Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

A Bird of the Air is the tale about a man (George Malone) who encounters the suffering involved with real loss, while consumed by the philosophies he has encountered and created as they apply to his self-realization. A smart tale told in ordinary language, appealing to the intellectual and the average...

After the mysterious death of his grandfather, 11-year-old Lindsay Armstrong and his family leave England for a new life in New South Wales. Property is bought in remote Billarooby, a small settlement on the Lachlan River. It is 1942. The war is far away, but a stranger the boy chases from the farm,...

This is how Holly had woken up every day since the crash. First she would become aware of a weight pressing against her chest; then shed open her eyes, stiff and unmoving in a breathless clutch of wrinkled sheets, her hands by her sides, as if in a vice, staring into the face of her dead sister from...

In the musty attic of an upstate New York house, a woman finds a clasped box, hidden away for over a century. Inside, wrapped in cambric and tied with a green ribbon, is an old manuscript written by a girl dreaming of a better life, fighting for survival, and coming of age in a time of chaos and danger....

Amid a world bereft of luxuries and entitlements, a girl grows up with little hope of becoming anyone important. She is only able to escape her pain and dream of a better future through the pages of her beloved books. As she helplessly watches her parents rapidly descend into despair and failure,...

In the beginning of the daring final book of “The Cool Steve” trilogy, 1966 has just begun. The Beatles and Stones are at the height of their fame; the Vietnam War is moving from a slow sizzle to a raging boil; and students are considering whether to either peacefully or violently resist being...

For those who lived in the so-called "Dust Bowl," black blizzards of dust rolled across millions of acres of barren wasteland, once lush with buffalo grass and amber waves of grain. A World War had ended less than two decades before, and the spark for a second one had already been ignited. Conflict...

"Looking Within: A Man's Journey to Find Himself" (LW) is the coming of age story of a 21st-century beatnik, Jake. Jake is a college student from Kearney, Nebraska, and he fails out of the University of Nebraska, Kearney. He moves back into his divorced mother's home, and he can't swing...

A stunning first novel about a young girl's coming-of-age in the 1950s. Tamara Anderson's father is a landscape artist who quickly tires of the scenery, so every year her family seeks out new locations for his inspiration. When the Andersons move to a farmhouse in Sherman, New York, in the...

This coming-of-age work draws the reader into 1940s back-country Arizona as well as urban Los Angeles, both from the viewpoint of twelve-year-old Tom Hall. Tom is searching for meaning in a lonely and transient time in his life, time spent skipping school, exploring the streets, raising hell at the...

After Brandi Monroe, a soon to be freshman at Goodtown High, goes missing during an end-of-summer beach party friends suspect she’s swimming. But Brandi Monroe’s body is discovered the next morning drowned in the ocean and David Miller, a single father trying to raise two teenage children since...

The Bellman’s Secret continues the adventures and misadventures of nineteen-year-old Stanley Douglas, the sometimes bumbling, often unlucky, and always endearing hero from Heidi Barnes’s acclaimed debut novel, The Bellman. Working at the historic and stately Maycliff Inn on the picturesque...

Russia, 1914. Rivka, daughter of a prosperous boot maker, seems destined by tradition for marriage and the humdrum rounds of shtetl life. Then war breaks out, and things go badly for the tsars army. When demoralized troops begin deserting their posts in the trenches, one unlikely officer recruits a...

“Men and women of Australia, we are at war with Japan” - Prime Minister John Curtin, December 1941 December 1941 marked Australia’s coming of age. Prior to this Australia trusted Great Britain to dictate foreign policy so Australia's military campaigns of 1941 were the last as part of...