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- Review of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
Robert Kolker retraces the lives of Mimi and Don through their young marriage, their conflicts in ambition But there’s no permanently hiding the wandering, ranting, furious young men. One sister remains linked to the family, and as an adult she continues to try to assist ill siblings
- Review of Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Shipstead has created two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young women split by time. rescued from that tragedy; it follows the path of the twins' lives as they grow up; the story tracks young passion for aviation and her adventures; and the book injects a modern-day story line in which a famous young Shipstead has created two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young women split by time (and, secondarily
- Review of The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh
Walsh's The Love of My Life, Emma is a marine biologist who's devoted to her husband Leo and their young Walsh tells the story in two parts, alternating between chapters exploring Emma's young life (the true
- Review of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/25 Edition
She spies from a distance the comings and goings of a group of seven people, some young and some older
- Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
She recalls how as a young woman she felt hemmed in by hippie culture and also by the societal opposition at times funny with a tragic undertone, as in the recounting of the song Lucinda sold when she was young
- Review of Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine
Erin Crosby Eckstine's richly detailed historical fiction explores the life of Junie, an enslaved young
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
novel explores mortality, vulnerability, surprising moments of joy and reflection, an irresistible young Another novel I loved that involves a precocious, wise, reflective, tough young protagonist is This Is Lucius is a young medical student when World War I sweeps across Europe.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Foster, Claire Keegan's slim Irish novel about a young girl sent 01 Foster by Claire Keegan In Claire Keegan's slim novel Foster, a young girl in Ireland is taken by
- Review of Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles
Brigade takes that setup farther into favorable Bossy territory by sending an idealistic, headstrong young
- Review of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
novel explores mortality, vulnerability, surprising moments of joy and reflection, an irresistible young Another novel I loved that involves a precocious, wise, reflective, tough young protagonist is This Is
- Review of The Names by Florence Knapp
Cora is a strong young ballet dancer when she meets her future husband, and it is excruciating to repeatedly
- Six of My Favorite Contemporary Fiction Reads of the Year
begins a winding path to figuring out her life that mainly entails defying most of the stereotypes of a young Frankel Frankel's story of a nontraditional, loving, zany family flips traditional views of unplanned, young the overworked dad trying to make it home in time for his daughter's musical, to the mother of two young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition
commanding general--who also happens to be Violet's mother--pushes her to vie with the rest of Navarre's young character Rachel is an Irish university student working in a Cork bookstore, dating a boring but reliable young
- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
James Willoughby is a na ï ve young medical student whose family fortunes have taken a negative turn, 05 Spellslinger (Spellslinger #1) by Sebastian de Castell Kellen begins as a principled, headstrong young Arienne knew since she was a young girl that because she was born with magic, her future would end with
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/28/24 Edition
author of The Master , The Magician , and other novels. 03 Trespasses by Louise Kennedy Cushla is a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/24/21 Edition
memoir about growing up while her father was incarcerated and the complicated childhood that shaped her adult Land by Anthony Doerr In this upcoming book by Anthony Doerr (author of All the Light We Cannot See), young
- Review of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
contract-worker brother who feels socially awkward and is doubting his chess prowess after having built his young
- Review of The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
Young Lucrezia is lucky enough to exist outside of palazzo scrutiny, free to follow her own imagination Her trusted nurse and former milk-mother Sofia does her best to delay plans to wed the slight young girl
- Review of Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
the overworked dad trying to make it home in time for his daughter's musical, to the mother of two young
- Review of The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
It's a fairytale-like love letter to Paris in which a staid young woman has almost magical encounters
- Review of Tilt by Emma Pattee
She was a promising young playwright, but life got in the way, cost of living pressures led her to find
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/26/26 Edition
Lady Duxbury, their new friendships, and their reads are rejuvenating and inspiring forces for the young
- Review of The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert #1) by Allen Eskens
Joe's neighbor Lila is a tough young woman who's endured hardship and is slow to trust.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/25 Edition
When she emigrates to New York City, she is befriended by two strong young sisters, Anne and Alma, and
- 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List
giving a certain someone this 2025 title, described as " a whimsical, adventure-filled mystery about a young But the place is filled with young ladies solving mysteries, protecting the city, and fighting bad guys
- Review of Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer
Award- nominated singer-songwriter whose father killed her mother when Allison and her sister were young examines her parents, her youth, and that pivotal tragedy, considering how it has shaped her into her adult instilled a love of music in her, and raised her--although not always competently--until she was a young
- Review of Hello, Molly! by Molly Shannon
horrific car accident with her father at the wheel changed her family forever when Shannon was very young , and she doesn't shy away from exploring her young understanding of the circumstances, loss, and her
- Review of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
As the young men in The Lincoln Highway face challenge after challenge, they grow, learn, and fight for Towles crafts a solid historical fiction adventure for his young-men protagonists, balancing weighty
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/31/22 Edition
I'm reading The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell's newest historical fiction, about a young duchess reading Kate Manning's Gilded Mountain (to be published tomorrow), historical fiction about a strong young
- Review of There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
In 1840 in London, young Arthur lives near the sewage-filled River Thames, desperate to escape poverty
- Review of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Annis is a young Southern woman enslaved, sold, and abused in the years before the Civil War.
- Review of The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
The long-ago brutal death of a young woman in the town was introduced early but faded in weight in what
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/20/25 Edition
more Bossy reviews of book set in Maine. 02 There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak In 1840 London, young
- Review of What You Can See from Here by Mariana Leky
Those around Selma work to quickly come to terms with their finite existence, and young and old members mortality in the text and there are allusions to intimacy, the tone of the book feels geared toward young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/13/25 Edition
Williamson In an alternate 1923 London, a young woman inadvertently disturbs the peace between humans
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Such a Fun Age centers around a young Black babysitter, her employer, and the complicated nature of their
- Review of Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey
May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend."
- Review of The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker
Jane is a young single mother and a librarian at the New York Public Library.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/26/25 Edition
Time Is a Mother , and other books. 03 The Strange Case of Jane O by Karen Thompson Walker Jane is a young
- August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
In Christina Lauren's newest romantic fiction, Anna and West are a young married couple on the verge terrible crime: killing his mother, a mean, reviled lunch lady long perceived as an enemy of the town's young But the young man, a self-taught artist, is counting on Bob and an unorthodox approach to figuring out
- Review of The Summer War by Naomi Novik
The day young Celia's oldest brother Argent left the house in their war-torn homeland, determined to
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/20/23 Edition
T. seem to have been thrown forward in time and into the thick of young adulthood.
- Review of The Fraud by Zadie Smith
with it in an unorthodox, secret, wonderful fashion that serves to advance her cause for two specific young
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Young Lucrezia is lucky enough to exist outside of palazzo scrutiny, free to follow her own imagination Her trusted nurse and former milk-mother Sofia does her best to delay plans to wed the slight young girl But the hearing headmistress February (a CODA--a child of deaf adults), the rebellious new transfer student
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/12/26 Edition
Aubrey Price, a local bartender, was orphaned as a young woman when her parents were killed in a hit-and-run
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/5/25 Edition
Married Landon was having a passionate affair with a beautiful, spunky local young woman, Lo Bailey,
- Review of Less Is Lost (Arthur Less #2) by Andrew Sean Greer
We could go back further still and try it all over again with what we know; try to be young together Young and foolish and happy. But I have an easier solution: Just take the ordinary time machine.
- Review of Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven
Bug Hollow spans decades, tracking grief and then the life paths of Ellis's sisters (particularly young
- Review of A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
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














































