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Young Jane Young

Young Jane Young
  • Author(s): Gabrielle Zevin
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is the story of five women . . . Meet Rachel Grossman. She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Meet Jane Young. She’s disrupting a quiet life with...

Young Samurai

Young Samurai
  • Author(s): Chris Bradford
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): early 21st century

One year of training in samurai school and Jack Fletcher is in real trouble . . . Not only is he struggling to prepare for the Circle of Three, an ancient ritual that tests a samurai’s courage, skill and...

Young Skins

Young Skins
  • Author(s): Colin Barrett
  • Location(s): County Mayo
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This magnificent collection takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland – a town in which the youth have the run of the place. Boy racers speed down the back lanes; couples haunt the midnight woods; young...

Young Squatters

Young Squatters
  • Author(s): Blair London
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Bradford and Harper get together as teenagers. They are both from upper middle-class homes. However, Bradford’s parents had some hard times when his father was laid off due to an accident. Bradford learned from his father how to beat...

Your Cold Eyes

Your Cold Eyes
  • Author(s): Denver Murphy
  • Location(s): Milton Keynes
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Catching a serial killer takes more than good police work, it entails knowing what makes the most disturbed minds tick… Bodies of women are found, cruelly killed and callously discarded around the city of Milton Keynes. Detectives Adam Trent...

Your Corner Dark

Your Corner Dark
  • Author(s): Desmond Hall
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

American Street meets Long Way Down in this searing and gritty debut novel that takes an unflinching look at the harsh realities of gang life in Jamaica and how far a teen is willing to go for family. Things...

Your House Is On Fire, Your Children All Gone

Your House Is On Fire, Your Children All Gone
  • Author(s): Stefan Kiesbye
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Horror

The book begins with the funeral of Anke, the final occupant of the von Kamphoff Manor in the ficitonal village of Hemmersmoor. We observe events through different characters and the reader is taken on a dark and twisted journey,...

Your House Will Pay

Your House Will Pay
  • Author(s): Steph Cha
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Grace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city, but seemingly little else. Coming from different generations and very different communities, their paths wouldn’t normally cross at all. As Grace battles confusion over her elder sister’s estrangement from their Korean-immigrant...

Your Oasis on Flame Lake

Your Oasis on Flame Lake
  • Author(s): Lorna Landvik
  • Location(s): Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Best friends fast approaching forty in the small Minnesota town of Flame Lake, Devera and BiDi were recently voted “Least Changed” at their twentieth high school reunion- a label neither one finds very appealing. For each craves a change...

Your Own Kind

Your Own Kind
  • Author(s): Linda Fagioli Katsiotas
  • Location(s): Greece, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

It is 1974. Alexandros is a young man who has left his rural Greek village to come to New York to work in his cousin’s restaurant. The restaurant is in East End, a small seaside village fifty miles from...

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