Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

In America, not believing in God is anti-American, isn’t it? At fifty years of age, Roman Carr, whose real name is Romain Carrier, has made it. His television series In Gad We Trust, a scathing satire of the United States and its relationship with God, is a huge hit. He is carving out an...

‘Four girls sit on rocks in the middle of the stream: a dark plump girl; a girl whose hair burgeons from her head in a mane of light; another with long white legs and short black shorts, clipped jet hair; a willowy branch of a girl, blonde. The sun shines though green leaves, glancing off chestnut...

Thirteen-year-old Conor Kelman loves Wylina. Next on the list is Sport, an Australian Shepherd mix. But things are taken away. Moved around the country like a bag of groceries, he faces heartbreak in a new town with nothing to ease the pain but a pawnshop guitar and the ghost that comes...

Dora: A Headcase is a contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freud’s famous case study-retold and revamped through Dora's point of view, with shotgun blasts of dark humor and sexual play.Ida needs a shrink . . . or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately...

Set in north Texas, and the Southwest in general, this coming-of-age novel pits a protagonist with a traditional, rural background, against the "sophistication" of Dallas in the late 1960s. The title character, Trotter, falls for a woman about to be married, and must deal with that rejection....

The Domino Effect is the story of Danny Rorro, a charismatic kid from Queens poisoned by the past. A series of painful defeats have left him scarred and isolated from his neighborhood, his parents, and, most significantly, the benevolent ways of his childhood when he was known as “Domino.” With...

“Writing in a fervently literary style that flirts openly with the traditions of Salinger, Plath, and Fitzgerald, Hernández is a diamond-sharp satirist and a bracingly fresh chronicler of the heartbreak of trying to grow up. Honest and absurd, funny and tragic, wild and lovely, this novel describes...

The highly acclaimed author of Stop That Girl delivers a masterfully plotted debut novel–at once a mystery of identity, sly literary satire, and coming-of age story–capturing a young man’s impossible and heroic first love. Twenty-two-year-old MacGregor West, orphaned as a boy, is on a...

When a boy with something to prove finds a loaded gun. On the cusp of becoming a man, Lincoln Banks lives as an outcast in the neighborhood of North Long Beach, California. His devoted mother has sacrificed years of hard work to relocate them, but days prior to moving, Lincoln roams the neighborhood with a single bullet in search of what he’s really made of.

Alissa's life changed when she found the Codex of the Red Spider. The knowledge bequeathed to her by the goddess transformed every aspect of her existence. But this Halloween, Alissa will learn that there's a price to pay for the goddess' favor.This is a 9.5K short story, complete in one short read....

Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep meets Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, this daringly imagined, atmospheric, and original debut is part coming-of-age story and part supernatural tale about teenage girls learning their own strength. Daringly imagined, atmospheric, and original, Wild Girls is an...

Sent to live in the humidity of rural Florida with his grandparents and his sixteen-year-old Aunt Delia for the summer, twelve-year-old Travis becomes absorbed in the closed ways of small-town life. Captivated by Delia, Travis watches her attempt to find a place for herself in the socially stunted,...

Hear What the Critics are Saying"Wow, what an Amazing Book for young adults; truly inspirational, very entertaining and highly thought provoking. Happiness Falls is by far one of the best books to have come out in a long time."-Mary Jones – Valley Daily News“Happiness Falls...

Hear What the Critics are Saying"Wow, what an Amazing Book for young adults; truly inspirational, very entertaining and highly thought provoking. Across Time is by far one of the best books to have come out in a long time."-Mary Jones – Valley Daily News“Across Time is a book...