Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Revie becomes convinced he is the second coming of Christ. But when his mother runs away to Hollywood, Revie's faith is shaken.

It's the year punk rock was born, Concorde entered commercial service, and a tiny Romanian gymnast changed the sport forever. Archie Blunt is a man with big ideas. He just needs a break for them to be realized. In a bizarre brush with the light-entertainment business, Archie unwittingly saves the...

Robert Rayner's latest novel based in New Brunswick shows how the encroachment of age in a rural community's life exposes it to the perils of progress. White Rock Island, an isolated rural community, becomes a defiant island of souls intent on preserving itself when it is threatened by economic decisions...

Ruby's finished her first year at law school and is once again heading back up to Bluff's Cove on Cape Cod to work at the infamous beach bar The Hut. But everything she thinks she knows for sure has changed. She hasn't heard from her boyfriend Cooper for months, not since she was unable to...

An old cowboy, Clayton Todd, and a teenage boy, Bobby Earl Lee, take a ride out into the West Texas desert. Bobby, known as Early, assumes it will be a relaxing day with an old friend. What Early doesn’t know is Clayton does not plan to return. It’s a poignant and heartwarming story of an old...

~"Katy Regnery's latest fairy-tale romance not only challenges the fundamental elements of the trope but puts a high-powered, thrilling twist to Cinderella's story." --Kamrun Nesa, USA Today ~"Fragments of Ash is Katy at her storytelling best and I could not put it down!" --Mia Sheridan, New...

When Kate's husband, Ward, locates the son she put up for adoption as an unwed teen, she's understandably wary, aware he's not her son's father. The boy, now a man, is also wary. Who are these people who suddenly want him to be a part of their lives? Where were they when he was growing up,...

A New York Times bestseller The original graphic novel adapted into the film Blue Is the Warmest Color, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival In this tender, bittersweet, full-color graphic novel, a young woman named Clementine discovers herself and the elusive magic...

Clay Preston is the most desirable guy in school, and boy does he know it! Movie star looks paired with a quarterback’s body, he’s every girl’s dream guy–but not mine. To me, he’s simply my best friend, the one who has been there as far back as I can remember. Our relationship...

To survive, she must elude an ancient vampire queen. Cadence Findley never gave much thought to vampires until one night when a dark encounter changes her life forever. When her friend Drew is lured into the woods by a handsome stranger with steel-gray eyes and pale skin, Cadence instinctively...

For fans of Ender’s Game, Red Rising,and The Hunger Games comes an explosive, epic science fiction debut... Cities vanished, gone in flashes of world-shattering destruction. An alien race had come to make Earth theirs, bringing a power so far beyond human technology it seemed like magic....

SAM DOLAN is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth Dolan—a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pathetic. Allie,...

​New Alice. New Wonderland. New stories ​to love. From ​the modern Alice dumped in the Aquarian ​Age of the late sixties, to the ​present day Alice, tormented by body image and emotional issues, to the Alice of the future, launched forward through time and space, FALLING FOR ALICE offers five...

In this masterwork of confessional literature, a man approaching middle age recalls his impetuous youth with fondness, remorse, and astonishment Spanning the years 1939 to 1946, this is the story of a defining era in one man’s life and an exhilarating tribute to the entire generation that...