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698 items found for "young adult"
- Review of True Biz by Sara Nović
But the hearing headmistress February (a CODA--a child of deaf adults), the rebellious new transfer student
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition
Now I'm reading The Guncle, Steven Rowley's sassy, heartwarming fiction about an uncle caring for his young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition
Lucy and Jake are the parents of two young boys.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/11/21 Edition
In The Invention of Wings, young Hetty, whose real name is "Handful," is given to eleven-year-old Sarah
- Review of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
institution, trying to piece together what is real and what is imagined--with the help of a modern-thinking young
- Review of Normal People by Sally Rooney
Marianne, a solitary young woman living in a large house outside of town, and Connell, a popular athlete
- Review of Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich
Having Dane feel petty about the attention his young nephew received from Dane’s girlfriend felt off,
- Review of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
Harvey emphasizes the urgency of the need for change and offers age-appropriate examples to help build young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition
magical school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction about a young
- Review of The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
The Invisible Hour begins with the story of Ivy, a feisty young woman who becomes pregnant, is threatened
- Review of Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth
is a perfectly imperfect heroine and things aren't entirely what they seem in Roth's first novel for adults situations about perception and reality and identity in this book and am so glad she wrote a novel for adults
- Review of The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber
skeptical consumer seeking an institutional partner to build a product--a thinking, sociable, working adult
- Review of The Fire and the Ore by Olivia Hawker
Jane (the character is inspired by the author's own ancestor of the same name) is a tough young woman
- Review of We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
Walk and Duchess are an unlikely pair, a milquetoast cop and a defiant young teen.
- Six Four-Star Mysteries to Keep You Guessing
Child by John Hart I loved John Hart's brusque, determined Clyde Hunt, the scrappy and unstoppable young
- Review of A Burning by Megha Majumdar
In contemporary India, Jivan, a young Muslim girl, becomes tangentially entangled with the wrong people
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/23/21 Edition
01 Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy From a young age Inti realized she had a particular
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/21/22 Edition
The hearing headmistress (a CODA--a child of deaf adults), the rebellious new transfer student Charlie
- Review of A Deadly Education: Lesson One of the Scholomance by Naomi Novik
I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters--and
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/20 Edition
Stars Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia, doctor, Kathleen, and a young
- Review of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
In this recent book by Anthony Doerr (author of All the Light We Cannot See), young Anna lives in fifteenth-century
- Review of Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis
The setup of how the best friends met (Emmie released a balloon with a message when she was young, and
- Review of Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack by Heidi von Palleske
In von Palleske's novel, two young boys share the experience of a tragic accident.
- Review of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
the human interest story behind the politics of the many events I remember from the news when I was young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/20 Edition
Kendrick does a great job of positioning herself outside Hollywood as she was when she was young in order
- Review of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
imprisoned for life after being tried and convicted while children, but punished as though they were adults and EJI also doggedly manage to change some important laws that stop the imprisonment of minors in adult
- Review of Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
aunt's, and for a time the book is satisfyingly focused on her survival skills and her bonding with a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/21 Edition
jilted wife who's out for revenge; and Sally Rooney's heart-wrenching coming-of-age story about two young
- Review of The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik
The young wizards hold the future of magic in their hands, in a sense, and their halting, experimental
- Review of The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
Lexie's sabotage of Jax's friendships at a young, vulnerable age seemed too easy for Jax to move past
- Review of The Becoming (The Dragon Heart Legacy #2) by Nora Roberts
powers (yet maintains her new, successful career as a children's author--with promise of becoming an adult
- Review of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Demon Copperhead is about a young boy born in a rural area of southern Virginia to a teenaged single
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/17/22 Edition
oddball, poignant, darkly funny David Sedaris; and I'm reading The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston's adult
- Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year
But Fowler did an excellent job of delving into the all-consuming obsessions the desperate young Alva patterns, and, most importantly, she transports the reader into the gruff but hopeful mindset of a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/21 Edition
White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack by Heidi von Palleske In von Palleske's modern gothic novel, two young
- Review of All the Forgivenesses by Elizabeth Hardinger
patterns, and, most importantly, she transports the reader into the gruff but hopeful mindset of a young
- Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
Kidd somewhat reluctantly ends up agreeing to transport a young, recently rescued Kiowa captive 400 miles
- Review of The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
Each of the three main protagonists here is a young woman in the midst of her own high-stakes crisis,
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/22/20 Edition
who becomes pregnant and is ultimately sent to prison in “the land beyond the seas"; Hazel, a savvy young
- Review of Wild Life by Keena Roberts
Roberts's desire for self-sufficiency and her powerful instincts, even as a young girl, are captivating
- Review of Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
McDaniel's novel Betty--set in the foothills of Appalachia and based upon her own family's stories--a young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/20 Edition
Ellie's sick of what many of her fellow female students put up with from young men who won't hear no
- Review of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
Vance shares his unlikely, circuitous route to an emotionally and financially stable adult life. childhood that often centered around upheaval, danger, and despair to an emotionally and financially stable adult
- Six 2020 Mysteries for You to Check Out
Sager has crafted a compelling Gothic suspense story in which we're along for the ride as Maggie, a young He becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery he keeps reading about in the newspaper: two young ladies
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/27/21 Edition
So when young hotshot Dominic Yun shows up and, as a male, automatically has the ear of their misogynistic
- Review of Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
Several characters seemed unappealing and potentially too-obvious drivers of complications (the young
- Review of Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans
faith beginnings and her evolution into the liberal Episcopalian author and speaker she became as an adult
- Review of A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
the perpetuated cruelty of her female characters against their daughters, daughters-in-law, and other young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/8/22 Edition
powers (yet maintains her new, successful career as a children's author--with promise of becoming an adult
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Frankel Frankel's story of a nontraditional, loving, zany family flips traditional views of unplanned, young