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Here, Fisher considers the phenomenon of Star Wars, which drew her into its unprecedented whirlwind when

Wren's fierce loyalty to her kind is complicated by the secrets she's keeping about abilities that would even more feared, a deeper outcast, and a terrifyingly unknown quantity to both types of person in her world

Please click here for my full review of The Resurrectionist . 04 The Last Hour Between Worlds (Echo In fact, the whole world seems to be in terrible danger. she'll need to cooperate with her nemesis Rika Nonesuch, the cat burglar, in order to try to save the world I listened to The Last Hour Between Worlds  as an audiobook. headstrong young man lacking in the magic crucial for power, familial stability and social standing in his world

Schwab's return to the world of the Shades of Magic series (Kell! Delilah Bard! new characters!) Schwab The Fragile Threads of Power is set in the world of Schwab's Shades of Magic, with a return to magic but separated by doors, which were created in a desperate attempt to protect the magic of each world Delilah Bard is crossing worlds to take stock of the threats and power struggles. , A Conjuring of Light, here. 03 Lone Women by Victor LaValle There are two kinds of people in this world

Green, about a British journalist and an American private twenty years after they're linked by Gulf War

In Steelstriker, the second and final book in the series, the last free nation in the world has been full review of Steelstriker. 02 The Last Legacy by Adrienne Young In Young's story, loosely set in the world I was thrilled to find that Young's wonderful, signature strong-young-female protagonist-in-a-man's-world --with each word she utters, one of her brothers will die. series, she set up a romantic fantasy about a chosen one, a long-lost family, portals to a magical world

consistently must work against chauvinism and prejudice in order to see through their projects, to improve the world The peeks into the financial world of 1920s New York City was intriguing--particularly since the unorthodox

Another series that would fit perfectly within this list is the wonderful Winternight trilogy by Katherine What other series that have to do with court, queens, and royalty would you include on this list? She finds that she may be the only hope to save her war-torn country. I enjoyed the forays back and forth from the human world to the faerie, the various things-aren’t-what-they-seem The Thief is a book that frankly would stand alone beautifully, but instead, luckily for us, it begins

Click here for my full review of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me. 05 The Light of the World by Elizabeth In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander writes gorgeously about Ficre Ghebreyesus, the husband she lost suddenly; the elements that made him irreplaceable to her and to the world; and the impossibility You can find my full review of The Light of the World here. 06 The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot around 100 years, but this just doesn't feel like enough, and they each want to leave their mark on the world

Alex dropped out of high school and into a world of shady drug dealers, cruelty, and taking desperate Originally formed in order to hunt down and rid the world of lingering Nazis, the Museum's mission has After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time, may know too much about where the bodies are buried--literally--to be allowed to drift away into the world Did one of them want so desperately to stop him that they would kill to keep him quiet?

loyal, a magical healer, and she has an uncontrollable spirit--oh, and she's niece to the queen, who would ruthless, and he's Wren's sworn enemy, a deadly force who has destroyed her countrymen and women in the wars

Tough, talented Carrie Soto retired from tennis at the top of her game, as the best player in the world Her cutthroat desire to win didn't make her the most popular player in the world. I suspect that as with Daisy Jones and the Six and its page time spent on the music world, bandmate negotiations , and creativity, Reid's ability to bring an unfamiliar world to life--in this case, the sporting and tennis world--will play well.

integrated into either; the various frustrations, injustices, and wrongdoings she witnesses in the world The author is evolving in her views on the world, and while becoming a mother brought spotlight focus

Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. His experiences as a neurosurgeon, in the war, with his divorce and his remarriage, his beloved blended I wondered if his answers would be too easily reached or too pat, but Warren digs deeply into the realities

Click here for my full review of See You Yesterday. 02 The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Johnson She can travel through the multiverse, but only to worlds where another version of herself no longer But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking secrets are revealed that connect various worlds and shake Cara to her core. For my full review of this book, please see The Space Between Worlds. 03 In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren

