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But someone who's supposed to be on her side may have revealed her true identity to those who want her Raybourn is masterful at providing a captivating main character with depth and flaws; a tantalizing will-they-won't-they Templeton-Vane, her partner Stoker's brother, to an estate on an island--and an unsolved disappearance that just may

mother-in-law, and her ability to practice medicine is severely curtailed, as in the family's opinion, her main

Book two picks up as our main characters, having laid low for a year, are contacted by the Museum, the

I feel like this book and I have been circling each other since early May, and I was so delighted as estranged from her daughter, that deep tragedy has shaped her life and closed off her heart, and that she may Readers will likely have a clear sense that our main character is prepared to burn it all down on her Definitely Better Now by Ava Robinson In Ava Robinson's debut novel, she offers an appealingly imperfect main

and science fiction in Iron Widow, and Susan Conley's slim, powerful novel Landslide, about a modern Maine Susan Conley's novel Landslide offers a portrait of a modern family in a remote fishing village in Maine

Main protagonist Gifty's journey was full of challenges and not too easy or complete, and her voice had experienced there; her yearning for her estranged father in Ghana, whom they all call the Chin Chin Man She's had to stifle many of her emotions since she was a young girl--there wasn't space in her family Gifty is an appealing main protagonist, and Gyasi's journey was fascinating.

Much of the book involves thwarted attempts to unravel the past by a main protagonist who has been emotionally He is a shell of a man, ruined by the loss of his sister. A grown man's voicing of the little-girl voice for Amy felt off to me, and the tone of the narration I was impatient with this "helpless, clueless man" scenario. NO, JOE. THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED. The resolution involves a twist I had anticipated and leaves a main character in a state of upheaval

The dialogue is incredible, and the faulted main players are irresistible. heartbreakingly beautiful In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, Away, Lucky Us, Come to Me: Stories, and A Blind Man

their trip to the Gulf of Mexico is fraught with danger--and Nell's husband and his murderous brothers may Every Osage was a potential target--and many of those who risked investigating the deaths were killed This is fun, funny, and smart, with wonderful banter, a gruff and independent, saucy main protagonist

Students at the residential River Valley School for the Deaf are trying to get through finals, maintain At first I feared this would dilute my connection to the main characters, but the ventures into others

ICYMI: In Matt Haig's How to Stop Time, main protagonist Tom Hazard lives for centuries but is not allowed He's also a seemingly 41-year-old man, but he's actually been alive for centuries. So when Tom begins to fall for the French teacher at school, it may renew his faith in the world and While I enjoyed main protagonist Tom Hazard’s point of view, which evolves by the close of the story, But there were many lovely, lovely moments in How to Stop Time, and I really like Haig's writing style

another nameless hamlet whose dusty streets lay flocked and trembling with the pink handbills they’d rained (If you’re not on the Taylor Brown train yet, may I strongly suggest you join me?) Our brave main protagonist and rebel Talin is forced to submit to the Federation's morally questionable The shift has made for strange bedfellows—and a prickly partnership between our main protagonist, Ellen other and work together to determine who is responsible for the destruction; how each of their pasts may

01 The Villain Edit by Laurie Devore Jac Matthis is a romance novelist whose first book tanked (the main protagonist chose her career over a man, enraging readers who'd been counting on a different happy ever Rising by Rebel Wilson I love to read a memoir--if you haven't yet, you might want to check out the many

An aspect that is ever-present and essential to the shaping of each of the main characters are the female

walking down the street--then she sees that he is armed, and to her horror, she sees him kill another man She can't explain what's happened, but she quickly realizes that now she may be able to stop the murder Main characters have plausible reactions of disbelief, wonder, irritation, and fatigue to the unfathomable If you like books like this, you may want to check out these other Bossy books I've read that play with

claustrophobic but fiercely loving life lived under one roof with extended family, and a young but tough main adventure story with sweet character development, and last year's Echo Mountain, set in Depression-era Maine

void she often feels, and often sleeping alone in the trailer where she lives with her often-absent, man-crazy Waldo is eager for affection but in many ways is not a desperate young woman, nor is she gleefully testing well of deep thought; she is an alternative mind in a small town seemingly without alternatives to the mainstream somehow separately and compartmentalized from the story, it's clear that Half His Age features a strong main

