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The Princess Diarist is based upon the diaries Carrie Fisher kept while she was a young woman stumbling fanciful teenaged musings (in the audiobook these were read by a different, younger person), yet the young

got here so quickly and how I could be expected to make such enormous decisions while I still felt so young

Vera and Edith are such a complementary WWII partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young Abriel introduces an enormous shift that shakes things up enormously for both young women before the Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia; a doctor, Kathleen; and a young

Bringley and his wife have two young children by the time he ends his stint at the Met and shifts into

through a tragedy that befell her family at the hands of someone they knew, Rena reflects: All of her adult In "Boys Go to Jupiter," a young woman wears a gifted confederate flag bikini, is careless about her It was the winter after the most depressing election of my adult life, a low point for my faith in the

Now I'm reading A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham's recent mystery about the disappearances of young connections to the crimes of decades earlier--or if she's about to help identify another killer who preys on young

Arthur, the young, haunted-seeming caretaker of the estate, seems resigned to her presence even as he

She cares for her captivating young cousin, finds peace in the natural world around her, and retreats But stress and the constant fear of illness and tragedy make for a high-anxiety household, and young

Her young daughter is missing, and Ella is in limbo, desperately hoping she hears news soon.

Chris Bohjalian Bohjalian's newest book takes place in 1662 Boston, where strong-willed women like young 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 the modern-day story line in which a famous young

Lingate was found dead under suspicious circumstances below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her young

Ellie's vocally open about her fury at what many of her fellow female students have to put up with from young And the response from the college community isn't completely damning--young women begin speaking publicly The women are becoming less afraid--but the young men who have behaved abominably and often criminally friends have strong bonds of loyalty; they sometimes behave impulsively; and they are appropriately young But the group has two young women connected closely to them who have been permanently debilitated related

She becomes heartbroken when a whirlwind romance with a young German army officer, Marco Zeiller, doesn't 03 These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant In the northern Appalachian mountains, Cooper and his young

She tries to imagine the points of view of everyone involved, and she treats her young self with empathy acting, which also served as a sort of therapy) eventually allowed Field to come into her fully realized adult Academy 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

begins a winding path to figuring out her life that mainly entails defying most of the stereotypes of a young

Rowling's pen name for the Cormoran Strike books); I'm reading John Scalzi's story about a young man

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

The ruthless young competitors are warriors and strategists who have been cultivating the skills and

Emily Sieu Liebowitz conducted more than 100 interviews while exploring the successful voices of the young the 1960s girl groups, their often working-class backgrounds, and the power disconnects between the young

The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop

to talk about such things--in order to sift through the many disturbing race-based incidents in her young incident and her resulting emotional trauma, pushing all of this down until her reckoning with it in young adulthood.

Alex shares stories of the brothers' young lives spent in the Netherlands, to their family's move to childhood spent surrounded by artists and musicians, her difficult relationship with her mother, her young

conflict in some ways, but their stories and existences overlap, and their challenges intersect when a young

Young Una has only ever loved one man, her best friend Cullen. But I absolutely loved how Una was a strong, determined, gritty young woman in the face of so many enormous

She dove back into pages of interviews and information detailing the young, naive choir member she was cover-up of sexual abuse had taken place for decades at the school that had pledged to protect and educate young with the mark of the Prophet and was promised to him, but she was far from the submissive, obedient young

In Claire Keegan's slim novel Foster, a young girl in Ireland is taken by her unreliable, frequently

distance, she accidentally sees and identifies visitors to her own world--and they're the parents of her young

guessing and has me completely hooked: Xio Axelrod's novel The Girl with the Stars in her Eyes is about a young Young Toni crosses paths with Sebastian Quick, an older, wiser guy who just might offer her a way out by Alexandra Andrews Aspiring young author Florence Darrow is from small-town Florida, and her aspirations

The Dragon keeps them safe from the Wood, but at a high price: each year he demands one young woman from

But the young woman who has taken on the name of Jane and is desperate to leave her dark past behind Two of the neighborhood's cherished young wives, longtime best friends, died months earlier in a boating I felt as though Jane was a frequent contradiction--she is said to be young and pretty, but also to be

Lies, betrayals, secrets, adultery, accidents, suicide, and murder shape the lives of those in New Bremen the Frank of forty years later recounts the mysteries and realizations that shaped him at the cusp of young adulthood.

Girl, Well, That Was Unexpected, The Obsession, I'm Not Done with You Yet, and the Theo Tan series for young

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.

her up and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years, intensely spiritual young Sometimes reading a book from the perspective of a young protagonist is heartbreaking in a way that I

and her father seems broken by the terrible tragedy and loss their family sustained when Victoria was young

Long Meg Long's first novel was Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, a science fiction novel about a tough young

He somewhat reluctantly ends up agreeing to transport a young recently rescued Kiowa captive 400 miles Jiles's story--Captain Kidd's reluctant but gentlemanly involvement and his voice; Johanna as a tough young

She's asked to play the role of maid to an unassuming, wealthy young woman in a dastardly plot to take workings of the outside world and also closely acquainted with the details of intimacies with which most young

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

of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven. 03 Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliott Elliott's book for young In her novel from my favorite publishing company for young people, Peachtree Publishing, Rebecca Elliott Click here for my full review of Pretty Funny for a Girl. 04 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles As the young Towles crafts a solid historical fiction adventure for his young-men protagonists, balancing weighty

unknown of it all, as well as offering tips as to how to evaluate whether a school might be a match for a young

But the young Black artist encounters a local Confederate statue that is still standing, and its existence

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a novel in two timelines about a young woman posing as a cabin

Young Ollie finds people confusing.

grandparents lived and where she was born, here offers stories spanning forty years, featuring women, men, and young

all that she's taken will be taken from her, and because she's a petty, narcissistic, selfish, greedy young

Jen married young and is about to become a mother, while Riley is poised to become one of the first Black

In Morris's novel, a young girl, the forgotten granddaughter of a Scottish king, tries to cope with her

Wees's slim (it's 240 pages) fantasy novel Nocturne, set in the Little Italy of 1930s Chicago, promising young

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