Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Laced with self deprecating humor and laced with a healthy dose of pathos, the novel, Slow to Grow, follows Lloyd Kulligan as he matures (slowly) over the course of 25 years from a lonely sex starved teenager to a middle aged married man (still sex starved). His story runs the gamut from the frivolities...

I wrote this series of essays in the 6 months either side of my 21st birthday trying to capture where I was in my life. There are nuggets of truth in all of them, but there is also some extreme hyperbole. Now 23 years later I have decided to publish it, as my life has gone in very different directions...

Written to describe the attributes of females, Benefit Intelligence Confidence Happiness Evolve B.I.C.H.E. explains the abilities females possess and can become. Life is rough and having to battle an army alone is not easy. As females, we fall, but then we rise and move on to better. Remember, youre One Sexy B.I.C.H.E., go on ahead and release that sexiness.

Max is a 13-year-old math whiz who spends his free time working on equations, scientific experiments, and designing a secret project of his own.  When his genius earns him early entry into a prestigious college, his mother fears that childhood is passing him by. Afraid he will become even...

Book 3 of 4 of the Herring Cove Road series With Blue's father in prison for selling marijuana and his mother estranged for over the last seven years, Blue is doing well, all considering. As the second addition to the not-so-nuclear Dixon family of Lisa, her ten-year-old son, Dwight, and the...

When is doing the right thing the wrong thing to do? Life for young Molly and her parents in a sleepy rural town is idyllic—until Nell begins working for them as a farmhand. The fifteen year old brings with her a troubled home life that she desperately tries to keep secret—until it’s too late....

Late one Sunday night, two brothers risk the wrath of their parents by climbing out of their bedroom window and into their treehouse to see if the full, red moon really is a harbinger of a coming apocalypse. The Red Moon first appeared in the March, 2018 edition of Cleaver Magazine. 

When an old woman is asked to tell the story of her life, she tells an intense and poignant tale about growing up in and surviving a warring suburban family during the 1950s and '60s. Written as a memoir, each chapter describes a particular incident in Lucia's life which shows the constant...

Excerpt:"He turned around and saw a young boy who was carrying a big log. The boy almost lost his balance when he saw the prince.Summer smiled. 'I would, but I'm afraid my fairy Godmothers only blessed me with a very convincing voice and not with much strength,' he told the young boy.***Coming Soon: Beauty...

A Hero Will Rise . . . Maks comes home to Appian for Solstice break, only to find the village in turmoil–poachers have struck the last standing forest on his planet. Maks jumps in to help,  fighting age-old customs and flouting conventions that try to hold him hostage. He...

Includes unreliable history of Western civilisation and deliberations on life and afterlife, while touching on romance, love, sex, mistake, mystery, menace, murder, massacre, tragedy, revenge, theft, colonialism, war, empire, infamy, ignorance, stuff, nonsense, science, paradox, poetry, power, remembering,...

What would you do differently if you knew that in one year you were going die? This is the dilemma best friends Renata, Saffron and Charlotte face, after making a pact to end the discontent in their lives.  Ending the pain is simple: after their proposed last year on Earth they plan...

Laurence has always had a secret love for Jessica. He put their friendship before his own selfish desires. When Jessica moves in, his resolve slowly starts to fade away. The feelings he had buried deep rise to the surface and leads him to a truth he never saw coming. Jessica never thought of...

A young woman without prospects at a ball in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island is a target for a certain kind of “suitor.” At the Memorial Day Ball during the Panic of 1893, impoverished but feisty Penelope Stanton draws the unwanted advances of a villainous millionaire banker who preys on distressed...