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- Review of Long Bright River by Liz Moore
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
- Review of Warcross (Warcross #1) by Marie Lu
Emika Chen is an orphaned young woman in a futuristic New York City.
- Review of The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
The Princess Diarist is based upon the diaries Carrie Fisher kept while she was a young woman stumbling
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/27/22 Edition
But her adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might just
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/21/21 Edition
by Tiffany McDaniel In Tiffany McDaniel's novel Betty, set in the foothills of Appalachia, a young woman
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/6/22 Edition
In Cult Classic, a woman leaving a reunion dinner one night in New York City’s Chinatown runs into a
- Six Riveting Backlist Reads
The other twin marries a dark-skinned black man and lives as a black woman.
- Review of Now You Say Yes by Bill Harley
exploring trust, betrayal, the unexpected bubbling up of grief, and the bone-deep tiredness of a young woman
- Review of Vigil by George Saunders
Vigil , by the author of the strange, wonderful novel Lincoln in the Bardo , introduces fascinating elements
- Review of Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu
We built our lives into a set of mutual agreements, a string of small gifts lobbed back and forth.
- Review of Outlawed by Anna North
seventeen-year-old Ada is a newlywed, following contentedly the path set out for her as a young married woman
- Review of The Survivors by Jane Harper
forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of a young woman's
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/29/24 Edition
Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something
- Review of Herrick's End (The Neath #1) by T.M. Blanchet
A strange fellow offers to lead Ollie to Gwen.
- Review of Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
The city is soon awash with ghosts of Lola's brief encounters, big loves, strange connections, and heartbreaks
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/10/22 Edition
Festival Days is not light reading: "Cheri" delves into the last days of a woman who is terminally ill
- Review of Nightwatch on the Hinterlands by K. Eason
on each other's nerves work together to determine who is responsible for a puzzling murder and other strange
- Review of In Pieces by Sally Field
Her In Pieces account of her relationship with Burt Reynolds reflects a controlling man and a woman without
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition
A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/17/22 Edition
In and among these scenes, Sedaris shares strange, sweet, funny moments with each of his living sisters
- Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series
I loved the Ottoman Empire setting, the strong female main protagonist, and the complications and sometimes
- Review of Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
surprisingly limited, and her witchiness less pronounced than her identity as a thief and as a young woman
- Review of And Then She Vanished (Joseph Bridgman #1) by Nick Jones
But at one point in the book, when he's preparing to have a woman at his house, he looks around at how
- Review of Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre
The book explores clashes of ideology; the challenges of a woman pursuing spy work; and general, often
- 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
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
I love the tone of this trilogy: playful, otherworldly, and with faulted, greedy, scared, strong, angry
- Review of State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
The shift has made for strange bedfellows—and a prickly partnership between our main protagonist, Ellen
- Review of The Harpy by Megan Hunter
A woman he'd invited to their home. Vanessa.
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
third novel in French's series, the community reels over the disappearance and death of a local young woman
- Review of The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
Sloan is a heavily tattooed yet romantically traditional woman sometimes presented as so broken that
- Review of The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
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
- Review of All the Forgivenesses by Elizabeth Hardinger
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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/12/22 Edition
Informed by Jewish folklore, Thistlefoot is a strange, epic adventure tale.
- Review of The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
the mark of the Prophet and was promised to him, but she was far from the submissive, obedient young woman
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition
school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction about a young woman
- Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility is strange and ethereal, with a surprise toward the end that I delighted in.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/12/21 Edition
A rebellious young woman who left her Amish culture behind and became estranged from her family has returned
- Six Short Story Collections to Wow You
Hampton's F*ckface, Kevin Wilson's Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, and Ron Rash's Something Rich and Strange McCracken is a fantastic writer who highlights odd, strangely beautiful elements in small moments.
- 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
- Review of Moonlight Drive by A.R. Hadley
receives oral sex from a stranger with his soulmate sitting next to him rather than having sex with the woman
- Review of With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt
artist being able to see the true secrets in her subjects (she is able to see just from studying a woman's
- Review of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The other twin marries a dark-skinned black man and lives as a black woman.
- Review of The Humans by Matt Haig
The Humans is funny, strange, deep, and lovely. I loved it.
- Review of My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Yet it makes sense that this thoughtful woman would be eager and starving for connection after her painful consequential for her) encounter with an author in New York City years earlier when she notes that because the woman
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/20 Edition
Kathi Kannon is a woman with a big, wacky personality who is also Hollywood royalty.
- Review of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson
It's been five years since a local young woman, Andie Bell, was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh.
- Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
She goes to sleep satisfied, but wakes up in another life: a strange apartment, a different boyfriend This was strange and compelling. 06 All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai There are flying cars in the
- More 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List
funny, and simply the best at taking a scientific topic and diving in, bringing a reader along for a strange
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/22 Edition
Girls, the newest novel by Rachel Hawkins (author of The Wife Upstairs), Lux is a frustrated young woman
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Barker's novel features Janet, a misunderstood, mocked, badly treated young woman coming of age in a
















































