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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/11/22 Edition
Through various preserved historic accounts and young Alexandra Green's observations, the reader begins
- 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
- Six More Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. 02 Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens Claudia Cravens's story of a young brothel worker in late nineteenth-century Dodge City, Kansas, offers up a tough young heroine who makes
- Six Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young It almost seems as though the school heads would like to forget either of the troublesome young ladies
- 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
- Review of Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
Young Sitara is living a comfortable life in Kabul in 1978.
- Review of Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan
mystery, she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different potential paths for interlinked young
- 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
- Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore
by Carrie Fisher The Princess Diarist is based upon the diaries Carrie Fisher kept while she was a young felt like a little too much time was spent on youthful poetry and fanciful teenaged musings, yet the young They were romantic and silly and young.
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
Meanwhile, Guerrero is young and often sounds like it as she flits from topic to topic in her account
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/10/21 Edition
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 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
- Review of Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman
Clever young Ruth survives the oppression and turmoil in colonial New England by using her wits.
- Review of The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
So when young hotshot Dominic Yun shows up and, as a male, automatically has the ear of their misogynistic
- Review of These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
In the northern Appalachian mountains, Cooper and his young daughter Finch live in complete isolation
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/21 Edition
world a better place. 03 City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert In City of Girls, Gilbert writes about a young So far Gilbert's old New York detail is wonderful, and young Vivian's carousing is entertaining, sexy
- Review of Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
The retelling swirls with family drama, intrigue, bravery--all centered around a young woman determined
- Review of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
many experiences--and encouraging at least temporary commitment to them, if not immersion--can zigzag young
- Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year
Abriel introduces an enormous shift that shakes things up enormously for both young women before the Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young Stars Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia; a doctor, Kathleen; and a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/7/22 Edition
listening to Sherry Thomas's Victorian mystery (the first in a hefty series) starring an independent young
- Review of Dream State by Eric Puchner
They were acting all along with free will, after all, and reasonable adults must realize that life twists
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/7/22 Edition
But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study may
- Review of The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia; a doctor, Kathleen; and a young the radar to instinctively and knowledgeably help their patients rather than rely on, for example, young
- Review of The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually a highly skilled Executive Protection
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/18/22 Edition
Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually an Executive Protection Agent-
- 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
- Review of So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Wilson in his 1920s rural Illinois hometown of Franklin fifty years earlier, when the narrator was a young
- Review of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers
Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young
- Review of Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
In Reckless Girls, the newest novel by Rachel Hawkins, Lux is a frustrated young woman who's just done
- Review of Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
estranged from their ex-con fathers, each of whom now regret every moment they didn't make sure the young
















































