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, and loss--all against a background of Beirut, a city shaped by and "smoldering with the legacy of war

There were a lot of tourists on the old elevated railroad and Daddy would surely hate most of them for Her sometimes-hesitant takes on the family and world around her are often delightfully spot-on, and she

She cares for her captivating young cousin, finds peace in the natural world around her, and retreats She's sheltered, and she hasn't seen much of the world but is beginning to want to. When handsome, bestselling author Vaughn Orr stumbles into her family’s remote world, Riley senses that As I was reading I felt confident that everything here would be cleanly resolved, and that was the case

These days there's no more witching and no more will for spells and change in the world. When the long-lost sisters do unexpectedly cross each other's paths again at last, the world's seams The weight of the world is on Vasya's shoulders in this book as she attempts to survive while saving Maguire shatters the reader's preconceived notions while crafting a richly imagined world--one which of, banishes her to a deserted island, Circe perfects her witchy powers, tames beasts, considers the world

Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World Shhh! , a Serious Eats columnist, and a bestselling cookbook author (Season; The Flavor Equation). 03 The World chefs, celebrity friends, and renowned cooks who are friends with José Andrés, head of the nonprofit World The Lost Kitchen was named one of TIME Magazine's World's Greatest Places and one of "12 Restaurants Worth Traveling Across the World to Experience" by Bloomberg.

Migrations features a tragic ecological setup of a world in which wild animals are largely nonexistent In the world of Franny Stone, wild animals are largely extinct, mere rumors and fabled wonders of the Franny is taking her research equipment and heading to Greenland to track the last Arctic terns in the world Migrations follows Franny as she travels farther from civilization and safety--and as she considers what it would

I wasn't the first Farrow, but I would be the last. June would love to end the curse, the fraying of the Farrow women's minds, once and for all--by never determination on certain characters' parts to keep the time-travel element wholly secret from those who would Adrienne Young is also the author of Fable, its sequel Namesake, and The Last Legacy, loosely set in the worlds

The standouts for me in First Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, which was one of the last great expeditions in the Age of Exploration. 06 To the Bright Edge of the World When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious stories, and they work well here, causing the characters to broaden their views of the great unknown world Christiane Ritter, The Captive by Fiona King Foster, Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, Winter World

In twentieth-century Idaho, elderly Zeno has lived a life filled with yearning, war, and unexpected late-in-life She largely lives in a vivid virtual world and scribbles down scraps of information about the same ancient Novik builds upon her irresistible Scholomance world in The Last Graduate, and I'm so very glad there

These parents knew you could never tell how a child would turn out, naturally yours or not. But the world of the story is grounded in day-to-day stressors and challenges.

death, each brother tests the line between hopelessness and possibility, considering his place in the world Rooney is also the author of Normal People , Conversations with Friends , and Beautiful World, Where

The main protagonists are often figuring out the world, their place in it, and who they are and want It's like Ocean is living in another world from Shirin, but he sees her, really sees her , and she finds herself wanting to let someone into her own world for the first time in a long time. I would have been in favor of having the romantic element being tied up without the Eve aspect, or having

2 has the weird and wonderful answers. 05 An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms An Immense World is the newest book by Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us In An Immense World, Yong explores the incredibly diverse ways in which animals perceive and experience surroundings, showcasing animal wonders from the backyard to the lab to various locations around the world magical, awe-inspiring aspects of his topic--and could rekindle a sense of wonder about our natural world

In the world of Laura Maylene Walter's just-published young adult novel Body of Stars, the patterns of The most intriguing aspects of the story for me were related to characters' dreams of a world in which How much of the fated events are set in stone in Walter's imagined world? If no markings existed, would futures not be fated? I would've liked to spend more time at the school as they learned about themselves and the world around

Tough, talented Carrie Soto retired from tennis at the top of her game as the best player in the world Her cutthroat desire to win didn't make her the most popular player in the world. immersive details and an irresistible feminist main character fighting for a voice and for power in a man's world family drama, intrigue, bravery--all centered around a young woman determined to make her mark in a world around 100 years, but this just doesn't feel like enough, and they each want to leave their mark on the world

Vargas is, frankly, tired of being reminded that her parents were part of the movement that saved the world the people who struggled to facilitate The Great Transition don't want to see those who allowed the world

Williams's writing feels like a poem in prose structure; no word is wasted, and I read this novel slowly in order to savor the world the author so gorgeously created.

