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- 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
- Review of The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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 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 I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
actions; pushy manner; mental, emotional, and physical abuse; and disturbing codependence with her 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
- Review of Yearbook by Seth Rogen
But in this slim book (I listened to it as an audiobook), Rogen also digs into his beginnings as a young
- 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
- 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, 5/1/23 Edition
01 The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry Young Flora and her teen sister Hazel were evacuated
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Young Anna lives in fifteenth-century Constantinople with her sickly sister, frustrated with endlessly Wilson in his 1920s rural Illinois hometown of Franklin fifty years earlier, when the narrator was a young During the course of the book, Gifty examines the shape of her childhood and young adulthood.
- Review of Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
He becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery he keeps reading about in the newspaper: two young ladies his mission as he tries to save those in need and avoid becoming emotionally entangled with a smart young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The People We Keep, Allison Larkin's upcoming novel about a young on the coast of California; and Dark Roads, Chevy Stevens's suspenseful novel, out next week, about 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, 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 Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Robinson's 1971 classic for young readers is a wonderful read-aloud during the Christmas season.
- Review of The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Alison Espach is also the author of T he Adults and Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance.
- 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 One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
as he unravels what has occurred; he tells the story through various points of view--the sheriff, a 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
- Review of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
mostly wild island off the coast of Finland where a small family is living, and the grandmother and 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
- Review of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
In The Invention of Wings, young Hetty, whose real name is Handful, is given to eleven-year-old Sarah events in which the real-life figure of Sarah Grimke makes a slow, twisting shift from her role as a young
- 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, 10/10/22 Edition
manner; pushy actions; mental, emotional, and physical abuse; and disturbing codependence with her young
- Review of One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
into the romance, fashion, and reality television ups and downs--while allowing room for the strong young I mentioned this book (along with Fable by Adrienne Young and Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March) in the
- 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, 2/2/21 Edition
In contemporary India, Jivan, a young Muslim girl, becomes tangentially entangled with the wrong people Each of the three young women is in the middle of her own high-stakes crisis, and none of them expects
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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, 2/6/23 Edition
Young Métis Lucky St.
- 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
- 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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/11/22 Edition
Through various preserved historic accounts and young Alexandra Green's observations, the reader begins
- 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
- 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 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 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 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
- Review of Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
Young Sitara is living a comfortable life in Kabul in 1978.
- 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
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
of an extreme, life-and-death-stakes fallout after heartbreaking tragedy, but it's also a story of young Before he can set out for Arizona to try to win back his young love, his estranged brother dies, and
- 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 Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan
mystery, she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different potential paths for interlinked young

















































