young women

Startling, unusual, and irresistibly readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and science fiction, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.

Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett, and Amanda Pressner feel lost. At a crossroads in life they feel the pressure to hit standardized milestones: score a big promotion, find a soul mate, have 2.2 kids and all before they reach their early thirties. Unable to find perspective in fast-paced Manhattan, the three quit their jobs, leave friends behind, and make a pact to travel the globe together for a year. Journeying 60,000 miles across four continents and more than a dozen countries, they experience every adventure and experience the world has to offer. Along the way they find themselves as well as lifelong friendship.

Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky. She escapes to the west but by the time she arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a three-year-old Indian girl named Turtle. Can she come to terms with motherhood and put down roots?.

Bright, precocious but socially awkward Lydia Pasternak reports on the aftermath of her older brother's disappearance. Danny was everything Lydia wasn't: at ease with their parents, popular in school, physically imposing, beloved by the opposite sex. Danny went from being Lydia's playmate in their youth to her tormentor in high school, so his disappearance leaves Lydia with some very mixed feelings, one of which is relief. As time goes on and the weekend search parties prove more and more fruitless, Lydia struggles with the fact that her geeky best friend, David, has feelings for her; she also obsesses over the private investigator hired by the family and allows herself to be sucked into the social world Danny once dominated.

Victoria, having grown up on the coast of Maine hearing legends of the sea from her Grannie, is disappointed when Sam, a local boy, saves her from drowning, and remains captivated by the notion that the sea will demand a reckoning.

Tabitha Knight, a young woman who makes a living by dating and sleeping with wealthy older men, finds her life becoming more complicated when she is recruited by a private investigator to entrap a high-profile celebrity who is believed to have sex with underage girls.

A fictional autobiography of conjoined twins told by Rose and Ruby Darlen, two young women who, nearing the age of thirty, are about to become history's oldest surviving twins to be joined at the head.

Hallie Palmer is persuaded by her legal guardian Bernard to return home to Cosgrove, Ohio, after her first year of college to take up her job as groundskeeper and help him win back his lover Gil who is considering marriage, and her own problems take a backseat when she is drawn into the further dramas of Bernard's eccentric mother, her party-girl sister, and an ex-boyfriend.