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In 1982, a young mother in a loveless marriage finds happiness in a socially unacceptable relationship , and the legal backlash causes her to lose custody of her beloved young daughter. Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sandu Mandanna Sera Swan was one of Britain's most powerful young Then a handsome, magical historian and his young sister come to stay at Jasmine and Sera's inn, and suddenly

Young Abigail has her own issues; she has fled her fundamentally Christian (and abusive) parents and The quote at the start of this review references a conversation between a frightened young trans woman and a mentor of sorts; later in the novel the young woman realizes that the mention of "woodworking"

Krueger's writing is lovely, and while the adult characters sometimes feel like caricatures of evil villains , his young characters and the vivid setting of 1930s on the Mississippi are pretty irresistible. horrors they might suffer at the hands of the almost universally terrible and often caricatural evil adults Two adults in the children's orbit are heartbreakingly kind, but the reach of their power is limited. An adult figure with a magical-seeming ability to read people and to heal them becomes a pivotal and

Young mom Annie's abrupt death leaves her four children, husband, and best friend reeling. In Anna Quindlen's newest novel After Annie, the abrupt death of the titular young mother--which occurs had been through the upheaval and crises of young pregnancy, addiction, and following different paths and struggling to stick together; and she and her husband Bill were in the thick of young parenthood adulthood; with widower Bill, who belatedly recognizes his parenting and household ineptitude and also

generations of fathers and sons and explores a reverend's complicated relationship with his troubled young precedes her novel Lila and takes the form of the aging Reverend's recollections and letters to his young Gilead is largely an exploration of the Reverend's complicated relationship with his troubled young namesake

Alice Winn's account of the unrelenting slog of World War I and the beautiful young men set against each Henry Gaunt, Sydney Ellwood, and their classmates came as young boys to their sometimes claustrophobic But by 1914, World War I is drawing most of these young boys into a swirl of wartime horrors. the constancy of life-and-death danger and the deep-seated fear of destroying a friendship that both young

In the novel we follow young Louisa, an aspiring artist, and her inspiration, a dying artist with an upcoming literary fiction title Buckeye , set during and after World War II, we follow the story of a young Young wife Becky Jenkins is fearlessly unconcerned with others' opinions. Since a young age she has been able to contact the dead, and she holds regular seances to help those

Kosta digs into his history as a young professional tennis player--including the unglamorous early tour months, attempts to improve ATP ranking, sleeping on floors, and struggling to focus as a young man Kosta is so frank about his often-messy path as a young man--including an awkward sexual encounter in

Selingo's take on how to assess complex acceptance statistics and the importance of a specific school to a young brain is still maturing throughout high school...every month in high school is mentally like a year to adults He also offers tips on how to evaluate whether a school might be a match for a young person looking toward And he emphasizes his own strong belief (and the supporting data) that what a young person does with This firsthand data reinforced the conclusion that acceptances aren't, of course, reflections of a young

Decades later, Prudence's dark past threatens to upend her peaceful, if uneventful, adult life. she agrees to participate in a popular televised dueling piano competition--against Alexei Petrov, a young

Chris Whitaker's novel All the Colors of the Dark builds a story of a deep friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing one eye, whose Henry Gaunt, Sydney Ellwood, and their classmates came as young boys to their sometimes claustrophobic But by 1914, World War I is drawing most of these young boys into a swirl of wartime horrors. But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious

In 1982, Dawn, a young mother in a fine but loveless marriage finds happiness in a socially unacceptable relationship, and the legal backlash causes her to lose custody of--and contact with--her beloved young She is a young mother who had met a nice guy and followed the prescribed steps of the time: marriage,

Reading Now I'm reading the recently published Red Dog Farm , Nathanial Ian Miller's fiction about a young 01 Red Dog Farm by Nathaniel Ian Miller Young Orri has grown up on his family's cattle farm in Iceland The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven . 02 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Elwood Curtis is a promising young

multi-million-dollar interstate drug ring; and I'm listening to a suspenseful mystery about a missing young paths for themselves--Mikey dropped out, while Rob seemed to be a golden child--Marshall details the young Ellie Black by Emiko Jean Detective Chelsey Calhoun is shocked by the reappearance of Ellie Black, a young While Chelsey struggles to be patient with the young woman who is coping with layers of trauma, she realizes

