Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

We were all children once. Take this winding path through childhood past and present. A boy living in a coastal town in WWII and longing for father to come home. A bunch of kids stumble on a famous star having a holiday. A farming family find themselves in a flood. Three siblings decide to take on and...

Listless, bored, alienated, and mistrustful, Trace Patterson has finished his first year of university and is living with a drunken aunt in North Van. He divides his nights between slasher films and high school house parties. When two old buddies resurface, however—one in a psych ward, and the other...

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...

The Omni Story That Sold To Universal Studios. A high-powered executive is about to lose his estranged teenage daughter to critical burn wounds and only desperate measures may save her life. “Tomorrow’s Child” started out as a medical documentary for the 3M Company, became a lead...

*Being a prince can be fun… …it can also get you killed.* When you're 15 years old, with the kingdom at your feet, there isn't time to learn the ropes. Prince Kendryk has found the life he had dreamed of isn't all glory. He trusts his advisors, but are they plotting against him?  Wisdom...

Linear; part of The Half-Breeds series.In a world full of Daemon and Celestial Half-Breeds, it was only a matter of time before the tales of another were to be told:New Zealander, Kristen Monroe, hardly makes any mistakes and has always had ‘luck’ on her side. Of course, it helps that she...

Born in a small town in rural south-west Georgia and placed in a foster home after being orphaned at five. Those were the bare bones words to describe Robert’s first years. He is big for his age and hard to place, but after too many years, he is finally one of the lucky ones to be picked as a potential...

What happens when you take two sisters stuck in middle age and join them with two sisters struggling to enter adulthood and stir them all together in the cauldron of life's trials? This novel picks up the story of Brooke and Leah Fulcher now in their fifties and adds Jodie and Penni, Brooke's daughters, to their mix, creating emotional entanglements beyond the sum of those parts.

Mae Carpenter is an aspiring author by day, burger slinger by night and twenty-four-hour imposter. Yep, her daily to-do list consists of serving rude customers, smiling for chump change, and dreaming about being the next J.K. Rowling. **#NotTheGlamorousLifeSheExpected** Tired of slinging burgers...

On the eve of their thirtieth birthday, twin brothers Jake and Zack Hind—bankrupt from the recession and obsessed with the lost golden era of the 1990s—drunkenly create a Kickstarter crowdfunding page for ’90s ISLAND, a tropical commune dedicated to recreating that beloved, carefree decade....

Elizabeth Stein, seventeen, is an uneasy survivor. Back from a year of madness, she finds that everyone she knows is falling apart and the questions she asks seem to have no answers. But the past--including the year it rained--must be untangled. Her father, a well-known Hollywood biographer,...

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...

This story, for ages 6 to 11, will transfix modern readers of similar age to those in the story of little Carolyn and her brother and sisters in 1930's South Dakota. In fact, it should be of interest to all ages!

Spanning forty years and two continents, Lost Birds weaves a tale of Irene Matas and her friends, who arrive as children in Chicago after the Second World War and begin to puzzle out what it means to be American. These interconnected stories follow the residents on Talman Street who fled the Soviet...