Narrative theme: Coming of age Books

Lost in music and let down by faith, Kyle finds a relationfrom suburbia to the slums during his senior year of highschool, realizing any student could have reason to orchestratea school shooting-including himself.His adolescent mind is tested during the...

Yorkshire, 1914. Mary Lennox thought her world didn't need to extend past her aunt's secret garden after finally finding a home with her cousin, Colin, and her uncle at Misselthwaite nearly six years ago. But when war breaks out in Europe, Mary realizes...

A Reservoir Man, critics have hailed this explosive and timely work as "a must-read coming-of-age story of 2022." Twists and turns further pull the reader in to Michael's action-packed tale, with powerful themes, from betrayal and family to secrets...

Writer Lexa Frasier's seemingly perfect life takes a turn when an unexpected reunion takes her down a path of self-awakening. As the pages of her sequel progress, the pages of her past unravel, revealing family secrets that will turn her life upside down.

In the near future "Dystopian Kids" is set during the transition period between peace and civil strife. When the United States is taken over by a Socialist Administration that enlists the help of the United Nations to help take control of the...

The best-selling book "Soul-Tech," which explores the moral and spiritual ramifications of advanced technologies in various future societies, will take you on an exhilarating voyage into a world where technology and spirituality collide.Explore...

Abby is an ordinary seventeen-year-old living with her family in Northern California, or so she thinks.The night of her graduation, everything changes. After a strange accident, Abby wakes up to find she has been transported to another planet named Ozam,...

In the final book of the Tainted Love Saga, Sarah MacKenzie confronts the haunting shadows of her own transgressions, navigating a tumultuous journey through regret, redemption, and the complexities of self-forgiveness. The weight of her sins bears down...

As the daughter of the Alpha, Jessica was raised believing she was fully human. Her adoptive mother rescued her from a burning building and they've kept her safe ever since. She loves her family, but she is not a shifter. Something the other kids her age...

Sexualitetens och erotikens brännande koreografi är föremål för Tao Erikssons nervösa experiment. Inget han gör syns vara vad han föreställer sig som det normala. Å andra sidan skymtar allt tydligare...

Jerry Hansey was starting his senior year at George Harding high school. This is the time that most teenagers have looked forward to their entire life. It should have been filled with excitement and anticipation, but for Jerry it was the complete...

Through the dynamic interplay between memory and imagination, Stephen J. Groak explores his colorful childhood in 1970s West Auckland, New Zealand, in a collection of twenty-seven stand-alone short stories. With Nigel Sorenson as an alter ego, Groak...

Not many gay teens experience their journey of self-discovery on a national stage. Then again, not many high school seniors inherit a team in the National Football League. Welcome to the coming of age, coming out, gridiron novel, Ready ... Set .....

Circus Parade originally published in 1927, presents the sordid but albeit fascinating side of life traveling with a small-time circus life during the 1920s in America. From "The Moss-Haired Girl" to "Whiteface" the clown, Tully paints a vivid picture of...

A young, single mother gives birth to a baby boy at a western Nebraska ranch where she works as a housekeeper for a seasoned rancher, Ol' Man Sweeney. As Luke Wilson grows up, Sweeney takes him under his wing, teaching the boy all facets of running a...

She yearns to fit in. But if humans discover her secret, her life will be no fairytale.Elle Milford needs to keep her fairy heritage undercover. But after her wicked stepmother refuses to let her go to the royal ball with the fully human kids, the...

Astrid would rather blast off into space than suffer through her mental health struggles. Literally. Alongside astrophysicist and engineer, Doctor Barbara Loonsfoot, Astrid schemes and pilfers the components for a ship capable of reaching a...

Finally back together, Quinn and Riley have a simple goal: to get home. But nothing in this new world is simple and the journey forces them to face dangers and threats like never before. Can home still be the safe haven it once was? Or is nature...

Rose - a precocious young girl in 1930s Wisconsin - runs away from home to avoid going onto high school and what she sees as a certain path to marriage and motherhood. What she seeks is adventure. What she finds is much more. ---------- Rose is thrown...

Escape into a rich world of family intrigue and self-discovery that reaches across three centuries and across cultures. This unique tale draws us gently into itself but it also stimulates discussion about other important issues that remain current.At a...

Everyone deserves to feel safe. It's 1984. Superpowers for girls and women exist only on TV and in comics. Aileen Murphy struggles to make sense of her life in a working-class Scottish steel town. She dreams of escaping the sectarian bullying...

In this novel, A Water Lily Blooms, Andie enters college with high hopes, but once there she begins to suffer the anxieties of homesickness, a blistering schedule, constant disagreements with her mother, and the uncertainty of a possible stage career...

