Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Cat Ramsey has the perfect life -- a home in the suburbs, a loving family, the sexiest guy in school living next door. And then it all changes: Her father's drinking shifts from the occasional beer it used to be...into a dangerous dependency which threatens them all. He becomes loud. He...

From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl—the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl—growing up in golden-age Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early...

"A clear poetic sensibility built to stand against the forces of erasure."-The Wall Street Journal"Lebedev takes his place beside Solzhenitsyn and other great writers who have refused to abide by silence."-Kirkus ReviewsFrom the critically acclaimed author of Oblivion comes Year of the...

Two complete books in one  In the first book, Revelations, you will meet a group that aren’t just your everyday ordinary townsfolk. In West lakes, there are packs, covens, vampire families, and groups of seers that are always at odds with one another. What happens when two totally different...

If you’ve read any of the short stories in the Tilly and Elmer series, you may have wondered how much more adventuresome Tilly and Elmer must have been as teenagers. Now it can be revealed! In the Tilly and Elmer FlashbackX series, our favorite sexagenarians describe, in sometimes hilarious and...

(Character ages 8-12) Three short stories about coming of age: "Waves", "Winter's Garden" and "Fishing for Kisses." Were you ever a tomboy? Did you wish you could change your position in the family? Did you have your heart broken at an early age by your best friend? Then...

“This is not just a luminescent work, it is a transcendent and transformative one. Jill Malone finds and plays the desperate times of the teenaged years like an old Gibson. The reader is instantly, effortlessly, back in those halls of high school, the auditoriums and locker rooms and gyms, the whispered...

Florida farm boys and childhood friends Ian and Paul are each proud drunks and even prouder womanizers by the age of 15. They plow through this lifestyle with unrepentant delight, ignoring its hazards and without any sympathy for the girls they use.This all changes when college separates the duo,...

It’s the summer of Woodstock and the Moon landing, but for sixteen-year-old Nate, vacationing with his family on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, the real excitement is considerably closer to home. The Establishment’s in serious trouble when long-lost “Aunt” Penny shows up for a visit....

Faces Behind The Dust changes are coming to this coal mining community. Now that ClaraBys father has retired from the mines, she and her family are preparing to move out of the hollow. ClaraBywho is wrestling with the aches and pains of being a teenage girlis beside herself with joy at the possibility...

Conor Fallow sees his massive student loan debt as a barrier preventing him from achieving something meaningful with his life. As his senior year is coming to a close, however, he’s adopted an escapist attitude—picking up self-destructive habits and doing his best to ignore his future. While on a...

United by chance during their formative years at Barnard College, three women come of age in New York Minna Grant, Maud Noon, and Liz Becker are assigned as roommates during their freshman year at Barnard. The daughter of Communist parents, Liz makes a name for herself as a photographer. Minna,...

Cathy Callahan runs away at age ten to escape her mother’s abuse and find God, whom she first met in a Chicago public park when she was six. The next thirty years are a series of funny, brutal, and uplifting adventures that pit her humor and strength against the rage and confusion that make her...

For seventeen-year-old Jason Krabb, high school life in 1990s Idaho is a world of cargo shorts, cassette tapes, and junk food. Plagued equally by algebra and puberty, Jason sets out to find a girlfriend and become a rock guitarist. His quest is irreversibly jolted when he attends a bonfire and meets...