Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

"Filled with powerful scenes and great characters! Brings the '83 Old South to vivid life. One of my all-time favorite reads! Loved it! ~ Janelle Taylor, NY Times Bestselling author "…full of surprises, twists, turns and none of them are predictable. This is a fun read with entertaining...

Larry Barnes has a remarkable and dangerous power: he can create his own portal through the multiverse. Now he must choose between returning to Earth or saving Terra—and the girl he loves—and discovering his true home. In this epic coming-of-age sequel to TERRA, Earth-born Larry Barnes...

**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For fans of Sally Rooney's Normal People: A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites--and their physical spaces--that posits the question:...

WHO GOT LIZ GARDNER, by Elizabeth Allen, is a coming-of-age novel about the (mis)adventures of a dysfunctional, self-centered but essentially good-hearted aspiring actress growing up during the hedonistic 80s and 90s. A first-person narrative, the story is mostly set in New York City and later Los...

Books 1 – 3 of the Forest People Series Now you can get all three ebooks of the Forest People trilogy in one boxset. Chameleon: The Awakening A teenage shifter turned captive. A magical land in danger. Is she a monster or a savior? Sixteen-year-old Camryn Painter struggles...

Lauren O’Day and Lloyd Foster represent the oldest surviving students of Harrison Traditional School (HST). The school and the nearby town of Schonefield, Montana are unlucky enough to find themselves in a double cross scheme of an unidentified foreign bloc’s attempt to both ingratiate themselves...

A GREAT COMING OF AGE STORY. "Jesus In Cowboy Boots" is an eccentric story about Vallie Sue, an imaginative teenager, growing up in a dirty, dusty backwater community along the Texas/Oklahoma border. Vallie lives in a peculiar trailer park built on a deserted drive-in movie lot nicknamed...

'Funny and filled with heart . . . a sparky debut' – Alexandra Heminsley, The London Paper Dreaming of joining the brotherhood of Acapulcan cliff-divers, young Mikey Hough rigs a diving platform in the garden of his suburban Berkshire home. Two years later, when he awakes from his coma, Mikey...

Complete with duct tape, wasp spray, and a healthy dose of sexual tension, MURIEL AVENUE SLUTS is a decidedly feminist coming-of-age story about a seventeen-year-old girl whose mother is a prostitute. #stopslutshaming Julia Turnbow’s mother gets paid to have sex; that’s just how it is. When...

Under the thugs’ constant guard, she has little chance to contact the outside and escape. But due to her mistrust of her father and the authorities and secret she can’t even tell him, she is afraid a desperate call to the outside help would result in a deadly showdown. Because she must rescue...

"One of the funniest stories I've ever read." -- Steve Martin These two hilarious prequel episodes with main characters of THE FIRECRACKER KING take place before the action that sets off the bestselling novel. Chaz and Jake are an unlikely pair of high school friends. Chaz...

On the 50th anniversary of Woodstock comes a gripping story of love and obsession, set in one of the most turbulent times in American history. It is 1969, capstone of a tumultuous decade, and life in the rural town of Pennsboro, Pa. is about to explode. A dam that would flood the valley pits...

Boarding school – a painful rite of passage which remains forever etched in memories long after the days of confinement are over. At least that’s the impression Onyebuchi has been given by her older brother. The idea of leaving home is daunting, yet exciting, as she embarks on her first term at...

Coming-of-age adventures of an Iowa farm boy amid the colorful traditions and rituals of the University of California . . . of love lost and found - found and lost . . . untold origins of Louie, Louie, casino craps, psychedelic art and the secret odyssey of Buddy Holly’s glasses.