In 1906 San Francisco, two very different women seek new beginnings: Gemma is a gifted soprano whose and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary because of its origins in Beijing's Summer When San Francisco is devastated by an earthquake and the widespread destruction of its aftermath, Thornton

But after Sciona blasts the competition at her entrance exam and is admitted, she finds that not all The misogyny and contempt of her peers means she faces a lack of respect and resources at every turn.

baby before its birth, she reels from grief and stumbles into a terrible understanding of how to go on after After her loss, she yearns for a similar exchange of information in which she owns a stack of cards explaining incredible pain and explores the intense healing both in writing this book and in having another child after

Bossy Bookworm's Very Favorite Books of 2022..So Far! shaped by choices out of our control and her reckoning with the way in which she considers her body after The author saved every one of her grandmother's voicemails, and here she uses them--along with emails Every heart-stopping moment; every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and various early road bumps he encountered, and his dogged determination--which was admittedly shaken after

unintentionally negated his own vehement denial of climate change (views he aggressively spouted off that very evening to the uncomfortable gathered guests); and not very cleverly revealed thinly veiled dastardly interest in the mysterious, lost corona is part of his overall fascination with the decades before and after , to prevent destruction of further information, the world's digital file backups ("everything that ever After tragedies and disappointments, the novel ultimately shifts to forgiveness, practical adjustments

The mother is also intent on controlling every nuance of every conversational exchange, and she is outrageously Later we find out frustratingly that Margot has been pilfering money and could have bought sustenance after The police threaten Margot with juvie after a break-in if she doesn't help provide answers, then the And the reveal toward the end of layers of tragedy felt far-fetched; how was the very existence hidden

Main protagonist Violet Powell is being released after 22 months' imprisonment for the drunk-driving

to bite her tongue, and she feels like the poor treatment her husband shows her may be deserved, as after parents saved the world--and weary of the constant comments about how she's so lucky to have been born after Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever

Sven. 02 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles As the young men in The Lincoln Highway face challenge after Every heart-stopping moment; every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and

But after his younger sister Lizzie evades her grandmother's attempts to bring her from England to the When Lizzie finds a secret notebook of her mother's, she becomes more determined than ever to solve the

by Miranda Cowley Heller Fifty-year-old Elle is in her happy place--the house where she's spent her summers obsession, his injury, and his subsequent drug addiction; her mother's tough love, how she shut down after

The discovery of the book leads to Alison's first ever invitation to the exclusive Codex Consortium, After Barton's prediction of the demise of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn she is promptly hanged and then

In Memoriam is beautiful, frequently painful, and offers a layered, complicated version of happy ever after.

01 In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner I recently posted about some of my very favorite young adult books The majority of the speakers are insufferable hacks, but after Sandra's death, it becomes clear that divorced and feeling adrift...except that now she is positioned to live into her true self better than she ever

Arthur is unlike anyone Birdie and her daughter have ever met; his speech pattern is unusual, and he and discounts the power of instinct and the unpredictability of a wild spirit, she also draws a long-simmering Edge of the World , which I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in  the Heat of Summer

yet also drawn to a mischievous young man who makes her think about the world differently than she ever Beneath . 03 The Sea Child by Linda Wilgus In early 1800s England, Isabel, a desperate young widow after

In Sloane Crosley's memoir Grief Is for People, she explores life after the loss of her closest friend

The shadowy, eerie tone of the first title in Gillig's Stonewater Kingdom series gives way to heartwarming to disappear, and Sybil doubts for the first time whether their collective purpose is holy and noble after The eerie, shadowy tone set up at the beginning felt like a far more gentle version of Tamsyn Muir's

After all, she hasn't sacrificed, obsessed, planned, spent all her money on voice lessons, and humiliated

This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved. Their secret tryst at the end of season one ended badly, and they've been far from friendly ever since I smiled a lot, I teared up, and I loved this perfect summer read! intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction

After being involved in multiple disasters in only her first day of classes, she fears college may become And there's an interesting boy she keeps running into, regardless of which paths and options she alters