I wanted to protect him against the world's many disappointments, guard him with my body like I would struggling with money crises and career decisions, and figuring out where and how they want to be in the world

experiences both old and new, who doesn’t rely solely on familiar routines or dated information about how the world takeaways from morality and ethics writings and lessons to craft this guide to how to behave in the world problem and its variations, morality and intersections with money, friendship, and knowledge, and, in the words , kind, well-meaning people out there spending time reflecting on how best to be a human in today's world

But would it have mattered if she’d been someone else? If she’d been a social butterfly, they would have said she liked to drink away her pain. If she’d been a straight-A student, they would have said she’d been eaten alive by her perfectionism. Alex dropped out of high school and into a world of shady drug dealers, cruelty, and taking desperate

Originally formed in order to hunt down and rid the world of lingering Nazis, the Museum's mission has After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time, may know too much about where the bodies are buried--literally--to be allowed to drift away into the world We killed to order only, targets that had been scrupulously vetted and chosen because their deaths would

The world, the girl knew, was worse than savage, the world was unmoved. of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries of the natural world

In the third Emma Makepeace novel, British spy Emma goes rogue in order to save world leaders and prevent opportunity for Emma to go rogue--within a team determined to save the country and leaders from around the world

by Ned Boulting (2023) The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 Into the World's Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World Shhh! Baseball , The Baseball 100 , Paterno , and The Secret of Golf. 03 In My Element: Life Lessons from the World's I am a thousand miles from land in one of the world's most dangerous environments. Alone and free. Element includes Pip Hare's firsthand account of her experiences in The Vendée Globe Race, one of the world's

This resets the power structure of the world and has fascinating repercussions for the previously persecuted In The Power, Naomi Alderman offers a dark and fascinating look at a world where the traditional male-female

But as Annie's AI grows more complex and she becomes more aware of the possibilities in the world, she When she becomes curious about the world, he cuts off her internet access. evolving, growing, facing internal conflicts, considering ethics, and developing more curiosity about the world

and to keep Flora entertained and distracted, Hazel made up elaborate stories about a magical, secret world The book inside is about the made-up world she shared with Flora--but Hazel never told another soul about to Say Goodbye, artist-in-residence at a hospice in San Francisco, Wendy MacNaughton illustrates the words

search for meaning--and how a robot's simple questions about maintaining the status quo might open up a world your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world The robots vanished from Panga centuries ago, and accounts of a world where they existed are beginning appearance and his observations and questions upends many of the ideas Dex had taken for granted about the world This is a slim book that's full of heart and strange, captivating details of Chambers's imagined world

After the World Falls Apart I have a fascination with postapocalyptic (set in a time after a disaster 01 A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Now Griz and his dog are making their way through the world. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells Carey Months into their save-the-world mission, the soldiers and scientists on the Rosalind Franklin

I heard the dialogue in her voice, I had a mental image of Debbie Reynolds as her mother, and Star Wars I would have been happy with a fake behind-the-scenes look at celebrity and the star-assistant dynamic

In Erlick's debut novel, each adult in the world can know the length of their life if they choose to. In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with

standing over them, following her like a shadow, and when she went downstairs and saw that body, it would Only when the two women's worlds intersect can they piece together the full stories of their husbands

01 The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff The world, the girl knew, was worse than savage, the world was unmoved is a brutal existence buoyed only by thoughts of the past and wonder at the mysteries of the natural world

The dragons talk and are haughty and greedy and intensely loyal to their riders, Novik explores world Naomi Novik's Buried Deep is a collection of thirteen stories that span the worlds of her novels.

determine who is responsible for a puzzling murder and other strange occurrences that threaten their world Gus is a jazz pianist whose biggest hope for the pending end of the world was to play at the most epic responsibility, sacrifice and bravery, and staying open to revolutionarily new ideas and ways of looking at the world After years working to advance artificial intelligence in a near-future dystopian world decimated by a brief family escape to a nature-filled wonderland (molded on tales they've heard of a lush, past world

