Coming Of Age category: 7169 books

“An inventive and powerful coming of age story about the search for community and all the ways our ties to one another come undone. Jon Pineda has a poet’s eye for the details of this vivid, haunting landscape, and he brings it blazingly to life.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation With...

Max Stravagar is a world leading expert an authoritative on subjects of modern crime family and crimes against humanity, he is also the recipient of a Hampton Book Award for discovery 2018. “A powerful and inspirational must read…nothing like it” - DWS, USA Today Thoughts from...

In the 1950s, growing up took place outside, with new suburban neighborhoods as the backdrop. One group of boys led by “Cowboy” filled their summer days with games and explored the outskirts of their neighborhood, leading them to the haunted house that would serve as a hideout for years.As the boys...

Max Stravagar is a world leading expert an authoritative on subjects of modern crime family and crimes against humanity, he is also the recipient of a Hampton Book Award for discovery 2018. “A powerful and inspirational must read…nothing like it” - DWS, USA Today Thoughts from...

An unforgettable, nightmarish coming-of-age story set in rural Austria towards the end of World War II. It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For thirteen-year-old Ursula Hildesheim, life in the village of Felddorf remains almost as it was: bullied...

"Summertime Blues" by B. R. Fleming follows the coming-of-age story of Peter Bennings during the '60's as he weaves his way through high school and the sturm und drang of the teenage years. The novel simultaneously traces the “British invasion” and the emergence of the relatively new...

Coming of age can be an adventure. No one knows this better than William James Tillit, an abandoned child from east Texas raised by his loving aunt and uncle, devout evangelical siblings who are determined to do their best by their young nephew. Will has his own conversations with God, but his god sounds...

Turnabout is an ironic coming-of-age novel about a shy and bashful nerd of a 15-year old high school student who inadvertently sees one of his teachers accidentally kill another teacher and then blackmails the theacher to make him into a better person, academically and sociallyTurnabout is...

A searing coming-of-age graphic novel reminiscent of Richard Ford's short stories that took the author more than seven years to create. "A masterpiece in black and white."--L'Humanité Part of the Sélection Officielle Angoulême 2018 Winner of the Carlo Boscarato Prize 2016 Winner...

The classic coming-of-age story set during World War II about the enduring spirit of youth and the values in life that count. In the summer of 1944, Frank Arnold, a wealthy shipbuilder in Mobile, Alabama, receives his volunteer commission in the U.S. Navy and moves his wife, Ann, and seventeen-year-old...

Legendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching coming-of-age novel set in 1930s America. Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandoned—again—by his father,...

A brilliant and moving coming-of-age story in the tradition of Wonder by R. J. Palacio and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon—this debut novel is written with tremendous humor and charm.   This is Alex’s story. But he doesn’t know exactly what it’s about yet,...

Includes chapters 128 through 201 from the online serial Daron's Guitar Chronicles: a story of rock and roll, coming out, and coming of age in the 1980s.

In Girl Walking Backwards, Skye wants what all teenagers want--to survive high school. She lives in Southern California, though, which is making that difficult. Her mother has fallen victim to the pseudo-New Age culture and insists on dragging her to consciousness-raising workshops and hypnotists....