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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

Scorah tells a fascinating personal story of growth and fear and change.

That’s what I set out to change at the Ziggy Johnson School of the Theatre.

But when most of the guests fall violently ill at the reception, Olive's own luck seems to be changing

But a dramatic, shocking change occurs in the main protagonist's situation in the second part of the

pawns in the crooked trading away of the school's supplies to line the pockets of the corrupt men in charge

significantly complicated by the fact that the potential victim is unknown-- and by the fact that those in charge

Although she wasn't trying to change her status from introvert to extrovert, she did want to open up

Wood gorgeously evokes the many characters and unfathomable events that changed her family's existence

Different characters reckon with aging and physical changes, ailments, the end of life rushing toward

And I was annoyed by Dane’s giving up on himself and then, late in the book—and possibly too late to change

The trauma of a second chance at life, a second act, is at once miraculous and unendurable.

stuck, and friendship, and listening to your instincts, with vampires serving mainly as a catalyst for change

there's significant summary, and as events move along during the late phase of the story, we see abrupt changes

community that wouldn't allow her to forget--all drove Arden to move and then move again, eventually changing

These days there's no more witching, no more will for spells and change in the world.

December  and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd , a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance

includes some footnotes), desperately trying to establish whether there were signs, or if she has simply changed

assume the conflicts and political upheaval won't touch them out in the wild, and they figure that the charged

Appalachian cultural norms—fighting, distrusting the government and media, not believing hard work results in change

Some characters behave nonsensically, scene changes and interactions sometimes feel abrupt and unlikely

Sex; and Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War. 04 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change

Letters from family and friends get him through multiple winters--until an unexpected visitor changes

an old Victorian beauty where she grew up, with her architect husband, who has masterminded plans to change

She's set to detest this interloper--but then he sends her a letter that changes everything.

Play with Time I love a story that plays with time through alternate timelines, time travel, second chances

within the relationships she lays out, and you may not be able to anticipate who's going to have a life-changing A couple of these stories left me wishing for more, but Meloy doesn't leave you hanging, instead drawing

energy budget and policy papers under President Ford and President Carter, then a flight of fancy that changed

She has made her young lover Lucien believe they met by chance, but "Sadie" is actually milking him for

their departure before packing up to leave for good--and that's when she encounters something that changes

These days there's no more witching and no more will for spells and change in the world.

Nico's troublemaking and incessant challenges to the status quo serving as a catalyst for fast-paced changes

Johnson transports you to her late 1980s teenage bubble and allows you to live through her sharply life-changing Benway In Far from the Tree, Benway examines the pain of a young woman’s pregnancy and her permanently changed

about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had made peace with--he must decide whether it changes

She has made her young lover Lucien believe they met by chance, but "Sadie" is milking him for information

Scorah tells a fascinating personal story of growth and fear and change.

What types of books are you reading, and have you found that your reading habits have changed during

There are additional books in the Sarah Agnes Prine series: Sarah's Quilt, The Star Garden, and Light Changes

Grazina is suffering from dementia, and Hai, whose prospects are slim, jumps at the chance to become

too rigid) but also for how to become more aware of issues surrounding local eating and how to effect change

He is, after all, an imperfect person whose fear of failure caused him to abandon each chance at a wonderfully

Grazina is suffering from dementia, and Hai, whose prospects are slim, jumps at the chance to become

Silver offers a story with a missed-chances premise in which romance, drama, and an unwavering hope in One Day in December offers a missed-chances setup with enormous repercussions. Josie Silver also wrote an irresistible second-chances premise in her book The Two Lives of Lydia Hill

Wood gorgeously evokes the many characters and unfathomable events that changed her family's existence

more stressful and Emma's mother shows up, will the potentially serious feelings between them stand a chance

, sweat, and tears, and the appealingly messy second-chance attempts at being true to themselves and

In We Are Called to Be a Movement, Barber makes an impassioned case for change and a "moral revival,"

In "Alcatraz," characters count on officially changing the erroneous facts of their family's history

December , and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd , a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance

When her mom shows up from Ghana, Maddie jumps at the chance for some independence; a late bloomer, she For my full review, please check out We All Want Impossible Things. 06 Changeless (Parasol Protectorate books and laughed out loud at the dialogue, Alexia's abrupt manner, and the delightful oddities in Changeless review (and a link to my review of the first book in the Parasol Protectorate series), please check out Changeless