sister for financial assistance for the family; and young Meg, who suffers cruelty in an orphanage after

best (and only) friend Jacob is sent to serve overseas in the Korean War, Blackburn promises to look after The two had eloped just months after meeting, which led to Jacob's being disowned by his wealthy family

obsession, his injury, and his subsequent drug addiction; and her mother's tough love, how she shut down after As an adult, Gifty sinks every waking hour into her pragmatic search for scientific answers that might

Criollo in Oaxaca; Cosme in New York and soon Los Angeles; and Atla in New York. 02 Half Baked Harvest Every for Balanced, Flexible, Feel-Good Meals by Tieghan Gerard In her newest cookbook, Half Baked Harvest Every and corresponding Instagram account and author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook and Smitten Kitchen Every Chicken and Dumplings; Fettuccine with White Ragú; Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies; and Strawberry Summer

: Westminster, and then to their inevitable goodbye as Striker retires and heads home to his owners after

book as a favorite of his when we talked about reading and books on his Maybe I'm Amazed podcast last summer Decades after the events in question, our narrator continues to feel anguish about the role he may have

Wolvers by Taylor Brown Trace Temple is a disillusioned, angry young man whose family lost its ranch after

Elly retreats into silence after inadvertently posting to the internet the moment she attempted to surprise

becomes clear that that family plans to change the area's landscape by building an enormous factory, after

After all, dates with the desperate Westerners hoping to find docile Ukrainian wives to take home will

skilled surfer Nina Riva--the daughter of legendary crooner Mick Riva--is about to throw her end-of-summer Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music, as well as the books The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, After

Captain Kidd has fought in three wars, and after the Civil War's end, he serves as a traveling news reader I adored every bit of Jiles's story--Captain Kidd's reluctant but gentlemanly involvement and his voice Jiles also wrote Simon the Fiddler, set after the Civil War, in which Captain Kidd makes a brief appearance

You can explore the twelve titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads to find out about my overall He is, after all, an imperfect person whose fear of failure caused him to abandon each chance at a wonderfully After all, she hasn't sacrificed, obsessed, planned, spent all her money on voice lessons, and humiliated This was wryly funny, sometimes zany, and so very heartwarming. making missteps and forging a path forward while adjusting to romantic, family, and work complications after

accounts that feel whitewashed or wiped of women due to sexism, Cleopatra recognizes that those who come after

Their perspective of coming upon the devastation immediately after Sherman's March through Atlanta was

But after giving up the pro circuit, then working as an assistant tennis coach at the University of Michigan

Sea, Julia Spence-Ash's historical fiction novel about a young girl straddling two lives during and after Maddalena is sent to the Pietà after scandal threatens to ruin her family's reputation in a last-ditch dark circus enters the scene, with a ringmaster ruling his crew with dark powers--and someone who's after

(One minor example: When Gette is a grown woman, she conveniently recalls a moment when she was a very After prolonged disappointment, hardened hearts, failed attempts, and years of heartbreak, coming back

Rwanda and through six other African countries—with her tough, hustling older sister Claire—during and after In The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After , Wamariya recalls her experiences

And Princess Gisela of the Alpenwald, a dear friend of Alice's, goes missing just after Veronica shares

Three years after his death, she traveled to a remote Australian island--where she had once considered

Barton had predicted a path to purgatory for Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn--after which she was promptly

Her  husband has been away fighting for the Confederacy since soon after they were married, and Libby

fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real, read it in one rainy afternoon Greedy Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year, Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, and My Bossy Favorite Reads of Summer the year I read it.

The book is built from letters Bird wrote to her sister (with some key notes added after the fact), which I kept thinking what a delight Bird must have been, showing up after doggedly riding her trusty horse

first crime is largely abandoned--along with the university's president and Dell's boss, who disappears after a seemingly significant introduction, until she reappears at the very end of the book wondering why

and community in a crisis and in common suffering, and figuring out the impossible: how to move on after Edward tries on the mantle of taking responsibility for every life lost; he wallows in the despair of Nothing is too easy here, nor is it ever melodramatic in Napolitano’s hands. I loved this book. of dying, death, appreciating the beauty of the impermanence of our lives, planning for loved ones after

This means that sought-after DNA specimen sources such as celebrities are in potential danger of having Annie was created to please her owner, Doug, in every way.

