Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Where were you in ’78? Edgewater County favorite son Ray DeKalb, a nineteen-year old child of Southern privilege and enrolled at Southeastern University, thinks he's nowhere. Ray chafes at his family's expectations, and the life they’ve prepackaged for him like a supermarket TV...

"It’s time to stop running and face your past. Because until you do, you will never be able to change. And this is all about change." "Under the Cloud" is the story of Carol McMillan – a successful fashion model whose life takes an unexpected turn after a car accident...

It's Suzanne's 13th birthday, and Daisy is shocked and saddened to learn that she's never had a birthday party. So she sets out to give her one, complete with a cake, ice cream, soda, and balloons. But when Suzanne's mother shows up, the party's over. A poignant coming of age story where good will and alcoholism collide. This is a short story.

Der unschuldige Blick eines Kindes - und Fremde, die Unheil bringen ... Jexville, Mississippi, Sommer 1963: Die Ankunft von Fremden stört das ruhige und sichere Leben auf dem Land. Eine geheimnisvolle Sekte lässt sich im Dorf nieder, eine weiß verschleierte Frau irrt durch die Nacht und ein Baby...

Wouldn't it be nice to know what everyone is really thinking? What's truly important to them? Who they like? Who they don't? What's true and what's not? Who they are when nobody's watching? Their deepest, darkest secrets?When two fourteen-year-old girls take a...

Much has been written about every aspect of the Bakken oil boom--the dirt, the danger, the exploitation, the money. Every aspect but love. Hard Road Home explores the aftermath of a chance encounter between two people, each driven by their own demons as they forge ahead toward very different dreams....

"Clautschi" wächst in der Nachkriegszeit in Wien auf, zusammen mit ihrer älteren Schwester und ihrer Mutter, einer Psychoanalytikerin der ersten Stunde und Kommunistin jüdischer Herkunft. Sie ist hin- und hergerissen zwischen dem Stolz auf die intellektuelle, "bessere" Herkunft einer anerkannten und...

Neues von den "Jungsmusik"-Helden: Die Coming-of-Age-Saga um eine Clique sympathisch verpeilter Heavy-Metal-Fans geht in die nächste Runde. Mit Macht fallen Leben und Tod ein ins provinzielle Metal-Idyll. Torben hat mal wieder Stress: Statt seiner Freundin Lucy eine gemeinsame Wohnung vorzuschlagen,...

Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene. Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best...

Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains--but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story. Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa...

From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing roadtrip. Whistling past the graveyard. That’s what Daddy...

“McMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold.” — New York Times Book Review The Last Picture Show (1966) is both a rambunctious coming-of-age story and an elegy to a forlorn Texas town trying to keep its one movie house alive. Adapted into the Oscar-winning film,...

We Kiss Them With Rain is Futhi Ntshingila's debut novel in North America. This coming-of-age story uses a comedy-style plot where individual identities are hidden from each other and offer a believable and hopeful outcome for Mvelo, the protagonist, whose story starts with tragedy but ends...

Structured around the poetry of Milosz and nocturnes of Chopin, "Polska, 1994" follows seventeen-year-old Magda's quest through her past. In a provincial town that feels desperately too small, this coming-of-age story revisits oppression and loss behind the grim Iron Curtain, and the many...