Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

This poignant tale of a young woman’s affair with a famous writer is based on Joan Williams’s real-life relationship with William Faulkner For Amy Howard, the novels of Jeffrey Almoner are a refuge from the uncertainty of life. His books are full of the questions—about the nature of justice,...

A narcissistic teenager who doesn't believe in destiny. A city under supernatural attack. An adventure that unfortunately changes everything. Sixteen-year-old Hamilton Dinger leads a charmed life. He's got the grades for the top of the class, the abilities of a star athlete and...

A coming of age tale of the mystic variety. It is hard enough growing up, much less doing so between two dimensions. This novel contains some light adult content, though not graphic. A tale of mystic transformation of a young man as he struggles with love, hate, and dreams that become reality....

NPR Pick for Best Book of the Year: A love story and an epic tale of scientific history that “richly conveys an abiding sense of time and place” (Booklist). In upstate New York, at the confluence of the Hudson River and its mighty tributary the Mohawk, came the creation of a new world of...

In the wake of a tragic accident, a young college student haunted by guilt moves to New York City to shake the past and discover his destiny. After three years at Temple University, Dan Egan was still trying to find out who he was. Frustratingly unmoored, he moved from engineering to fine arts...

“a heartfelt coming-of-age story worth a read . . . Rowan grows and learns more in one summer than a lot of us do in years, which is what made Leap an enjoyable read” -Liberty Press, June 2013Summer 1979. Rowan Marks is done with high school. Next comes college. But in between there's a yawning...

A uniquely witty novel exploring sex, freedom, and the process of growing up Sydney Skate considers himself shockproof. For as long as he can remember, he’s known that his fashionable Manhattan mother is secretly a lesbian, although he’s never let on that he knows. He spends his summer...

If you loved the dark world of Harry Potter… Her parents are dead. Her mother's enemies hunt her. And the one she trusts the most is not who she thinks he is. Now, Emily Hunts, the only seer left, must unravel her buried identity before the darkest force on the planet takes her and bends...

Seventeen-year-old Trevor can't catch a break. Just when he finds out that Janna, the girl of his dreams, is finally available, his mom tells him he's being shipped off to a boarding school because of his awful grades. A desperate call to his dad, who owns a rubber chicken factory in Las Vegas, gets...

Andrea Messi by name and by nature: family, college, and his head, are all a mess. Andrea is twenty one and lives in Milan. The son of two doctors, he's studying medicine, has a sixteen year old sister, Barbara, and quirky friends like Giorgio. Handsome, bright, and not short of money, he goes to...

This is the story of two 12-year-old boys who were best friends growing up on the mean streets of the Kensington section of Philadelphia. It chronicles their friendship and the conflicts that they faced. It also tells the remarkable, untold true story of how Babe Ruth came to their local parish to...

Whompyjawed: 1. Askew, out of place 2. Off-center or crooked 3. (informal) a person of eccentric or questionable character; odd. Football is Willy Keeler’s ticket out of West Texas, but only if he can keep the explosive combination of his intellect and hormones from destroying his high-school...

When a homeless boy meets an ace hacker… Twelve-year-old Jack Horwood has run from the pimp his mother sold him to, preferring to take his chances on the streets. A house with a cheerful red door – and a classic convertible out front – prompts him into a spot of breaking and entering,...

Forbidden Steps Under the Wisteria is a vivid account of the life of three generations of Latin American Women, the story of the women descended from a gipsy and a Sicilian Count. With fierce passion and in vivid images, tragic and happy tales are brought to life by Gabriela, the link that joins the...