Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

First Runner Up in the 2018 Eric Hoffer Award! A fast-moving page turner in the YA category, this book will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers regardless of age. Travel to Slovenia and experience the intriguing adventure of Wilber Jensen: The strange and vivid dream that Wilber had as a young...

A witty, heartfelt novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival of an extraordinary young talent. Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. He doesn't quite fit in. Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on...

“They say the city never sleeps. It does. Just before dawn you can hear it snore. Light hangs in the air, directionless, not yet pressed into rays. The smell of a hidden sea soaks through stone. The streets themselves have that booming emptiness of a shell held to the ear. Everyone is dreaming....

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...

Jake was the ultimate big brother: cool, suave with the girls, tough, and a Vietnam veteran. Peter, the younger brother, was always the “good kid,” eventually becoming a monk at St. John’s Abbey. But they came of age on the North Dakota plains at a time when sex, drugs, and rock & roll blasted onto the prairie. Thirty years later, neither brother can escape his past.

When Aubrey Swann walks in Madame Fattora's side door for composition lessons, he enters a world of imagination. She insists he learn proper rules of harmony, but the outside world makes even stronger demands. Georgiann Baldino's short fiction captures the joy and difficulty of creativity while the main character comes of age.

Lucy Lawerence is a beautiful and talented singer and composer and has been called a prodigy from an early age. She has a friend, Gracie Romani, whom she has known since the first grade. Gracie has had a rough life living with parents who are too busy with their business to pay any attention to her....

Seb and his younger brother Bart customarily spend all of their long summer holiday in Spain, with their grandparents. Gradually, as they all become older, relationships are strained, as the old folk try to find things to keep the boys amused.It is not long before the grandfather, Tumbler, who is...

The early sixties was a time of making love, not war. Kathleen finds love and starts a war with her family. **Four Sisters **is a story rich in the relationships of Kathleen Williams' life. Kathleen discovers her sexuality in the sixties. She's different from other girls her age and afraid...

Because there are two sides to every story…I’ve never been the guy who shied away from taking the ball. I’m an athlete, I thrive on the court, and I thrive in life because like on the court, I don’t shy away from taking chances.Except that one time.Except with Rachel.I...

Four novels dealing with a broad range of gay experience—from the “gifted” author of Gods and Monsters, the basis for the Academy Award–winning film (The Advocate). Whether Christopher Bram is writing about the director of Frankenstein in Gods and Monsters or the characters in the four...

Every dream has a cost. A lifelong ambition. A secret affair. Something has to give. For Rebecca Taylor, music is her life, and with the help of her record producer stepfather she is determined to make it her future. By the age of seventeen, the talented young singer and songwriter is...

More than 20 million Americans came of age in the mid-1970s. Contains references to events and experiences shared by the last of the Baby Boomers. The Baby Boomer target readership controls over 80% of personal financial assets and more than 50% of discretionary spending power. The...

In an near future, humankind is waiting for the crash with the biggest asteroid ever hitting the Earth since the age of dinosaurs. So the most pressing problem for the eighteen year old Giorgio is a raging father and a weak mother who make his life a misery. The boy’s plan is thorough: to find a...