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- Review of The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
Samrina Khan, the head epidemiologist; single-minded young Stephen the wunderkind; gruff, bighearted
- Six Riveting Backlist Reads
Luna and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years, intensely spiritual young
- Review of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
But she got another go-round at life, and that time she survived being born--only to die young in an
- Review of Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
That is, until a young girl appears, battered and bruised, and is resistant to help but clearly in need
- Review of The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod
Young Toni crosses paths with Sebastian Quick, an older, wiser guy who just might offer her a way out
- Six More Books about Brave Female Spies
Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/13/22 Edition
She plucks Monique, a promising young magazine writer, out of relative obscurity for the writing job,
- Review of Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
published earlier this month, takes place in 1662 Boston, where strong-willed women like main protagonist young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/14/22 Edition
She's struggling both emotionally and financially as she tries to support her two young children.
- My Favorite Science Fiction Reads of the Year
Click here for my full review of Baby X . 03 The Measure by Nikki Erlick In Erlick's debut novel, each adult In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with
- Review of Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Now retired, Carrie is a spectator at the US Open when she sees her record challenged by a young upstart
- Review of The Awakening: The Dragon Heart Legacy #1 by Nora Roberts
It's a romance, in that the brooding young man Keegan who leads the clan and who seems sure to become
- Review of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott
When you’re an adult who thinks your own churning mind is what keeps everything safe, it’s called anxious
- Review of True Biz by Sara Nović
But the hearing headmistress February (a CODA--a child of deaf adults), the rebellious new transfer student
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/20/21 Edition
Those around Selma work to quickly come to terms with their finite existence, and young and old members
- Review of The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
The Invisible Hour begins with the story of Ivy, a feisty young woman who becomes pregnant, is threatened
- Review of Writers & Lovers by Lily King
She's in the awkward, sometimes painful age and stage of shifting from young adulthood to being a grown-up
- Review of The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan
The story is told in two timelines, one as young Idris and Mazna are brought together by tragedy and
- Review of The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber
skeptical consumer seeking an institutional partner to build a product--a thinking, sociable, working adult
- Review of Fallen: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo
A rebellious young woman who left her Amish culture behind and became estranged from her family has returned
- Six Four-Star Mysteries to Keep You Guessing
Child by John Hart I loved John Hart's brusque, determined Clyde Hunt, the scrappy and unstoppable young
- Review of The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose
The young men of McMinn County, Tennessee, are coming home after fighting in World War II.
- Review of The Harpy by Megan Hunter
Lucy and Jake are the parents of two young boys.
- Review of Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
(I can’t get over the story of young Anna taking the bus from Maine to New York City with her brother
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition
Now I'm reading The Guncle, Steven Rowley's sassy, heartwarming fiction about an uncle caring for his young
- Review of The Fire and the Ore by Olivia Hawker
Jane (the character is inspired by the author's own ancestor of the same name) is a tough young woman
- Review of The Unwilling by John Hart
But Hart also offers the hope of young love, the bedrock of true friendship, and brothers and their father
- Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
with the mark of the Prophet and was promised to him, but she was far from the submissive, obedient young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/11/21 Edition
In The Invention of Wings, young Hetty, whose real name is "Handful," is given to eleven-year-old Sarah
- Review of The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
I’m not sure how to feel about the construct of having a young woman’s desire to gain acknowledgment
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/21/22 Edition
The hearing headmistress (a CODA--a child of deaf adults), the rebellious new transfer student Charlie
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition
magical school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction about a young
- Review of Normal People by Sally Rooney
Marianne, a solitary young woman living in a large house outside of town, and Connell, a popular athlete
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition
Lucy and Jake are the parents of two young boys.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/23/21 Edition
01 Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy From a young age Inti realized she had a particular
- Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
Kidd somewhat reluctantly ends up agreeing to transport a young, recently rescued Kiowa captive 400 miles
- Review of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
institution, trying to piece together what is real and what is imagined--with the help of a modern-thinking young
- Review of We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
Walk and Duchess are an unlikely pair, a milquetoast cop and a defiant young teen.
- Review of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
In this recent book by Anthony Doerr (author of All the Light We Cannot See), young Anna lives in fifteenth-century
- Review of A Burning by Megha Majumdar
In contemporary India, Jivan, a young Muslim girl, becomes tangentially entangled with the wrong people
- Review of Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich
Having Dane feel petty about the attention his young nephew received from Dane’s girlfriend felt off,
- Review of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Demon Copperhead is about a young boy born in a rural area of southern Virginia to a teenaged single
- Review of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
Harvey emphasizes the urgency of the need for change and offers age-appropriate examples to help build young
- Review of The Becoming (The Dragon Heart Legacy #2) by Nora Roberts
powers (yet maintains her new, successful career as a children's author--with promise of becoming an adult
- Review of A Deadly Education: Lesson One of the Scholomance by Naomi Novik
I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters--and
- Six Great Stories about Robots
Way to a Small, Angry Planet , the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young
- One More List of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year
about a figure whose existence the Catholic church has officially denied for a thousand years: Joan, a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/17/22 Edition
oddball, poignant, darkly funny David Sedaris; and I'm reading The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston's adult
- Review of Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth
is a perfectly imperfect heroine and things aren't entirely what they seem in Roth's first novel for adults situations about perception and reality and identity in this book and am so glad she wrote a novel for adults
- Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
aunt's, and for a time the book is satisfyingly focused on her survival skills and her bonding with a young

















































