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613 items found for "young adult"
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/22 Edition
Reckless Girls, the newest novel by Rachel Hawkins (author of The Wife Upstairs), Lux is a frustrated young In this first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young Rosemary feels lucky
- Review of The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
once his aspirations to become a writer became all-encompassing) wrote a well-received first book as a young abruptly dies soon afterward without publishing his book, Bonner banks on the probability that the young
- Review of The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
characters who help or harm Honey as she fights for independence in a time when many don't think a young
- Review of Nocturne by Alyssa Wees
Wees's slim (it's 240 pages) fantasy novel Nocturne, set in the Little Italy of 1930s Chicago, promising young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/4/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a novel in two timelines about a young woman posing as a cabin
- Review of Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
all that she's taken will be taken from her, and because she's a petty, narcissistic, selfish, greedy young
- Review of Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
Jennifer Hillier weaves a gripping story that jumps back in forth in time from when Paris was a young
- Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year
Emma is a marine biologist who's devoted to her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby. Jennifer Hillier weaves a gripping story that jumps back in forth in time from when Paris was a young mystery, she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different potential paths for interlinked young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/11/24 Edition
In Morris's novel, a young girl, the forgotten granddaughter of a Scottish king, tries to cope with her
- Review of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/1/23 Edition
01 The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry Young Flora and her teen sister Hazel were evacuated
- Review of The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia; a doctor, Kathleen; and a young the radar to instinctively and knowledgeably help their patients rather than rely on, for example, young
- Six Books I Want, Bossy Holiday 2022 Edition
Kuang's Babel: An Arcane History introduces the character of young Robin Swift. Paris police chief La Reynie and his young assistant Bezons have uncovered a network of fortune-tellers
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/4/23 Edition
Heart is giving me major Little Princess vibes...that was one of my absolute favorite books when I was young
- Six More of My Favorite Romantic Fiction Reads from the Past Year
Decades later, Prudence's dark past threatens to upend her peaceful, if uneventful, adult life. she agrees to participate in a popular televised dueling piano competition--against Alexei Petrov, a young
- Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year
Abriel introduces an enormous shift that shakes things up enormously for both young women before the Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young Stars Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia; a doctor, Kathleen; and a young
- Review of The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy
In Adam Hamdy's The Other Side of Night, the lives of a young boy, a respectable citizen, and a disgraced
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/10/22 Edition
manner; pushy actions; mental, emotional, and physical abuse; and disturbing codependence with her young
- Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
Eli Bell is a young man in a tough spot. Despite the desperate behaviors of the adults in Eli's life (and the terrible consequences he suffers
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/21 Edition
world a better place. 03 City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert In City of Girls, Gilbert writes about a young So far Gilbert's old New York detail is wonderful, and young Vivian's carousing is entertaining, sexy
- Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
or upset everything to explore the fantasy of what might have been with her childhood friend and the young as well as lack of affection), and missteps--and the terrible consequences of all of this for their young
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young When a local young woman goes missing, Chloe fights her rising panic. Is there another killer who preys on young women, one paying homage to the twentieth anniversary of her
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/22/24 Edition
Each decision she made as a young person was done to try to shape her future as an actor.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/10/21 Edition
His mother died when he was young, and he has no memory of her. But the white master of the plantation is Hiram's biological father, and composed young Hiram is set
- Review of A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World: A Novel by C.A. Fletcher
Young Griz is tough as nails and determined and wonderful. I thought this was fantastic. The thief came and shattered what was left of young Griz's life.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/29/23 Edition
Prudence agrees to participate in a popular televised dueling piano competition--against Alexei Petrov, a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/19/22 Edition
Demon Copperhead is about a young boy born in a rural area--to a teenaged single mom in a single-wide
- Review of Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris
She becomes heartbroken when a whirlwind romance with a young German army officer, Marco Zeiller, is
- Review of Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
Young Sitara is living a comfortable life in Kabul in 1978.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/11/22 Edition
Through various preserved historic accounts and young Alexandra Green's observations, the reader begins
- Six More Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year
With the collapse of Earth's environment imminent, eighty trained elite young people venture into space Arthur, the young, haunted-seeming caretaker of the estate, seems resigned to her presence even as he
- Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
I hover like a camera on a boom over those two young people, just kids, and I pity them because they
- Review of The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
With the collapse of Earth's environment imminent, eighty trained elite young people venture into space
- Review of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
She plucks Monique Grant, a promising young magazine writer, out of relative obscurity for the writing
- Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore
by Carrie Fisher The Princess Diarist is based upon the diaries Carrie Fisher kept while she was a young felt like a little too much time was spent on youthful poetry and fanciful teenaged musings, yet the young They were romantic and silly and young.
- Review of The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
So when young hotshot Dominic Yun shows up and, as a male, automatically has the ear of their misogynistic
- Review of Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan
mystery, she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different potential paths for interlinked young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/20/23 Edition
But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and
- Review of A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America by Timothy Egan
But when he met a young woman and promised her career assistance, then abused his position, she threatened
- Review of Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
sometimes claustrophobic but fiercely loving life lived under one roof with extended family, and a young
- Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik
The young people feel the weight of the world on their shoulders--and it really does seem to be up to
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/9/21 Edition
01 Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton Eli Bell is a young man in a tough spot. eclectic mix for me: a potentially heartbreaking and heartwarming book about unlikely friendship and a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/20/23 Edition
Wees's slim (it's 240 pages) fantasy novel Nocturne, set in the Little Italy of 1930s Chicago, promising young
- Shhh! More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
The storytellers represented here range from John Turturro to Tig Notaro; from a young female spy during Dolly gave a million dollars to Covid-19 vaccine research, continued to provide free books monthly to young Pyle Last year I gave Strange Planet to teenagers and young-at-heart family members on my gift list;
- Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing
singer-songwriter whose father killed her mother when Allison and her sister, recording artist Shelby Lynne, were young examines her parents, her youth, and that pivotal tragedy, considering how it has shaped her into her adult
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/6/23 Edition
Young Métis Lucky St.
- Review of These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
In the northern Appalachian mountains, Cooper and his young daughter Finch live in complete isolation
- Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love
The swirl of events draws other innocent young women into Miryem's complicated web and toward potential Ji Lin is a young girl who would have dreamed of becoming a doctor if society would allow it, but she's There's magical realism at the heart of this book, and Choo also examines colonialism, superstition, and young The Dragon keeps them safe from the Wood, but at a high price: each year he demands one young woman from
- Review of Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
estranged from their ex-con fathers, each of whom now regret every moment they didn't make sure the young
- Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now
adore, and the setup of how the best friends met (Emmie released a balloon with a message when she was young fantasyscifi, #series, #uniquePOV 03 The House in the Cerulean Sea I like to listen to fantasy books for young