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- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition
depression; and The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson's science-fiction story about multiverse travel, mysteries and she lives in uncertain status, without citizenship or security aside from her employment for the mysterious But when one of her eight remaining selves mysteriously dies, shocking secrets are revealed that connect
- Review of Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
the story, Sager does a good job of providing her with a stubborn grip on what she sees as truth over fantasy #mysterysuspense, #gothicnoir, #booksaboutbooks, #unreliablenarrator, #ghosts, #spooky, #hauntedhouse
- Bossy Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Sports and Recreation Nonfiction
Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know about Women by Maggie Mertens (2024) 1923: The Mystery They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling
- Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
The two disparate stories intersect in an unlikely way in 1890s Arizona Territory, and fantastical elements Jess's voice was fantastic. If you like historical fiction mysteries, you might try the books listed here: Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.
- My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far
We Begin at the End is a great character-driven, suspenseful mystery. If you like character-driven suspense and mystery books, you might also like John Hart's (grittier) books It features the fantastic characters from book one, and the plot picks up with a new version of the fight The connection between Marianne and Connell is the beautiful, haunting, swirling source of misery, heartache Lee's detail is just fantastic in terms of Green's emotions, hopes, dreams, everyday life at the time
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/24 Edition
fraternity members and a multi-million-dollar interstate drug ring; and I'm listening to a suspenseful mystery
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious
- Six Fascinating Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
; here are just a few: Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year Six Historical Fiction Mysteries about the real life of a freed black man—with the details of his life imagined and elaborated on in fantastic
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/7/22 Edition
the Dark; listening to Angela Duckworth's nonfiction book Grit; and reading Katherine Faulkner's new mystery When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--she threatens to
- Review of The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
And my heart raced while I read to find out if this fraught situation would blow up in fantastic form
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/20/22 Edition
Morris's All Her Little Secrets, a fast-paced Southern mystery that also explores issues of race and Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, we decided
- Review of The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries
- Review of Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel
great series by Neuvel, in which a girl stumbles upon pieces of a giant robot and makes solving the mystery to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious artifacts she stumbled across as a child, but the mysteries
- Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle
In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens
- Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair
She shares that because of the gloomy mystery of years of suffering, her multiple sclerosis diagnosis lays bare her experiences with depression and her attempted suicides after heartbreaks; her long-term, mysterious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/18/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first book in Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines mystery trilogy
- Review of A Murder by Any Name by Suzanne M. Wolfe
I looove a historical fiction mystery. If you do too, you might want to check out Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.
- Review of As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson
heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery justified) intense feelings of responsibility for being the one to not only find elusive answers to various mysteries
- Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
, comfortable current life, the husband she loves, and her kids--or upset everything to explore the fantasy
- Review of Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo
ICYMI: When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious multiple homicide
- Review of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
It's necessary for the plot for Alex to wait an interminably long time to review mystery items she is when these individuals then disappear, Alex doesn't feel the impetus to explore their letters or a mystery
- Review of Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
The best-friendships are fantastic. I think Emma's best friend Maddy probably needs her own book (a la Christina Lauren's fantastic True
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/24 Edition
But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking Notice, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after its breakup--and the crimes, mysteries For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/14/22 Edition
during the communist coup of 1978, Sparks Like Stars; I'm reading Lisa Gardner's recently published mystery Stars as an audiobook. 02 One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin #2) by Lisa Gardner Lisa Gardner's recent mystery
- Review of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Then a mysterious package arrives at the shop, and A.J. Fikry is suddenly...changed.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition
In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/21 Edition
my review, see Today Tonight Tomorrow.) 02 The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins In Rachel Hawkins's mystery
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/5/24 Edition
Meanwhile, mysterious forces with dangerous plans converge upon Lovesend, drawn by the resurrection
- Review of Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
working for the charming complex's owner, all the while cultivating her obsession with a reclusive, mysterious
- Review of Funny Story by Emily Henry
The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one. I listened to Funny Story as an audiobook (narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan) courtesy of Libro.fm
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/28/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham's recent mystery about twisty mystery The Missing Piece continues his popular Dismas Hardy series.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/22/24 Edition
introduced her to it; this is a brutal existence buoyed only by thoughts of the past and wonder at the mysteries
- August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
The list skews toward light fiction, but I've got a mystery, a great novel by Allison Larkin, and a wonderfully
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/9/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Ava Glass's newest Emma Makepeace spy mystery, The Trap ; I'm listening
- Review of The Trackers by Charles Frazier
In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly hiding something
- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
reads of the past month include, in no particular order: The Maid, Nita Prose's recently published mystery Prose offers a surprising amount of heart and a unique main protagonist in this lighthearted murder mystery In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, the fantastic Jo Ann Beard explores
- Review of Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
Looking for Jane is a story of women living in three timelines who are linked through decades by a mysterious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/8/21 Edition
of seeking and exposing the truth around her as a journalist, while Bea retreats into a reclusive, mysterious When mysterious events come to light that seem linked to the publicly harmless, seemingly benevolent
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/20/23 Edition
Until June witnesses Athena's death and mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers during
- December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
When cool Leo at school reveals that he's into comedy too, Haylah jumps at the chance to write material Elliott offers a fantastic, boy-crazy, British story about missteps, facing change, accepting the past In the fifth installment of the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J.K. A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious
- Review of Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine
That is, until the mysterious Maddalena arrives.
- Review of Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
early turns and surprises didn't always feel as though they followed logical paths, I appreciated the mystery-lite
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition
thriller, which is set in the wilderness and concerns old lovers thrown together in hopes of finding a mysteriously
- Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI
SecUnit is a fantastic main character; it's grumpily and charmingly obsessed with keeping its people A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin world-renowned physicist working to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious artifacts, but the mysteries
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
are the books I most loved reading in April: Exiles, the third in Jane Harper's Australian Aaron Falk mystery Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at
- Six More Short Story Collections I Loved
In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, the fantastic Jo Ann Beard explores MacArthur is also the author of the mystery Heart Spring Mountain. With masterful storytelling, King builds a world within each short story that feels immediate, sometimes
- My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads
Blacktop Wasteland is a fantastic blend of realistic complications, mistakes, adjustments, and spunk. #mysterysuspense, #southern, #fourstarbookreview 04 Utopia Avenue In Utopia Avenue, Mitchell takes What should I add to my completely unmanageable master Greedy Reading List of books to read?
- Review of Gregor the Overlander (The Underland Chronicles #1) by Suzanne Collins
talking) creepy-crawlies in this middle-grade novel, you'll find a noble quest, unlikely heroes, a mysterious
- Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
It's Real by Ann Liang I was hooked by Liang's fake-dating, famous-everyday relationship duo setup, fantastically In town, she'll always be known as The Girl Who Solved a Murder Mystery by Talking to Ghosts, with all