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601 results found for "shifting loyalties"
- 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
- 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
- Six Contemporary Novels I Loved in the Past Year
This quiet, epistolary novel witnesses the creaky, sometimes difficult shifts and realizations that a
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
characters' strongly held assumptions and prejudices surrounding Mods and Primes, and Wren's fierce loyalty
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
Can she shift the future by changing the past?
- 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 Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
a climax that draws his attention and focus to the matter at hand and they thereby lead to various shifts
- 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
- Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading
Things You Save in a Fire is a quick read that addresses serious matters—betrayal, loyalty, duty, trust
- Review of Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
memoir Somebody's Daughter, Ford explores her complicated relationship with her mother, her endless 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
- 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
- Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads
Family, pain, love, music, influence, trust, wonder, brutality, invention, discovery, loyalty, and most
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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, 3/3/21 Edition
way back to each other by traveling around the world; and a popular book by Matt Haig that explores shifting
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Relationships shift, unlikely ties grow stronger, characters grow apart and find their way back together
- 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 Four-Star (and Up) Fantasy Novels I Loved in the Past Year
moments as an unlikely pack of allies sets out on a journey of discovery, complete with battles, evolving loyalties
- 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 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, 7/2/21 Edition
But the push to shift production to meet current-day wine trends and demands; the disconnect between
- Review of The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
I loved the characters' unanticipated loyalty to unlikely parties and their hard-won emotional growth
- Review of My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan
For much of the book I wasn't quite clear on the status of the characters' evolving romantic loyalties
- 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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/24/21 Edition
memoir Somebody's Daughter, Ford explores her complicated relationship with her mother, her endless loyalty
- 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
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
into the country's traditions, political interests, and its royal family's interpersonal conflicts and loyalties
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/30/22 Edition
Young Mungo explores ideas of masculinity and loyalty, young love, a gay relationship forged in an unforgiving
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/15/21 Edition
Rumors, long-simmering conflicts, clashing loyalties, and Barnes's personal tragedy all complicate the
- Review of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
lovers concerned with sexuality, autonomy, race, artistic expression, tradition, class, education, loyalty
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
heart-wrenching connection; The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey's sci-fi book about betrayal and complicated, unexpected loyalty I loved the characters' unanticipated loyalty to unlikely parties and their hard-won emotional growth What Beauty There Is is a story about darkness, desperation, unlikely loyalty, and, ultimately, brave
- 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 Sunny Side Up by Katie Sturino
She's got deeply loyal and inspiring newly divorced friends to lean on, a body- and sex-positive lifestyle
- 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
- Review of The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Pious Aubrey emerges as an unlikely source of friendship and loyalty when Nadia needs it most.
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads
Can she shift the future by changing the past? older brother never seems to be around to help; and she's the only Black person at work with a boss who shifts
- 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 Favorite Nonfiction and Memoir Reads of the Year
childhood encounters with nature, and for me the book really shone when she included her family's current shifts
- Review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Family, pain, love, music, influence, trust, wonder, brutality, invention, discovery, loyalty, and most
- 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 Unwilling by John Hart
complex issues regarding corruption, prison, war, money, power, and violence; and a brother's unfailing loyalty
- Six More of My Favorite Fantasy Reads of the Past Year
And Anequs is just the fearless catalyst who might be able to shift it all.
- Six More Powerful Books About Facing Mortality
adjustment to life without her free-spirited, joy-filled partner; and it tracks the grief and the resulting shifts
- Review of Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
The story keeps a patient pace as Captain Jim uncovers clues, uses deduction, and emphasizes loyalty

















































