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698 items found for "young adult"
- Six More Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year
With the collapse of Earth's environment imminent, eighty trained elite young people venture into space Arthur, the young, haunted-seeming caretaker of the estate, seems resigned to her presence even as he
- Review of The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Alison Espach is also the author of T he Adults and Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/29/23 Edition
Prudence agrees to participate in a popular televised dueling piano competition--against Alexei Petrov, a young
- Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
or upset everything to explore the fantasy of what might have been with her childhood friend and the young as well as lack of affection), and missteps--and the terrible consequences of all of this for their young
- Review of The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia; a doctor, Kathleen; and a young the radar to instinctively and knowledgeably help their patients rather than rely on, for example, young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/19/22 Edition
Demon Copperhead is about a young boy born in a rural area--to a teenaged single mom in a single-wide
- Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year
Abriel introduces an enormous shift that shakes things up enormously for both young women before the Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young Stars Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia; a doctor, Kathleen; and a young
- Review of The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
With the collapse of Earth's environment imminent, eighty trained elite young people venture into space
- Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
I hover like a camera on a boom over those two young people, just kids, and I pity them because they
- Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing
singer-songwriter whose father killed her mother when Allison and her sister, recording artist Shelby Lynne, were young examines her parents, her youth, and that pivotal tragedy, considering how it has shaped her into her adult
- Review of A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America by Timothy Egan
But when he met a young woman and promised her career assistance, then abused his position, she threatened
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/21 Edition
world a better place. 03 City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert In City of Girls, Gilbert writes about a young So far Gilbert's old New York detail is wonderful, and young Vivian's carousing is entertaining, sexy
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/11/22 Edition
Through various preserved historic accounts and young Alexandra Green's observations, the reader begins
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/10/21 Edition
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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/20/23 Edition
But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and
- Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik
The young people feel the weight of the world on their shoulders--and it really does seem to be up to
- Review of Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
Young Sitara is living a comfortable life in Kabul in 1978.
- Review of Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris
She becomes heartbroken when a whirlwind romance with a young German army officer, Marco Zeiller, is
- Review of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
She plucks Monique Grant, a promising young magazine writer, out of relative obscurity for the writing
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/6/23 Edition
Young Métis Lucky St.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/20/23 Edition
Wees's slim (it's 240 pages) fantasy novel Nocturne, set in the Little Italy of 1930s Chicago, promising young
- Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore
by Carrie Fisher The Princess Diarist is based upon the diaries Carrie Fisher kept while she was a young felt like a little too much time was spent on youthful poetry and fanciful teenaged musings, yet the young They were romantic and silly and young.
- Review of Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan
mystery, she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different potential paths for interlinked young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/22/23 Edition
Liang's light fiction rom-com This Time It's Real, when seventeen-year-old Eliza's class essay about young
- Review of The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
So when young hotshot Dominic Yun shows up and, as a male, automatically has the ear of their misogynistic
- Review of Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1) by Rebecca Yarros
commanding general--who also happens to be Violet's mother--pushes her to vie with the rest of Navarre's young
- Review of These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
In the northern Appalachian mountains, Cooper and his young daughter Finch live in complete isolation
- Review of Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
possibilities and the terrifying and thrilling idea that he could ultimately live an honest life as a gay young
- Review of The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
family duty, adventure, and search for meaning—and all with a main protagonist who’s your basic badass young
- Six Satisfying Novels about Revenge
estranged from their ex-con fathers, each of whom now regret every moment they didn't make sure the young Lucy and Jake are the parents of two young boys.
- Review of Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
sometimes claustrophobic but fiercely loving life lived under one roof with extended family, and a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/9/21 Edition
01 Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton Eli Bell is a young man in a tough spot. eclectic mix for me: a potentially heartbreaking and heartwarming book about unlikely friendship and a young
- Review of Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman
Clever young Ruth survives the oppression and turmoil in colonial New England by using her wits.
- Six More Four-Star (and Up) Mysteries I Loved in the Past Year
I love a spy book, a book about Russia, and a feisty, strong young female protagonist, and The Traitor Makkai Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young
- Shhh! More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays
The storytellers represented here range from John Turturro to Tig Notaro; from a young female spy during Dolly gave a million dollars to Covid-19 vaccine research, continued to provide free books monthly to young Pyle Last year I gave Strange Planet to teenagers and young-at-heart family members on my gift list;
- Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love
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
- Review of Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
estranged from their ex-con fathers, each of whom now regret every moment they didn't make sure the young
- Review of Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller
He witnesses a murder and snatches his young great-grandson to flee the police and the bad guys.
- Review of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
many experiences--and encouraging at least temporary commitment to them, if not immersion--can zigzag young
- Review of So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Wilson in his 1920s rural Illinois hometown of Franklin fifty years earlier, when the narrator was a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/7/22 Edition
But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study may
- Review of Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
sexual abuse had taken place for decades at the school that had pledged to protect and educate the young Horrifying elements the young teen was subjected to include repeated male abuse of power as well as sexual
- Review of Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
When she meets Jamie, a handsome young man on her brother's hockey team, he seems like a much-needed
- Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now
adore, and the setup of how the best friends met (Emmie released a balloon with a message when she was young fantasyscifi, #series, #uniquePOV 03 The House in the Cerulean Sea I like to listen to fantasy books for young
- Review of A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
Veronica is a curious young Victorian-era lady with progressive ideas, and I adore how matter-of-factly
- Review of The Story Thieves (Story Thieves #1) by James Riley
In James Riley's middle-grade fantasy book Story Thieves, young introvert Bethany and impulsive Owen
- Review of Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
The retelling swirls with family drama, intrigue, bravery--all centered around a young woman determined
- Six More Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. 02 Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens Claudia Cravens's story of a young brothel worker in late nineteenth-century Dodge City, Kansas, offers up a tough young heroine who makes
- Review of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers
Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young
- Six Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young It almost seems as though the school heads would like to forget either of the troublesome young ladies