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Until his eleventh life, when a young girl arrives at his deathbed. Side note: Claire North is a pen name for Catherine Webb, a young-adult author who wrote her first book But during her next go-round, she survived being born--only to die young in an accident.

Young Anna lives in fifteenth-century Constantinople with her sickly sister, frustrated with endlessly Fun fact: the author is brothers with the prolific and talented young adult author John Green, and the Walk and Duchess are an unlikely pair, a milquetoast cop and a defiant young teen. The author has created two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young women split by time (and, secondarily Although successful young novelist Alice just met Felix, a young man working in a warehouse in the seaside

novel explores mortality, vulnerability, surprising moments of joy and reflection, an irresistible young Another novel I loved that involves a precocious, wise, reflective, tough young protagonist is This Is It's incredible to see her healthy, vital, young dad. adult story about superheroes, villains, a crushing premed course load--and the everyday bravery involved Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young

Our Evenings explores a young, often cruel, existence at a British boys' boarding school; later fits Young Dave Win, the son of a Burmese father he never met and a devoted, kind seamstress mother, attends Later, Giles and his parents will separately pop in and out of Dave's adult life at crucial moments-- Dave shares the stories of his young life as though in a dream: it was repeatedly quite alarming to me anticipate and then hear accounts or murmurings of various terrible cruelties inflicted upon Dave (and other young

her up and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years, intensely spiritual young This is Hargrave's first book for adults, but she has several other young adult and children's books But there’s no permanently hiding the wandering, ranting, furious young men. Then Addie meets a young man in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred the radar to instinctively and knowledgeably help their patients rather than rely on, for example, young

her up and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years, intensely spiritual young This is Hargrave's first book for adults, but she has several other young adult and children's books But there’s no permanently hiding the wandering, ranting, furious young men. Then Addie meets a young man in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred the radar to instinctively and knowledgeably help their patients rather than rely on, for example, young

Lauren Groff's beautiful and brutal novel The Vaster Wilds follows a young servant girl running from girl is essentially nameless--she doesn't attach to any of the insulting, ridiculing, or general names adults buoyed only by meandering thoughts of the past--including her life's one tender connection, to the young

It's incredible to see her healthy, vital, young dad. Alice gets to live as her young self again, with the benefit of adult wisdom but temporarily carefree Emma Straub is also the author of The Vacationers, All Adults Here, Modern Lovers, and other books.

Krueger's writing is lovely, and while the adult characters sometimes feel like caricatures of evil villains , his young characters and the vivid setting of 1930s on the Mississippi are pretty irresistible. horrors they might suffer at the hands of the almost universally terrible and often caricatural evil adults Two adults in the children's orbit are heartbreakingly kind, but the reach of their power is limited. An adult figure with a magical-seeming ability to read people and to heal them becomes a pivotal and

Young mom Annie's abrupt death leaves her four children, husband, and best friend reeling. In Anna Quindlen's newest novel After Annie, the abrupt death of the titular young mother--which occurs had been through the upheaval and crises of young pregnancy, addiction, and following different paths and struggling to stick together; and she and her husband Bill were in the thick of young parenthood adulthood; with widower Bill, who belatedly recognizes his parenting and household ineptitude and also

generations of fathers and sons and explores a reverend's complicated relationship with his troubled young 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

Alice Winn's account of the unrelenting slog of World War I and the beautiful young men set against each 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

Selingo's take on how to assess complex acceptance statistics and the importance of a specific school to a young brain is still maturing throughout high school...every month in high school is mentally like a year to adults He also offers tips on how to evaluate whether a school might be a match for a young person looking toward And he emphasizes his own strong belief (and the supporting data) that what a young person does with This firsthand data reinforced the conclusion that acceptances aren't, of course, reflections of a young

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

Chris Whitaker's novel All the Colors of the Dark builds a story of a deep friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing one eye, whose 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. But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious

multi-million-dollar interstate drug ring; and I'm listening to a suspenseful mystery about a missing young paths for themselves--Mikey dropped out, while Rob seemed to be a golden child--Marshall details the young Ellie Black by Emiko Jean Detective Chelsey Calhoun is shocked by the reappearance of Ellie Black, a young While Chelsey struggles to be patient with the young woman who is coping with layers of trauma, she realizes

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-progress stories as well as a new antagonist and a new potential hero who are both strong, fascinating young Now Kosika, a young, impressionable, fervor-driven young Antari, is taking up the mantle of the deceased Meanwhile, two young women, a new antagonist and a new potential hero, trickle into the story until their

human life, drug addiction, tragic turns and deaths, and outrageous hubris that is the undoing of the young Mikey drops out, while Rob seems to be a golden child who does and has it all--Marshall details the young The young men involved are insufferable: they are selfish, frequently idiotic, and callous.

