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But the war is raging, leadership is clearly keeping secrets, and working with the ruthless, deadly dragons She shows kickass stubbornness in the face of adversity--even if, within the book's various dangerous seemed that Violet might well do herself in by ignoring and pushing through her physical issues while facing

The pacing of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven is measured, as befits a story that is largely about daily

I liked Divine Rivals and the gutsy characters facing wartime struggles and challenges, but I was surprised

Flying Solo, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown, stinging from her recently canceled wedding, facing World, Abby Jimenez takes on a meet-cute between a rural renaissance man (he's the small-town mayor, a graceful abuse, as well as a personal reckoning in which the warring powers of privilege and responsibility are faced

This was enjoyable, interesting, well paced, and charming. I loved it.

Alias Emma is a fast-paced cat-and-mouse chase across hidden London, led by Emma Makepeace, a resourceful This fast-paced thriller tracks Emma and Michael, the distractingly handsome son of Russian dissidents

Warsaw Ghetto--of making a life within its prison walls and of finding resistance and even love in the face finds love in unlikely places, recalls his life, and finds ways to try to make a difference in the face I adored this element--possibly because with a senior in high school, I am also facing enormous pending

01 The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman Hoffman's novel is about facing dark realities, entering uncharted When the two face off, they each have something to prove--to their families, their exes, those who have The Second Ending is about self-discovery, facing dark truths, taking a terrifying leap out of the safety If you're intrigued by books about facing mortality, you might be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality.

I loved it and rated the collection five stars. In another story, a white woman makes racial assumptions, is caught on camera, and faces the consequences

I loved it and rated the collection five stars. thinking about the characters and their realizations, compromises, and sometimes their resignation in the face

Alison Kimble's Strange Gods (published in 2021), Spooky arrives at a wilderness camp for troubled teens bracing King's glamorous mistress, who has borne him seven children, is enraged when Louis takes up with a fresh-faced

The writing style involves a lot of telling, which seemingly intentionally slows the pacing--and which threatened with imprisonment; experiences cruel and potentially fatal betrayal by one of their own; faces Yet because of the pacing, I didn't necessarily feel on the edge of my seat while I read about all of And it's the pacing and tone of the story that allows for all of those elements to feel real. 06 News

Comedian Leanne Morgan's memoir traces her path from an attention-seeking, beloved young girl to a young adult facing missteps and disappointment, through her unlikely journey to stand-up, to the embracing But her memoir also traces her youth (when she imagined that she would find fame in some way), her first

Center's upcoming (to be published tomorrow) Hello Stranger, light fiction about an artist with temporary face finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition...then she wakes up unable to recognize faces

I loved the tennis focus, the fast pacing, and the father-daughter relationship that drives the story interested in books that explore mortality, you might want to check out Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Gwynne traces the evolution of the Comanches--including their captivatingly described, unprecedented what sometimes feels like fragility, Lucy is often able to see the difficult truth in situations and face

Characters scoff, become resigned, or work to control their futures as they face issues surrounding their Here One Moment  traces what begins to happen as the first of the Death Lady's predictions seem to come

But when she awakens the next morning bracing to face the living nightmare her family has begun living

hallucinations late in the book felt like an opportunity to explore pure feelings and for the straight-laced

through the destructive gossip app taking down reputations and revealing secrets, and they managed to trace Friends and siblings are pitted against each other, and some of our main protagonists are faced with characters of Maeve, Nate, Phoebe, Bronwyn, and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites and new faces

If you like for the good guys to be rewarded and for the bad guys to face justice, stay tuned for the

This fits the dilemma that faces the crew near the close of the book, yet I found it unsatisfying.

touchstones: academic achievement and competition; cultivating and appreciating meaningful friendships; facing Despite some small moments that felt heavy-handed, this is a powerful, fast-paced, compelling nonfiction is A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice, and in Red Notice, Browder traces He's specific without getting bogged down in the details, and the pacing of the book is appealingly quick

I will tell you, if there is a thing harder than facing danger, it's knowing it's headed your way.

Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing This is a fast-paced book, as Dolly talks about various thoughts as related to 175 of her songs, while review, check out The Storyteller. 06 Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story by Jewel Never Broken traces Anyhoo, in this memoir, the singer-songwriter traces her Alaskan origins, her first singing performances

I adored this element--possibly because with a senior in high school, I am also facing enormous pending

Umrigar confronts in Honor are weighty and fascinating, but I found myself distracted by the story's pacing Yet I found myself repeatedly pulled out of the story by its telling--stop-and-go pacing, jarringly petty

to follow Poppy's lead and lean on their bravery and unwavering devotion to each other in order to face

But a hotshot racer, a has-been treasure hunter, and others in their secret society know that the ship

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The story is dark, nerve-racking, irreverent, tragic, and poignant.

you, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing

felt so easy for Eve to plan to enter into single parenthood despite the many practical challenges she faces

The story is dark, nerve-racking, irreverent, tragic, and poignant. The story is heartwarming, the pacing moves along in both timelines, and the characters are explored I Loved Being with Jen list as well as a list of reasons why he's glad their relationship is over--tracing

The book's pace felt halting at times and its substance somewhat light at points. The pace of the book is sometimes halting and its sections about scripture at times felt a little light

Anna Frith emerges as an unexpected healer when her isolated village faces the terrors of suffering,

The men abandon, bluster and condescend, are weak to temptation, plod along in the face of destruction

This young adult story is sweet and fun; the pacing often feels somewhat slapstick and frantic--as is

This fast-paced suspense read is the ultimate "trouble in paradise" story, with twist and turns that characters, but I was more than willing to roll with whatever Hawkins was laying out for readers in the fast-paced

and when Rule of Wolves picks up with these characters for book two, they're all coping with loss, facing danger, and are bracing for destruction as Fjerda invades Ravka.

settings, her wonderfully imperfect and intriguing characters, her foreboding undercurrents, and her pacing

The story is heartwarming, the pacing moves along in both timelines, and the characters are explored

Resolutions were graceful and fitting without being too easy. In Dark Triumph, the book's point of view traces events concurrent with those in the first book, so the I love Bardugo's pacing, dialogue, twists and turns, character development, all of it, and I gave this These six books were published over a period of almost twenty-five years, and the story trail traces Queen of the Tearling traces the backstories of key characters and offers varied points of view.

of identity; and her housekeeper Kadiatou, sacrificing so much to raise her daughter in America but facing

around a family winery and the three generations whose lives orbit around the vineyard and also features racy Blush also focuses on racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women,

The relentless pacing, romantic obsession, twists and turns, dramatic setbacks, exhilarating success,

I think the pacing and the fantastical worlds lend themselves well to audiobook form. There's love, but it is chaste (lots of gazing into each other's eyes and touching faces); there's one

curiosity about being with another man; "The Long and Painful Death" follows a writer at a retreat who faces Click here to read my rave reviews of Claire Keegan's novels Foster and Small Things Like These and her

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what sometimes feels like fragility, Lucy is often able to see the difficult truth in situations and face Lucy by the Sea captures an otherworldly feeling of drifting in time while facing horrifying, previously

Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing began writing what became Stay True in order to cope with his loss, explore the concept of belonging, face