Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

Keeper of the House is an unforgettable novel narrated by the lively Minyon Manigault, a young black woman from a coastal South Carolina Gullah community. In 1929, due to mysterious family circumstances, Minyon is given up by her grandmother to the employment of Ariadne Fleming, a white madam in the...

The summer of 1969 was winding down. The warm air held a smell 13 year old Bobby Weston couldn't quite identify but nevertheless acquainted with going back to school. An end of summer smell, he decided. Or maybe an end of summer feeling. He couldn't make up his mind, and it really didn't matter, as...

In Britney King's powerful novel, reminiscent of the bestselling works of Cecelia Ahern and Jojo Moyes, comes a heartbreaking, yet beautiful tale about the lengths one will go to hold on to love. Jack Harrison is a relentless overachiever who leaves little in the way of compromise. A businessman...

It’s 1965. Twenty-two-year-old Linda Wise despairs of escaping her overprotective parents and her hometown, where far too many know she was sexually assaulted as a teenager. Deliverance arrives in the form of marriage to the charismatic, twenty-six-year-old Ronald Brunson, a newly ordained Methodist...

In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was awarded to two writers: Robert Stone and Thomas Williams. Yet only Stone's Dog Soldiers is still remembered today. That oversight is startling when considering the literary impact of The Hair of Harold Roux. A dazzlingly crafted novel-within-a-novel...

The World Convention push us all to encourage and celebrate life, not death, for they constantly remind us, they did give us the 18 year gift of a child in the first place. Three very different couples would accept their Third newborn (no prejudice, sexual orientation stereotyping) and raise...

“Townsend’s wit is razor sharp” as her self-proclaimed intellectual adolescent hero continues his hilarious angst-filled secret diary (*TheMirror*).** I can*’*t wait until I am fully mature and can make urban conversation with intellectuals. Growing up among inferiors in Great...

House of Payne: Twist   Tattooist. Artist. Dreamer. Angel had been a schoolgirl when she came to House Of Payne, a displaced princess with only a fanciful imagination to her name. Now the world clamors for her designs, but that means nothing to Goth tattooist, Twist. Long ago she craved...

Two boys exchange their clothes and their lives in Mark Twain's classic satiric comedy. They are the same age. They look alike. In fact, there is but one difference between them: Tom Canty is a child of the London slums; Edward Tudor is heir to the throne of England. Just how insubstantial...

Sometimes love kills. Sold by her parents at a young age to a malicious organization for the sole purpose of becoming an assassin, Camille's only expectations in life were to serve and die. That was what her organization, Ember, expected of her. That is all she expected of herself. That...

The essence of who we are lies not in what we have, but in what we are willing to give up. Because in the end, Time and Tide wait for no one.After sacrificing all that she had, the evil princess of the Underworld is still successful in her bid to tear Finn from Stasia’s life. In the midst of...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale In these ten richly layered and disturbing tales, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood author deftly illuminates the single moments that can shape an entire life. In a few brief pages we watch as characters progress from...

Two broken souls, two terrible secrets, one harrowing journey of loss, love and redemption... Since witnessing his dead's death in his family's Lancaster County cornfield at age fourteen, Samuel Hershberger has been running from his pain. Now, twenty-one and cast out of his family home for...

Bestselling British author Patrick Gale chronicles the misadventures of a misfit tree surgeon in this “modern-day myth of self-discovery” (The Guardian).   It was in the ancient cathedral city of Barrowcester that eight-year-old Lawrence Frost began his love affair with the trees that had “sprung...