Yesterday’s Shadow by P.J. Murphy is a thoughtful and compelling coming-of-age story that will take many readers back to those awkward teenage years when peer pressure, bullies, introspection, and self-doubt are just part of everyday existence. Nick is a sixteen-year-old living in Cambridge, England, coming...

You Were Always There by Stephen Russell Payne is a romance novel set in the time of the Vietnam War. A coming-of-age story of two young souls, Luke and Sarah crossed paths and nothing was ever the same for either of them. With his draft...

You Won’t Know Her Name by Shanti Hershenson tells a chilling story about an unnamed girl’s experiences with middle school bullying. Told in a unique style of poetry, The Girl begins a new middle school as an innocent eleven-year-old. Eager to fit in, she and...

Megan Gordon tells me in one of the poignant short stories in her anthology, You Can't Get There From Here, that I am “the cure and the sickness, the cause and the remedy.” Of course, she didn’t aim that at me directly, but story after...

Your Father Has Something to Tell You by Dave Riese is an unusual novel in that it reads much like a memoir, and yet Dave Riese assures us it is fiction. Despite his assurance that it is, in fact, a novel, lovers of great memoirs...

Yes, Jessie, It's True is the second book in the Michael and Jessie series by Lisa Lahti. This is the story of Jessie and Michael as they navigate their lives after the chaos Michael somehow created. When Jessie catches Michael cheating on her, she knows...

Yeah, But I Didn't by Ann Swann is a coming of age novel chronicling a disturbing period in the life of a young girl named Benji (Ben) Stevens. At age 14, Ben has been advanced into high school as a result of a high IQ...

Marie Drake’s You Can't Force Love is a realistic novel with multi-layered characters. We encounter two sophisticated characters, drawn from two different worlds and thrust together in the same foster home. The only thing that Jordan Fry and Kimberly Orvine have in common is the...

Yours Truly, 2095 by Brian Paone is a time travel fiction story that any time travel romance junkie would be proud of. I enjoyed every single aspect of the novel, from the main characters to the story line to the way the narrative was written....