Gods (The Bloodsworn #1) by John Gwynne Gwynne's epic, Norse-inspired saga tracks three fascinating main filled with danger; and Varg, a servant who joins the mercenaries called the Bloodsworn so that he may battles, brutal revenge, extended searches for loved ones, and the carving out of new futures by our main And she also realizes she may not be helping; she may be making everything worse. But Misery has her own reasons for willingly entering into this marriage--her best friend's safety may

This darkly funny story made me cringe while staying riveted by the main protagonist's deeply faulted

Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, as an audiobook, which was narrated by the fantastic Lameece Issaq and Amin , and I was hooked on the lightning-fast banter; the gruff and independent, saucy, and irresistible main adult fantasy series, but what hooked me was the fearless, hardened, fiercely loyal, savvy, and crafty main

In Caroline O'Donoghue's contemporary fiction The Rachel Incident, main character Rachel is an Irish She's dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school and living at home when she meets James I wanted to protect him against the world's many disappointments, guard him with my body like I would

This is an adorable fake-dating-in-paradise setup with funny dialogue, a wonderfully imperfect main protagonist young girl arrives, telling the story of her own timeline, and she and Ariel begin to figure out they may

01 The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley In a world of the near future, a young woman is one of many Our main protagonist, Commander Graham Gore (based upon a real figure from history), has been whisked She's spent her first year at school holing up and studying, maintaining a quiet life.

Hawker's newest historical fiction gives a wonderfully evocative peek into a gritty period, as her main She's learned to bite her tongue, and she feels like the poor treatment her husband shows her may be This is another whodunit winner from Wendy Walker: a character-driven mystery with a neurodivergent main Hold on to your hats: the Veronica-Stoker relationship gains clarity at long last!

Fletcher And there may be no law left except what you make of it, but if you steal my dog, you can at The main protagonist Griz is tough as nails and determined and wonderful, and things do ultimately improve It's a true life-or-death dilemma for a man with two stark options: safety and loneliness or potential Against enormous odds, the team may just be finding some of the lifesaving answers they were sent to character in common between the two books; this person appears at the end of The Boy on the Bridge but is a main

upon the framework of facts from the lives of Julian of Norwich and what is known of the life of our main Our main protagonist puzzles and angers those around her by challenging the limitations of what women I underlined many, many meaningful passages in Revelations, and I found exploring this time through Margery's and revelations and long-held secrets that seem destined to shake up everything for our modern-day main Tamar, Jane, and Tabitha become linked by complicated connections to one man.

nontraditional, loving, zany family flips traditional views of unplanned, young pregnancy through the view of a main “Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them.

India's capital city serves as an important main character here, and in Age of Vice, New Delhi's cacophony

my reading I messaged my friend Hannah, who had just read this book, how I appreciated that the two main

Some of the books in this post are written by the usual romance-standout suspects--and many of these 01 One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune The main male protagonist was off-putting to me in his arrogance Jimenez Abby Jimenez layers tough situations and messy complications into her rom-coms, and here, her main But Xavier's painful past and Samantha's challenging present might make a future for the two impossible relationship and has no interest in one--she doesn't have time for frivolity when she's chasing so many

In Matt Haig's The Humans, an extraterrestrial arrives on Earth with a mission: to kill the man who has the visitor nevertheless assumes the appearance of Professor Andrew Martin and clumsily takes on the man's best friend Viv, whose parents want her to marry and settle down (something she has no interest in), main Flying Solo is Linda Holmes's Maine-set title about returning to a childhood safe haven and reconnecting Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown, stinging from her recently canceled wedding, facing being

