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often-traditional colorblind approaches to race; and how guilt can paralyze and prevent productive action and change pitfalls that can prevent progress, as well as the facts and goals that can promote understanding and change

There's a primary setup of "I can't tell you this enormous, life-changing fact, so I'll run away, leaving

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

loss and a devastating blow for future plans, lies and betrayals, and, finally, a messy but hopeful chance

a piece of valuable artwork, Val agrees to follow her--and uncovers long-buried secrets that could change

She manages some beautifully generous forgiveness separate from feeling any requirement for deep change somewhat at odds with where she'd once envisioned herself being at this point (she's had multiple job changes

tiny moves forward until a big shift that occurs at the end of the book, and the timing and drastic change

Tell Me Everything digs into secrets and lies, revenge, forgiveness, resignation, heartbreak, second chances

There felt like significant summary toward the end of the book, with abrupt point of view changes and

Frankie travels the country tracking lost women, moving into communities with little more than a change

reminds us, and we must cope with the consequences of decisions, carelessness, overconfidence, or merely chance

she's forced to consider her life and the person she's become--and determine whether she's capable of change

horrific system of oppression, control, torture, and death—even with a promise in place of potential change

In a way, this feels like a complementary read to Rebecca Stead's The List of Things That Will Not Change

With dual story lines, multiple generations, assumed identities, otherworldly beings, wonderful chance (and life-changing) encounters, and a rich English countryside setting.

The North Waters is a dark, disturbing exploration of failed second chances, revenge, and destructive , as well as other great books: When You Reach Me, Liar & Spy, and The List of Things That Will Not Change

The chance encounter leads to a surprising turn of fortune in which Katey finds herself immersed in the

Toward the end we see messy second chances take shape, a little retribution, and an attempt at a changed

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

There's a lot of thinking and considering and talking with short bursts of change or brief moments in

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

The six New York-set stories all take place around the year 2000, and they consider the impacts of chance

But I kept asking myself, what is any of it for if characters cannot change any aspect of their life

April flees, heading out on the road with few expectations, aside from changing the trajectory of her

So April heads out on the road with few expectations aside from changing the course of her life.

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

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

But when you're backed into a corner with all logic eluding you and with evidence and criminal charges

And for second-chance stories, take a look at these options .

a world where everyone can eat, and access healthcare, and be treated humanely, tuberculosis has no chance

Sarah's stammer feels like a symbol of her longtime ineptitude and inability to achieve any change in

People change, but for me her dramatic change from practical, protective, sometimes put-upon wife, mother

speaking harsh truths before she stops to think seem destined to lead her to misstep and thwart her own chances She has the incredible chance to make the same decisions or to consider her choices and do things differently The following morning, she gets yet another chance at reliving her first day.

The book's synopsis paints a picture of a potentially charged story, but Damoff tells us this story rather

created the horrific system of oppression, control, torture, and death—even with a promise of potential change fivestarbookreview 05 The Power ​ It follows that there are two ways for the nature and use of human power to change When the people change, the palace cannot hold.

Abriel says that this story is so fully inspired by her grandmother's story that she didn't even change

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

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

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

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

She travels the country tracking lost women, moving into communities with little more than a change of

Bounce House; and I'm listening to Jane Costello's sweet novel about a fortysomething widow's second chance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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