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- Review of The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy
story (this time, set in Paris) with dual timelines; The Beekeeper's Promise, set in 1938 France with a second
- Shhh! Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
This is my second book gift list of the season (the first was last week's Shhh! Sex; and Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War. 04 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/28/25 Edition
She notes that there is a 37% chance of a massive earthquake in the Pacific Northwest in the next 50 When a stomach bug ravages the wedding guests and Charlie himself, will Cece use it as a chance to bow
- The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year
Hart has written many other books, including The Hush, which is the second in the Johnny Merrimon series I haven't yet read the second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into
I love digging into the story of someone's life--notable because of chance, circumstance, or choice-- I found Sally Field's discussion of her "craft" and how she grew and changed as an actor to be the most I loved it and I'd read another book by her in a second.
- Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads
Wood gorgeously evokes the many characters and unfathomable events that changed her family's existence important underlying plot lines remained oddly unresolved at the end--even keeping in mind that there's a second
- Review of Time of the Child by Niall Williams
He's also bemoaning his own chance at love; as a widower he worked with Annie Mooney at the pharmacy, But an unwed mother in that time and place has little chance of keeping a child once the Church has a
- Review of Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
A chance encounter blossomed into a glorious connection and a pact to meet up one year later at her family friends like family, facing responsibility and challenge, and acknowledging when long-held dreams have changed
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/28/21 Edition
He has written many other books, including The Hush, the second in the Johnny Merrimon series, and the
- Review of A Deadly Education: Lesson One of the Scholomance by Naomi Novik
The Last Graduate, the second book in this series, is slated for publication in June 2021.
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Howard's literary speculative fiction explores fate, free will, changing the past and implications for promising talent and her best friend from high school (who's now a high-powered agent), Emma gets the chance home, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks of inspiring, career-building, lucrative, and life-changing Only, the last thing Charlie Yates wants is someone changing his (terrible) script.
- Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love
This is the second Naomi Novik book on this short list because she reimagines fairy tales so captivatingly
- Review of Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliott
When cool Leo at school reveals that he's into comedy too, Haylah jumps at the chance to write material Elliott offers a fantastic, boy-crazy, British story about missteps, facing change, accepting the past
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
timeline, an abused wife makes a stand for a whimsical name suggested by her daughter Maia, Bear; in a second
- Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories
These days there's no more witching and no more will for spells and change in the world. I think the second book in the All Souls series (Shadow of Night) is even stronger, as it delves more
- Review of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance. about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had made peace with--he must decide whether it changes
- Review of The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
loss and a devastating blow for future plans, lies and betrayals, and, finally, a messy but hopeful chance
- Review of Culpability by Bruce Holsinger
reminds us, and we must cope with the consequences of decisions, carelessness, overconfidence, or merely chance
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
gradually, driven by a measure of empathy, taking in and training young people who are also fighting for a chance attempted to lay claim to the Tichborne family fortune, insisting that he was a long-lost noble son much changed made up of an older generation steeped in habit and old-fashioned values yet poignantly capable of change
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/5/24 Edition
the upcoming debut novel by Kelly Link about three teenagers who disappeared, died, and are given the chance They are, in fact, dead, but their teacher offers them a chance to compete in magical tasks in order
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
have her say in the world and emerge from her oppressive situation; and The Forgotten Kingdom, the second , please see The Girl with the Louding Voice. 08 The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike This is Pike's second
- Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out
Wood gorgeously evokes the many characters and unfathomable events that changed her family's existence important underlying plot lines remained oddly unresolved at the end--even keeping in mind that there's a second
- Review of Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection by John Green
a world where everyone can eat, and access healthcare, and be treated humanely, tuberculosis has no chance
- Review of Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The chance encounter leads to a surprising turn of fortune in which Katey finds herself immersed in the
- Review of Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson
He is, after all, an imperfect person whose fear of failure caused him to abandon each chance at a wonderfully
- Six Romantic Novels Set in the World of TV and Movies
enraging readers who'd been counting on a different happy ever after), leaving little audience for her second
- Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels
created the horrific system of oppression, control, torture, and death—even with a promise of potential change fivestarbookreview 05 The Power It follows that there are two ways for the nature and use of human power to change When the people change, the palace cannot hold. This is the second M.R. Carey book on this list, but I couldn't help myself.
- Review of Tilt by Emma Pattee
She notes that there is a 37% chance of a massive earthquake in the Pacific Northwest in the next 50
- Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
A chance encounter blossomed into a glorious connection and a pact to meet up one year later at her family friends like family, facing responsibility and challenge, and acknowledging when long-held dreams have changed She's set to detest this interloper--but then he sends her a letter that changes everything.
- Shhh! Nonfiction and Hobby Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
into chaos, but usually it just meant a steady stream of stage divers and kids who just wanted a few seconds
- Review of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
She has made her young lover Lucien believe they met by chance, but "Sadie" is actually milking him for
- Review of The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith
And Ryan Murphy is showing some weak points, and every time he does, Strike gets a bigger chance with
- Review of A Murder by Any Name by Suzanne M. Wolfe
I also enjoyed the second book in this series, A Course of All Treasons (mentioned in the Greedy Reading
- Review of Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein
gradually, driven by a measure of empathy, taking in and training young people who are also fighting for a chance
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
fame in some way), her first, brief marriage, her emotional growth, her grit, and, ultimately, her second
- Review of The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Grazina is suffering from dementia, and Hai, whose prospects are slim, jumps at the chance to become
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/24 Edition
She has made her young lover Lucien believe they met by chance, but "Sadie" is milking him for information
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/26/25 Edition
Grazina is suffering from dementia, and Hai, whose prospects are slim, jumps at the chance to become
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Read's debut novel is gorgeously written, with vivid details of mid-century Colorado, moments that change Wilson Moon is a drifter displaced from his tribal lands, and a chance meeting between Wil and Victoria Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at glimpses of the novel that is the basis for Penny's trajectory--while digging into themes of climate change
- Review of With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt
Simon finally gets a chance to go on tour with his band to open for a major act, and just as he's letting What happens to a relationship when the people in it change, and their dreams along with them? What does commitment mean when the essence of a person within the relationship changes?
- Review of See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
speaking harsh truths before she stops to think seem destined to lead her to misstep and thwart her own chances She has the incredible chance to make the same decisions or to consider her choices and do things differently The following morning, she gets yet another chance at reliving her first day.
- Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Books about Music
fall 2023) Sinead O'Connor: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations , edited by Melville House A Chance The stories about the song that changed their life, the song nobody appreciates the way they do, the
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/15/25 Edition
his teacher and the other thieves in the area--and taking in young people who are also fighting for a chance
- Review of City of Windows (Lucas Page #1) by Robert Pobi
I haven't yet read the second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and when I read City of Windows
- Review of Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
more stressful and Emma's mother shows up, will the potentially serious feelings between them stand a chance
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/21 Edition
Letters from family and friends get him through multiple winters--until an unexpected visitor changes This chance encounter could ruin his long-held, desperate plans to keep his family safe.
- Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World
Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler ...you may have heard that goldfish have a three-second
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/27/25 Edition
their relationship is discovered, they're cruelly punished by being abandoned on an island with little chance
- Review of Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
order to increase her potential value as a bride--in the end, to benefit her brother and raise his chances by unexpected transformations, by what felt like frequently shifting abilities, and by some abrupt changes
- Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels
This is the first in Muir's Locked Tomb series, and I'm currently listening to the second, Harrow the















































