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During the course of the book, Gifty examines the shape of her childhood and young adulthood, including She's had to stifle many of her emotions since she was a young girl--there wasn't space in her family As an adult, Gifty sinks every waking hour into her pragmatic search for scientific answers that might

love to hear about some of your favorite fiction reads, from last year or from this one so far. 01 Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart Young Mungo offers a striking story of disappointment, abuse, Protestant-Catholic conflict, and a young, gay love forged in the intensely unforgiving climate of working-class Glasgow In his second novel, Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart offers the story of a working-class Glasgow family and abuse, neglect, and danger and the blossoming of a forbidden young love, exploring the vulnerability

Young Katarina Shaw always felt that she was meant to become an Olympic champion. When he and Kat met, they made a connection that first built into a best-friendship between two lost young

The newly formed FBI looks into the case, with its young director J. pirate--ruthless, scandalous, and invincible--who has dropped out of sight and settled down to raise her young Amina soon finds herself tangled in a dangerous ocean quest to rescue a young woman, while facing complicated

​Frankel's story of a nontraditional, loving, zany family flips traditional views of unplanned, young Each decision she made as a young person was done toward trying to shape her future as an actor. The character of India turns rigid, conservative views on unplanned pregnancy, young pregnancy, and adoption

I was hooked on the story of a team of young women fighting for admittance to a guild, their bonds, and uncomfortable, especially set against Aspeth's inexperience and wondrous admiration for him (she's the naive young

historical fiction fantasy told in several timelines featuring vampires; and historical fiction with a young On the side, she shows her beloved young niece the sky and serves as a second parent alongside her sometimes-trying Schwab's vampire tale spans centuries, beginning in 1532 Santo Domingo de la Calzada as a young woman In 1827 London, naive young Charlotte lives a sheltered, lovely pastoral life, until an indiscretion His apprenticeship is nearly over, and he has neither an assurance of steady work as a young man playing

Grey Dog begins as an immersive historical fiction story of a young teacher with a shocking past in But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious

conflict in some ways, but their stories and existences overlap, and their challenges intersect when a young Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, injustices also abound, and powerful, terrible men take advantage of the young

01 Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young Young offers a brutally honest behind-the-scenes Daniella Mestyanek Young grew up the daughter of high-ranking members of The Children of God cult in Young's pain in both avenues is substantial and horrifying, and she is brutally honest. Yet Uncultured is primarily an affecting account of Young's impressive perseverance, hard-fought growth Her trusted nurse and former milk-mother Sofia does her best to delay plans to wed the slight young girl

Signal Fires begins with three teenagers drinking in 1985, a car accident, a young doctor Ben Wilf, who Time passes, and a young family moves onto Division Street. Their astronomy-obsessed young son Waldo befriends the retired Dr.

Ruth, a young married woman living elsewhere in the city, is brutally attacked in her own home--and the

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

Vera and Edith are such a complementary WWII partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young Abriel introduces an enormous shift that shakes things up enormously for both young women before the Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia; a doctor, Kathleen; and a young

When a couple and young son move into the flat below her, Gretel begins to worry that the man of the Ava Robinson's first novel. 03 I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Forty women (one a young

tracks back to her childhood in Kerala, India, where her single mother founded a school, through Roy's young adulthood and rejection of her mother's presence in her life, to her romantic partners, her career in

Now Kosika, a young, impressionable, fervor-driven young Antari, is taking up the mantle of the deceased Victor LaValle's Lone Women begins in 1915 with a determined young woman, Adelaide Henry, covering her

forest as instinctive, savvy, and haunted private investigator Naomi Cottle seeks the truth about a young

Caroline O'Donoghue's coming-of-age story celebrates friendship, young love, and life-changing decisions She's dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school and living at home when she meets James Caroline O'Donoghue is also the author of Scenes of a Graphic Nature, Promising Young Women, and the

Uncultured is Daniella Mestyanek Young's memoir of growing up in The Children of God cult, of her escape 01 Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young Daniella Mestyanek Young grew up the daughter of high-ranking At age 15, Young escaped to Texas, enrolled in school, and made a new life for herself. Uncultured is an account of Young's perseverance, growth, reflections, and strength. Yet each of these young men questioned whether there was really a place for them in American culture.

Jacob has been scrabbling for existence since he was a young boy. beginning to be known as Fagin--and gradually, driven by a measure of empathy, taking in and training young Bug Hollow  spans decades, tracking grief and then the life paths of Ellis's sisters (particularly young Marguerite is heir to a fortune, but after she is orphaned, she grows into a young lady while her guardian

that's part memoir, part essay, Ann Patchett shares personal stories ranging from her childhood through young adulthood and her first, disastrous marriage, to her current, loving relationship and adulthood filled We are simply two adults who grew up in different houses far away from one another.”