Through it all, both Ivan and Peter are repeatedly forced to consider their place in the world and what Rooney is also the author of Normal People , Conversations with Friends , and Beautiful World, Where

Ruth Reichl was editor in chief of Gourmet and a world-renowned food critic for The New York Times, and essential to Reichl's ability to properly assess the level of service and the food quality everyday patrons would She reveals absurdities and excesses in the restaurant world while clearly remaining the head of the He does have sordid tales to tell, but he seems less puffed up over his kitchen war stories after the endless evenings happily watching multiple television series featuring Anthony Bourdain traveling the world

, and loss--all against a background of Beirut, a city shaped by and "smoldering with the legacy of war

But the notion that I should be 'making the most of it,' travelling the world or out every night, there the disconnect between Marnie and Michael's inner selves and their unsure, sometimes awkward acts and words

confront their patriarch, Run for the Hills ; I'm listening to a dark, satirical novel about a delusional would-be Time to Panic , Nothing to See Here , Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine , The Family Fang, Perfect Little World peace by shaping her own way of honoring Tony, their life together, and their hopes for the future that would

she traded her safety and Emaleen's for the false promise of an idyllic life immersed in the natural world More Eowyn Ivey Love Eowyn Ivey is also the author of To the Bright Edge of the World , which I listed

We were alive on that world. We were kings without enemies, children removed from time. documents the dangers and promise of her mission, she and her crewmates consider their impact on the worlds

cute neighborhood bartender leads to an unplanned pregnancy, and suddenly everything changes in Eve's world discovering her unplanned pregnancy; it was so easy for her despite her complete lack of a plan, she knew she would

In this return to the world of Elfhame (Folk of the Air trilogy), Holly Black takes us deeper into the In The Stolen Heir, the first book in Holly Black's Stolen Heir duology, the story returns to the world

Each of these storylines would be one I'm interested in, and Whitaker offers a fascinating interconnectedness Characters frequently offer grand speeches to each other about how the world works, and these didn't

At rock bottom, she allows her subconscious to develop a rich imagined world and story that are completely The excerpts highlighted commonalities between the imaginary world that poured out of her and Zelu's

These days there's no more witching and no more will for spells and change in the world. When the long-lost sisters do unexpectedly cross each other's paths again at last, the world's seams The weight of the world is on Vasya's shoulders in this book as she attempts to survive while saving Maguire shatters the reader's preconceived notions while crafting a richly imagined world--one which of, banishes her to a deserted island, Circe perfects her witchy powers, tames beasts, considers the world

She cares for her captivating young cousin, finds peace in the natural world around her, and retreats She's sheltered, and she hasn't seen much of the world but is beginning to want to. When handsome, bestselling author Vaughn Orr stumbles into her family’s remote world, Riley senses that As I was reading I felt confident that everything here would be cleanly resolved, and that was the case

There were a lot of tourists on the old elevated railroad and Daddy would surely hate most of them for Her sometimes-hesitant takes on the family and world around her are often delightfully spot-on, and she

In twentieth-century Idaho, elderly Zeno has lived a life filled with yearning, war, and unexpected late-in-life She largely lives in a vivid virtual world and scribbles down scraps of information about the same ancient Novik builds upon her irresistible Scholomance world in The Last Graduate, and I'm so very glad there

Migrations features a tragic ecological setup of a world in which wild animals are largely nonexistent In the world of Franny Stone, wild animals are largely extinct, mere rumors and fabled wonders of the Franny is taking her research equipment and heading to Greenland to track the last Arctic terns in the world Migrations follows Franny as she travels farther from civilization and safety--and as she considers what it would

I wasn't the first Farrow, but I would be the last. June would love to end the curse, the fraying of the Farrow women's minds, once and for all--by never determination on certain characters' parts to keep the time-travel element wholly secret from those who would Adrienne Young is also the author of Fable, its sequel Namesake, and The Last Legacy, loosely set in the worlds