Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

A darkly compelling novel about a young woman who must defend herself against her abusive father. “In the character of Meredith, Laura Wiess has created a girl to walk alongside Harper Lee’s Scout and J.D. Salinger’s Phoebe. Read this novel, and you will be changed forever” (New York Times...

Most people dream about getting out of Sharon, Nebraska, but after three years away, Lauren Barrett is coming home. She has her reasons-missing her family, losing her college scholarship. But then there's the reason Lauren can't admit to anyone: Rob Conrad, her best friend's older brother.  Football...

An NYRB Classics Original Stefan Zweig was particularly drawn to the novella, and Confusion, a rigorous and yet transporting dramatization of the conflict between the heart and the mind, is among his supreme achievements in the form. A young man who is rapidly going to the dogs in Berlin...

As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine...

In nineteenth-century Norway, a woman’s life is shaped and shadowed by a childhood tragedy: “Spellbinding . . . haunting” (Publishers Weekly). Dina carries a terrible burden: at the age of five, she accidentally caused her mother’s death. Blamed by her father and banished to a farm,...

Vividly imagined, stunningly prophetic, and epic in scope, The Diamond Age isa major novel from one of the most visionary writers of our time Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken...

What happens when your eyes are opened to truth? I dream that night of walking through the ruins. Strangely, I'm barefoot. Yet the snow beneath my feet doesn't feel cold, I don't even feel cold. Somehow though, I'm going the right way, I know I am. I'm not sure how I know… it's just a knowing...

A Standalone Romance. Approximately 350+ pages.  When one is denied of something for so long...sometimes the best way to acquire it is through drastic measures...  An heiress and a man set to take over her father's company. Arranged marriage with two stubborn and equally vindictive...

Georgia and Ben are just starting a new life together. Georgia is slowly coming out of her shell and she's even started a new band with Ben, Bones, and Jake. The most important thing in the world right now seems to be finding the perfect name for their band, and Georgia has almost completely banished Alex Harris from her mind. Then he turns up out of the blue.

Amy MacKenzie’s world shattered when Trey Wyngard turned out to be a liar like most men she had known in the past. She ran out of his home and into the night and a darkness that she had never known. It took the power of friendship and Trey’s honesty to overcome her fears. She was cautious....

Told with an evocative richness of language that recalls Michael Ondaatje or Anita Desai, the story of Reza Khourdi is that of the 20th century everyman, cast out from the clan in the name of nation, progress and modernity who cannot help but leave behind a shadow that yearns for the impossible dreams...

It is 1977 when nine-year old Lola Ogunwole is wrenched from all that is familiar in London and thrust into an alien culture. Abandoned by her father and separated from her brother, Lola must adjust to living without the basic necessities, where a drink of water entails a six mile trek into the bushes....

Internationally bestselling author Mhairi McFarlane delivers a funny, romantic, heartfelt novel perfect for fans of Josie Silver or Sally Thorne, and anyone who loves Bridget Jones! You always remember your first love... don’t you? If there’s anything worse than being fired from...

Blenders Circus Freak Series Book Six A paranormal thriller Everything about the circus is an illusion. People come out strictly to see the show, never thinking about what goes on behind the scenes. They fail to realize that when the big top lights go out, well, that's...