Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

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 hard...

Black Mirror meets Bridget Jones in this whip-smart debut set in a world where the ultimate matchmaking app has redefined romance. Twenty-nine-year-old Anna is smart, vivacious, and in the midst of a complete existential meltdown. Sure, from the outside everything in her life seems to be going...

The story revolves around the lives of five sisters, the Lisbon girls. The people living in their community are quite fascinated by the acts of these five sisters because they can’t explain for their acts.There are five daughters in the family and they are Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Mary, and...

Did we skip the weekend? Do you find it difficult to wake up on Monday mornings? Oh, No. Not Monday again! Just like you, many of us employed people feel the same. Right from waking up, to travelling to work, to the first half of the day, it seems to be a drag on Mondays. This Monday feeling reaches...

Thirteen-year old Nic Delano has a lot of questions. Like why does he have a babysitter at his age. And where did she get such long legs? Why do people die of stupid things all the time?His mother, an American astrophysicist and atheist, has always encouraged Nic to ask questions. But lately she doesnt...

LITTLE WOMEN THE TWELVE IN ONE SET This Set Includes All Of The Following Stories Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy Good Wives Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out Old Fashion Girl Jack And Jill Eight Cousins The Abbots Ghost Behind A Mask Or Women’s...

Poor Billy Green! When he was just turning four, his father tried to throw him in the trash. He was a smart kid but that just seemed to create enemies. His mom did everything to protect him. But this was Detroit, armpit of the wasteland! Catholic school didn’t help much, except the time he got his...

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 hard...

Charity Eleanor Sintz likes girls better than boys but this is the least of her problems. The year is 1972, Tricky Dick is in the White House, and four-year-old Charity has managed to offend the better part of Roosevelt County, Indiana, by not crying at her mother’s funeral. Charity learns at a...

Age 24, Samuel Baas is a romantic and virgin who wants love and marriage before sex. After moving from staid New England to the hothouse world of Miami, he falls in love with Kate, the college girl he wants to marry. She isn’t interested in becoming anyone’s little wife. For her, sex is recreational. A...

The Lake on Fire is an epic narrative that begins among 19th century Jewish immigrants on a failing Wisconsin farm. Dazzled by lore of the American dream, Chaya and her strange, brilliant, young brother Asher stowaway to Chicago; what they discover there, however, is a Gilded Age as empty a façade...

Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father’s business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter’s proper upbringing, James Houghton buys a theatre. Among the travelling performers he employs is Ciccio, a sensual...

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 hard...

Liz was gifted with extraordinary discernment, the ability to see into the near future, and to heal by touch. Liz was abused for as long as she can remember. She came into the world shrouded in heartbreak. She grew as a child in a haze of cruelty. She came of age in a cloak of hope. Refusing...