Marske's quirky, funny, richly imagined magical world, complex character-building, relationship exploration ritual threatens the safety of all the magicians in Great Britain, he reluctantly dives back into the world

appear, although it took me time to figure out that Alexis, Daniel, and Neil were from Part of Your World Jimenez is also the author of Part of Your World, Yours Truly, The Friend Zone, and The Happy-Ever-After

complicated, sometimes fraught yet affectionate relationship with her dad, her youthful yearning for would-be Shannon is so enthusiastic, full of wonder about the world, and unfailingly optimistic (with a slight I've become a huge fan of listening to memoirs in audiobook form so I can hear the author's words about

second child without any Gregor baggage or knee-jerk reactions to it, who was willing to dive in and who would laundry room while trying to keep his sister from doing the same--and they both end up in a dark, strange world and cringed and sometimes held our breath while reading--even though we felt confident that things would

Stay tuned for my upcoming review of her newest, Book Lovers. 06 Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez Jimenez romance while incorporating weighty issues into her light fiction opposites-attract story Part of Your World And she can't bring Daniel into her world, because her parents would literally disown her and never speak Told in alternating points of view from Daniel and Alexis, Part of Your World is romantic, often funny For my full review of this book, please see Part of Your World.

The standouts for me in First Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, which was one of the last great expeditions in the Age of Exploration. 06 To the Bright Edge of the World When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious stories, and they work well here, causing the characters to broaden their views of the great unknown world Christiane Ritter, The Captive by Fiona King Foster, Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, Winter World

When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest seeds for the future--if they can trust each other long enough to work together for the good of the world

church pastor, shares her experiences and surprises while teaching a course on the religions of the world Holy Envy is a thought-provoking, accessible look at world religions and at the bridges that can be built seeing these religions through the eyes of her students--many of whom are venturing into knowledge of world Barbara Brown Taylor is also the author of An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, Learning to Walk

together to locate a legendary ship before it falls into the hands of the wrong people, people who would and build loyalty to one another, and identify and aim to outsmart their enemies to try to save the world The third book is titled The Worst of All Possible Worlds.

But the world of the story is grounded in day-to-day stressors and challenges. At times he good-naturedly highlights the absurdity of this world, at least for those looking in from Wren's fierce loyalty to her kind is complicated by the secrets she's keeping about abilities that would even more feared, a deeper outcast, and a terrifyingly unknown quantity to both types of person in her world

In Steelstriker, the second and final book in the series, the last free nation in the world has been I wasn't sure who would prove to be the true enemy and who might reveal themselves to have been traitorous unprecedented twists and developments Talin experiences in Steelstriker, she must reimagine all aspects of the world

Williams's writing feels like a poem in prose structure; no word is wasted, and I read this novel slowly in order to savor the world the author so gorgeously created. But the world of the story is grounded in day-to-day stressors and challenges. When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest

She finds that she may be the only hope to save her war-torn country. There was some story meandering and I would have liked to see more character development for Taryn, but I enjoyed the forays back and forth from the human world to the faerie, the various things-aren’t-what-they-seem The Thief is a book that frankly would stand alone beautifully, but instead, luckily for us, it begins What other series that have to do with court, queens, and royalty would you include on this list?

