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But the situation isn't exactly what it seems, and when a woman comes to town using Evie's birth name Roy was shaped by the woman she calls "my shelter and my storm," and she tracks back to her childhood

But Jordan is more entranced by Yash, who acts oddly around other women but seems to be his naturally

about the unrealistic body images of the stars of Main Squeeze (a reality TV show in which a single woman His endearingly strong sense of duty complicates his mission as he tries to save those in need, avoid becoming emotionally entangled with a smart young woman who is out of his league socially, and keep

Ali Hazelwood is also the author of Bride as well as numerous other contemporary romcom novels about women Fizzy is a straight talker, a sex-positive woman, and a successful romance writer, but she's never been

just-published young adult novel Body of Stars, the patterns of freckles, moles, and birthmarks on women extremely invasive and intrusive, especially when the boys and men felt entitled to examine the young women most intriguing aspects of the story for me were related to characters' dreams of a world in which women Body of Stars reminded me in some ways of The Power because of the young women's influence over society , but women ultimately seemed more empowered in that book.

mysterious box with an inscription on the outside reading "The measure of your life lies within" and a string The source of the boxes is unknown, but it quickly becomes clear that each person's string length correlates Some choose not to look into their boxes at all, while others use the knowledge of their short strings Some with long strings question the participation of "short stringers" in delicate jobs; some couples You may not be surprised by any of the turns each storyline takes here, but the string dilemma leads

Charlie begins to realize he feels more of a connection to Dev than to any of the twenty beautiful women

depth and, at times, darkness. “...the linear, beginning-middle-end form doesn’t fit the lives of any women

Divya has crafted strong female main protagonists who navigate the sometimes dark, always complicated But Divya is too busy crafting strong female main protagonists (complete with working mother guilt, which

and young gay love; and Tokyo Dreaming, the second in Emiko Jean's young adult series about a young woman The women's lives occurred a century and a half apart, but somehow the two are intrinsically connected

eccentric family and a broad surrounding cast of characters--and it's all centered around independent women with unconventional women's roles in society in nineteenth century New York City. The Gilded Hour explores how these women's abilities and constraints intersect with women's rights of

In an appealing dynamic, Talin is the strong beating heart of the story, with Red as her supporting lieutenant

her husband and stepsons prepare for another catastrophic hurricane bearing down on Florida, one in a string Hartnett evokes a sense of place so strong, the town felt like a character itself. Unlikely Animals is sweet and wonderfully strange, and Hartnett employs a light touch and thoughtful

Space. 02 The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei I loved the futuristic space-mission capabilities, smart and strong all-woman crew, the mystery and suspicion, and most of all the character-driven storyline in Kitasei's

Tell me what you would tell a white woman, her face said. A white woman with money, her clothes said. Please, her tone said. In "Boys Go to Jupiter," a young woman wears a gifted confederate flag bikini, is careless about her "Why Won’t Women Just Say What They Want" focuses on an artist and the many people he has wronged (all

In her spare time, Enid loves true crime podcasts and dates a variety of women from dating apps.

vineyard and also features racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women Women explore traditional roles and push back against infuriating chauvinism; characters consider their Blush also focuses on racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women,

she pokes fun at her fellow writer in a sketch about talented but average-looking men dating gorgeous women

Alouette herself yearns for creative freedom, but as a woman with no standing, she is not allowed to and Violet Thistlewaite is determined to shed her identity as the Thornwitch, Shadowfade's right-hand woman

But the women's impassioned brunchtime discussion about the plot of Finlay's suspense novel--along with The woman mistakenly interprets what's happening and leaves Finlay with a mysterious note implying that

But when a young woman shows up bleeding at his home, then mysteriously disappears, he is shocked into shake off the fact that nothing in the Bergdorf Goodman swimsuit section comes even close to fitting a woman

Cate Kay is a bestselling author--and a pseudonym used by a woman who's been running from her past for Cate evolves through the book: at first she's a big-hearted dreamer, then a devastated young woman, an

chokehold of addiction to drugs and alcohol, his struggles to quit using, and the many (beautiful) women Perry spends much of the page time focusing on the many (beautiful) women who got away.

Thistlefoot is a strange, epic, often dark adventure tale with roots in Jewish folklore, and puppets She is only a woman. Sometimes, one cannot know until retelling what was right and what was wrong.

mentions of endless projects, ideas, collaborations, and plans make clear she's one of the hardest working women Another Dolly-focused book I'd like to read is She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who

Korean heritage and her white GI father's complicated connection as part of the white oppression of women

friend in her last remaining roommate, who until then seemed primarily a source of rent; she finds a strange But as the wedding week goes on, each woman is surprised by what she discovers about herself and the 06 Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty I loved this dive into the repercussions of a seemingly psychic woman's An elderly woman is causing a major disruption on an airline flight.

