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More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens. 01 The Comfort Book by Matt Haig "It is a strange paradox, that many in a Quaint English Village features Edward Gorey-type pen and ink illustrations from Jay Cooper. 06 Strange Pyle's Stranger Planet (as well as Strange Planet) in one of my gift guides last year (Shhh!

There in the sharp teeth of the Gilded Mountains, where the snow and murderous cold conspire to ruin a woman

The limitations and cruelties Ruth experiences because she is a woman feel realistically (and maddeningly

Can't a woman retain her clearheadedness even when she's doing battle?"

She also has a strong, passionate grasp of widely experienced inequalities—and ideas of how to chip away

The women's discoveries of their inner strength during their desperation are wonderful lights in the

JungHo's childhood clan all grown up; each of their loves; and the wealthy and influential men pulling strings

anonymity and an escape to the woods to grieve and be alone, but she quickly finds out that a young local woman

Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually a highly skilled Executive Protection

When her sister Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, Mickey's need to solve the When Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire

Fizzy is a straight talker, a sex-positive woman, and a successful romance writer, but she's never been

In Reckless Girls, the newest novel by Rachel Hawkins, Lux is a frustrated young woman who's just done

be happy to sit around for much longer than an hour listening to Mindy Kaling talk about brunch, a strange

Frankie and Zeke want to create something--something strange, something people will notice, yet something

Ruth's father, the founder of the colony, preached that men should marry as many women and have as many

and as Veronica and Stoker follow clues they venture from a royal palace to an artists' refuge to a strange

Emika Chen is an orphaned young woman in a futuristic New York City.

The Princess Diarist is based upon the diaries Carrie Fisher kept while she was a young woman stumbling

But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually a highly skilled Executive Protection

But her adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might just

by Tiffany McDaniel In Tiffany McDaniel's novel Betty, set in the foothills of Appalachia, a young woman

exploring trust, betrayal, the unexpected bubbling up of grief, and the bone-deep tiredness of a young woman

We built our lives into a set of mutual agreements, a string of small gifts lobbed back and forth.

In Cult Classic, a woman leaving a reunion dinner one night in New York City’s Chinatown runs into a

seventeen-year-old Ada is a newlywed, following contentedly the path set out for her as a young married woman

forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of a young woman's

A strange fellow offers to lead Ollie to Gwen.

The city is soon awash with ghosts of Lola's brief encounters, big loves, strange connections, and heartbreaks

Vigil , by the author of the strange, wonderful novel Lincoln in the Bardo , introduces fascinating elements

Her In Pieces account of her relationship with Burt Reynolds reflects a controlling man and a woman without

Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something

The other twin marries a dark-skinned black man and lives as a black woman.

on each other's nerves work together to determine who is responsible for a puzzling murder and other strange

Festival Days is not light reading: "Cheri" delves into the last days of a woman who is terminally ill

In and among these scenes, Sedaris shares strange, sweet, funny moments with each of his living sisters

I loved the Ottoman Empire setting, the strong female main protagonist, and the complications and sometimes

A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious

surprisingly limited, and her witchiness less pronounced than her identity as a thief and as a young woman

patterns, and, most importantly, she transports the reader into the gruff but hopeful mindset of a young woman forced to grow up too quickly--a woman who for years feels she must push away any hopes for a life

I love the tone of this trilogy: playful, otherworldly, and with faulted, greedy, scared, strong, angry

The book explores clashes of ideology; the challenges of a woman pursuing spy work; and general, often

The shift has made for strange bedfellows—and a prickly partnership between our main protagonist, Ellen

But at one point in the book, when he's preparing to have a woman at his house, he looks around at how

A rebellious young woman who left her Amish culture behind and became estranged from her family has returned

A woman he'd invited to their home. Vanessa.

One client does make a strange appearance late in the book, which felt jarring and off topic. serial killer danger lurking getting drinks in the early afternoon and going to secluded places with strange

Sloan is a heavily tattooed yet romantically traditional woman sometimes presented as so broken that

Informed by Jewish folklore, Thistlefoot is a strange, epic adventure tale.

the mark of the Prophet and was promised to him, but she was far from the submissive, obedient young woman

Sea of Tranquility is strange and ethereal, with a surprise toward the end that I delighted in.