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

Liang's light fiction rom-com This Time It's Real, when seventeen-year-old Eliza's class essay about young

commanding general--who also happens to be Violet's mother--pushes her to vie with the rest of Navarre's young

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

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

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

Through various preserved historic accounts and young Alexandra Green's observations, the reader begins

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

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

She plucks Monique Grant, a promising young magazine writer, out of relative obscurity for the writing

Meanwhile, Guerrero is young and often sounds like it as she flits from topic to topic in her account

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

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

Young Sitara is living a comfortable life in Kabul in 1978.

mystery, she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different potential paths for interlinked young

Kidd somewhat reluctantly ends up agreeing to transport a young, recently rescued Kiowa captive 400 miles

She becomes heartbroken when a whirlwind romance with a young German army officer, Marco Zeiller, is

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.

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

They were acting all along with free will, after all, and reasonable adults must realize that life twists

Clever young Ruth survives the oppression and turmoil in colonial New England by using her wits.

listening to Sherry Thomas's Victorian mystery (the first in a hefty series) starring an independent young

The retelling swirls with family drama, intrigue, bravery--all centered around a young woman determined

In the northern Appalachian mountains, Cooper and his young daughter Finch live in complete isolation

We've got the strong, gruff Hanni with a heart of gold; young Ettie, who is idealistic and grows to be

many experiences--and encouraging at least temporary commitment to them, if not immersion--can zigzag young

So when young hotshot Dominic Yun shows up and, as a male, automatically has the ear of their misogynistic

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

But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study may

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

Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually an Executive Protection Agent-

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

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

Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young

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

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

Wilson in his 1920s rural Illinois hometown of Franklin fifty years earlier, when the narrator was a young

She has a loving husband and a wonderful young daughter she adores.

Meanwhile, Guerrero is young and often sounds like it as she flits from topic to topic in her account

In deliberate contrast, Opal cuts a striking figure, and I loved witnessing her growth from a young,

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 this book, see The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven. 02 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles As the young Young Anna lives in fifteenth-century Constantinople with her sickly sister, frustrated with endlessly

taking the better job, getting the bigger house, writing a semi-autobiographical novel, educating their young

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

estranged from their ex-con fathers, each of whom now regret every moment they didn't make sure the young

In James Riley's middle-grade fantasy book Story Thieves, young introvert Bethany and impulsive Owen

On the other hand, other instances--such as a disturbing movie seen too young and the long-term fright

In Claire Keegan's slim novel Foster, a young girl in Ireland is taken by her unreliable, frequently Makkai Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young

01 Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton Eli Bell is a young man in a tough spot. eclectic mix for me: a potentially heartbreaking and heartwarming book about unlikely friendship and a young

The swirl of events draws other innocent young women into Miryem's complicated web and toward potential Ji Lin is a young girl who would have dreamed of becoming a doctor if society would allow it, but she's There's magical realism at the heart of this book, and Choo also examines colonialism, superstition, and young The Dragon keeps them safe from the Wood, but at a high price: each year he demands one young woman from