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 infiltrates the group, pretending to be interested in pledging--but the stakes are higher than she ever was reading Legendborn, with its Arthurian references, during the same period I was reading another (very I found Bree's main love interest Nick a little overbearing after a time.

available from the library, vary our genres throughout the year, try to give us lighthearted reads for the summer the last day of high school, and senior nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled bitterly for every Fight for Justice, and in Red Notice, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after

early 1800s England, Isabel is a young widow who is suddenly poor and plagued by destructive rumors after

In the first two books in this series we met Alex Stern, who was offered a new start after surviving In Rebecca Thorne's cozy sci-fi adventure Moss'd in Space, it's sometime after the year 90,000, and Torian's chaotic Flynn family reminded me of the sometimes feral Herdman family in The Worst Christmas Pageant Ever

and whether the man professing to be the heir to a title and fortune might possibly be the actual man after

Her  husband has been away fighting for the Confederacy since soon after they were married, Then Libby Garg offers an honest, funny account of overcoming sobering challenges and determining her own destiny after Are the strange coordinates she's receiving on her phone after seven years a message from Luke? But when Frank's brother shoots a dog going after the family's sheep, the gunshot sets into motion events Broken Country  is a study of an extreme, life-and-death-stakes fallout after heartbreaking tragedy,

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

Her pain and the mysterious sources of her frequent agony affected every aspect of her life, and Dunham

In 1906 San Francisco, two very different women seek new beginnings: Gemma is a gifted soprano whose and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary because of its origins in Beijing's Summer When San Francisco is devastated by an earthquake and the widespread destruction of its aftermath, Thornton set in the early 20th century, as Violet, a young ship's stewardess bent on providing for her family after

After a terrible fall on the cliffs of the island, John Ferguson wakes to find himself being tended by returns to pick him up--and, unbeknownst to Ivar, permanently remove him from the only home he has ever

"After Hours" allowed me to delve back into Novik's Scholomance series, which I adored.

But just after she visits a psychiatrist, Dr. Byrd, Jane goes missing. The novel builds to almost the very end before this mindboggling plausibility is somewhat cursorily presented

has been single for a year, since her former fianc é , an up-and-coming musician, hit it big and then very But just after she visits a psychiatrist, Dr. Byrd, Jane goes missing.

But when a local farmer shoots a dog going after his sheep, the gunshot sets into motion events that

Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley Patrick Bringley, a former New Yorker staffer, after

Most of the summer's interpersonal difficulties are fairly neatly resolved by the end.

Painter is the author of another rom-com I adored, Better Than the Movies, as well as Happily Never After

My very favorite Bossy March reads! young girl in Ireland is taken by her unreliable, frequently drunk gambler of a father to spend the hot summer Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'. After all, the Vanguards, giant, deadly AI robots, are headed from deep space to destroy Earth at any It's not clear whether he and Julia can go on--or if her family will ever be the same.

We're all headed toward the same end in this life, after all, and those brave enough to commit their Yip-Williams's memoir, the subtitle of which is A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. Warren digs deeply into the realities of doubting his faith, God, his life’s work, and his vision of an afterlife

The premise of O'Keefe's imagined universe involves reprinting into new forms after they die, so that

She can't have a home or a job because a landlord or employer would have no recollection of her after 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.

After that, he spent years drowning his sorrows in drink, and now that he's had three heart attacks,

romantic friendship--nor the lengths the other partner was willing to go to in order to protect her after

01 The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi #1) by Shannon Chakraborty I loved every bit of After twenty-two years of adventuring, Viv had reached her limit of blood and mud and bullshit. But then unexpected events lead her to leave the only home she's ever known in order to try to save her her brother's subversive genius of a friend, and a lonely alien force Kyr to reexamine all that she's ever

hasn't told anyone that her ADHD impulsiveness led her to pack up and leave her barrel-racing career after

irresistible character of 19-year-old Margo discovers her strength, drive, creativity, and vulnerability after A book that takes a very different look at unexpected single motherhood--its tone is much lighter, and

her, she would have said that she had kept a home and raised a son whose words, now punishing, were, after

in vivid hallucinations in which her son takes the form of a bird; hints late in the novel that not every

After five decades, it feels surprising that the hectic schedule and method by which the show's sketches