Narrative theme: Coming of age Books

TRADE PAPERBACK - 526 pages: A FAMILY ROMANCE is a novel duology. Two converging stories, first separately published as "What the Tiger Said" and "Nebraska's Map," subsume themes from William Blake's poetry, search among the mysteries and manners of...

The year is 1965, and Jack Timins, born and raised Catholic and educated for twelve years in Catholic schools, is going out into the big, wide, secular world. After his summer job as an assistant manager at a municipal pool, Jack is off to college...

Clem Whelan's got a problem: trapped in the suburbs in the Sunnyboy summer of 1984 he has to decide what to do with his life. Matriculation? He's more than able, but not remotely interested. Become a writer? His failed lawyer neighbour Peter encourages...

Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories,...

The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works and offer keys to understanding the themes in his longer works. Contained in this volume are the short...

"This book will make you laugh and cry in public." --Larry Doyle, author of I Love You, Beth CooperJessica Anya Blau's passionate and poignant debut novel of one girl's coming of age in 1970s southern California, replete with stoners, hippies, surfers,...

"A gay coming-of-age story that's rip-roaringly funny and sympathetic."--People David Sedaris and Sandra Bernhard rolled into one, Mike Albo offers his own unique, witty, and touching tale on being young, single, and gay in today's media-obsessed culture...

"The innocence of childhood collides with the stark aftermath of war in this wrenching and ultimately redemptive tale of family, seemingly impossible choices, and the winding paths to destiny, which sometimes take us to places far beyond our imaginings."...

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a book not to miss by USA Today * Chicago Sun-Times * New York Post"Deeply involving....Rings so true." -- Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of RoomFrom the international bestselling author of Secret Daughter and...

Discrimination, war in Europe, a pandemic. . .Sofiya, a young Ukrainian immigrant, experiences all of this and more. It could be 2022, but it's Manitoba in the early 1900s. Sofiya is the third consecutive girl born on a poor homestead near Gimli in 1903...

Aren't dreams meant to be pursued? Are dreams worth the pain and dedication it takes? The ups and downs of life, for your dream. Eric and his friends, Jeremy, Jacqueline, and Angelo, all have dreams they are seeking. Basketball, acting and modeling,...

The Story Elsadore Spook Wrote charts two young girls' lives. They embark on a journey that takes them across a vast land with many obstacles, and many ups and downs. As the generations expand, there is a new light cast across the four states, an...

The Silver Orchid is a coming of age adventure that takes place during the late 1960s during a period where bullying, drug use, hippies, juvenile delinquency, and free sex are prevalent.Despite his over the top Genius IQ, all 15 year old Donny Lord...

Poverty and war were the two horrors that faced two young girls, but resilience and hope in what they believed set them on their separate paths.Pimchan was born into poverty in Thailand. At fifteen she began work in a Bangkok sweatshop but her pursuit of...

An aspiring nurse's coming-of-age tale, and the two men who would help sculpt it. A burgeoning career is intersected by a junior baseball star, and an outdoorsy paramedic.Strong female personalities help shape her worldview. Michelle Winters struggles to...

Being a grownup at any point that isn't the 'best of times' is pretty fucking vicious, regardless of who you know or what you own. It's the human condition.As an adult human who's ever felt exhausted, deflated, sad, confused, lost, horny, isolated,...

At age 10, Luisa is separated from her birth country and family when she is adopted and transported from Colombia to Canada. Seven years later Luisa still has questions. Why did her mamá die of pneumonia when antibiotics could have saved her? Why did her...