What happens when the loves in your life are on a collision course?And faith raises more questions than it answers?Ben and Harriet don't remember meeting each other. Their parents were friends long before either of them existed. An old photo proves there...

William Lucky stumbles into the chance of a lifetime when he meets racing car owner, Mr. Lovitz. Soon, he wins the most prestigious racing event of the year 1924, the Indy 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.Lucky’s fame expands. There is no...

Do you want to read This Side of Paradise? If so then keep reading...Dive into the incredible book which turned F. Scott Fitzgerald into a literary success overnight.This 1920's classic is Fitzgerald's debut novel, and follows the story of Amory Blaine,...

Rattled by a quake. Hammered by a wave. Dolphins love to play, but in the radioactive waters off Japan, is survival one game they're destined to lose?An epic natural disaster sees strangers Mako and Fusa swept onto the...

Bonded by love. Stalked by death. Amid the embers of nuclear ruin, can a pair of troubled strays trust humans in their fight to stay alive? All young dogs Ony and Belka want is a safe patch to start a family. But a devastating explosion at the...

An emotional, angsty, and gritty high school romance from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author L A Cotton.Celeste Rowe is lucky.At least, that's what everyone thinks. Rich, beautiful, and smart, she has it all.She...

Preston Whitley was the man the Devil ran from.D'yavol Smerti, that's what the Bratva called me. I had other names. To the Italians I was the Ghost. The Cartel, The Shadow. For others I was simply the solution to a problem. But for her, I was so much...

A loving and humorous coming-of-age tale of being raised by The Movie Queen.Everly Knight never caught on to the New Math or many other school subjects during her family's frequent moves. She was, however, up to date on Elizabeth Taylor's romances,...

How far would you go to save your last friendship? Octogenarian Benny Martin signed away his savings to live out his life in the Bile Street retirement community. When his daughter and grandson die in a car accident, Benny asks his best friend to...

Deserts. Rogues. A secret hidden in an underground maze.Every moment counts as Volke Savan races south to the city of New Norra. His goal: find Theasin Venrover, the famous artificer who may have a cure for the arcane plague. Separated from most of the...

In the dry heat of her Arizona home, feisty, Irish-Catholic Colleen Moretti, thrusts the letter that threatens her marriage into the back of a drawer. This is her default mode: ignore the fault lines until the tremors pass. But her husband Derek's...

"The Boy and the Lake is a poignant and haunting coming-of-age story ... a multifaceted, evocative and masterfully told tale." -Lynda Cohen Loigman, USA Today bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters"Pelzman excels at creating...

*Honorable Mention Recipient in the 2019 International Reader's Favorite Contest in the Fiction-Audiobooks Category*August Barton could never have mentally prepared himself for his freshman year of college: not only has his anxiety increased, but his...

Do you ever wonder why we do the things we do? What makes us so inclined to make the wrong choices? Are we captains of our own lives or are we passengers directed merely by force of habit? In the Cannabis Chronicles, Timmy struggles with these questions...

Thirteen-year-old Rose Gray's fervent prayers for peace during the bombing raids have been answered, but no one around her in 1947 England is physically or spiritually free of the aftereffects of war. Living on a government-run tenant farm, Rose...

Tim Nicholas, Bob Farley, and Gary Jenkins grew up together in a small neighborhood in Pendleton, Oregon. Tim and Bob were eight years old when they met, and Gary came later, an annoying pest who was four years younger and wouldn't leave Tim and Bob...

Fletcher Lowein at the age of twelve is witness to the murder of his father. In his pocket he carries a piece of paper that could destroy his mother when she pleads Not Guilty to a murder Fletcher knows she committed.A tall, lean man Fletcher never met...

Valentine Monroe's riveting reflection begins in the 1940s in New York. She and her mother flee to Texas after Valentine is severely injured by her babysitter's boyfriend. Traumatized and vulnerable, she is inspired by stalwart Aunt Nona's love and...

The Collapsible Mannequin tells the story of twelve-year-old Clarence Clark and his mother, Sarah, who goes to extreme measures to hide significant truths to protect him. Clarence questions the things we take for granted and takes for granted the things...

The Slow Wave is the story of Bud Turner, who takes a break from his college studies and travels to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, for some fun in the sun. There he meets Bev, who becomes his girlfriend, and he welcomes a new life at the beach. Bud...

Follow Mary Jade VonStine as her world is turned upside down with the murders of her parents. Now Mary must go to a faraway kingdom and live with her distant royal family. How will Mary adapt to a strange country and her family? When her family is all a...

Spanning the late 90s to the 2010s, HERE'S WALDO is a sprawling, tragicomic novel that tracks the story of Waldo Collins, a nerdy kid born in a torn-up town in the shadow of Chicago-unincorporated Des Plaines, IL. It's a story about what it was like to...