Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Excerpt:"Shireen saw the princess tripping on a plank and hitting her head on her way down into the sea, falling unconscious. She rushed to find her underwater and once she did she headed to the closest shore. They looked at each other. Shireen smiled. The princess smiled."***Coming Soon: Beauty & the...

“Hillbrow, 1967. The New York of Africa. Someone wrote that the place would soon have more people per square kilometre than Tokyo. Everyone quoted that article to everyone. Some even cut it out and kept it folded in their wallets.” While other boys daydream about racing cars and football, eleven-year-old...

Sharp Obsidian lays bare the inner struggles of a father and his strong-willed teenage daughter when she begins to test life’s boundaries. Her father refuses to let destructive influences twist her morals, and dispirited, he commits his daughter to a teen recovery camp. She is indignant but meets...

Aimless young Ben Kester and gruff drifter Ben Markham combine to run a minibus tour of Melbourne underworld sites. The customers are coming, the unlikely friendship is growing: this could be the making of both of them.But both men hold secrets which could prove as deadly as the most murderous...

A shaky resolution. A sacrifice that overwhelms. A battle beyond realms. The end is approaching for Hamilton Dinger and his friends. As the forces of darkness in Apollo City gain power, Hamilton finds himself on trial as the media, the law, and even his friends seem to have turned on...

A feeling he never imagined. A revelation he never saw coming. A love that transcends time and space. With the arrival of 11th grade, Hamilton Dinger has no shortage of activities to pursue. With his job at the mayor's office, schoolwork, and fighting off evil, he has no time to worry about...

"With an endearingly awkward female protagonist, a swoon-worthy male love interest, and Siskind's superb storytelling, this is one of the best New Adult contemporary romances I've read to date." -- USA Today bestselling author K.A. Tucker Dear Mom & Dad, I dropped out of school. I'm going backpacking....

Santo Aretino, like so many kids, was a blank slate. But then one day, he saw something he should not have seen, doing something he should not have been doing. As a result of that experience, the murder of a stranger in the parking lot of a local bowling alley, his life compass was reset and the story...

Reggie Rainbow got his name at the orphanage. He had polio as a child, and seventeen years of using crutches have given him strong hands and nimble fingers. It is this dexterity, perfect for illusions, which first led Mr. Brookes to hire him for the act. Reggie has been a disappearance boy for years...

**In this masterful new novel, set in 1950s North Carolina, the acclaimed author of The Road to Bittersweet and The Education of Dixie Dupree *brings to life an unforgettable young heroine and a moving story of family love tested to its limits.   *** ** ** For twelve-year-old Martha “Sonny”...

“It had been a Second Coming sky all day, which meant they might be in heaven by this evening.”   So begins the uproarious and tender tale of Roxanne Fish, daughter of Sister Zelda Fish and Pastor Winston Fish of the First Assembly of God Church of Ames, Iowa, who believe fervently...

2016 I Heart Indie Contest Finalist: New Adult Top 100 Must-Read International Romance -Book Riot “Delicate and resilient. Like you.” Brina and Eagan meet for the first time when she's nine and he's fourteen. They like each other from the very beginning, though their bond isn't immediate,...

Upon This Bank and Shoal, from the author of the much-discussed novel The Haunted Man (1997), deals with the perennial theme of the man-woman relationship in a unique manner. Even in the twenty first century one finds the dreamy man in his desperate quest for lost Paradise and the practical woman in...

Someone once said that all men are created equal. That someone never wandered the streets of São Paulo at night, and they sure as hell never met Leighton and his friends. Based on interviews with educators, psychologists and the kids themselves, Tup tells the tragicomic tale of Leighton, a...