Narrative theme: Coming of age Books

Vincent is a privileged introvert navigating his formative years at two elite Manhattan private schools in the late-2000s. He plays sports, acts, ballroom dances, and lives a teenage life of which many would dream. But as eighth grade comes to a close,...

Grammar schoolgirls fourteen-year-old Indira Nathwani and Daisy Royston have been best friends since they were four years old. Indira lives in Southeast England with her wealthy Hindu family, an older brother, pious grandfather, parents, and aunt and...

An eager, aspiring make-up artist, Jackie O'Reilly has always dreamed of a high-profile Hollywood career--and now fate has made her fantasy a glittering reality. Filling in at the last minute for her boss, Jackie finds herself working with America's...

"OMFG, I nearly up and died from laughter when I read Flatscreen. This is the novel that every young turk will be reading on their way to a job they hate and are in fact too smart for." --Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love StoryIndie-lit star...

Solei was perfectly content living the life of a party girl until her mother kicked her out for the hundredth time. Determined to establish her independence, she takes on questionable work for great money but at the cost of her self-respect and getting...

Before Ai is a fascinating prequel to Ai Rising. The author mixed fact and fiction to make a perfect book about modern era artificial intelligence. The two main characters, Aiden and Taylor, are both starting M.I.T. at an age of fourteen. They both have...

Lali A. Love provides a supernatural thriller of metaphysical and visionary fantasy with her own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative skills to produce this emotionally invoking, heart-wrenching and gripping tale of a family's rise from...

"A gem of adolescent disaffection featuring a Holden Caulfield-like heroine." -- Vogue.com"Once I started reading it, I didn't want to stop. . . . If your all-time favorite books include works of young-adult fiction (like Catcher), I strongly urge you to...

Brazen and given to transgressions, the narrator of this mordantly witty novel is an aloof, tough talking, married Manhattan woman who carries on three affairs simultaneously, blithely breaking seven of the Ten Commandments in her search for a safe place...

Mia is growing up, unbeknownst to her, in a terribly abusive home. As Mia navigates her way through the end of fourth grade, she starts to question whether her home life is the same as that of her friends'. With the help of some incredibly strong women,...

Based on the fictional journals of Stefani Michel, Humming in Spanish is the third volume in Ginna's Lavandula Series. This multi-generational saga begins in the 1960s and is set in the fictional Sweet Farm, a Carmel Valley, California...

This is a daunting coming of age story of a young lady growing up in the suburbs of Southern California, with her single mother. Their bond is stronger than ever as they cling to each other for everything until fate leads Treasure's mother to fall...

After nineteen-year-old Katie Murray witnesses the shocking coverup of a crime that could implicate Eric Clarke, the estranged son of her neighbors, she struggles with how much to divulge. The two families spend their summers in an upscale Cape Cod...

"En un pueblo a trescientos kilâometros de cualquier lugar, los destinos de un puänado de personajes se entrelazan en una narraciâon magistral de odio y miedo, pero tambiâen de amor y de esperanza."--Back cover.

The first novel in a new series from bestselling author Nan Rossiter tells the moving story of a couple struggling to start a family and the young foster girl with a heart condition who changes their lives forever."A multi-leveled, beautifully written...

"The Devil Wears Prada for millenials.... Explores the magazine industry through a different lens than past insider tomes....With a sure hand, Hernández leads his readers into an overlapping world of Ivy-League pedigree and corporate hustle."--VanityFair...

"Tales of Accidental Genius proves to be a moving, humorous and engaging look at the ways people lean on and support one another. The first six stories fit together like houses on a street... [an] enthralling collection."--Paste Magazine

"At the end of a sweltering summer shaped by the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy, race riots, political protests, and the birth of Black power, three coeds from New York City--Zelda Livingston, Veronica Cook, and...

It is June 1979, and school is out for the summer! Having just turned ten years old, Shane Anderson is your typical fun-loving kid who just moved from the suburbs to the city. Sure, he likes to exit the same door he entered. And he likes turning lights...

The story of the Echoes of Laughter carries more than a tale of one young lady by the name of Farkhunda. It carries the hope, determination and courage of many Afghan girls like her. Girls who see the beauty within their culture, but also see a limitless...

"Rachel is supposed to be planning her wedding to Kash, the love of her life. After the crazy year they've had, she's ready to settle down and live a completely normal life. Well, as normal as it can be. But there's something else waiting--something...

A wonderful coming-of-age novel from Zoe Fishman, author of Balancing Acts, Saving Ruth tells the story of a fish-out-of-water young Jewish woman, returning to her Alabama hometown after a semester at a "Yankee college," only to discover that life--and...

Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting the legendary Sweethearts of Soul.... At long last the Rock and Soul Foundation is honoring Ruth Thomas, Adeline Lights, Venus Jones and Brenda Wade with a place in its hall of fame. So music reporter Legs Diamond gets...

Have you ever suffered from FUNNY GIRL SYNDROME? Are you the gal who makes people laugh? Are you considered "a lot of fun" and "a good sport"? Do all your male friends bring you their troubles and ask for your advice--about their girlfriends? If so, you...

Envision an imaginary dial with which you can turn all sounds from your everyday experience onto the highest level of volume: that is the world of 13-year old Ship Sooner whose incredible ability to hear sounds normally indiscernible to the human ear...

The award-winning author of Par for the Curse brings readers an impassioned story of grace with resilience often deeply hidden in the human spirit. Toyi Elizabeth is an inspiring tale that leaves readers to consider the strength, power, and love buried...

The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of Secret Daughter returns with an unforgettable story of family, responsibility, love, honor, tradition, and identity, in which two childhood friends--a young doctor and a newly married...

It's 1952 and in the small town of Yoakum, Texas, Tessa Louise Carter-a quirky, sassy, back-talking nine-year-old-finds herself torn between her deeply religious but foul-mouthed grandmother and her beautiful bed-hopping mother.Tessa doesn't have many...

Race, sexuality, honesty, abuse, love and forgiveness are interwoven as the characters reveal themselves.  Three families, one Italian, one Irish, one black confront the legacy of the past within the context of life in 1999 Cambridge, MA...