convicted collaboration between Clinton and Penny kept me on the edge of my seat through heart-stopping political conflicts feel invested in the story, Adams's family, and the ins and outs of the various complicated political conflicts

remain separate, I was taken with the double-edged quest, elite training, magical abilities, and complex conflicts Centuries-old resentments and conflicts threaten to bubble up into war--and Nahri and Dara's arrival only serves to feed the flames of conflict.

I was taken with the premise of conflicts and mystery in a post-colonial West African city, but I didn't

introduces vain, strong-willed, talking dragons, their complex, wonderfully faulted handlers, and wartime conflicts

five-star, 1950s North Carolina-set novel offers mountain clans, whiskey runners, folk healers, family conflict Family secrets and conflicts come to a head as The Gods of Howl Mountain reaches a dark, brooding, beautiful Carolina setting, the character of Sheriff Winston Barnes, and the pulsing racial, class-based, and family conflicts Rumors, long-simmering conflicts, clashing loyalties, and Barnes's personal tragedy all complicate the

Current-day conflicts link to generational trauma, storytelling, and mysterious power.

remain separate, I was taken with the double-edged quest, elite training, magical abilities, and complex conflicts

country is reeling from economic troubles; Brandon's older brother deeply resents his presence; and conflicts

five-star, 1950s North Carolina-set novel offers mountain clans, whiskey runners, folk healers, family conflict Family secrets and conflicts come to a head as The Gods of Howl Mountain reaches a dark, brooding, beautiful

Young Mungo offers a striking story of disappointment, abuse, Protestant-Catholic conflict, and a young vulnerability of allowing one's self to be seen for the first time, overcoming lifelong Protestant-Catholic conflicts

other states across the country, has been swept by a secession movement, but Jess and Storey assume the conflicts The friends soon realize that conflicting political ideologies have led to this horror here and elsewhere Thorpe offers lots of joy and offbeat fun, yet doesn't shy away from weighty conflicts between classes

Kline puts forward plausible doubts, magnetism, conflict, seeming impossibilities, and outsiders' desire

I love an academic setting, and I also enjoy a conflict between renegade justice-seekers and law enforcement

The gods' war provides the structure for the book's main conflict, but the story feels primarily focused

A mix of unexplained actions and conflict, Louis's imminent return, and Isabel's discovery of what seems

her impatient barkeep brother, she grieves the loss of her father and is astounded by the increasing conflict

the story would take off and eclipse the pacing and the forced-feeling will-they/won't-they-focused conflicts The melding of two fighting forces offers additional interesting characters, conflicts, complexities,

O'Keefe's first space opera in the Devoured Worlds series presents failing worlds filled with conflict

food and fashion are fun, heartwarming, and light, and make for a satisfyingly clean wrap-up of all conflicts

Thorpe offers lots of joy and offbeat fun, yet doesn't shy away from weighty conflicts between classes

Brigade. 02 The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen Pylväinen's novel explores the cooperation and conflict Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions Religion is a particular conflict in the novel, with the Christian characters proving themselves to be

trolls, and all the rest; there’s a school to train up promising young teens; and there are interspecies conflicts It’s really about personal growth, knowing your own mind and holding convictions, demonstrating loyalty

Everyone is linked, with shared youths, conflicts, resentments, and loyalties.

Their cultures conflict in some ways, but their stories and existences overlap, and their challenges

book, that looming danger seems to be contained, which is good for Annie but tough for the need for conflict

with a beautiful, spunky local young woman, Lo Bailey, who was later accused of his murder but never convicted

It's wonderful to witness her conviction and how she eventually begins to fully realize her full, true

historical fiction novel, Libby Steadman lives in Virginia on the edge of the Confederate-Union Civil War conflict

seem to be leading to a too-convenient happy ending, and as expected, Liang provides a complex set of conflicts

prison; in his case, a former priest and the Lady--an investigator searching for information in the convicts