Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Cynthia Sanders'' life had been a fairy tale up until the day her father brought home a new stepmother and her two stepsisters. Being a modern-day Cinderella never felt more complicated, especially when there are not one, but two princes in the picture, a sentimental fairy godmother, and a queen of...

From the award-winning author of Music Through the Floor and Model Home, a riveting and profoundly moving story collection by a writer “uncannily in tune with the heartbreak and absurdity of domestic life” (Los Angeles Times). A boy on the edge of adolescence fears his mother might be a...

This spellbinding story introduces the unforgettable seventeen-year-old narrator, Luke Prescott, who has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy by his divorced New Age mother, a religious grandmother, and two precocious half-sisters. Having spent a short lifetime swinging agreeably between the poles...

If youve ever used the phrase rags to riches, you owe that to Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899), who popularized the idea through his fictional writings that also served as a theme for the way America viewed itself as a country. Algers works about poor boys rising to better living conditions through...

Evie Brooks is trapped in a relationship she can't seem to escape. Her secrets go beyond the black eyes and the breaking heart. She's dropped out of college, forced to quit her job and avoiding the questions her friends and family so desperately want answer to. Evie knows what she needs. What she...

The unnamed narrator of this slim, alluring novel recalls a summer spent at age sixteen on an idyllic Italian island off the coast of Naples in the 1950s, where he spends his days with Nicola, a local fisherman. The narrator falls in love with Caia, who shares with him that she’s Jewish, saved by...

An award-winning fiction debut about the value of friendships in present-day Singapore—a surprising and powerful portrait of Asia that shows the unique blend of modern and traditional cultures coming together—for fans of Elena Ferrante and Emma Cline. “I am Miss Frankenstein, I am the...

Seven Conversations is a thought experiment on life and existence. The characters might be fictitious but their questions are not. What happens when we choose happiness over convenience? For Meera Sachdev, choosing a divorce at an early age of thirty over a comfortable and convenient life was a leap...

"It's like carrying around a backpack. It's heavy and it's on your shoulders. It hurts. It weighs you down."The world has just come down around Mae. Her father unexpectedly died, and her despondent mother has no other choice but to take Mae and her two sisters to live with their loving but unprepared...

The American 1950s--a simpler, more innocent age? Not for an awkward, nerdy kid like Art Dennison. As Art grows up with a father who can explode at any time and a mother who just doesn't fit the required role, his life sometimes feels surreal. The "pieces" of this slyly humorous, compassionate...

Strong candidate to garner attention as a 'Debut Author' due to Lanier's capacity for crafting mature, morally complex narratives with palpable narrative pull. Her complex world-view is shocking given her young age. Capable of blending gut-wrenching, dirty realism with the savvy wit of a Jezebel.com...

One day, Draxar and Gracie Cura decided to try for one last child. What they hatched is a male they named Khayaddi Khospir. They decided to raise this child different from the others by raising him themselves, instead of a foreign crown. They really did this because they had to hide him from that...

• TV and book series that follow a group of main characters through high school (Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) have experienced enormous success in recent years. • More than 50 million women in the US came of age during the time period the majority...

A profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing. You don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought...