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But when Charlotte's divorced father and Lily's single mother begin dating, a nightmare takes shape:

Her bitter mother has just had another baby, and her various other siblings are fighting for resources Her home life is hectic, hardscrabble, and emotionally cold, but she has never known life to be any other She has plenty to eat, useful work to do, she learns to love books, she finds laughter. Instead, Gus and a few other Earthlings are pulled in by a small group of traitorous Vanguards--and tasked joy-filled, energetic orbit--and into her loving family, which includes her volatile and no-nonsense mother

In 13th-century Ireland, Alice witnesses her mother's difficult domestic life and lack of autonomy, and trauma, she realizes that Ellie's hiding something--and she may be putting her own life and the lives of others

But when Zoe's headstrong daughter Cherry becomes determined to become a star, she digs into the past

Her bitter mother has just had another baby, and her various other siblings are fighting for resources She has plenty to eat, useful work to do, she learns to love books, she finds laughter. Ash is struggling with her own imperfections as a mother, wife, and friend as she tries to figure out The story begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late one night. She's the primary caregiver for her father, who has Parkinson's disease; she pays the bills; her mother

Millie and Reginald Thompson make what feels like an impossible choice: to send their eleven-year-old daughter Her ties to the Gregorys fade in some ways and strengthen and transform her world in others. like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II or other

as Violet, a young ship's stewardess bent on providing for her family after her father's death and mother's Sometimes in a dual-timeline story I feel far more invested in one story or the other. You might like my Bossy reviews of other spy stories; you can find them here.

Here's a greedy reading question: What other historical fiction mysteries should I read? For my full review of this book, please see A Curious Beginning. 04 The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate The Clockmaker's Daughter took a little page time to start moving along for me, but I loved Kate Morton dreamed of becoming a doctor if society would have allowed it, but as it is, she's stuck working off her mother's

In Run for the Hills , Mad and her mother have run their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee, ever since Mad's Meredith Hambrock's debut novel was Other People's Secrets . Geraldine Brooks is also the author of the novels People of the Book , Horse , Year of Wonders , and others

buoyed only by meandering thoughts of the past--including her life's one tender connection, to the young daughter Groff is also the author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, The Monsters of Templeton, and other novels.

Jessica is a top student, so beautiful that others stop to openly admire her, and the most high-achieving Jessica and Jenna's immigrant parents hope that their daughters will exceed all expectations, and Jessica abilities and her own thoughts and personality--and unlike Jessica, Jenna is not desperate to please others She quickly realizes that being a top student at a competitive school and having others distracted by

You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. In Meg Long's Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, young Sena has lost both of her mothers to the brutal the other's history or personal motivations. They begin to forge a stronger bond (despite how irritating they each find the other), but there's no His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to

I was trying to think of other atmospheric novels that center around affairs at the beach, but the book that kept coming to mind was the memoir Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur, about Brodeur's narcissistic mother's ongoing affair and how she brought her daughter into her complicated web of lies and cover-ups.

thirteen-year-old servant in a Belgravia mansion, taken in and trained for service after the death of her beloved mother mystery takes a back seat in the book to Maisie's explorations of human motivations, her interest in others

The old ways and new ways push against each other, as do the Finn, Lapp, Sámi, Swedish, and Russian influences thirteen-year-old servant in a Belgravia mansion, taken in and trained after the death of her beloved mother

The stories Immanuelle hears about her deceased mother Miriam all have one thing in common: her defiance Darkwood, she encounters the legendary witches she's heard tell of her whole life--and finds that her mother's She's given a long-lost journal detailing her mother's exile, thirst for vengeance, and plans for enacting a set of curses that threaten to destroy all of Bethel--unless Immanuelle can use the clues in her mother's devastating journal, her own hard-won realizations about her mother's intentions for her, and her new-found

If you like books about magic, here are two other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might enjoy When the long-lost sisters do unexpectedly cross each other's paths again at last, the world's seams She's a witch who has sworn off magic; she fled her powerful mother and coven, but they didn't want to There are instances of trickery related to lineage and other similar surprises. Circe, daughter of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, is an odd child.

four-year-old brother, and she's learned to make light of everything from cracks about her full figure to her mother's The family farm in Nebraska has been foreclosed upon, his mother is gone, and his father has recently A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious Angry, confused, and filled with dread, Robin drags her daughter Haley back to Four Points in hopes of

Newlyweds Sam and Annie haven't known each other long. Sam's father left his mother for a younger woman years ago, which deeply fractured their father-son relationship Meanwhile, Sam's mother is suffering from dementia. Sam and Annie alternate visiting days with her. He's said he was with his mother, but he hasn't been showing up. Molloy is also the author of The Perfect Mother, which has its own twist and unreliable narrator.

01 Frog: The Secret Diary of a Paramedic by Sally Gould Sally Gould grew up in Australia the daughter

noted that at the time, some significant blame for mental illness was typically laid at the feet of the mother—nurture the family, and as an adult she continues to try to assist ill siblings and her frail parents; the other Kolker explores the issues of duty and escape, especially as related to the two daughters, presenting

fell into the job years ago while trying to find herself--after a youth in which her father died, her mother apart feels plausible, and I accepted the difficulties each faces when considering a commitment to the other

You can also search by category under the Bossy Book Reviews menu to find other historical fiction books delving into the all-consuming obsessions the desperate young Alva likely had with appearances and others With powerful looks at the widespread nineteenth-century prejudice against the Irish and other immigrant Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and the upcoming The Fire and the Ore. 05 Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird Bird's Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen is based on the story

trying to keep the peace between the Christians and those who follow the Old Way; and Languoreth's daughter Wrong Number , and other books.

intrigue, bravery--and a young woman determined to make her mark in a world run by men, as the only daughter She takes us through falling in love with Jay Molner, having their two daughters, and losing Jay to advanced work friendship with Matt Lauer, and her healthy professional competitiveness with Diane Sawyer and others

every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and unforeseen connections to each other Chang. 06 Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben McIntyre ​ Ursula Burton, an unassuming mother The unassuming-seeming mother and wife was actually a legendary spy who evaded capture by China, the

A mother who runs out on you? A brother who sells you like chattel and a father too busy to care? The other girls at school only know that Maddalena draws them into her orbit, and everyone wants to be Then Maddalena hatches a plan in which each of them might help the other achieve her ambitious dream.

Scottoline is the author of Eternal and 31 other mysteries. Glendy Vanderah Riley lives on her cousins’ Wisconsin farm, where she’s grown up since the death of her mother Can they learn to trust each other and face the past in order to move forward? Christmas tree lit up, her first bite of pizza, the dizzying sights and sounds of this "free" city, and others When her mother faces a health crisis, as they’ve long feared, the family's security and future may be

01 Where the Forest Meets the Stars Joanna is feeling adrift after her mother's death, and she disappears Joanna and her reclusive neighbor Gabe become drawn into Ursa's orbit and drawn to each other as they proxy, lies, betrayals, and double-crossing, all within a claustrophobic, isolated, and codependent mother-and-daughter and disabilities play and learn social and practical skills; on other set days she visits the library Yet there are bright points: rare friendships emerge, sisters build intense loyalty to each other, girls

When that happens, people act this way and say other things. But when the shop owner, Clay Cooper, who owns several other local businesses, is a town council member She has a difficult relationship with her stepfather and her mother, who loves Charlie deeply but manipulates others in order to get by.

with his former partner, who reluctantly allows herself to get drawn into his search for his clients' mother's

and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War, and other She's from a working-class family, and this sets her apart from the other students at Highfield. Since her mother Defne went into a coma and never woke up, young loner Ada Kazantzakis lives in London

father (who abandoned her years earlier so that she was raised by her emotionally distant, critical mother Other delightful, convenient, unsurprising, and fun developments: Breen comes into windfalls of wealth She discovers emerging and astonishingly powerful magical abilities connecting her to others and to animals Breen's best friend Marco and mother figure Sally are irresistibly warm characters. The point of view starts periodically shifting about halfway through the book from Breen to other characters

"I'm still trying not to be the daughter of a murderer. I'm still trying to redeem [my parents]. Allison Moorer is a Grammy- and Academy Award- nominated singer-songwriter whose father killed her mother of an understanding of the people her parents were and the forces that shaped their lives (and their daughters

Then Iris spies a storefront familiar from one of her mother's old photos, a gelato store...where she Iris may be able to help--if only she could also figure out the store's connection to her mother's past

must fight to not seem as though she is grieving him--this is made easier by how real he seems in this other A loyal sister and mother, work friends, and other stand-up characters help round out the story.

She's a photographer with mixed feelings about the idea of becoming a mother, and when she finds that I loved the way the main-protagonist photographer viewed others around her and pieced together what felt

Others I've enjoyed during the past year include: The Dead Romantics, Something Wilder, Weather Girl, August needs to put some distance between her mother and herself, and if her mom has taught her anything But when she returns to the lake for Sam Florek's mother's funeral, she's swept back into the connection But Jack's mother is sick, he wants to return home to Texas, and he doesn't want his family to know he's got a stalker and be worried while they're focused on his mother's health.

Benjamin Rask is a ruthless, outrageously successful Wall Street tycoon, and his beloved wife Helen is the daughter

outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing one eye, whose mother boarding school; now that they're close to the end of their schooling, they are playful, treasuring each other's

Asuka's relationship with her mother was strained before her departure, and her family had suffered earlier Now her mother's involvement in an environmental renegade group on Earth leads some of Asuka's crewmates

. 02 You Are Here by David Nicholls David Nicholls's characters, some of whom are strangers to each other Bob is defending a man accused of a terrible crime: killing his mother, a mean, reviled lunch lady long self-taught artist, is counting on Bob and an unorthodox approach to figuring out who really killed Bob's mother And the story weaves in characters from other Strout books, including Olive Kitteridge. and more about their own inner selves as they take their weekly walks and become more dear to each other

I can see them all now, truths and lies, all lying one atop the other...the Gravely brothers...Eden, and have better prospects than Opal herself has had since the loss and disappearance of their single mother

Conley's book explores a mother's emotional struggle to care for her wild teenage sons and to cope in Mother Jill is left to take care of her teen sons--they're so wild she thinks of them as "the wolves" marriage, and her own persistent, often unmet need to forge an identity separate from that of wife and mother

After Annie by Anna Quindlen In Anna Quindlen's upcoming novel After Annie, the sudden death of a young mother Some choose not to look into their boxes at all, while others use the knowledge of their short strings

Her young daughter is missing, and Ella is in limbo, desperately hoping she hears news soon. Life centers around three characters, their unlikely connections, and their growing importance to each other

For my full review of this book--and for links to my reviews of other Leigh Bardugo books--please see Click here for my full review of A Song to Drown Rivers --and for links to my Bossy reviews of other Young Dave Win, the son of a Burmese father he never met and a devoted, kind seamstress mother, attends The story also explores Dave's and his mother's personal, individual paths through various experiences Cats are more effective than any other medicine out there.”

She's Barbara Van Lear, the daughter of the owners of the camp where many local residents work.

His father's gone, his mother's in jail, and his best friend and most solid source of advice is a convicted each other long before becoming engaged and getting married. Sam's father left his mother for a younger woman years before, deeply fracturing their father-son relationship Meanwhile, Sam's mother is suffering from dementia. He and Annie alternate visiting days with her. He's said he was with his mother, but he hasn't been showing up. Now he's disappeared altogether.

On a dare from her daughter, she hopped onto an open mic stage, spouted off comedic takes on her life