I loved the aunt-niece bond, the peeks into the NYC worlds of publishing and restaurants, and the playing I loved that The Seven Year Slip was about the publishing world and also the restaurant world, and how

surprising and hopeful opportunity for a new start. ...she has found that the only way to understand the world and myriad inhabitants show the interconnectedness of us all and celebrate the wonders of the wild world

I will, after all, happily read stories about talking dragons, or fantastical worlds, or time travel, Most importantly, why would Iris not just share the truth about secret one, and how could she possibly And why would she walk away from a promising love without attempting to address any of this, except for

Anthropocene is the current geological age, and Green delightfully subjects a wide range of aspects of our world including the QWERTY keyboard, Canada geese, Super Mario Kart, the Bonneville Salt Flats, whispering, the World's As he explores our human-centric views of the world and of the universe, he consistently questions assumptions and repeatedly delights in the beauty of the natural world's showiest and most humble productions.

backdrop of battles, learning other species’ languages and customs, and attempting to forge treaties among warring

have a lot of patience for the temptation of regret and the characters' wallowing when faced with real-world follies on having been away from a place, or to imagine that more or different access to this place would

authors can serve as glimpses into small moments that change everything, alluding to a greater story and world I had no idea, of course, that of all the feelings of my youth that would pass, it was this one, of an abundance of time so great as to routinely be unfillable, that would vanish with the least ceremony. From a bookseller closed off emotionally from the world who begins to consider letting someone in again With masterful storytelling, King builds a world within each short story that feels immediate, sometimes

Makkai offers up the potentially world-changing power of young people with an idea and tenacity; and sometimes cruel, seemingly shallow young students from Bodie's past to make worthwhile differences in the world heartbreaking in their copiousness--and in highlighting the brutality against women that has come to shape our world

When she angers a local warlord and becomes eager to escape her world, she's relieved to secure promises of transport out--but the earnest scientists who would help her have one condition: she must help them I was hooked by Long's world-building, her evocative, immersive descriptions of the cold climate, and

Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World Shhh! of the same story, as our fantastic main protagonists shift and change, bravely outsmart those who would Wren's fierce loyalty to her kind is complicated by the secrets she's keeping about abilities that would even more feared, a deeper outcast, and a terrifyingly unknown quantity to both types of person in her world

immersive details and an irresistible feminist main character fighting for a voice and for power in a man's world family drama, intrigue, bravery--all centered around a young woman determined to make her mark in a world I found some of the final portion of the book's unraveling of who could be trusted, what would come to

Hornby explores how these two luminaries from different centuries each "lit up the world" by tracing is difficult. 03 The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World Half of the world's known species will be eliminated almost overnight. ...and how it set the stage for the environment, creatures, and world we know today. 04 Art Day by Day section has key information, dates, births, deaths, and moments that have shaped our culture and our world

it's also a story of young love blossoming, then shriveling under the first pressures of the outside world When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest With violent storms on the horizon, no line of communication open with the outside world, and enormous seeds for the future--if they can trust each other long enough to work together for the good of the world rather than writing a book she felt compelled to put out into the world.

After the World Falls Apart I have a fascination with postapocalyptic (set in a time after a disaster 01 A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Now Griz and his dog are making their way through the world. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells Carey Months into their save-the-world mission, the soldiers and scientists on the Rosalind Franklin

staying connected to them, After Annie; I'm listening to Nikki Erlick's story about each person in the world In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with

an opportunity to write about her mother and gain deeper understanding of her, or whether doing so would Monk and Robot #1) by Becky Chambers The robots vanished from Panga centuries ago, and accounts of a world This is a slim book that's full of heart and strange, captivating details of Chambers's imagined world

She writes songs about "sex, love, and the state of the world," and in one instance describes musical she felt hemmed in by hippie culture and also by the societal opposition to it; how she missed some world-changing because of her timing and age; and how her drive for social activism played a role in her view of the world

for his life following police brutality, her own fears about bringing a Black-Japanese child into the world Jewish) husband in terms of her deep apprehension related to a future baby's race and safety in today's world

book one, King of Scars, Nikolai was a king rebuilding the kingdom of Ravka following a long civil war Revealing either truth would almost certainly lead to his undoing.

I wasn't certain how Waters would resolve the layers of deceit, secrets, and desires for revenge at play loyal, a magical healer, and she has an uncontrollable spirit--oh, and she's niece to the queen, who would ruthless, and he's Wren's sworn enemy, a deadly force who has destroyed her countrymen and women in the wars