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568 results found for "shifting loyalties"
- Review of A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
aspects of war and love, but his journey to the north inspires him to consider issues of class and loyalty
- Review of Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
And: Whose loyalty can be trusted? Whose memory is solid?
- Review of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
also follows a version of events in which the real-life figure of Sarah Grimke makes a slow, twisting shift
- Review of Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
Meanwhile the reader begins to suspect that Helen's loyalties and earnest, nervous desire for friendship
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
Can she shift the future by changing the past?
- Review of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
This is a quick read, and I liked the extended-family loyalty and the revisiting of a seemingly ill-fated
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/31/22 Edition
suspicious circumstances surrounding Bryn's parents' long-ago deaths, and an extended family with mysterious loyalties
- Review of The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik
They're both once-in-a-generation wizards for different reasons, and if anyone can shift the Scholomance
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/11/22 Edition
In Hartnett's tragicomedy Unlikely Animals, the author explores friendship and family loyalty, mistakes
- Review of Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall
The frequency of pithy remarks, zingers, and succinct rules of life added to the zigzagging, shifting
- Review of Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
provides some heartbreaking disappointment about family members' emotional limitations and conditional loyalty
- Review of Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson
The language spoken by those in the future world is slightly shifted, as though it has evolved over 1,000
- Review of Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Boulley explores Daunis's complex feelings of loyalty and duty to her community—but her potential betrayal
- 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.
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
whether to prioritize her lost-and-found love or the makeshift family toward whom she's come to feel loyal Dave explores powerful messages of loyalty, acts of true love and sacrifice, and bravery. teenaged foolishness that leads to trouble, glimpses of satisfying romance, and wonderfully complicated loyalties
- 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,
- 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 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 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
- 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 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
- Review of Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean
Tokyo Ever After is about identity, expectations, truth, challenges, betrayal, loyalty, and self-discovery
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Review of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
lovers concerned with sexuality, autonomy, race, artistic expression, tradition, class, education, loyalty
- 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
- Review of The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Pious Aubrey emerges as an unlikely source of friendship and loyalty when Nadia needs it most.
- 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
- 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


















































