Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Three brilliant works of fiction from a feminist and lesbian literary icon who was “acutely sensitive to the quiet hum of everyday living” (Ms.). The Missing Person: Legendary movie star Franny Fuller captured the imaginations of audiences, men, and her biographer, Mary Maguire. But what...

This coming-of-age memoir of an ordinary gay boy living in Singapore, in the form of an online journal, is brutally honest, endearing, poignant and raw. Nicky, an insecure youth with a fat past, goes on a journey of love and self-discovery and soon crashes into an underworld of sex, drugs, hustling...and...

When John Butler learns that his late father’s only bequest is a sprawling coffee plantation in distant Ceylon, he resentfully decides to travel there from his home in Manchester to sign the deeds and take possession of the estate – intending to sell it as soon as possible in order to fund his...

Melt your heart romance and sizzling chemistry infused with soul inspiring music. A set of stand-alone coming of age novels that will make you fall in love. THE SONGBIRD NOVEL BOX SET #3 INCLUDES: Geronimo, Hole Hearted & Rather Be GERONIMO Having lost the love of her life in a fatal...

Two brothers brave a whirlwind summer in this taut and luminous coming-of-age novel A twelve-year-old boy lives with his family in a small, poverty-stricken town in Vermont. His father works at a manufacturing plant, his mother is a homemaker, and his fifteen-year-old brother is about to enter...

For fans of Elena Ferrante and Paulo Coelho comes a moving and elegant novel about the friendship between two young Italian boys from different backgrounds and how their connection evolves and challenges them throughout their lives. “Few books have so accurately described the way stony heights...

Seventeen-year-old Worthy lives in a house full of secrets where everyone dutifully plays their role. She copes by creating outlandish dreams of a bright future and relying on her wits. In the summer of 1946, her father is accused of a sensational murder. Her plans to get out of Hogan’s Creek suddenly...

“Owen met her first one spring, when they both were in their teens, by a pale nervous lake where he went with his parents on weekends to sun and water-ski and fish.” “She was standing out on the jetty in the dim twilight amid the spent hush, framed by the melancholy glow of the falling sun on...

Terms of Surrender is a story about when coming of age arrives late. On Harlow Ausby’s fortieth birthday, she still feels as out of place in polished Charleston as the moon in a midday sky. From her strawberry-red hair to the matching birthmark that seems to swallow her left leg, Harlow’s...

"Taylor writes with a punchy flair... an entertaining and thoughtful account of loss and artistic ambition." -- Kirkus ReviewsAnanda is a bigger-than-life pop star, but the paparazzi won't leave her alone and she's tired of being smeared on the Enquirer every month for her drug addiction....

Review Rating: 5 Stars!Reviewed By Viga Boland for Readers’ FavoriteThe only way for me to begin my review of Like I Used to Dance by Barbara Frances is to say I loved it! For me to love a fiction book that is simply based on the ups and downs of a loving family in the late '50s in Texas...

Corey’s parents become perplexed when their son’s inexplicable knowledge of the Native American circle of life begins to change their lives. Could his newly purchased stuffed dog from the Sulky Plow Country Store have magical powers or is it the imagination and introspective curiosity of their young...

In the wake of tragedy, he'll risk everything to become someone else. . . When 19-year-old Ryan walks away from a car accident and is forced out of his dream apartment on the same night, he feels his life spinning out of control. Just when it seems he's regained his footing, the sudden death...

Luke Hartwell's second novel, Who You Are and Where You Come From, is his most autobiographical. Ironically, it is also his only work of fiction to be written from third person point of view. The award-winning novel follows Arkansas country boy Ben Goodman through childhood and adolescence, focusing...