Kimmery Martin's Doctors and Friends begins with a group of seven women, friends since medical school As the story progresses, Martin mentions each of women and their families, but keeps the story relatively

The Bright Hour is a North Carolina woman's thoughtful account of events, written with an aim of preserving Bowler spoke at a virtual women's retreat I attended and has spoken at my church as well.

imagined Agnes, wife to John (the fictionalized William Shakespeare character) as an independent, witchy, strong

Ali Hazelwood's light fiction novel is wonderfully immersed in science, offering a forbidden relationship and an enemies-to-lovers dynamic, plus lots of steamy scenes. Elsie Hannaway is an adjunct physics professor, but her dream is to dedicate herself to a career in research. She's gotten some positive attention for her innovative work on liquid crystals, but her crochety male advisor assures her there's little interest in hiring her for full-time positions. To help pay the bills, Elsie is a paid escort (who does not have sex with her clients, as she keeps explaining to certain of them). She's fake-dating a nice man in order to keep his family off of his back. She uses a different last name and poses as a librarian rather than a physicist in order to stay anonymous. But her fake boyfriend's brother John seems suspicious of her story and oddly interested in the details of her life. Now Elsie has the interview of a lifetime, at MIT. But a series of coincidences and misunderstandings lead to her being unaware that the head physicist on site...is her fake boyfriend's brother. I loved the significant science element here, the jargon, the exploration of academic politics, and the passion for research and discovery. The factors keeping Elsie and Jack apart are one part zany (a fake-dating-the-brother code of silence) and two parts believable (longstanding professional conflict; a power mismatch). I was frustrated by Elsie's lack of assertiveness, although I recognized that it was set up in order to have her ultimately find her own opinions and set her course. I found the family dynamic related to her mother's demands of Elsie absurd. The situation with her twin brothers felt slapstick and silly to me. The steamy scenes, the twisty route to the relationship, the career shifts, and the science focus were all winners for me. I'd like to read more by Ali Hazelwood. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? I received a prepublication audio version of Love, Theoretically, narrated by Thérèse Plummer, courtesy of Libro.fm and Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. If this book sounds 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 Stories.

"It’s strange how the discovery of an ancient girl in Siberia and viruses we’ve never encountered before But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study could The interconnected stories here are made up of strange, affecting situations, including those in which

The swirl of events draws other innocent young women into Miryem's complicated web and toward potential

The story is heartwarming, funny, with strong friendships, plus it's steamy and romantic at times without

Saunders's strange, fascinating novel involves griping, sniping characters in limbo between life and I read this in 2017 and still think of this strange novel.

This is the third and final book in Katherine Arden's strong, fanciful, often wonderfully dark Winternight

She loves true crime podcasts and dates a variety of women from dating apps.

You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World

The Humans is funny, strange, deep, and lovely. I loved it. The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop II stories, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

listening to Karen Thompson Walker's speculative mystery around memory and the dimensions of the mind, The Strange Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous , Night Sky with Exit Wounds , Time Is a Mother , and other books. 03 The Strange I'm listening to The Strange Case of Jane O. as an audiobook.

I loved this dive into the repercussions of a seemingly psychic woman's predictions of demise for her But on today's flight, an elderly woman is causing a major disruption.

This is a feminist historical fiction story in which women--long kept quiet and still, supervised to that haunts, challenges, and pushes them to take the form of a beast, whose presence only the bravest women

Married Landon was having a passionate affair with a beautiful, spunky local young woman, Lo Bailey, Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood The main protagonist in Stone Yard Devotional is a middle-aged woman

The Bright Hour is a North Carolina woman's thoughtful account of events, written with an aim of preserving Bowler recently spoke at a virtual women's retreat I attended.

be cruel, ruthless, and he's Wren's sworn enemy, a deadly force who has destroyed her countrymen and women side note: the title felt so oddly vague that I kept forgetting what the book was called, which felt strange

When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--her persistent presence attended prenatal classes before the birth of her first child and noted the immediate intimacy between the women

Women had the babies, and men, if they felt like it, began to distance themselves the moment they pulled

Each of the three young women is in the middle of her own high-stakes crisis, and none of them expects The women must decide whether to ignore what's occurred or to harness and master the spells they've been difficulties of their own--an out-of-wedlock pregnancy; involvement in the much-maligned and persecuted women's There's also a theme running through all three of women striving for more--more opportunities, justice

I read Illuminations with a group of women over a period of months, and we were captivated by the details

There are women who take care of your grandfather...women whose own families are thousands of miles away , women who are washing your plates and washing vegetables for your dinner.