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  • Review of Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy

    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

  • August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

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

  • Review of When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain

    hoping for anonymity and an escape to the woods to grieve and be alone, but she quickly finds out that a young Old friends resurface, pulling Anna out of herself, and when other young girls go missing, the pull of

  • Review of A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam

    This is introspective literary fiction in which Krishan examines his young life, analyzes the romantic A Passage North is introspective literary fiction in which Krishan examines his young life, analyzes

  • Review of The Measure by Nikki Erlick

    In Erlick's debut novel, each adult in the world can know the length of their life if they choose to. In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with

  • Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II

    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 We've got the strong, gruff Hanni with a heart of gold; young Ettie, who is idealistic, tough as nails 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

  • Review of The Traitor (Alias Emma #2) by Ava Glass

    I love a spy book, a book about Russia, and a feisty, strong young female protagonist, and The Traitor

  • Review of The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

    reveals disturbing, ongoing abuse and frightening misuse of power while positioning Britney as a strong young

  • Review of North Woods by Daniel Mason

    Mason's characters range from a young couple in love, escaping their rigid Puritanical community; to

  • Six More Powerful Books About Facing Mortality

    Young Ollie finds people confusing. 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

  • Review of Antarctica by Claire Keegan

    In just a few of the stories of Keegan's acclaimed debut, Antarctica, a young wife leaves town to experience

  • Review of The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

    The Princess Diarist is based upon the diaries Carrie Fisher kept while she was a young woman stumbling fanciful teenaged musings (in the audiobook these were read by a different, younger person), yet the young

  • Review of The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

    through a tragedy that befell her family at the hands of someone they knew, Rena reflects: All of her adult In "Boys Go to Jupiter," a young woman wears a gifted confederate flag bikini, is careless about her It was the winter after the most depressing election of my adult life, a low point for my faith in the

  • Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle

    Victor LaValle's Lone Women begins in 1915 with a determined young woman, Adelaide Henry, covering her

  • Review of Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison

    Ellie's vocally open about her fury at what many of her fellow female students have to put up with from young And the response from the college community isn't completely damning--young women begin speaking publicly The women are becoming less afraid--but the young men who have behaved abominably and often criminally friends have strong bonds of loyalty; they sometimes behave impulsively; and they are appropriately young But the group has two young women connected closely to them who have been permanently debilitated related

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/28/21 Edition

    Chris Bohjalian Bohjalian's newest book takes place in 1662 Boston, where strong-willed women like young 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 the modern-day story line in which a famous young

  • Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

    The swirl of events draws other innocent young women into Miryem's complicated web and toward potential

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/9/22 Edition

    from Henry Fry about a young man resolving complicated questions about his romantic life, career, and Jen married young and is about to become a mother, while Riley is poised to become one of the first Black

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/19/24 Edition

    Catalina is a high-energy coming-of-age novel about a spirited young woman trying to save everyone she

  • Six Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    The young people feel the weight of the world on their shoulders--and it really does seem to be up to Bossy review of this book, check out The Golden Enclaves. 04 The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young Adrienne Young is also the author of Fable, its sequel Namesake, and The Last Legacy--loosely set in

  • Review of King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis

    couple staying nearby seem to have dark secrets, the rumors they had heard on the mainland of missing young

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/14/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Nadia Hashimi's story of a young woman in Afghanistan during 01 Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi Young Sitara is living a comfortable life in Kabul in 1978.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition

    In the stories of Keegan's acclaimed debut, Antarctica, a young wife leaves town to experience being a mischievous child raised by his older brother and hadn't yet become the convicted criminal of his adulthood

  • Review of Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki

    I loved the father-daughter bond, and Opal is a wonderfully quirky, self-possessed young person.

  • Six More Novels I Loved Reading Last Year

    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.