I'm listening to The Blood of the Old Kings , the first in Sung-Il Kim's fantasy series in which a young girl with magic, a desperate widowed swordswoman, and a street-smart young man searching for his disappeared Water in the World by Eiren Caffall In a dystopian future in which the glaciers have melted, Nonie, a young Arienne knew since she was a young girl that because she was born with magic, her future would end with

noted children's author and a constitutional scholar, have created a fascinating nonfiction book for young Designed for young people, Fault Lines is illuminating for anyone looking to get up to speed on the Framers Is a book for young people about the Constitution possibly the extent of the scope of my own current

editor and sometimes-writer), struggle to cope with financial pressures and relationship issues, while young She is caught between young childhood and young womanhood, and her vocabulary is growing exponentially

She has made her young lover Lucien believe they met by chance, but "Sadie" is actually milking him for When she stumbles across extensive communications from Bruno, a mysterious figure who trains the young then her interest, as his perspective and thoughtful reflections seem to hold value in a way that the young

When she emigrates to New York City, she is befriended by two strong young sisters, Anne and Alma, and I was invested in Gazala's young life; the concessions, cleverness, and compromises necessary during

On the side, she shows her beloved young niece the sky and serves as a second parent alongside her sometimes-trying Schwab Schwab's lesbian vampire tale spans centuries, beginning in 1532 Santo Domingo de la Calzada as a young In 1827 London, naive young Charlotte lives a sheltered, lovely pastoral life, until an indiscretion

decline of play-based childhood, and he links this combination to the current mental health epidemic in young in memory of Owen Willers, and which shines a light on the importance of mental wellness and invites young

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Gary Shteyngart's story of a precocious young girl finding her Ruth, a young married woman living elsewhere in the city, is brutally attacked in her own home--and the and downs of her childhood (as a child in the 1980s, she struggled with an eating disorder) and her adulthood

Since her mother Defne went into a coma and never woke up, young loner Ada Kazantzakis has continued , just a plunge into this omniscient, sometimes prickly, often opinionated view--witnessed Kostas's young The fig tree shares the story of the young lovers and while exploring the conflicts between Turkish and

Ronnie once kept company with a young man who's now living in America--but her father disapproved, and live together but rarely communicate) her father is feeling remorse about his reserve regarding the young Young Jude and Faha's grown twins, Tim and Tom, bring the baby girl to Dr.

Alison Espach is also the author of T he Adults and Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance. 03 Light to in the Kentucky Appalachians, and Amanda Rye is a traveling packhorse librarian, a recently widowed young

in-progress stories as well as a new antagonist and a new potential hero who are both strong, fascinating young Now Kosika, a young, impressionable, fervor-driven young Antari, is taking up the mantle of the deceased Meanwhile, two young women, a new antagonist and a new potential hero, trickle into the story until their

His apprenticeship is nearly over, and he has neither an assurance of steady work as a young man playing invaluable to Bacon's pursuits, and in boy's dress she has freedoms she never could during the era as a young

human life, drug addiction, tragic turns and deaths, and outrageous hubris that is the undoing of the young Mikey drops out, while Rob seems to be a golden child who does and has it all--Marshall details the young The young men involved are insufferable: they are selfish, frequently idiotic, and callous.

01 After Annie by Anna Quindlen In Anna Quindlen's upcoming novel After Annie, the sudden death of a young In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with

series. 03 Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein In a reimagined nineteenth-century Dickensian London, young Jacob Fagin has been scrabbling for existence since he was a young boy. train as a pickpocket, soon eclipsing his teacher and the other thieves in the area--and taking in young

Chris Whitaker's novel All the Colors of the Dark  builds a story of a deep friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing one eye, whose But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious Henry Gaunt, Sydney Ellwood, and their classmates came as young boys to their sometimes claustrophobic But by 1914, World War I is drawing most of these young boys into a swirl of wartime horrors.

