Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Jennifer is eighteen. She smokes cigarettes. She likes to sleep in until late morning and then spend her afternoons watching TV. It seems like she has been fighting with her mother forever, but ever since Jennifer graduated from high school, the fights have been getting worse. Mom wants Jennifer to...

After all the hurdles, the highs and lows, the love and hate, the ceaseless fights, Sienna and I had finally reached a full circle, coming together as husband and wife.  I had everything I could ever ask for and all the happiness I could ever dream of, but I couldn't help feeling that something was amiss…  ​ This revelation cemented my purpose.

Book 1 in Liam & Madelyn duet of the Roommate Duet Series Synopsis coming soon

Aunt Gabby is a strong, purposeful lady whom everyone loves dearly. When a surprise visitor made an unannounced visit that no one saw coming, it put her, and everyone around her in a tailspin!Now Aunt Gabby must relive events from her past she thought were gone and buried, which brings many...

Stephanie is eager to move back to her home town.Her enthusiasm evaporates when she discovers her best friend has made a new best friend. To make matters worse, her grandmother, whom she hardly knows is coming to live with her family and share her room. Though she expects to be miserable, Grandma...

Life is full of twists and turns, as the saying goes, but you never know when that life-altering event is coming at you. Some twists can turn out very fortunate, while others ... let's just say, there are others you wished you hadn't had to endure. Life can be a tough teacher, and the test tougher yet. Grown Fast and Hard - A contemporary short story set in the American West.

**Coast through senior year. Graduate. Travel around Europe. Join boyfriend out East for college. That's the plan. Then the phone rings.** Vanessa has the next year of her life pretty much figured out. Sure, there's some parental convincing to do but she and her celebrity-obsessed gal...

It's been 10 years since Beth Taylor has seen the man she secretly gave her heart and body to as a teenager, and now he's her boss. Their relationship grew from the letters that passed between them when he was fighting in Vietnam and she was a high school senior; but he believed the letters...

A butterfly the color of my name did tell me that a Big Spin was coming our way. I was standing by Mr. Grant’s wisteria, which hung over his fence and down into our yard, when Ruby Butterfly, this jeweled metamorphosis of a cattypillar, landed on a bright green wisteria leaf like some kind of winged...

A novella, about 9,000 words.Jonny lives with his mom on the hardscrabble coast of North Carolina. The old coast is underwater -- Jonny's dad makes a living diving to salvage valuables from drowned towns, rarely home. It's a hard life. When Jonny rescues Kitty Itty he learns a bit...

The Far Away is a story of desperate searches for second chances as a young man recalls a difficult time in his past when he struggled to deal with a brother's problems, a woman he thought he loved and the decisions made. The need to escape, the pull to return, drifting around the country, the violence...

COMING UP After finally making the break from an abusive ex, Gracie Jordan wants to invest her whole heart into the unexpected relationship she found with her best friend Jake, who offers hope, comfort, and solace. She expects the summer before their senior year at UT Knoxville to be as perfect...

As the bull ran, his huge pink testicles swung from side to side like the clapper of a bell. The year was 1952 and eleven year old Michael was standing in the dirt yard in front of the house with the milk barn off to his left, looking across the corral into Mr Olson's field where the Holstein bull...

A short story by bestselling author Sonia Rumzi What goes around comes around they say. Is it true even in love? When we hurt someone, do we get hurt in the future just the same way? Jonathan fell in love and offered all. Taken for granted and discarded broke his heart. But, Karma has its way of coming back full circle.