01 After Annie by Anna Quindlen In Anna Quindlen's upcoming novel After Annie, the sudden death of a young In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with

Alison Espach is also the author of T he Adults and Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance. 03 Light to in the Kentucky Appalachians, and Amanda Rye is a traveling packhorse librarian, a recently widowed young

appealed to me, I felt a growing lack of connection to the characters as the tales melded into another: young Chris Whitaker's novel All the Colors of the Dark  builds a story of a deep friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing one eye, whose

Chris Whitaker's novel All the Colors of the Dark  builds a story of a deep friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing one eye, whose But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious 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.

terrible crime: killing his mother, a mean, reviled lunch lady long perceived as an enemy of the town's young But the young man, a self-taught artist, is counting on Bob and an unorthodox approach to figuring out

Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren In Christina Lauren's newest romantic fiction, Anna and West are a young Robin Sloan's science-fiction-fantasy tale Moonbound , it's eleven thousand years in the future, and young A young girl arrives, telling the story of her own timeline, and she and Ariel begin to figure out they Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate In 1909 Oklahoma, one Choctaw sister goes missing from a white settlement, and young

; The Women in the Castle, which includes a complicated sort of bravery; and the fantastic book for young and Edith during the war; their wonderfully brave, practical, creative routes to survival as single young Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young In Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, Cleave tells the story of Mary, a young British socialite who shocks her men exhilarated to be alive; and the hesitant, excited, young brides living together in close quarters

In Blau's gleefully 1970s-set novel, Mary Jane doesn't merely shift from emotional innocence to young adulthood, she comes into her own, and it's a joy to watch it all unfold. She serves as a foil to the impulsive, emotional, passionate adults she's surrounded by. The character of Mary Jane doesn't merely shift from innocence to young adulthood in various ways; she

In the first of Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, we're introduced to Captain Will Laurence, a young, upstanding Temeraire is young, greedy, vain, and outrageously loyal to Will, and Will is attempting to civilize

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

Robin Sloan's science-fiction-fantasy tale Moonbound , it's eleven thousand years in the future, and young A young girl arrives, telling the story of her own timeline, and she and Ariel begin to figure out they

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

Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s We were not the first young lovers to fail at love in the end. That was one of my favorite books when I was young, and within Learned by Heart, the concern with classism It almost seems as though the school heads would like to forget either of the troublesome young ladies

Through various preserved historic accounts and young Alexandra Green's observations, the reader begins The wisest adult in Alex's life offers wisdom, savviness, and kindness, and I loved that she was a powerful Kelly Barnhill is also the author of books for young readers including The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Iron

about a figure whose existence the Catholic church has officially denied for a thousand years: Joan, a young in the land, she faces resistance, danger, and complications galore--including the presence of her young

work's origins begins to emerge, Wilson paints a full picture that spans the characters' coming-of-age young adoration as well as their separate adult lives--and how "the poster" unequivocally shaped them into

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

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

Claudia Cravens's story of a young brothel worker in late nineteenth-century Dodge City, Kansas, offers up a tough young heroine who makes mistakes but whose perseverance and loyalty lead her to an unorthodox Bridget has a chance at a stable new beginning--yet she's young and can't stifle her yearning for adventure

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the newest novel by Adrienne Young, time-traveling magical realism 01 The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young June Farrow is biding her time on her family's flower Adrienne Young is also the author of Fable, its sequel Namesake, and The Last Legacy, loosely set in Arthur, the young, haunted-seeming caretaker of the estate, seems resigned to her presence even as he

attempts to uncover; and I'm listening to The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak's magical novel about a young Since her mother Defne went into a coma and never woke up, young loner Ada Kazantzakis lives in London A fig tree with its own voice and point of view witnessed Kostas's young love with Defne and illustrates

occasionally devastating" process of applying to college--and the dangerous potential belief that a young yes or no from Amherst or Dartmouth or Duke or Northwestern is seen as the conclusive measure of a young He emphasizes that it's what a young person does with the opportunities available to them that makes about college and the increasing pressure and weight put upon the acceptance/rejection equation for a young So much is out of young people's control when it comes to college, yet they may be feeling intense pressure

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Our Evenings , Alan Hollinghurst's novel of a young man in boarding Young Dave Win, the son of a Burmese father he never met and a devoted, kind seamstress mother, attends

Her charm comes through in candid reflections about her fascinating life, and her young life's adventures I was most intrigued by her young life with Jeffrey; camping in Europe on $5 a day; her early adventures

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

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.

begins a winding path to figuring out her life that mainly entails defying most of the stereotypes of a young Young Margo finds herself in the midst of the significant complications of single motherhood, an insecure

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?

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.”

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.

​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