But the hearing headmistress February (a CODA--a child of deaf adults), the rebellious new transfer student It's incredible to see her healthy, vital, young dad. Young Sitara is living a comfortable life in Kabul in 1978. Stout Stout's middle-grade story is irresistibly strange, full of difficulties and a tough young heroine's identifying and lifting the curse offer answers--and could it even change the trajectory of her tough young

Fitzhugh, Renegade and Author of Harriet the Spy by Leslie Brody, Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young 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

Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue Caroline O'Donoghue's coming-of-age story celebrates friendship, young She's dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school and living at home when she meets James In order to keep her husband, young daughters, and partner safe, Elise may have to keep some crucial brothel worker in late nineteenth-century Dodge City, Kansas, offers up a tough young heroine who makes But a young woman in that time has little say over her destiny.

Blackgoose offers a fascinating, layered story about a strong-willed, whip-smart young Indigenous woman And everyone's about to find out how disruptive a whip-smart, open-minded, and strong-willed young woman

Ward's novel, set in the years before the Civil War and told from the point of view of an enslaved young Brigade takes that setup farther into favorable Bossy territory, by sending an idealistic, headstrong young

When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious

Dani Shapiro Signal Fires begins with three teenagers drinking in 1985, a car accident, a tragedy, young Time passes, and a young family moves onto Division Street. Their young son befriends the retired Dr. Wilf, whose memories of past events come rushing back.

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a historical fiction story set just before the Civil War, about a young middle-grade collaborative work by Ruta Sepetys ( Salt to the Sea ) and Steve Sheinkin ( Bomb ), the young

Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young Makkai offers up the potentially world-changing power of young people with an idea and tenacity; and she allows the privileged, sometimes cruel, seemingly shallow young students from Bodie's past to make

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

The book's past timeline is set in the early 20th century, as Violet, a young ship's stewardess bent story's later timeline takes place in the time of World War II as Daphne, an intelligent and educated young

pirate--ruthless, scandalous, and invincible--who has dropped out of sight and settled down to raise her young Amina soon finds herself entangled in a dangerous ocean quest to rescue a young woman, while fighting

The book's earlier timeline is set in the early 20th century, as Violet, a young ship's steward bent while the later timeline takes place in the time of World War II as Daphne, an intelligent and educated young

The Bossy Bookworm 01 Answers in the Form of Questions by Claire McNear If your young people love "Jeopardy I love books like this (and I hope the young person I'm giving this book to does too). They're straddling the kid/adult cookbook genres, ready to take on more slightly advanced techniques So I'm hoping this cookbook isn't too easy for a young teen who's already done some cooking. Which books are you gifting the young people in your life this holiday season?

near the start of the Civil War, often in denial about their circumstances, with Abraham Lincoln's young

Mason's characters range from a young couple in love, escaping their rigid Puritanical community; to childhood and his critical, yelling, stressed parents; his joy in putting on other personas even as a young

school, where she struggles with imposter syndrome and individuality--and quickly befriends Mathilde, a young

Memoriam by Alice Winn Alice Winn's account of the unrelenting slog of World War I and the beautiful young 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

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 In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious

narrative nonfiction account of the immense power of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and how the bravery of a young But when he met a young woman and promised her career assistance, then abused his position, she threatened Her young daughter is missing, and Ella is in limbo, desperately hoping she hears news soon.

It's incredible to see her healthy, vital, young dad. Emma Straub is also the author of The Vacationers, All Adults Here, Modern Lovers, and other books. 03

Barker's novel features Janet, a misunderstood, mocked, badly treated young woman coming of age in a

The retelling swirls with family drama, intrigue, bravery--and a young woman determined to make her mark to Katie Couric's memoir Going There, in which she traces the beginnings of her media career, a few young Meanwhile Jade, a young girl who has been sold to a courtesan, befriends JungHo, a young orphan boy in

I loved the twist on Arthurian legends, in which an unlikely young upstart and a ragtag group of aging

ICYMI: My favorite Kate Quinn books center around strong young women proving their mettle during wartime

In Jacqueline Harpman's novel I Who Have Never Known Men , forty women (one is a young girl, our main

Xavier is a young veterinarian who feels grumpy, exhausted, and as though he may be losing faith in humanity

Young Lucky St. The tone frequently feels geared toward young readers to me, and I had no trouble predicting the twist