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553 results found for "shifting loyalties"
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/17/20 Edition
Casey is in the awkward, sometimes painful age and stage of shifting from young adulthood to being a
- Review of The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Dave explores powerful messages of loyalty, acts of true love and sacrifice, and bravery.
- Review of Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
a climax that draws his attention and focus to the matter at hand and they thereby lead to various shifts
- Review of Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road #1) by Rachel Hartman
There's a "woman dresses as a man to escape gender limitations" trope; the story emphasizes loyalty,
- Review of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
identity," myriad reasons why we're in this position, and how white people can serve an essential role in shifting
- Review of So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
provides constructive measures a reader can take: asking questions about the status quo, taking a role in shifting
- Review of Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon
to read (well, to listen to as an audiobook, which I did), and it focused on quirky friends, family loyalty
- Review of Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
that their intense experiences during the story's short window of time offer them opportunities to shift
- Review of The Witch Elm by Tana French
But French also dips her toe into how privilege, luck, (possibly somewhat blind) loyalty—and, in several
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
childhood encounters with nature, and for me the book really shone when she included her family's current shifts
- Review of Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
Tokyo Ever After is about identity, expectations, truth, challenges, betrayal, loyalty, and self-discovery
- Review of The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
For a time, Wizenberg is at a loss to explain much more than the power of her shifted desire.
- Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
The steamy scenes, the twisty route to the relationship, the career shifts, and the science focus were
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/21 Edition
way back to each other by traveling around the world; and a popular book by Matt Haig that explores shifting
- Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year
reader is able to see events unfolding while the characters remain unaware, but watching the pieces shift 1830s New York, immigrant challenges, Irish gangs, people pretending to be different than they are, shifted
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/24/21 Edition
She keeps her virtual tip jar up, and her biggest challenge lately has been shifting her angle or slightly
- Review of Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
The inclusion, loyalty, and friendships here were heartwarming.
- Review of Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
as steady presences felt in many cases to be insufferable, selfish, and with little sense of duty or loyalty
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/2/21 Edition
But the push to shift production to meet current-day wine trends and demands; the disconnect between
- Review of Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
I admit that I felt loyalty to her boyfriend "Will," who saw her through years of significant difficulties
- Review of Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
memoir Somebody's Daughter, Ford explores her complicated relationship with her mother, her endless loyalty
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/21/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Honor, Thrity Umrigar's story of love, loyalty, oppressive tradition
- Review of Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
This is a quick read that addresses serious matters—betrayal, loyalty, duty, trust, and love, with a
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
Can she shift the future by changing the past?
- Six More of My Favorite Literary Fiction Reads of the Year
The bear does ultimately shift everything for their family, and the story is brutal in its climax, yet
- Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
friend Jonas have just crossed a line, betraying their spouses--and they may have set into motion a shift
- Review of The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
I loved the characters' unanticipated loyalty to unlikely parties and their hard-won emotional growth
- Six More Great Light Fiction Stories
she impulsively writes a letter to the calm, kind, handsome host, starting a correspondence that will shift that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise of a new romance for Teddy, and wonderfully loyal
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/10/21 Edition
advantage of these, Hiram must learn to understand and master his mysterious powers that allow for shifts
- Review of Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
I was listening to the audiobook, I couldn't then flip through the first part of the book with the shifted
- Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year
turnaround in thinking—it seemed that she’d had reminders of this reasoning without being inspired to shift Ettie is idealistic and grows to be tough as nails yet capable of deep love; and the heartbreakingly loyal
- Review of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
lovers concerned with sexuality, autonomy, race, artistic expression, tradition, class, education, loyalty
- Review of The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Pious Aubrey emerges as an unlikely source of friendship and loyalty when Nadia needs it most.
- Six of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year
The pacing of the story picks up, appropriately, when World War II begins to shift the world, exerting
- Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality
Kalanithi makes a shocking shift from being a doctor helping terminally ill patients to being a patient
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/28/22 Edition
Reading Now I'm reading Our Woman in Moscow, Beatriz Williams's story of Cold War espionage and family loyalty
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/24/21 Edition
memoir Somebody's Daughter, Ford explores her complicated relationship with her mother, her endless loyalty
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
heart-wrenching connection; The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey's sci-fi book about betrayal and complicated, unexpected loyalty I loved the characters' unanticipated loyalty to unlikely parties and their hard-won emotional growth What Beauty There Is is a story about darkness, desperation, unlikely loyalty, and, ultimately, brave
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
characters' strongly held assumptions and prejudices surrounding Mods and Primes, and Wren's fierce loyalty
- Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading
Things You Save in a Fire is a quick read that addresses serious matters—betrayal, loyalty, duty, trust
- Review of My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan
For much of the book I wasn't quite clear on the status of the characters' evolving romantic loyalties
- Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads
Family, pain, love, music, influence, trust, wonder, brutality, invention, discovery, loyalty, and most
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/15/21 Edition
Rumors, long-simmering conflicts, clashing loyalties, and Barnes's personal tragedy all complicate the
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Relationships shift, unlikely ties grow stronger, characters grow apart and find their way back together
- Review of Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
to please her impossibly shut-off and unhappy mother, but who wouldn't try to get a job or otherwise shift
- Review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Family, pain, love, music, influence, trust, wonder, brutality, invention, discovery, loyalty, and most
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/30/22 Edition
Young Mungo explores ideas of masculinity and loyalty, young love, a gay relationship forged in an unforgiving
- Review of Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees
of the book, I stumbled at some awkward scene transitions, and there is a late, abrupt point of view shift
- Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality
Kalanithi makes a shocking shift from being a doctor helping terminally ill patients to being a patient
- Review of The Unwilling by John Hart
complex issues regarding corruption, prison, war, money, power, and violence; and a brother's unfailing loyalty

















































