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- Review of Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
In Reckless Girls, the newest novel by Rachel Hawkins, Lux is a frustrated young woman who's just done
- Review of Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
From a young age Inti realized she had a particular affinity for animals; if she tuned in, she could
- Review of The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
The book tracks backward as young Andrew Green struggles to realize his immense potential despite a modest
- Review of The Searcher by Tana French
But when a skittish young boy with nowhere else to turn asks him for help, Cal finds that he can't refuse
- Review of The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually a highly skilled Executive Protection
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/18/22 Edition
Hannah Brooks looks like the young woman next door--but she's actually an Executive Protection Agent-
- Review of A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler
But Fowler did an excellent job of delving into the all-consuming obsessions the desperate young Alva
- Review of The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
Vasya is a young woman now, and she must consent to an arranged marriage or enter the convent--but Vasya
- Review of The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
Samrina Khan, the head epidemiologist; single-minded young Stephen the wunderkind; gruff, bighearted
- Review of The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
In deliberate contrast, Opal cuts a striking figure, and I loved witnessing her growth from a young,
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/7/22 Edition
listening to Sherry Thomas's Victorian mystery (the first in a hefty series) starring an independent young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/12/21 Edition
conversations in the documentary series Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. 03 This Shining Life by Harriet Kline Young
- Review of Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
That is, until a young girl appears, battered and bruised, and is resistant to help but clearly in need
- Review of The Change by Kristen Miller
She has a loving husband and a wonderful young daughter she adores.
- Review of Outlawed by Anna North
1894, and seventeen-year-old Ada is a newlywed, following contentedly the path set out for her as a young
- 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 Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Montague; an unorthodox woman with an open mind and brave disposition, Theodora; a young woman who has
- Review of The Survivors by Jane Harper
one's forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of a young
- Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
The young couple find one another and bond to each other in their desperate run to escape the devastated 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
- Review of The Humans by Matt Haig
taking the better job, getting the bigger house, writing a semi-autobiographical novel, educating their young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/22/22 Edition
The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/12/22 Edition
characters who help or harm Honey as she fights for independence in a time when many don't think a young
- Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair
On the other hand, other instances--such as a disturbing movie seen too young and the long-term fright
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/4/22 Edition
But in this slim book (I'm listening to it as an audiobook), Rogen also digs into his beginnings as a young
- My Six Favorite Book Club Books of 2022
review of this book, see The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven. 02 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles As the young Young Anna lives in fifteenth-century Constantinople with her sickly sister, frustrated with endlessly
- Review of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
But she got another go-round at life, and that time she survived being born--only to die young in an
- Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study could
- Review of The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod
Young Toni crosses paths with Sebastian Quick, an older, wiser guy who just might offer her a way out
- Review of Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
published earlier this month, takes place in 1662 Boston, where strong-willed women like main protagonist young
- My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young Young Sitara is living a comfortable life in Kabul in 1978. Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young
- 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
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
In Claire Keegan's slim novel Foster, a young girl in Ireland is taken by her unreliable, frequently Makkai Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young
- The Bossy Five-Star Reads So Far This Year
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
- Review of Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Later in the book Adina visits a revamped Beautyland as an adult, and the large store offering "beauty
- 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 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 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 Harpy by Megan Hunter
Lucy and Jake are the parents of two young boys.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/14/22 Edition
She's struggling both emotionally and financially as she tries to support her two young children.
- Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
But when young Lucrezia's older sister dies suddenly before her scheduled marriage to the ruler of Ferrara Her trusted nurse and former milk-mother Sofia does her best to delay plans to wed the slight young girl
- Review of The Awakening: The Dragon Heart Legacy #1 by Nora Roberts
It's a romance, in that the brooding young man Keegan who leads the clan and who seems sure to become
- 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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/13/22 Edition
She plucks Monique, a promising young magazine writer, out of relative obscurity for the writing job,
- 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
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
Meanwhile, Guerrero is young and often sounds like it as she flits from topic to topic in her account
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Review of Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Now retired, Carrie is a spectator at the US Open when she sees her record challenged by a young upstart