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Shipstead has created two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young women split by time. rescued from that tragedy; it follows the path of the twins' lives as they grow up; the story tracks young passion for aviation and her adventures; and the book injects a modern-day story line in which a famous young Shipstead has created two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young women split by time (and, secondarily

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Maddalena and the Dark, Julia Fine's upcoming novel about young 1700s Vienna; I'm reading Beyond That, the Sea, Julia Spence-Ash's historical fiction novel about a young

The story shifts between 1918, when a young woman at the Dead Letter Office bravely embarks on a dangerous journey to France to serve as a librarian near the front lines of World War I, and 1976, when another young Now retired, Carrie is a spectator at the US Open when she sees her record threatened by a young upstart

A hundred and fifty years later, a young archivist, Elodie Winslow, is drawn to the mystery.

Meanwhile Jade, a young girl who has been sold to a courtesan, befriends JungHo, a young orphan boy in

Victor LaValle's Lone Women begins in 1915 with a determined young woman, Adelaide Henry, covering her The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff Lauren Groff's beautiful and brutal novel The Vaster Wilds follows a young buoyed only by meandering thoughts of the past--including her life's one tender connection, to the young Moniquill Blackgoose Blackgoose offers a fascinating, layered story about a strong-willed, whip-smart young But everyone's about to find out how disruptive a whip-smart, open-minded, and strong-willed young woman

occasionally devastating" process of applying to college--and the dangerous potential belief that a young colleges can serve as jumping-off points for happy, fulfilling, successful careers and lives--it's what a young

In Christina Lauren's newest romantic fiction, Anna and West are a young married couple on the verge

Walsh's The Love of My Life, Emma is a marine biologist who's devoted to her husband Leo and their young Walsh tells the story in two parts, alternating between chapters exploring Emma's young life (the true

pirate--ruthless, scandalous, and invincible--who has dropped out of sight and settled down to raise her young Amina soon finds herself entangled in a dangerous ocean quest to rescue a young woman, while fighting Click here for my full review of North Woods. 04 The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young June struggles Adrienne Young is also the author of Fable, its sequel Namesake, and The Last Legacy, loosely set in

She's a black young woman supporting residents who are largely white, and Reid shows widespread entitled Meanwhile the students under Millie's watch in the dorm are developing young-feeling (dirty dishes in

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 instilled a love of music in her, and raised her--although not always competently--until she was a young

more closely with her real life, and she furiously shares detailed notes with Fran, an up-and-coming young

Lucius is a young medical student when World War I sweeps across Europe.

memoir about growing up while her father was incarcerated and the complicated childhood that shaped her adult Land by Anthony Doerr In this upcoming book by Anthony Doerr (author of All the Light We Cannot See), young

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

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Foster, Claire Keegan's slim Irish novel about a young girl sent 01 Foster by Claire Keegan In Claire Keegan's slim novel Foster, a young girl in Ireland is taken by

She recalls how as a young woman she felt hemmed in by hippie culture and also by the societal opposition at times funny with a tragic undertone, as in the recounting of the song Lucinda sold when she was young

Young Lucrezia is lucky enough to exist outside of palazzo scrutiny, free to follow her own imagination Her trusted nurse and former milk-mother Sofia does her best to delay plans to wed the slight young girl

As the young men in The Lincoln Highway face challenge after challenge, they grow, learn, and fight for Towles crafts a solid historical fiction adventure for his young-men protagonists, balancing weighty

Those around Selma work to quickly come to terms with their finite existence, and young and old members mortality in the text and there are allusions to intimacy, the tone of the book feels geared toward young

In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious

commanding general--who also happens to be Violet's mother--pushes her to vie with the rest of Navarre's young character Rachel is an Irish university student working in a Cork bookstore, dating a boring but reliable young

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

horrific car accident with her father at the wheel changed her family forever when Shannon was very young , and she doesn't shy away from exploring her young understanding of the circumstances, loss, and her

Vera and Edith are such a complementary WWII partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young and Germany during the war; their wonderfully brave, practical, creative routes to survival as single young Then Abriel introduces another enormous shift that shakes things up enormously yet again for both young Vera and Edith are such a complementary partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young

Memoriam by Alice Winn Alice Winn's account of the unrelenting slog of World War I and the beautiful young 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 Her charm comes through in candid reflections about her fascinating life, and her young life's adventures

Brigade takes that setup farther into favorable Bossy territory by sending an idealistic, headstrong young

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 Lucius is a young medical student when World War I sweeps across Europe.

I'm reading The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell's newest historical fiction, about a young duchess reading Kate Manning's Gilded Mountain (to be published tomorrow), historical fiction about a strong young

author of The Master , The Magician , and other novels. 03 Trespasses by Louise Kennedy Cushla is a young

contract-worker brother who feels socially awkward and is doubting his chess prowess after having built his young

Adunni is a tough young woman determined to have a voice and emerge from her oppressive situation, and Adunni is a young teen growing up in a rural Nigerian village where girls are often married off by age She's a tough young woman determined to have a voice and emerge from her oppressive situation, and she's

the overworked dad trying to make it home in time for his daughter's musical, to the mother of two young

It's a fairytale-like love letter to Paris in which a staid young woman has almost magical encounters

She's examining the shape of her childhood and young adulthood: the evangelical church she grew up in A scholar of the occult, his assistant, a young woman with ghostly experiences, and the future heir of

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

Tuesdays in Winter, Lily King's newest collection of stories; Jessica Anya Blau's 1970s-set story of a young Although successful young novelist Alice just met Felix, a young man working in a warehouse in the seaside Blau 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.

Young Vivian's carousing in 1940s New York City is entertaining, sexy, and an interesting burst of feminism In City of Girls, Gilbert writes about a young woman's coming of age in 1940s New York City and traces Young Vivian's carousing is entertaining, sexy, and an interesting burst of feminism and freedom in an

during the past month: The Princess Diarist, by Carrie Fisher, based upon the diaries she kept as a young month: Maggie Shipstead's interconnected stories about two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young the natural world and in everyday tasks; The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Daré's story about a young by Alexandra Andrews When young, ambitious Florence implodes her burgeoning publishing career during book, please see An Altar in the World. 07 The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré Adunni is a young

We could go back further still and try it all over again with what we know; try to be young together Young and foolish and happy. But I have an easier solution: Just take the ordinary time machine.

Such a Fun Age centers around a young Black babysitter, her employer, and the complicated nature of their

Young Lucrezia is lucky enough to exist outside of palazzo scrutiny, free to follow her own imagination Her trusted nurse and former milk-mother Sofia does her best to delay plans to wed the slight young girl But the hearing headmistress February (a CODA--a child of deaf adults), the rebellious new transfer student

T. seem to have been thrown forward in time and into the thick of young adulthood.

Although successful young novelist Alice just met Felix, a young man working in a warehouse in the seaside

Annis is a young Southern woman enslaved, sold, and abused in the years before the Civil War.

In order to keep her husband, young daughters, and partner safe, Elise may have to keep some crucial

She cares for her captivating young cousin, finds peace in the natural world around her, and retreats believe in "magic" connected to the dismantled, carefully arranged elements of clocks by an independent young

larger-than-life characters ranging from activists to performers and murderers to idealists; a memoir about a young her hometown leads her into the middle of a missing person case there: the disappearance of a local young But when she arrives, she finds out that a young local woman has gone missing.

With plenty of youthful explorations of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, plus young women striving to strike I very much enjoyed her vulnerability as a young woman and especially the glimpses we got into her self-assured