Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Terry Bailey is convinced America is doomed, and the last hope for his family is to escape to sea. How far would you go to protect your family if you were convinced America was in imminent danger of collapse? Would you build an underground bunker and stockpile it with weapons and supplies?...

June Raring has always been no more than a bug in her world. A precocious little beetle, a June-Bug, prone to coming out of her shell only during the warmest of moments. Unfortunately, along with the winds of change, all of June’s warmth has been swept away leaving her with nothing but cold Despair. Holding...

Book 2 of 4 of the Herring Cove Road (Not-So-Nuclear Family Saga) series. "More than just another mystery. This one grabs you by the heart" -Review by Karen Laird of Under the Shade Tree Blog. The first murder of a child raised eyebrows; the second raised alarms. Ten-year-old...

PEGGY SUE AND THE CRICKETS is a Sunday afternoon conversation between an up and coming twenty-something and his conversationally blunt grandmother. RIME follows a young man and a young woman on the back half of a date gone wrong. They can't say what they feel out loud, but do their best to remain...

In the nineteen fifties, ELI LEVIN, a brilliant teenage pianist born with a serious heart defect and not expected to live past the age of thirty, meets KRISSY PORTER on a visit to a small town in the Southeast. They play piano duets, talk about baseball, eat banana splits. A budding romance is ended...

In 1964, at age fourteen, Calvin moves with his family to sunny San Diego, leaving behind two feet of snow back in Chicago. On his first trip to the ocean, he discovers what he believes to be a spent water flare and, bringing it home to see how it was put together, discovers that it is still loaded,...

I've always imagined A Long Thaw as a modern interpretation of the old prince and the pauper story. Abby and Juliet are cousins who, until the age of ten, live the same privileged, sheltered lives in a big Irish Catholic family. When Juliet's parents divorce, her mother moves across the country...

The first of six sports-car racing stories about Woody Hartford, a young racing enthusiast, and his car—the Black Tiger. From the moment 17-year-old Woody Hartford laid eyes on the Black Tiger, he knew the car was special. But when her owner dies in a horrible racing accident, the...

Aidan Quinn is having a good day, possibly the best day of his life, at least since moving to Dublin. He just received word that his degree committee approved his PhD and he's on his way home, with lamb chops, chard, and a bottle of wine. Time to celebrate in the little cottage he shares with his...

Indie Book of the Day Award Winner, 2nd October 2014! Brina and Eagan meet for the first time when she's nine and he's fourteen. They like each other from the very beginning, although their bond isn't immediate, but it grows over the years. What links them is the fact that their parents are...

Arthur Cooper is the star quarter back and all round heartthrob of Collinswood High School. Demi Mitchell is the A-student girl who likes poetry and dreams of following in her lost mother's footsteps of becoming a nurse. When Arthur and Demi's worlds collide they touch each others lives in a way neither...

Most every morning now, Tom found his way outside to the rocker to watch the sun rise. The first piercings of morning amethyst and pink inevitably brought joy, as did the frogs and birds chirping in the distance, chatting the morning news of coming winter. And the old broken chinaberry tree stared...

Thousands of campfires twinkle in the night like so many fireflies waiting to swarm. The city of Harkham is less than a day's march away and already the countryside is in flames and chains. Isolde and Harald have seen the bloodlust and utter chaos brought on by Hrothgar and it must end now. But...

Selkie Moon's business card should read Reluctant Psychic. Travelling the world to run business seminars, she's drawn into solving mystical mysteries that spring from the local folklore. Armed with psychic twinges that are hardly reliable, she must untangle the truth from the superstition...