Adunni is a tough young woman determined to have a voice and emerge from her oppressive situation, and Adunni is a young teen growing up in a rural Nigerian village where girls are often married off by age She's a tough young woman determined to have a voice and emerge from her oppressive situation, and she's

But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and

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

Although successful young novelist Alice just met Felix, a young man working in a warehouse in the seaside

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

; living relationships with ancestors who have passed on; and shaping the future through empowering young

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

during the past month: The Princess Diarist, by Carrie Fisher, based upon the diaries she kept as a young month: Maggie Shipstead's interconnected stories about two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young the natural world and in everyday tasks; The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Daré's story about a young by Alexandra Andrews When young, ambitious Florence implodes her burgeoning publishing career during book, please see An Altar in the World. 07 The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré Adunni is a young

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

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

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

from Henry Fry about a young man resolving complicated questions about his romantic life, career, and Jen married young and is about to become a mother, while Riley is poised to become one of the first Black

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

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

With plenty of youthful explorations of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, plus young women striving to strike I very much enjoyed her vulnerability as a young woman and especially the glimpses we got into her self-assured

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

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Nadia Hashimi's story of a young woman in Afghanistan during 01 Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi Young Sitara is living a comfortable life in Kabul in 1978.

This is introspective literary fiction in which Krishan examines his young life, analyzes the romantic A Passage North is introspective literary fiction in which Krishan examines his young life, analyzes

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

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

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

The relationships between the sisters, the brothers, and the four adults evolve and show cracks, are

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

Young Vivian's carousing in 1940s New York City is entertaining, sexy, and an interesting burst of feminism In City of Girls, Gilbert writes about a young woman's coming of age in 1940s New York City and traces Young Vivian's carousing is entertaining, sexy, and an interesting burst of feminism and freedom in an

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

larger-than-life characters ranging from activists to performers and murderers to idealists; a memoir about a young her hometown leads her into the middle of a missing person case there: the disappearance of a local young But when she arrives, she finds out that a young local woman has gone missing.

Vera and Edith are such a complementary WWII partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young and Germany during the war; their wonderfully brave, practical, creative routes to survival as single young Then Abriel introduces another enormous shift that shakes things up enormously yet again for both young Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young

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

hoping for anonymity and an escape to the woods to grieve and be alone, but she quickly finds out that a young Old friends resurface, pulling Anna out of herself, and when other young girls go missing, the pull of

and Edith during the war; their wonderfully brave, practical, creative routes to survival as single young Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young We've got the strong, gruff Hanni with a heart of gold; young Ettie, who is idealistic, tough as nails In Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, Cleave tells the story of Mary, a young British socialite who shocks her men exhilarated to be alive; and the hesitant, excited, young brides living together in close quarters

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

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

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

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

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

She's young and hungry--and thrilled that she's about to get her first really big client.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

through the character of the ship director, one of the band members, and Annie herself, we witness three adults

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