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613 items found for "young adult"
- Review of The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan
The story is told in two timelines, one as young Idris and Mazna are brought together by tragedy and
- My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young Young Sitara is living a comfortable life in Kabul in 1978. Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young
- Review of The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
I’m not sure how to feel about the construct of having a young woman’s desire to gain acknowledgment
- Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
with the mark of the Prophet and was promised to him, but she was far from the submissive, obedient young
- Review of The Unwilling by John Hart
But Hart also offers the hope of young love, the bedrock of true friendship, and brothers and their father
- Review of Fallen: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo
A rebellious young woman who left her Amish culture behind and became estranged from her family has returned
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/14/22 Edition
She's struggling both emotionally and financially as she tries to support her two young children.
- The Bossy Five-Star Reads So Far This Year
Stout Stout's middle-grade story is irresistibly strange, full of difficulties and a tough young heroine's identifying and lifting the curse offer answers--and could it even change the trajectory of her tough young
- Review of The Awakening: The Dragon Heart Legacy #1 by Nora Roberts
It's a romance, in that the brooding young man Keegan who leads the clan and who seems sure to become
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
In Claire Keegan's slim novel Foster, a young girl in Ireland is taken by her unreliable, frequently Makkai Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/20/21 Edition
Those around Selma work to quickly come to terms with their finite existence, and young and old members
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/13/22 Edition
She plucks Monique, a promising young magazine writer, out of relative obscurity for the writing job,
- Review of The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
Vasya is a young woman now, and she must consent to an arranged marriage or enter the convent--but Vasya
- Review of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
institution, trying to piece together what is real and what is imagined--with the help of a modern-thinking young
- Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
But when young Lucrezia's older sister dies suddenly before her scheduled marriage to the ruler of Ferrara Her trusted nurse and former milk-mother Sofia does her best to delay plans to wed the slight young girl
- Review of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott
When you’re an adult who thinks your own churning mind is what keeps everything safe, it’s called anxious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition
Lucy and Jake are the parents of two young boys.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition
Now I'm reading The Guncle, Steven Rowley's sassy, heartwarming fiction about an uncle caring for his young
- Review of Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Now retired, Carrie is a spectator at the US Open when she sees her record challenged by a young upstart
- Review of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
Harvey emphasizes the urgency of the need for change and offers age-appropriate examples to help build young
- Review of Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Later in the book Adina visits a revamped Beautyland as an adult, and the large store offering "beauty
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/11/21 Edition
In The Invention of Wings, young Hetty, whose real name is "Handful," is given to eleven-year-old Sarah
- Review of Normal People by Sally Rooney
Marianne, a solitary young woman living in a large house outside of town, and Connell, a popular athlete
- Review of True Biz by Sara Nović
But the hearing headmistress February (a CODA--a child of deaf adults), the rebellious new transfer student
- Review of We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
Walk and Duchess are an unlikely pair, a milquetoast cop and a defiant young teen.
- Review of Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich
Having Dane feel petty about the attention his young nephew received from Dane’s girlfriend felt off,
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition
magical school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction about a young
- Review of A Burning by Megha Majumdar
In contemporary India, Jivan, a young Muslim girl, becomes tangentially entangled with the wrong people
- Review of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
the human interest story behind the politics of the many events I remember from the news when I was young
- Review of Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth
is a perfectly imperfect heroine and things aren't entirely what they seem in Roth's first novel for adults situations about perception and reality and identity in this book and am so glad she wrote a novel for adults
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/23/21 Edition
01 Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy From a young age Inti realized she had a particular
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/20 Edition
Stars Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia, doctor, Kathleen, and a young
- Review of The Fire and the Ore by Olivia Hawker
Jane (the character is inspired by the author's own ancestor of the same name) is a tough young woman
- Review of A Deadly Education: Lesson One of the Scholomance by Naomi Novik
I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters--and
- Review of Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis
The setup of how the best friends met (Emmie released a balloon with a message when she was young, and
- Review of The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
The Invisible Hour begins with the story of Ivy, a feisty young woman who becomes pregnant, is threatened
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/20 Edition
Kendrick does a great job of positioning herself outside Hollywood as she was when she was young in order
- Review of Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack by Heidi von Palleske
In von Palleske's novel, two young boys share the experience of a tragic accident.
- Six Four-Star Mysteries to Keep You Guessing
Child by John Hart I loved John Hart's brusque, determined Clyde Hunt, the scrappy and unstoppable young
- Review of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
In this recent book by Anthony Doerr (author of All the Light We Cannot See), young Anna lives in fifteenth-century
- Review of All the Forgivenesses by Elizabeth Hardinger
patterns, and, most importantly, she transports the reader into the gruff but hopeful mindset of a young
- Review of The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber
skeptical consumer seeking an institutional partner to build a product--a thinking, sociable, working adult
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/21/22 Edition
The hearing headmistress (a CODA--a child of deaf adults), the rebellious new transfer student Charlie
- Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
aunt's, and for a time the book is satisfyingly focused on her survival skills and her bonding with a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/21 Edition
jilted wife who's out for revenge; and Sally Rooney's heart-wrenching coming-of-age story about two young
- Review of The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
Lexie's sabotage of Jax's friendships at a young, vulnerable age seemed too easy for Jax to move past
- Review of The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik
The young wizards hold the future of magic in their hands, in a sense, and their halting, experimental
- Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year
But Fowler did an excellent job of delving into the all-consuming obsessions the desperate young Alva patterns, and, most importantly, she transports the reader into the gruff but hopeful mindset of a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/21 Edition
White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack by Heidi von Palleske In von Palleske's modern gothic novel, two young
- Review of Wild Life by Keena Roberts
Roberts's desire for self-sufficiency and her powerful instincts, even as a young girl, are captivating