The trip lasts seven weeks and involves challenge after challenge. Zamora takes us through what often feels like his literal step-by-step journey, without summarizing or

Rowley also offers poignancy, an exploration of grief, and the impossible-seeming prospect of going on after His newest novel, The Celebrants, centers around college friends who made a pact after Alec, one of the assemble, no questions asked--for affection, support, and the sharing of sentiments typically reserved for after

I’m the worst dream America ever had.” that he was called Good Stab by his family and friends, appears mysteriously in the congregation week after

Lily is desperate to scrape out a living after losing the family ranch and all her life dreams that went Leo would love to reconnect, but Lily is not interested in rekindling their flame after the way things When the trip involves mishap after mishap, the travelers begin to wonder whether the legend of the treasure was fiction after all.

when their friends surprise Harriet upon her arrival this year with the fact that Win was able to come after After sixteen-year-old Bree's mother dies in an accident, she escapes the painful memories of her childhood The experience jogs a buried recollection: a wizard was present at the hospital after her mother's accident

She's writing fan fiction about his aunt's former television show, after all.

Atkinson is also the author of Shrines of Gaiety , Case Histories, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Life After

I thought about this one long after I finished it. Disturbing and a mind churner. Howarth has a sequel, Dust Off the Bones, scheduled for publication early this summer. 04 Doc by Mary and its many dangers; suffers grave wounds; and saves each other's skin countless times--including after Captain Kidd has fought in three wars, and after the Civil War's end, he serves as a traveling news reader Not all of the members of my book club felt as strongly about this one as I did, but I adored every bit

milling around talking at each other and preparing for their presentations are insufferable hacks, but after

After Nina Swann's semi-famous chef husband Paddy is killed, Nina receives a condolence card from a stranger The stakes grow ever higher as his irrational fixations come up short--and as various women begin to

After the World Falls Apart I have a fascination with postapocalyptic (set in a time after a disaster no law left except what you make of it, but if you steal my dog, you can at least expect me to come after They take everything away, our very dignity, and anything we get in return feels like a gift. Then Hig gets an indication that he is not alone and that there is life out there after all. Colonel Carlisle; and the others on board may not have been meant to succeed in their grand mission after

Ari Waker has just been released from prison after serving a decades-long sentence, and she emerges to Through a spectacularly disastrous teleportation experiment and its aftermath, Mandel offers two versions

family and friends, her discovery of her own strength, and the midlife renaissance she experienced after

But after McLain set the scenes in each timeline and established the characters, the novel took off more

Cleo and Ethan find themselves in a nightmare of grief: their daughter Daisy dies at the hospital soon after And she doesn't seem to be very good at staying out of trouble.

combat, wisdom, and other elements of Viking legends to anyone she encounters; and she models her life after The characters, the story arc that isn’t too easy but leaves you in a promising place after all, and in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred years to remember her after she walks out the door, the next day, and every day afterward. This title was also listed in My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

And you know that every time you do, you've left another piece of you behind. If Raybourn keeps writing this series, I'll read every last installment.

In Run for the Hills , Mad and her mother have run their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee, ever since Mad's He is, after all, an imperfect person whose fear of failure caused him to abandon each chance at a wonderfully

to bite her tongue, and she feels like the poor treatment her husband shows her may be deserved, as after life's purpose is meant to be made up of motherhood, catering to her husband's needs, and keeping house, after that saved the world--and weary of the constant comments about how she's so lucky to have been born after best (and only) friend Jacob is sent to serve overseas in the Korean War, Blackburn promises to look after The two had eloped just months after meeting, which led to Jacob's being disowned by his wealthy family

a social media guru bent on controlling everything, and she's starting to wonder if she's ventured very far from her beginnings after all. Lord Hawthorn swore he was finished with magic for good after his twin sisters died.

Centuries after her death, spindly, awkward historian Owen Mallory unearths her story--and becomes inexorably

My very favorite books from April! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month. The summer Chloe Davis was twelve, six girls went missing in her rural Louisiana community. By the end of that summer, Chloe's father had confessed to the crimes of killing those girls, was convicted A new United States administration has been sworn in after a period of upheaval and upset. parents' excruciating, menial jobs (in a sweatshop, sewing factory, the cold, purpled hands they suffered after