appealed to me, I felt a growing lack of connection to the characters as the tales melded into another: young Chris Whitaker's novel All the Colors of the Dark  builds a story of a deep friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing one eye, whose

terrible crime: killing his mother, a mean, reviled lunch lady long perceived as an enemy of the town's young But the young man, a self-taught artist, is counting on Bob and an unorthodox approach to figuring out

Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren In Christina Lauren's newest romantic fiction, Anna and West are a young Robin Sloan's science-fiction-fantasy tale Moonbound , it's eleven thousand years in the future, and young A young girl arrives, telling the story of her own timeline, and she and Ariel begin to figure out they Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate In 1909 Oklahoma, one Choctaw sister goes missing from a white settlement, and young

Sera Swan was one of Britain's most powerful young witches. handsome, grumpy magical historian, comes to stay at Jasmine and Sera's inn along with his neurodivergent young

; The Women in the Castle, which includes a complicated sort of bravery; and the fantastic book for young and Edith during the war; their wonderfully brave, practical, creative routes to survival as single young Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young In Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, Cleave tells the story of Mary, a young British socialite who shocks her men exhilarated to be alive; and the hesitant, excited, young brides living together in close quarters

But when a young woman shows up bleeding at his home, then mysteriously disappears, he is shocked into and dredge up painful, complex past dynamics and loyalties, while forming an unlikely alliance with a young

Schwab's lesbian vampire tale spans centuries, beginning in 1532 Santo Domingo de la Calzada as a young In 1827 London, naive young Charlotte lives a sheltered, lovely pastoral life, until an indiscretion

In the first of Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, we're introduced to Captain Will Laurence, a young, upstanding Temeraire is young, greedy, vain, and outrageously loyal to Will, and Will is attempting to civilize

Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young Young Anna lives in fifteenth-century Constantinople with her sickly sister, frustrated with endlessly Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Shipstead has created two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young rescued from that tragedy; it follows the paths of the twins' lives as they grow up; the story tracks young passion for aviation and her adventures; and the book injects a modern-day story line in which a famous young

Robin Sloan's science-fiction-fantasy tale Moonbound , it's eleven thousand years in the future, and young A young girl arrives, telling the story of her own timeline, and she and Ariel begin to figure out they

became pregnant by (and married) her beloved high school sweetheart--and after Jo moved in with the young disappointments or life experiences could have prepared her for the horrific, shocking loss of her young up uncomfortable feelings in Jo--who vividly remembers the loss of her beloved father when she was young

ugliness under the surface of their town: a stifled wife reveals her husband's Nazi enthusiasms; a young son realizes that his mother is not dying, only experiencing the natural process of menstruation; a young

Kosta digs into his history as a young professional tennis player--including the unglamorous early tour months, attempts to improve ATP ranking, sleeping on floors, and struggling to focus as a young man

She tries to imagine the points of view of everyone involved, and she treats her young self with empathy acting, which also served as a sort of therapy) eventually allowed Field to come into her fully realized adult Academy Award-nominated singer-songwriter whose father killed her mother when Allison and her sister were young examines her parents, her youth, and that pivotal tragedy, considering how it has shaped her into her adult

Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s We were not the first young lovers to fail at love in the end. That was one of my favorite books when I was young, and within Learned by Heart, the concern with classism It almost seems as though the school heads would like to forget either of the troublesome young ladies

Nonie is the young protagonist of this stark climate-change dystopian future, in which her small community In a dystopian future in which the glaciers have melted, Nonie, a young girl with a gift for feeling

In Blau's gleefully 1970s-set novel, Mary Jane doesn't merely shift from emotional innocence to young adulthood, she comes into her own, and it's a joy to watch it all unfold. She serves as a foil to the impulsive, emotional, passionate adults she's surrounded by. The character of Mary Jane doesn't merely shift from innocence to young adulthood in various ways; she

01 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones A young professor determined to make her mark is Xavier is a young veterinarian who feels grumpy, exhausted, and as though he may be losing faith in humanity

about a figure whose existence the Catholic church has officially denied for a thousand years: Joan, a young in the land, she faces resistance, danger, and complications galore--including the presence of her young