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916 results found for "young adult"
- 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 The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
The Invisible Hour begins with the story of Ivy, a feisty young woman who becomes pregnant, is threatened
- 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 Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber
skeptical consumer seeking an institutional partner to build a product--a thinking, sociable, working adult
- 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 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 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
- 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 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
- 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 Harpy by Megan Hunter
Lucy and Jake are the parents of two young boys.
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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, 10/4/21 Edition
magical school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction about a young
- 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 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
- 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 Great Stories about Robots
Way to a Small, Angry Planet , the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young
- 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
- 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
- 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 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 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 A Burning by Megha Majumdar
In contemporary India, Jivan, a young Muslim girl, becomes tangentially entangled with the wrong people
- 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 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Frankel Frankel's story of a nontraditional, loving, zany family flips traditional views of unplanned, young
- 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
- Review of The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik
The young wizards hold the future of magic in their hands, in a sense, and their halting, experimental
- Review of Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack by Heidi von Palleske
In von Palleske's novel, two young boys share the experience of a tragic accident.
- Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
It's incredible to see her healthy, vital, young dad.
- 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
- Another Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
The tone frequently felt geared toward young readers to me, and I had no trouble predicting the twist
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
distance, she accidentally sees and identifies visitors to her own world--and they're the parents of her young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/21 Edition
jilted wife who's out for revenge; and Sally Rooney's heart-wrenching coming-of-age story about two young
- Review of Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
McDaniel's novel Betty--set in the foothills of Appalachia and based upon her own family's stories--a young
- Review of The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
Lexie's sabotage of Jax's friendships at a young, vulnerable age seemed too easy for Jax to move past
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/20 Edition
Kendrick does a great job of positioning herself outside Hollywood as she was when she was young in order
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/20 Edition
Stars Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia, doctor, Kathleen, and a young
- Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In
Her mother confided her darkest secrets to young Brodeur as though she was a friend, and she drew the


















































