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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

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

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

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

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

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.

love of and time spent reading and my desire for a cleverly organized house were forces already at war

Jude is the exiled Queen of Faerie, scrambling to make a living in the human world by freelancing, carrying When her twin sister Taryn arrives in the human world, fearing for her life, Jude finds herself drawn I feared any Vivi and Heather resolution would be unsatisfying, but it felt just right. Throughout the trilogy I enjoyed the forays back and forth from the human world to the faerie, the various

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

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

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

She begins to believe that the words and ways are whichever ones a woman has, and that a witch is merely The bitter and broken sisters learned certain powerful ways and words at the knee of their witchy grandmother These days there's no more witching, no more will for spells and change in the world. But when the long-lost sisters do unexpectedly cross each other's paths at last, the world's seams split involvement in the much-maligned and persecuted women's suffrage movement; and a romantic attraction that would

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

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

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.

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

Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy worlds, but her characters' conflicts, hopes, upend the delicate balance the few, essential, magical Antari have struggled to establish among the worlds Then there's Osaron, Black London's villain who's trying to destroy everyone and everything the whole world Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy world (with some historical fiction elements of London and life at the time mixed in), but her world-building never feels manufactured or self-conscious

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

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

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

He explores our human-centric views of the world and of the universe, questions assumptions, and delights in the beauty of the natural world's showiest and most humble productions. Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, we decided it would

story of how Joanna and Gabe are inextricably drawn to each other and into Ursa's magically imagined world her ornithology research commands, living in her sparse rental cabin and tuning out the rest of the world painful past, but he and Joanna are inextricably drawn to each other and into Ursa's magically imagined world unknown dangers and find out what has happened, but simultaneously reluctant to discover anything that would

She learns she's pregnant just as the pandemic throws the world into chaos. I wondered if the multiple, alternating points of view would allow me to feel connected to these characters It's possible very little in the book was changed in light of real-world events, but, and maybe this

Addie grapples with what it means to only be able to whisper in the world rather than shout. Addie wants to see more of the world, to be more in the world, and she is eager to allow for some mystery She can't have a home or a job because a landlord or employer would have no recollection of her after She can make no mark on the world--she cannot write or draw, she cannot disturb the snow by walking through She grapples with what it means to only be able to whisper in the world rather than shout.

series, an allied force of students faces the aftermath of their ambitious book-two plan to save the world The young people feel the weight of the world on their shoulders--and it really does seem to be up to The dragons talk and are haughty and greedy and intensely loyal to their riders, Novik explores 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

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

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

of and time spent reading and my vague desire for a cleverly organized house were forces already at war

Stay Alive, Matt Haig's memoir about mental illness and coping with depression; and The Space Between Worlds Patrick's life in recent years has been primarily focused on shutting off the outside world, but the I'm listening to Haig read this audiobook. 03 The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Cara can travel through the multiverse--but only to worlds where another version of herself no longer exists. She's long been slated to collect off-world data, the purpose of which is of no interest to her--she's

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

to cozy up with a science fiction story with fantastic characters and some space adventure or other-world hooked by the heart-pounding action, the fascinating imagined power and scope of gene engineering, the world Upgrade presents a future version of our world in which humans are teetering closer than ever to extinction imaginable, interesting scenes of superhumans' outsmarting each other; and noble desires to "save the world In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, the robots vanished from Panga centuries ago, and accounts of a world

hooked by the heart-pounding action, the fascinating imagined power and scope of gene engineering, the world Upgrade presents a future version of our world in which humans are teetering closer than ever to extinction imaginable, interesting scenes of superhumans' outsmarting each other; and noble desires to "save the world Crouch's crash course in a dramatic potential world of genetic advancements and transformation is captivating

How, in so many ways, she made her students see a vision of a kind world. How knowing this world existed has stayed inside Kirsten and countered the cruelty of what happened to

into largely contented isolation and a life that centers around painting and observing the natural world station, Lucrezia struggles to get to know her new husband--and to figure out how to exist in this new world Lucrezia's shrinking world made me feel claustrophobic on her behalf and paranoid about everyone's potential

purpose, facing a deep responsibility to other beings, undertaking noble missions, bravely exploring new worlds 01 The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Johnson offers a wonderfully imperfect heroine and her She can travel through the multiverse, but only to worlds where another version of herself no longer But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking secrets are revealed that connect various worlds and shake Cara to her core.

despair about having had a rotten holiday and realizing that future holidays at her favorite place in the world are now in jeopardy, Mae makes a plea to the universe to show her what would truly make her happy. duo also wrote the fun and romantic Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating as well as Love and Other Words

Meanwhile in Singapore, survivalist Lai Zhen has temporarily evaded a would-be assassin. ritual threatens the safety of all the magicians in Great Britain, he reluctantly dives back into the world

She was walled up in a monastery although she yearned to continue roaming the natural world as she did stun medieval British society with her vow of celibacy and ambitious pilgrimage halfway around the world

In The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, Wamariya recalls her experiences through Wamariya shares her views of the world, her often jarring experiences in the US—with her sister and family

I love to laugh at Sedaris's darkly funny reflections about the world and society--and at his recognition Isobel's needlework and the colors she sees in the world are captivatingly described, and the tenuous The robots vanished from Panga centuries ago, and accounts of a world where they existed are beginning A Psalm for the Wild-Built is full of heart and strange, captivating details of Chambers's imagined world , kind, well-meaning people out there spending time reflecting on how best to be a human in today's world

Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would The dragons talk and are haughty and greedy and intensely loyal to their riders, and Novik explores world

Teenager Holly Sykes is suddenly drawn into the world of “the radio people,” people whose voices she She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds A full genre shift around page 400 would normally make me want to throw a book through the window.

to serve in this powerful role—one that was unusual for a woman to serve in at the time, and which would with high-society white figures of the time who wield control over both the financial and artistic worlds Morgan, including immensely valuable works essential to understanding the history of the written word She knows that pursuing this career she is passionate about would not have been an option for a Black

complexity involved in sharing a parent after having forged a special bond as a team of two against the world

They live in a world that feels like our own, with one important distinction. origins, practical Bethany has the power to jump in and out of books, immersing herself in the fictional world dabble in well-known books and characters at times; and the author builds a rich book within a book and world within a world.

“The great paradox of the brain is that everything you know about the world is provided to you by an organ that has itself never seen that world. To your brain, the world is just a stream of electrical pulses, like taps of Morse code.

water is the standout, creepy element here: a source of relentless, hungry power that straddles the worlds decisions, when Jax and Lexie's ancestor Ethel Monroe, desperate to have a baby, made a dark bargain that would I'm not sure I believe that the characters would have behaved the way they’re said to at end of book (Would those characters be at the house?) pool is the standout element here: a source of relentless, hungry power that seems to straddle the worlds

She cares for her captivating young cousin, finds peace in the natural world around her, and retreats When bestselling author Vaughn Orr stumbles into her family’s remote world, Riley senses that he’s hiding NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing. 03 Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang In Chinese, the word