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613 items found for "young adult"
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/22/23 Edition
Liang's light fiction rom-com This Time It's Real, when seventeen-year-old Eliza's class essay about young
- Review of Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman
Clever young Ruth survives the oppression and turmoil in colonial New England by using her wits.
- Review of Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
sexual abuse had taken place for decades at the school that had pledged to protect and educate the young Horrifying elements the young teen was subjected to include repeated male abuse of power as well as sexual
- Review of Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
When she meets Jamie, a handsome young man on her brother's hockey team, he seems like a much-needed
- Review of So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Wilson in his 1920s rural Illinois hometown of Franklin fifty years earlier, when the narrator was a young
- Review of The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
Samrina Khan, the head epidemiologist; single-minded young Stephen the wunderkind; gruff, bighearted
- Review of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
many experiences--and encouraging at least temporary commitment to them, if not immersion--can zigzag young
- Review of The Searcher by Tana French
But when a skittish young boy with nowhere else to turn asks him for help, Cal finds that he can't refuse
- Review of Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1) by Rebecca Yarros
commanding general--who also happens to be Violet's mother--pushes her to vie with the rest of Navarre's young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/7/22 Edition
But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study may
- Review of The Story Thieves (Story Thieves #1) by James Riley
In James Riley's middle-grade fantasy book Story Thieves, young introvert Bethany and impulsive Owen
- Six Satisfying Novels about Revenge
estranged from their ex-con fathers, each of whom now regret every moment they didn't make sure the young Lucy and Jake are the parents of two young boys.
- Review of Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
From a young age Inti realized she had a particular affinity for animals; if she tuned in, she could
- Review of The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
The book tracks backward as young Andrew Green struggles to realize his immense potential despite a modest
- Review of A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
Veronica is a curious young Victorian-era lady with progressive ideas, and I adore how matter-of-factly
- Review of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers
Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young
- Review of Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
In Reckless Girls, the newest novel by Rachel Hawkins, Lux is a frustrated young woman who's just done
- Review of Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
The retelling swirls with family drama, intrigue, bravery--all centered around a young woman determined
- Six More Four-Star (and Up) Mysteries I Loved in the Past Year
I love a spy book, a book about Russia, and a feisty, strong young female protagonist, and The Traitor Makkai Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young
- Review of Outlawed by Anna North
1894, and seventeen-year-old Ada is a newlywed, following contentedly the path set out for her as a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/12/21 Edition
conversations in the documentary series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. 03 This Shining Life by Harriet Kline Young
- Review of The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
In deliberate contrast, Opal cuts a striking figure, and I loved witnessing her growth from a young,
- Review of The Survivors by Jane Harper
one's forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of a young
- Review of The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually a highly skilled Executive Protection
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/18/22 Edition
Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually an Executive Protection Agent-
- Six More Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. 02 Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens Claudia Cravens's story of a young brothel worker in late nineteenth-century Dodge City, Kansas, offers up a tough young heroine who makes
- Review of The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
family duty, adventure, and search for meaning—and all with a main protagonist who’s your basic badass young
- Review of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Montague; an unorthodox woman with an open mind and brave disposition, Theodora; a young woman who has
- Six Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young It almost seems as though the school heads would like to forget either of the troublesome young ladies
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/7/22 Edition
listening to Sherry Thomas's Victorian mystery (the first in a hefty series) starring an independent young
- Review of Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
That is, until a young girl appears, battered and bruised, and is resistant to help but clearly in need
- Review of The Change by Kristen Miller
She has a loving husband and a wonderful young daughter she adores.
- Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
The young couple find one another and bond to each other in their desperate run to escape the devastated precedes her novel Lila and takes the form of the aging Reverend's recollections and letters to his young Gilead is largely an exploration of the Reverend's complicated relationship with his troubled young namesake
- Review of Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
possibilities and the terrifying and thrilling idea that he could ultimately live an honest life as a gay young
- Review of The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
We've got the strong, gruff Hanni with a heart of gold; young Ettie, who is idealistic and grows to be
- Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites
But Fowler also does an excellent job of delving into the all-consuming obsessions the desperate young patterns, and, most importantly, she transports the reader into the gruff but hopeful mindset of a young
- Review of The Humans by Matt Haig
taking the better job, getting the bigger house, writing a semi-autobiographical novel, educating their young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/22/22 Edition
The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop
- Review of The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod
Young Toni crosses paths with Sebastian Quick, an older, wiser guy who just might offer her a way out
- Review of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
But she got another go-round at life, and that time she survived being born--only to die young in an
- Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair
On the other hand, other instances--such as a disturbing movie seen too young and the long-term fright
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/4/22 Edition
But in this slim book (I'm listening to it as an audiobook), Rogen also digs into his beginnings as a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/12/22 Edition
characters who help or harm Honey as she fights for independence in a time when many don't think a young
- Review of Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
published earlier this month, takes place in 1662 Boston, where strong-willed women like main protagonist young
- Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study could
- Review of Writers & Lovers by Lily King
She's in the awkward, sometimes painful age and stage of shifting from young adulthood to being a grown-up
- Review of The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose
The young men of McMinn County, Tennessee, are coming home after fighting in World War II.
- Review of Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
(I can’t get over the story of young Anna taking the bus from Maine to New York City with her brother
- My Six Favorite Book Club Books of 2022
review of this book, see The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven. 02 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles As the young Young Anna lives in fifteenth-century Constantinople with her sickly sister, frustrated with endlessly
- Review of The Harpy by Megan Hunter
Lucy and Jake are the parents of two young boys.