This book had many moving parts, evolving points of view and senses of self, shifts between days and Along with the kickass, whip smart, savvy, kind, and irresistible main protagonist Bridie are her striking Raybourn may allow Veronica to benefit from the author's own modern sensibilities in A Curious Beginning , but Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist, and for me this aspect of her character works adult supernatural mystery series of the same name, and in it, author William Ritter provides memorable main

Arthur McLachlan is a grumpy elderly man and regular patron who regularly excoriates the staff in personal For years they've gone to their friend Sabrina's cottage in Maine with the rest of their group, building And I am more than this man can comprehend.” After sixteen-year-old Bree's mother dies in an accident, she escapes the painful memories of her childhood

Many live and beyond-the-grave souls demand a reckoning with Boone, requiring apologies and recognition This all leaves our main protagonists Doll and Boone in uncharted territory as death draws nearer for and he refuses to take responsibility for grave harm to the earth and those living upon it so that he may Gradually he came to seem, if I may say it this way, inevitable .... But Vigil introduces many other complex questions (about the common earth, selfishness, advancement,

How long do you keep it up, how far do you go to find a man like this? US Marshal's determined search for John himself, the distraction of a clever, brave woman, and the pain As always, her main characters are richly layered, struggle with terrible circumstances, retain strong the end of the story, the text briefly references Captain Kidd from Jiles's News of the World ("...a man

young adult thriller was a lightning-fast read, and there's a yearning for connection between the two main complicated and disastrous, Heard presents what feels like a true yearning for connection between the two main

Meanwhile our main protagonist is a middle-aged woman appealingly muddling along at times, doing her the vein of "It was the one where [insert specific circumstances of a woman's death at the hands of a man

Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist who finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of Raybourn may allow Veronica to benefit from the author's own modern sensibilities in A Curious Beginning , but Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist, and for me this aspect of her character works

I suspected each of the main players at one point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal for I suspected each of the main players at one point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal.

Vasya is an irresistibly and wonderfully strong and defiant main protagonist, and Arden includes lots Vasya is an irresistibly and wonderfully strong and defiant main protagonist, and Arden includes lots

You may want to check my past Bossy gift idea lists (linked below) for quirky books, perennial classics Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what may Listen for the Lie  offers a fascinating story structure, dark humor, and deeply flawed characters as main The main protagonist's focus in her work is Commander Graham Gore (a character based upon a real figure The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one.

An overly convenient situation and moment of chitchat pushes the main mystery of the story to a head-

growing up between two cultures while shining in its details: wonderful dialogue, messy moments, and the main Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means woman.

SecUnit is a fantastic main character; it's grumpily and charmingly obsessed with keeping its people Lora Beth Johnson hooked me immediately with the premise of Goddess in the Machine and with main protagonist she's ready to be reunited with the team, which includes her mother and the rest of her family, plus many But Divya is too busy crafting strong female main protagonists (complete with working mother guilt, which A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin

more; it's sweet and funny, it's about writing and books, there are wonderfully faulted love-crossed main After she drunk-blogs scathing comments about the unrealistic body images of the stars of Main Squeeze producer reaches out to her with an unexpected question: Would Bea consider starring in a season of Main

Scottoline's suspenseful mystery offers surprising depth in exploring grief while the main protagonist who is responsible for his family's trauma will reveal secrets he never would have imagined, and he may

Elliott's book for young readers offers a boy-crazy, truly funny main protagonist in Haylah Swinton.

My very favorite books from May! But all of these players and times feel mainly to be in place to serve as a structure for our true main upon the framework of facts from the lives of Julian of Norwich and what is known of the life of our main Our main protagonist puzzles and angers those around her by challenging the limitations of what women I underlined many, many meaningful passages in Revelations, and I found exploring this time through Margery's

(I can’t get over the story of young Anna taking the bus from Maine to New York City with her brother I also have a friend named Anna Kendrick, and not only because the celebrity Anna Kendrick is from Maine

This often makes her books feel like Westerns to me, as with her book The Lost Man. But others' visions for the story involve her eco-warrior main character morphing into a teen beauty