  • Review of Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper

    But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/28/22 Edition

    Now I'm reading A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham's recent mystery about the disappearances of young connections to the crimes of decades earlier--or if she's about to help identify another killer who preys on young

  • Review of Secondhand Daylight by Eugen Bacon and Andrew Hook

    Green is just an ordinary young guy, dancing, drinking, living it up.

  • Review of The Rule Book by Sarah Adams

    She's young and hungry--and thrilled that she's about to get her first really big client.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/21/22 Edition

    She cares for her captivating young cousin, finds peace in the natural world around her, and retreats But stress and the constant fear of illness and tragedy make for a high-anxiety household, and young

  • 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

  • Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into

    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

  • Six Historical Fiction Favorites

    Vera and Edith are such a complementary WWII partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young Abriel introduces an enormous shift that shakes things up enormously for both young women before the Set in Ireland in 1918, The Pull of the Stars follows a nurse, Julia; a doctor, Kathleen; and a young

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/21 Edition

    She becomes heartbroken when a whirlwind romance with a young German army officer, Marco Zeiller, doesn't 03 These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant In the northern Appalachian mountains, Cooper and his young

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/20 Edition

    She dove back into pages of interviews and information detailing the young, naive choir member she was cover-up of sexual abuse had taken place for decades at the school that had pledged to protect and educate young with the mark of the Prophet and was promised to him, but she was far from the submissive, obedient young

  • Review of A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World: A Novel by C.A. Fletcher

    Young Griz is tough as nails and determined and wonderful. I thought this was fantastic. The thief came and shattered what was left of young Griz's life.

  • Review of This Is All He Asks of You by Anne Egseth

    her up and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years, intensely spiritual young Sometimes reading a book from the perspective of a young protagonist is heartbreaking in a way that I

  • Review of News of the World by Paulette Jiles

    He somewhat reluctantly ends up agreeing to transport a young recently rescued Kiowa captive 400 miles Jiles's story--Captain Kidd's reluctant but gentlemanly involvement and his voice; Johanna as a tough young

  • Review of A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella

    Her young daughter is missing, and Ella is in limbo, desperately hoping she hears news soon.

  • Review of Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

    Arthur, the young, haunted-seeming caretaker of the estate, seems resigned to her presence even as he

  • Review of Good Material by Dolly Alderton

    got here so quickly and how I could be expected to make such enormous decisions while I still felt so young

  • Review of The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

    But the young woman who has taken on the name of Jane and is desperate to leave her dark past behind Two of the neighborhood's cherished young wives, longtime best friends, died months earlier in a boating I felt as though Jane was a frequent contradiction--she is said to be young and pretty, but also to be

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/18/21 Edition

    guessing and has me completely hooked: Xio Axelrod's novel The Girl with the Stars in her Eyes is about a young Young Toni crosses paths with Sebastian Quick, an older, wiser guy who just might offer her a way out by Alexandra Andrews Aspiring young author Florence Darrow is from small-town Florida, and her aspirations

  • Review of Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James

    to talk about such things--in order to sift through the many disturbing race-based incidents in her young incident and her resulting emotional trauma, pushing all of this down until her reckoning with it in young adulthood.

  • Review of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

    Bringley and his wife have two young children by the time he ends his stint at the Met and shifts into

  • Review of Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

    Lies, betrayals, secrets, adultery, accidents, suicide, and murder shape the lives of those in New Bremen the Frank of forty years later recounts the mysteries and realizations that shaped him at the cusp of young adulthood.

  • Review of Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

    She's asked to play the role of maid to an unassuming, wealthy young woman in a dastardly plot to take workings of the outside world and also closely acquainted with the details of intimacies with which most young

  • Review of The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin

    The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop

  • Review of My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan

    Young Una has only ever loved one man, her best friend Cullen. But I absolutely loved how Una was a strong, determined, gritty young woman in the face of so many enormous

  • Review of Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur

    grandparents lived and where she was born, here offers stories spanning forty years, featuring women, men, and young

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