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- Review of The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/2/24 Edition
begins a winding path to figuring out her life that mainly entails defying most of the stereotypes of a young
- Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites
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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/28/21 Edition
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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition
Rowling's pen name for the Cormoran Strike books); I'm reading John Scalzi's story about a young man
- Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Books about Media, Movies, and Music
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
- Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Books about Music
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
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into
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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/21 Edition
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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/4/24 Edition
conflict in some ways, but their stories and existences overlap, and their challenges intersect when a young
- Review of The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin
The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/3/24 Edition
distance, she accidentally sees and identifies visitors to her own world--and they're the parents of her young
- Review of Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison
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
- Review of Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James
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.
- 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
- Review of Foster by Claire Keegan
In Claire Keegan's slim novel Foster, a young girl in Ireland is taken by her unreliable, frequently
- Review of My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan
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
- Review of Uprooted by Naomi Novik
The Dragon keeps them safe from the Wood, but at a high price: each year he demands one young woman from
- Review of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Girl, Well, That Was Unexpected, The Obsession, I'm Not Done with You Yet, and the Theo Tan series for young
- Review of Go As a River by Shelley Read
and her father seems broken by the terrible tragedy and loss their family sustained when Victoria was young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/16/23 Edition
Long Meg Long's first novel was Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, a science fiction novel about a tough young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition
unknown of it all, as well as offering tips as to how to evaluate whether a school might be a match for a young
- Review of Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy
But the young Black artist encounters a local Confederate statue that is still standing, and its existence
- 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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/18/21 Edition
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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/20 Edition
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
- 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
- December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/24/24 Edition
She's young and hungry--and thrilled that she's about to get her first really big client.
- Review of Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
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.
- 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
- Review of The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
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
- Review of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
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
- 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 We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
Jen married young and is about to become a mother, while Riley is poised to become one of the first Black
- Review of This Shining Life by Harriet Kline
Young Ollie finds people confusing.
- 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 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.
- Review of This Is All He Asks of You by Anne Egseth
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
- Review of News of the World by Paulette Jiles
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
- 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 I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
actions; pushy manner; mental, emotional, and physical abuse; and disturbing codependence with her young
- Review of Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur
grandparents lived and where she was born, here offers stories spanning forty years, featuring women, men, and 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, 9/4/23 Edition
Heart is giving me major Little Princess vibes...that was one of my absolute favorite books when I was 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 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, 5/1/23 Edition
01 The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry Young Flora and her teen sister Hazel were evacuated
- 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


















































