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Will their conflicting needs and expectations blow apart their marriage?

But the story's conflict centers around the magical and horrifying danger Adelaide has never acknowledged

01 The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen Pylväinen's novel explores the cooperation and conflict among 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

The end section of the story involves fast-paced reactions and conflicts, with SecUnit doing its thing

their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases they are unable to cope with their conflicting Chen writes a deeply felt warring of emotions and conflicting responsibility and duty.

planned two-part memoir; I'm reading an upcoming science-fiction novel about interspecies relations and conflicts

battle is soon to be upon them all, and she'll need to find out what she's made of in the life-and-death conflict

Woman Is No Man) considers a small-town North Carolina artist, mother, and wife struggling with the conflicting

be dispensed with during the course of the story and a more dastardly one emerges and prolongs the conflict

wonderfully unexpected developments related to plot, character arc, point of view, morality, origin stories, conflict book by bristling at his necessary role as high king, but he soon must lead his people through the conflict

strong female main protagonist, and the complications and sometimes burdens of loyalty, love, and and conflicting wonderfully unexpected developments related to plot, character arc, point of view, morality, origin stories, conflict

By the end of that summer, Chloe's father had confessed to the crimes of killing those girls, convicted San Francisco DA Wes Farrell helped send Paul Riley to prison years ago when Riley was convicted of the

But Carl is a convicted murderer who was released because he's so gravely ill and close to death.

mother's in jail, his stepfather is gone, and his best friend and most solid source of advice is a convicted It centers around one family’s conflicts with crooked and powerful neighbors; cruel and aggressive Native

zany (a fake-dating-the-brother code of silence) and two parts believable (longstanding professional conflict

society's pressures, and the fiction that her family attempted to portray of being perfect--despite conflict

try to find their way back to a friendship, a track that is not without hiccups, their own sometimes conflicting

the Summer, she offers up an irresistible rom-com premise with weighty, messy, real-life-imperfect conflicts

Tales and Retellings For this list, I focused on books with fantastical elements; clear good-and-evil conflicts The main protagonist and conflicted priest were irresistible characters.

Missing Trees by Elif Shafak Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees explores past Turkish-Greek conflicts The fig tree shares the story of the young lovers and while exploring the conflicts between Turkish and

the Summer , she offers up an irresistible rom-com premise with weighty, messy, real-life-imperfect conflicts The conflicts that repeatedly keep Emma and Justin from their happy-ever-after feel plausibly limiting

Conflicts between Korea and Japan and war and occupation swirl around them and those within their orbits

The rom-com conflict that prevents an immediate happy resolution was based on a communication fail--a be dispensed with during the course of the story and a more dastardly one emerges and prolongs the conflict

For me, much of the story’s depth lay in its exploration of conflicting elements of morality and necessity

The river balloons to 80 feet wide, and three convicts and their leader arrive at the ancestral home

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

The river balloons to 80 feet wide, and three convicts and their leader arrive at the ancestral home

But her current mission is a first for Frankie: to find the long-missing sister of a convicted serial

Lessons in Chemistry explores deep issues, conflict, and dark times, yet offers hope and joy.

This romantic light fiction story includes sibling conflicts, loss, betrayal, a love that seems impossible

investigated her blue color, its causes, and her feelings about either changing her color to avoid conflict

to Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake, light fiction with an anchor in deeper issues, some steamy scenes, conflicting

Steven Smith was a mischievous child raised by his older brother and hadn't yet become the convicted

Libby Steadman lives in Virginia on the edge of the Confederate-Union Civil War conflict.  Griffin Sisters  also takes on deep familial conflicts, coping with loss and a devastating blow for future

Meanwhile, killer Ruby Reyes, the Ice Queen, was convicted of a similar murder twenty-five years earlier

The Night Ship centers around the dilemmas, conflicts, and discoveries of two characters separated by boarding school years, when her roommate Thalia was murdered--and the school's athletic trainer was convicted

Were the Kennedys . 04 The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon I loved the 1700s wintry Maine setting and the convictions details of life in the time period, as well as the unassuming women who show their true strength and conviction

star-crossed lovers, a love triangle, a search for personal purpose and destiny, and great evil-nemeses/cousin-conflict

And I wanted more conflict and more self-realization from Jenna than the clarification that she doesn't

Quinn offers plenty of interpersonal conflict, romance, suspected double-crossing, and details of life

Rowley doesn't smooth over realistically tangled, messy, intriguing conflicts or sober themes, yet he

This seems like a conflicting, sweeping piece of general advice.

Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy worlds, but her characters' conflicts, hopes, Her characters' dynamics, conflicts, hopes, fears, and determination feel real and true.

solve the mystery of a murder committed by a riev, a decommissioned battle-mecha robot from the last conflict

This character is later key to bravely resolving the main and significant conflicts of the story when Hendrix sets up the push-and-pull of conflicting pressures here: responsibility and risk; following gut

to Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake, light fiction with an anchor in deeper issues, some steamy scenes, conflicting Wrong Time. 05 The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston This romantic light fiction story includes sibling conflicts

common area; spreading hurtful gossip; excluding others from invitations) yet impactful interpersonal conflicts

boarding school years, when her roommate Thalia was murdered--and the school's athletic trainer was convicted

struggling to get by, there's some chaste young love, and stresses and crises set off disagreements and conflicts life to be bigger and more fulfilling (and often in these cases, longer); and develops inner strength, conviction

Williams takes us along as she digs into her life's trajectory and the various conflicts, explorations