Each decision she made as a young person was done to try to shape her future as an actor.

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

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

Heart is giving me major Little Princess vibes...that was one of my absolute favorite books when I was young

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

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

characters who help or harm Honey as she fights for independence in a time when many don't think a young

01 The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry Young Flora and her teen sister Hazel were evacuated

actions; pushy manner; mental, emotional, and physical abuse; and disturbing codependence with 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

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

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

Alison Espach is also the author of T he Adults  and Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance.

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.

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

the Blue by Emma Brodie, about teenage friends who end up acting opposite each other in a hit show as adults

Young Ollie finds people confusing.

But in this slim book (I listened to it as an audiobook), Rogen also digs into his beginnings as a young

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

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

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

Prudence agrees to participate in a popular televised dueling piano competition--against Alexei Petrov, a young

With the collapse of Earth's environment imminent, eighty trained elite young people venture into space

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.

Jennifer Hillier weaves a gripping story that jumps back in forth in time from when Paris was a young

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

In Adam Hamdy's The Other Side of Night, the lives of a young boy, a respectable citizen, and a disgraced

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

But when he met a young woman and promised her career assistance, then abused his position, she threatened

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

as he unravels what has occurred; he tells the story through various points of view--the sheriff, a young

manner; pushy actions; mental, emotional, and physical abuse; and disturbing codependence with her young

I hover like a camera on a boom over those two young people, just kids, and I pity them because they

Robinson's 1971 classic for young readers is a wonderful read-aloud during the Christmas season.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Demon Copperhead is about a young boy born in a rural area--to a teenaged single mom in a single-wide

mostly wild island off the coast of Finland where a small family is living, and the grandmother and young

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

The young people feel the weight of the world on their shoulders--and it really does seem to be up to

Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young

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

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

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.

Young Métis Lucky St.