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She makes a special connection with a mountain family facing tough times despite their double work at

Cash's best friend Delaney is a genius who daydreams while working at Dairy Queen, and she's always braced

Can they learn to trust each other and face the past in order to move forward? When her mother faces a health crisis, as they’ve long feared, the family's security and future may be

The pacing of the the first 100 pages felt slow, but after that I was totally hooked on this very compelling

But when her last remaining parent figure disappears without a trace, Tamsin is forced to go to great Along the way, they face deathly threats, mysterious magic, a tangled web of lore and superstition, and

Days, and other books. 02 The Traitor (Alias Emma #2) by Ava Glass Ava Glass's Alias Emma was a fast-paced

The pacing is slow, and the book is largely made up of various characters talking about conflicting memories

But when she awakens the next morning bracing to face the living nightmare her family has begun living

and by her unreliable narrator Isabelle, who is desperate to find her missing son--even if it means facing

pivotal moments with each of his living sisters, discusses his sister Tiffany, who died of suicide, and faces

father has more kids spread across the country as well--Rube and Mad head out on an awkward, nerve-racking later, she traveled to a remote Australian island to sit with Tony's journals, dive into her memories, rage

in again to the complicated, tragic reunion of former college roommates; from a mourning elderly man faced

#LGBTQ, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense 02 A Very Punchable Face ​ Has Colin Jost lived long enough to He started A Very Punchable Face with a story that is really his mother's (to be fair, it's interesting (For my full review, see A Very Punchable Face.) Scruffy, hot-tempered, baby-faced Simon evaded a position in the Confederate Army for years by passing

The story is heartwarming, the pacing moves along in both timelines, and the characters are explored The story's pacing felt quite slow and the tone extremely dark and hushed for the majority of the book

Despite some small moments that felt heavy-handed, this is a powerful, fast-paced, compelling nonfiction is A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice, and in Red Notice, Browder traces He's specific without getting bogged down in the details, and the pacing of the book is appealingly quick

curiosity about being with another man; The Long and Painful Death follows a writer at a retreat who faces Click here to read my rave reviews of Claire Keegan's novels Foster and Small Things Like These and

Amina soon finds herself tangled in a dangerous ocean quest to rescue a young woman, while facing complicated

the acknowledgments, the authors reference wanting to create a Romancing the Stone-type playful, fast-paced

with a fun Parent Trap -style backdrop--and weighty issues like depression that are addressed with grace This is an excellent example of how authors of light fiction can take on weighty issues with grace and

(Eventually I just had to brace myself with reminders that I am a grown woman capable of reading a spooky I really liked Sager's pacing and his smart laying out of the story elements in a not-melodramatic way

Plunging into the unforgiving, beautiful, wild land, the women face dangers and surprises in order to And each ended the night full and happy with the rare glow that comes from knowing your very being has

through the destructive gossip app taking down reputations and revealing secrets, and they managed to trace Friends and siblings are pitted against each other, and some of our main protagonists are faced with characters of Maeve, Nate, Phoebe, Bronwyn, and Knox from book one, along with other old favorites and new faces

But Titus is facing challenges beyond the obvious--like the effects of generations of racism in his small

But after raving about it for two years it seemed time to stop letting this second installment languish about Alexia's mysterious father (and about her husband's centuries of history that predate her), more racy

Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell I was hooked on the captivating details of Renaissance life, masterfully paced what sometimes feels like fragility, Lucy is often able to see the difficult truth in situations and face

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But I absolutely loved how Una was a strong, determined, gritty young woman in the face of so many enormous the tone of Hanan's book is such that it feels evident that the reader won't be left unsatisfied or facing

Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing

This is a gentle, slow-paced story from the heart-wrenchingly gorgeous writer. The character growth surprised me and felt in line with the tone and pacing of the story.

And a typical day might involve facing mortal danger from roving pirates, cyborg animals, certain AI

to read about people making unhealthy or unhelpful choices for themselves, so I spent a lot of time bracing

I loved the books here so much, I rated each of them 4.5 or 5 Bossy stars. But when she awakens the next morning bracing to face the living nightmare her family has begun living

I loved it and rated the collection five stars. At the very beginning the pacing felt a little uneven to me, but then Garg hit her stride, and I was to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett In this heartwarming story of wonderfully faulted characters who face While the characters in The Road to Tender Hearts  face sometimes devastating turns of events, the tone

Charlotte is faced with an unexpected client: Lady Ingram, the wife of Charlotte's dear friend and benefactor

librarians at the public library, this girl from Avenue A who read Greek and slipped into one of the rare Johnson is a master of pacing.

Story by Emily Habeck Wren's kind, artistic, loving--and recent--husband Lewis has just received a rare Other characters in the novel face mutation-related difficulties--including Wren's new friend, who finds

mind to inspiration and fulfillment in essays with topics ranging from skateboarding to masculinity to facing

It's 1789, and in a rural Maine community, a local man turns up dead--frozen face up in the Kennebec But he had been one of two men charged with the rape of one of Martha's best friends, and now the sole

William Kent Krueger is also the author of Ordinary Grace and This Tender Land.

Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing beautiful writer who is so smart, reflects deeply, and candidly shares the many heartbreaking aspects of facing family but also holds meaning for anyone considering the way they live and how they might choose to face

Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing This is a fast-paced book, as Dolly talks about various thoughts as related to 175 of her songs, while Anyhoo, in this memoir, the singer-songwriter traces her Alaskan origins, her first singing performances

, they're faced with one challenge after another as they try to balance their careers with making space

The pacing of First Light is a little slow at first, and I would have liked to see more science-based This is Phillips's first book, and the author builds the story's pace steadily toward a crescendo. beautiful nonfiction book, which includes striking black-and-white photographs by Frank Hurley, Alexander traces

characters' parts to keep the time-travel element wholly secret from those who would ultimately be faced

I thought this was wonderful. 02 The Grace Year by Kim Liggett It feels like freedom, but we know it's The Grace Year is the type of book I could’ve stayed up all night reading.

I really liked Sager's pacing and his smart laying out of the story elements in a nondramatic way--allowing The story keeps a patient pace as Captain Jim uncovers clues, uses deduction, and emphasizes loyalty He's forced to consider what loyalty means, and to face how dark the path ahead might become when the

She's bracing herself to leave behind her beloved teammates and Staxxx--but the corporate owners of CAPE

her obsession with Coach Taylor, persistent social awkwardness, Conan O'Brien's Christmas party and facing

Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing

, unplanned pregnancy, substance abuse--and also the complicated joy of having friends like family, facing