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good friends with Glennon Doyle, mentioned above) to be a really lovely writer, as in the case of the nonfiction

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander In this beautiful nonfiction

But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles have especially resonated with me since I read is a sweeping generational story of hardship, sacrifice, and fifty years of Korean-Japanese cultural conflict

a young woman and her quest for musical stardom (and romantic fulfillment); Barbara Brown Taylor's nonfiction

I already offer many of my fiction and nonfiction book recommendations through this blog.

science fiction, young adult LGBTQ+ fiction, memoir, contemporary fiction, historical fiction, and nonfiction

her late grandma Bobby, a formidable and irresistible character; The Body by Bill Bryson, fascinating nonfiction reemerge in Sitara's memories and her subconscious, and she explores Sitara's complicated, ongoing, conflicting

Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a beautiful, poignant nonfiction book about

two new novels from favorite authors who each include interconnected characters in their stories; one nonfiction

Greedy Reading Lists I posted in 2020: Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year Six of the Best Nonfiction This book was listed in the Greedy Reading List Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year.

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander In this beautiful nonfiction

This book was listed in the Greedy Reading List Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year. Greedy Reading Lists I posted this year: Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year Six of the Best Nonfiction

He hadn't yet become the convicted criminal of his adulthood. The pacing is slow, and the book is largely made up of various characters talking about conflicting memories

Pylväinen's novel explores the cooperation and conflict among cultures in a mid-nineteenth century community Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions Religion is a particular conflict in the novel, with the Christian characters proving themselves to be

built and the background established, I was hooked on the interpersonal relationships, the dramatic conflicts me, bogged down by explanations of how Aaron's imagined world works and the basic history of various conflicts

Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees explores past Turkish-Greek conflicts in a small island community The fig tree shares the story of the young lovers and while exploring the conflicts between Turkish and

other states across the country, has been swept by a secession movement, but Jess and Storey assume the conflicts The friends soon realize that conflicting political ideologies have led to this horror here and elsewhere

the Summer, she offers up an irresistible rom-com premise with weighty, messy, real-life-imperfect conflicts The conflicts that repeatedly keep Emma and Justin from their happy-ever-after feel plausibly limiting

trolls, and all the rest; there’s a school to train up promising young teens; and there are interspecies conflicts It’s really about personal growth, knowing your own mind and holding convictions, demonstrating loyalty

In We Are Not Like Them, Pride and Piazza dig into a friendship of opposites, conflicts around race, challenges in trying to dive into each point of view while trying not to favor either one; and the personal conflicts complex, loaded topics the way I was hoping Therese Anne Fowler would do more of in her novel with racial conflicts

She was made to offer pleasure without challenge or conflict, after all. Meanwhile, Annie, who was literally created to serve Doug, is learning, evolving, growing, facing internal conflicts

treasures in the book's ancient binding, setting her on a path of exploring forgery and complex political conflicts

other states across the country, has been swept by a secession movement, but Jess and Storey assume the conflicts The friends soon realize that conflicting political ideologies have led to this horror here and elsewhere

and its' Jewish and Black families' purposes and missions, which sometimes intersect and other times conflict Their cultures conflict in some ways, but their stories and existences overlap, and their challenges

historical fiction tale based on real events surrounding the rise of the light bulb--with compelling conflicts The Last Days of Night is a fictionalized account based on the dramatic Edison-Westinghouse-Tesla conflicts

Wilson's memoir Rebel Rising , and I listened to the Australian's account of a challenging youth, familial conflicts

I was intrigued by the issues raised in Blackwater Falls--police corruption, racial conflict, religious complicated issues surrounding racial injustice, police corruption, political concerns, faith, and religious conflicts

I loved the 1700s wintry Maine setting and the convictions of the historical fiction novel's strong midwife details of life in the time period, as well as the unassuming women who show their true strength and conviction

five-star, 1950s North Carolina-set novel offers mountain clans, whiskey runners, folk healers, family conflict Family secrets and conflicts come to a head as The Gods of Howl Mountain reaches a dark, brooding, beautiful

Mean Girls meets The Parent Trap, Together for Never explores each girl's point of view, and after conflict

Quinn offers plenty of interpersonal conflict, romance, suspected double-crossing, and details of life By the end of that summer, Chloe's father had confessed to the crimes of killing those girls, was convicted collaboration between Clinton and Penny kept me on the edge of my seat through heart-stopping political conflicts feel invested in the story, Adams's family, and the ins and outs of the various complicated political conflicts

Young Mungo offers a striking story of disappointment, abuse, Protestant-Catholic conflict, and a young vulnerability of allowing one's self to be seen for the first time, overcoming lifelong Protestant-Catholic conflicts

five-star, 1950s North Carolina-set novel offers mountain clans, whiskey runners, folk healers, family conflict Family secrets and conflicts come to a head as The Gods of Howl Mountain reaches a dark, brooding, beautiful Carolina setting, the character of Sheriff Winston Barnes, and the pulsing racial, class-based, and family conflicts Rumors, long-simmering conflicts, clashing loyalties, and Barnes's personal tragedy all complicate the

introduces vain, strong-willed, talking dragons, their complex, wonderfully faulted handlers, and wartime conflicts

The gods' war provides the structure for the book's main conflict, but the story feels primarily focused

the story would take off and eclipse the pacing and the forced-feeling will-they/won't-they-focused conflicts The melding of two fighting forces offers additional interesting characters, conflicts, complexities,

O'Keefe's first space opera in the Devoured Worlds series presents failing worlds filled with conflict

her impatient barkeep brother, she grieves the loss of her father and is astounded by the increasing conflict

food and fashion are fun, heartwarming, and light, and make for a satisfyingly clean wrap-up of all conflicts

setting, the character of Sherriff Winston Barnes, and the pulsing racial, class-based, and family conflicts Rumors, long-simmering conflicts, clashing loyalties, and Barnes's personal tragedy all complicate the

Thorpe offers lots of joy and offbeat fun, yet doesn't shy away from weighty conflicts between classes

Their cultures conflict in some ways, but their stories and existences overlap, and their challenges

One Of Us Is Back offers more Bayview intrigue and young love, family conflict and growth, and builds

prison; in his case, a former priest and the Lady--an investigator searching for information in the convicts

I loved Johnson's first book set in this complex, futuristic, postapocalyptic world of conflicting classes

The Night Ship centers around the dilemmas, conflicts, and discoveries of two characters separated by

As in all good rom-coms, there's a conflict keeping the potential couple apart, and I appreciated the

wonderfully unexpected developments related to plot, character arc, point of view, morality, origin stories, conflict book by bristling at his necessary role as high king, but he soon must lead his people through the conflict

The rom-com conflict that prevents an immediate happy resolution was based on a communication fail--a