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- Review of Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur
grandparents lived and where she was born, here offers stories spanning forty years, featuring women, men, and young
- Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Books about Media, Movies, and Music
Emily Sieu Liebowitz conducted more than 100 interviews while exploring the successful voices of the young the 1960s girl groups, their often working-class backgrounds, and the power disconnects between the young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/2/24 Edition
begins a winding path to figuring out her life that mainly entails defying most of the stereotypes of a young
- December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven. 03 Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliott Elliott's book for young In her novel from my favorite publishing company for young people, Peachtree Publishing, Rebecca Elliott Click here for my full review of Pretty Funny for a Girl. 04 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles As the young Towles crafts a solid historical fiction adventure for his young-men protagonists, balancing weighty
- Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites
But Fowler also does an excellent job of delving into the all-consuming obsessions the desperate young patterns, and, most importantly, she transports the reader into the gruff but hopeful mindset of a young
- Review of The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
His mother died when he was young, and he has no memory of her. But the white master of the plantation is Hiram's biological father, and composed young Hiram is set
- Review of Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
He becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery he keeps reading about in the newspaper: two young ladies his mission as he tries to save those in need and avoid becoming emotionally entangled with a smart young
- Review of This Shining Life by Harriet Kline
Young Ollie finds people confusing.
- Review of Foster by Claire Keegan
In Claire Keegan's slim novel Foster, a young girl in Ireland is taken by her unreliable, frequently
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/4/24 Edition
conflict in some ways, but their stories and existences overlap, and their challenges intersect when a young
- Review of Uprooted by Naomi Novik
The Dragon keeps them safe from the Wood, but at a high price: each year he demands one young woman from
- Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Books about Music
Alex shares stories of the brothers' young lives spent in the Netherlands, to their family's move to childhood spent surrounded by artists and musicians, her difficult relationship with her mother, her young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/16/23 Edition
Long Meg Long's first novel was Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, a science fiction novel about a tough young
- Review of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Girl, Well, That Was Unexpected, The Obsession, I'm Not Done with You Yet, and the Theo Tan series for young
- Review of Go As a River by Shelley Read
and her father seems broken by the terrible tragedy and loss their family sustained when Victoria was young
- Review of We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
Jen married young and is about to become a mother, while Riley is poised to become one of the first Black
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/3/24 Edition
distance, she accidentally sees and identifies visitors to her own world--and they're the parents of her young
- Six More of My Favorite Romantic Fiction Reads from the Past Year
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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition
unknown of it all, as well as offering tips as to how to evaluate whether a school might be a match for a young
- Review of Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy
But the young Black artist encounters a local Confederate statue that is still standing, and its existence
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The People We Keep, Allison Larkin's upcoming novel about a young on the coast of California; and Dark Roads, Chevy Stevens's suspenseful novel, out next week, about young
- Review of Yearbook by Seth Rogen
But in this slim book (I listened to it as an audiobook), Rogen also digs into his beginnings as a young
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Young Anna lives in fifteenth-century Constantinople with her sickly sister, frustrated with endlessly Wilson in his 1920s rural Illinois hometown of Franklin fifty years earlier, when the narrator was a young During the course of the book, Gifty examines the shape of her childhood and young adulthood.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/4/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a novel in two timelines about a young woman posing as a cabin
- Review of Nocturne by Alyssa Wees
Wees's slim (it's 240 pages) fantasy novel Nocturne, set in the Little Italy of 1930s Chicago, promising young
- Review of One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
into the romance, fashion, and reality television ups and downs--while allowing room for the strong young I mentioned this book (along with Fable by Adrienne Young and Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March) in the
- Review of I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
actions; pushy manner; mental, emotional, and physical abuse; and disturbing codependence with her young
- Review of Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
all that she's taken will be taken from her, and because she's a petty, narcissistic, selfish, greedy young
- Review of The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
characters who help or harm Honey as she fights for independence in a time when many don't think a young
- Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
Eli Bell is a young man in a tough spot. Despite the desperate behaviors of the adults in Eli's life (and the terrible consequences he suffers
- Review of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
Robinson's 1971 classic for young readers is a wonderful read-aloud during the Christmas season.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/2/21 Edition
In contemporary India, Jivan, a young Muslim girl, becomes tangentially entangled with the wrong people Each of the three young women is in the middle of her own high-stakes crisis, and none of them expects
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/11/24 Edition
In Morris's novel, a young girl, the forgotten granddaughter of a Scottish king, tries to cope with her
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/22 Edition
Reckless Girls, the newest novel by Rachel Hawkins (author of The Wife Upstairs), Lux is a frustrated young In this first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young Rosemary feels lucky
- Review of One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
as he unravels what has occurred; he tells the story through various points of view--the sheriff, a young
- Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year
Emma is a marine biologist who's devoted to her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby. Jennifer Hillier weaves a gripping story that jumps back in forth in time from when Paris was a young mystery, she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different potential paths for interlinked young
- Review of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
mostly wild island off the coast of Finland where a small family is living, and the grandmother and young
- Review of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
In The Invention of Wings, young Hetty, whose real name is Handful, is given to eleven-year-old Sarah events in which the real-life figure of Sarah Grimke makes a slow, twisting shift from her role as a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/24/24 Edition
She's young and hungry--and thrilled that she's about to get her first really big client.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/1/23 Edition
01 The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry Young Flora and her teen sister Hazel were evacuated
- Review of The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
once his aspirations to become a writer became all-encompassing) wrote a well-received first book as a young abruptly dies soon afterward without publishing his book, Bonner banks on the probability that the young
- Review of Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
Jennifer Hillier weaves a gripping story that jumps back in forth in time from when Paris was a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/4/23 Edition
Heart is giving me major Little Princess vibes...that was one of my absolute favorite books when I was young
- Six Books I Want, Bossy Holiday 2022 Edition
Kuang's Babel: An Arcane History introduces the character of young Robin Swift. Paris police chief La Reynie and his young assistant Bezons have uncovered a network of fortune-tellers
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/22/24 Edition
Each decision she made as a young person was done to try to shape her future as an actor.
- Review of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young
- Review of The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy
In Adam Hamdy's The Other Side of Night, the lives of a young boy, a respectable citizen, and a disgraced
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/10/22 Edition
manner; pushy actions; mental, emotional, and physical abuse; and disturbing codependence with her young
- Review of The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Alison Espach is also the author of T he Adults and Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance.
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young When a local young woman goes missing, Chloe fights her rising panic. Is there another killer who preys on young women, one paying homage to the twentieth anniversary of her