Coming Of Age

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Summer in Paris

Michele A. Bell

Kenzie Williams feels like she has it all; wealth, friends, popularity and talent. But when her father tells her that he has declared bankruptcy, her whole world in New York City turns upside down. Her parents' solution while they sor...

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Published: Jun 2010

Lie With Me: A Novel

Philippe Besson

"I remember the movement of his hips pressing against the pinball machine. This one sentence had me in its grip until the end. Two young men find each other, always fearing that life itself might be the villain standing in their ...

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Published: Apr 2020

Wish Me Home

Kay Bratt

In her first work of contemporary women's fiction, bestselling author Kay Bratt draws on her own life experiences to create a raw, yet inescapably warm, novel about friendship and a wary heart's unexpected capacity to love.A hungry, s...

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Published: Mar 2017

We Need New Names: A Novel

Noviolet Bulawayo

A remarkable literary debut -- shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize! The unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and to America.Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and vi...

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Published: May 2014

The Color of Water in July

Nora Carroll

It's been a long seventeen years since Jess last saw her grandmother or visited the family cottage set on an idyllic lake in Northern Michigan. For all that time, she's been haunted by loss—of her innocence and her ability to trust ...

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Published: Aug 2015

From Rockaway

Jill Eisenstadt

Timmy and Chowderhead and Peg are lifeguards. They spend summers sitting in those tall chairs, smoking dope and staring at the waves, swatting insects, tormenting seagulls. Winters they work shit jobs like unloading trucks at Mickey'...

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Published: Apr 2017

Juliet the Maniac

Juliet Escoria

"Dazzling..."—The New York TimesVoted by both Bustle and Nylon as a most anticipated novel of 2019, this portrait of a young teenager's fight toward understanding and recovering from mental illness is shockingly honest, funny, and h...

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Published: May 2019

The Education of Dixie Dupree

Donna Everhart

IndieNext Pick  \r\n\r\nIn 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. Sometimes the lies are for her mama, Evie’s sake—to explain away a bruise brought on by her quick-as-lightning temper....

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Published: Oct 2016

The Road to Bittersweet

Donna Everhart

Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative account of a young woman reckoning not just with the unforgiving landscape, but with the rocky emotional terrain that leads from innocence ...

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Published: Dec 2017

The Panopticon

Jenni Fagan

Named one of Granta's Best of Young British NovelistsAnais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a police car. She is headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders. She can't remember what's happened, but across town a...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Funeral Dress

Susan Gregg Gilmore

A deeply touching Southern story filled with struggle and hope.     Emmalee Bullard and her new baby are on their own. Or so she thinks, until Leona Lane, the older seamstress who sat by her side at the local shirt factory where b...

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Published: Sep 2013

A Hundred Other Girls: A Novel

Iman Hariri-Kia

"You'll love this insightful—and incredibly fun—deep-dive into media and sisterhood." —Marie Claire For fans of The Devil Wears Prada and The Bold Type comes a smart, modern story about the shifting media ...

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Published: Aug 2022

Housebreaking

Colleen Hubbard

Following a long-standing feud and looking to settle the score, a woman decides to dismantle her home—alone and by hand—and move it across a frozen pond during a harsh New England winter in this mesmerizing debut. Home i...

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Published: Apr 2022

Dryland

Sara Jaffe

Sara Jaffe's engrossing debut novel, Dryland, is a smart coming-of-age novel that charts the murky waters of adolescence.Anything can happen when Julie hits the water. It's 1992, and the world is caught up in the HIV/AIDS epidemic and...

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Published: Sep 2015

A Time To Wander

Nf Johnson

Two college kids on two different roads.Save for the one they share.An email exchange between former college lovers takes them back to their college years at Kent State, the 1970s. The Vietnam War is raging. Anti-war rallies hit the b...

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Published: Feb 2019

The Map of Salt and Stars

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker's apprentice�...

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Published: Mar 2019

The Incendiaries: A Novel

R. O. Kwon

Now a National Bestseller"Religion, politics, and love collide in this slim but powerful novel reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History, with menace and mystery lurking in every corner." --People Magazine"The most buzzed-about ...

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Published: Jul 2019

The People We Keep

Allison Larkin

BOOK RIOT’S BEST BOOKS OF 2021 “This is a novel of great empathy, about connections and coming-of-age, built families and self-acceptance. It contains heartbreak and redemption, and a plucky, irresistible protagonist....

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Published: Jun 2022

Marilla of Green Gables

Sarah McCoy

A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cu...

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Published: Oct 2019

The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico

Sarah McCoy

It is 1961 and Puerto Rico is trapped in a tug-of-war between those who want to stay connected to the United States and those who are fighting for independence. For eleven-year-old Verdita Ortiz-Santiago, the struggle for independenc...

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Published: Aug 2010

On Chesil Beach (Movie Tie-In Edition...

Ian McEwan

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, and Samuel WestEngland, 1962: Florence and Edward are celebrating their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast. Yet as they dine, the expectation...

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Published: May 2018

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep: A ...

H. G. Parry

The ultimate book-lover's fantasy, this sparkling debut is a "delight of magic and literature, love and adventure" (Kat Howard) featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world. For his e...

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Published: Jan 2020

The Buried Book

D. M. Pulley

When Althea Leary abandons her nine-year-old son, Jasper, he's left on his uncle's farm with nothing but a change of clothes and a Bible.It's 1952, and Jasper isn't allowed to ask questions or make a fuss. He's lucky to even have a ho...

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Published: Aug 2016

The Sisters of Glass Ferry

Kim Michele Richardson

From theNew York TimesandUSA Todaybestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, a haunting story set deep in moonshine country, where love, loss, redemption and atonement intersect in the dark secrets surrounding a 1952 p...

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Published: Nov 2017

The Shadow Year

Hannah Richell

Still grieving the death of her prematurely delivered infant, Lila finds a welcome distraction in renovating a country house she's recently inherited. Surrounded by blueprints and plaster dust, though, she finds herself drawn into the...

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Published: May 2014

The Unknowns: A Novel

Gabriel Roth

Eric Muller has been trying to hack the girlfriend problem for half his life. As a teenage geek, he discovered his gift for programming computers-but his attempts to understand women only confirm that he's better at writing code than ...

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Published: May 2014

A Loving, Faithful Animal

Josephine Rowe

"A Loving, Faithful Animal lured me in with astonishing, poetic prose... But the true thrill of the novel is the carousel of haunting characters Josephine Rowe creates with unbelievable precision. An unflinching look at the ways ...

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Published: Sep 2017

Ana of California

Andi Teran

A modern take on the classic coming-of-age novel, inspired by Anne of Green GablesIn the grand tradition of Anne of Green Gables, Bridget Jones's Diary, and The Three Weissmanns of Westport, Andi Teran's captivating debut novel offers...

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Published: Jun 2015

Five Ways to Fall

K. a. Tucker

Sometimes you can't change—and sometimes you just don't want to. Discover Ben's side of the story in this fourth novel by the beloved, top-selling indie author praised for her "likeable characters, steamy liaisons, and surprisi...

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Published: Jun 2014

Four Seconds to Lose

K. a. Tucker

I believe you don't have years, or months, or weeks to impact a person's life. You have seconds. Seconds to win them over, and seconds to lose them.Owning a strip club isn't the fantasy most guys expect it to be. With long hours, a st...

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Published: Apr 2014
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