Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

In 1939, Kay Jeynes, a lively, ambitious young working-class woman, goes to work for the only Japanese businessman in town, the elderly, wealthy, Oxford-educated Mr. Miyashita. Despite differences in their age, race, and class, a friendship develops between them in the peaceful vacuum of Mr. Miyashita’s...

This is a preview of the book Vickie, Valkyrie and Vic/Tim with a glimpse of Violet the new book coming out. See what Vickie will do as she dispenses her brand of justice. It is fiction as real as it gets.

Caroline Spencer likes things precise. Exact. Safe. In her world, she likes to know what's coming next. So when she spontaneously decides to move to Hawaii with her boyfriend Liam after dating him for six month, her life gets thrown for a loop. He's the exact opposite of her....

War is coming to the Norwood, and a strange warrior arrives with a black sword to lead the Nor against the invaders. Arlyss Quarrel is oblivious to the danger. His only dream is to marry the girl next door and start a family of his own far away from his demanding father. This dream is shattered...

A rising body count. A deadly creature. A boy who inherits the mother of all monster problems. Bookish and sickly Rob Stevenson knows he can't kill the monster terrorizing his village alone so he sets out to hire Scotland's best hunter. Fire-breathing, trigger-happy Cat...

This book is about a young man who grew up in the 80's with privilege and opportunities and is trying to figure out who he is and who he wants to be. He is both advantaged and hampered by his privilege. He also is trying to figure out who he is as a sexual being and his sexual appetite often leads...

This is a fictional account of the experiences of a boy in the 1940s growing up in the only home in town without electricity. The central character is not me, though I have spent some time in cottages and camps that did not have electrical power.The tale was inspired by a real house not far from the...

Both his family and his city are crumbling when thirteen-year-old Griffin Watts stumbles headlong into his estranged father’s illicit architectural salvage business in 1970s Manhattan. Griffin clambers up the façades of tenements and skyscrapers to steal their nineteenth-century architectural sculptures—gargoyles...

"The Red Fox Bible" explores the internal conflict within a boy as he comes to grips with his conservative Southern Baptist upbringing and his growing awareness of science and evolution. Raised in an all female household by his mother, aunt, and older sister, Bobby deeply yearns for...

A brilliantly observed prep school novel about fraught teacher-student relationships--and about coming into adulthood. Ben Jameson begins his teaching career in a small private school in Northern Virginia. He is idealistic, happy to have his first job after graduate school, and hoping some...

"She stopped. Both of them stopped. “What?” Mom said. 'When the house started making noises, they were so scary I wanted to scream.' 'You did? Martha . . .' 'Yeah.' 'I’m sorry, sweety. It’ll be ok. I’ll--' There were footsteps coming up the stairs. Mom didn’t...

My name is Autumn Spring Winters. Right? What sane person names their kid after not only one season of the year, but three? Well, the last name was inherited, but still. Nobody ever said my mom was in her right mind, though. I often wonder what life would be like if she wasn’t a tweaker. But, you...

I was a part of the invisible crowd in high school, but when I started my freshmen year at college, everything changed. I met Karen, my best friend for life; Kyle, a gorgeous graduate student who I fell for my first day on campus; and Gunnar, a buff rugby player with a great smile and big heart. I...

John Bird has never fit in. He can’t be the all American boy his dad wants him to be, he’s bullied at school and he can’t bear to look at himself in the mirror. While most boys his age are playing sports and kissing girls, John can only find comfort in the secret he keeps hidden away in a box...