Narrative theme: Coming of age Books

Rave Alone! A Coming of Age Story: The Original Screenplay includes the movie synopsis, full script, and details about the production process from inception to now. The motion picture is set in Miami in 2001. It is about a 15-year-old boy who blackmails...

Gather here with us before the flickering screen, the grainy flash-frames whizzing by in the mind of [REDACTED], a protagonist and narrator as reliable as they come. He has to be reliable-not only is he a journalist, but this time it's his own story he's...

She is most definitely a chip off the old Shake Davis block. In fact, her Dad is more than a little proud of his daughter, who is both a research scientist oceanographer at the famed Woods Hole Institute and a U.S. Navy Reserve officer. When Tracey Davis...

Like most boys, Jason Blake wants to please his father and older brother. But this erratic father and hyper-competitive brother challenge beyond the norm. To find his way, Jason tries on different roles: schoolyard bully, football player, actor, student...

Adult children trying to live up to their Mother's expectations.Reverend Gallagher a Pilar of his congregation. A hard worker who makes many sacrifices to fulfill this role. Or does  he?Who is the real worker the one who really keeps the...

As the daughter of a US Marine and a young Australian war bride, Lily navigates an often confusing and tumultuous world. Set predominantly in rural New England, the beauty and bleakness of the landscape are balanced with the vibrant and...

Mud, gold and lies. That's all you get in Branera. You'll find no better expert on these things than Lily Kale-Tollworth. Yet she has no clue of the events already in motion around her.Weeks ago, a murderer with a bleeding grin was released from the...

The MireThe Mire is a series of fiction novels set between post-colonial Zimbabwe and the UK, exploring an intergenerational legacy of trauma, narrated in first person through the eyes of Ruva, a 1st generation immigrant living in the UK. In this series,...

Christopher Panhandle, a nineteen seventies sixth former and A level student at St John's Comprehensive, Episcopi, Cyprus, realizes that he is full of world-weary anticipation and hopelessly trapped in both a RAF-based paradise and his own world of...

Celestine has a certain... reputation. She's the worst fortune teller the Carnival has ever seen. She never gets a future right. It's a reputation she's worked hard to create.Truth is, Celestine's a liar. She's actually a powerful fortune teller who...

Samantha is haunted by vivid dreams - flashes of a stately antebellum house, the whispered name "Josephine" on the wind. She feels an unexplainable pull, as if she belongs in the past more than the present. When Samantha discovers the house from her...

Thirteen years ago, a curious star fell to the island of Somerset. That night Ike Ryder met Alina, the little girl who fell from the heavens.Now Ike Ryder is on the cusp of manhood and being called to join his father's decade-long war, a fight he...

It did not end with Guadalcanal. It did not end with one island. There were more islands... an island with snow-capped peaks, friendly people, blue seas, where Bud found love with his Tongan princess. Where Billy breathed the clean air of mountains where...

Recipient of the 2021 Gold IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, Historical Fiction category. 1729: Blair Eakins is a fifteen-year-old Ulster-Scot living in Ireland under the crushing weight of famine, poverty, and prejudice against his people. In search of a...

In a remote New Mexico canyon in the 1930s, the unique remains of an ancient civilization were known to very few people. Frijoles Canyon had seen hardly a footprint of man for 600 years, except for a small guest lodge run by a single woman. The isolation...

Set in New Orleans and offshore during the oil boom of the late seventies and early eighties, Keys to the "V" Door is a coming of age adventure story of privileged youth who, instead of getting to enjoy a maturity of social advantages, finds he has to...

The Grimwood Trilogy concludes as the friends embark upon their final years at Grimwood University.Loren Austen and Braden McNutt have long suspected the truth about Grimwood's forgotten past, but as they finally come to terms with their complicated...

Death. Destiny. The rise of god-arcanists.Volke Savan has reunited with the Frith Guild just in time to help fight the Second Ascension, a group of power-hungry dastards bent on controlling the newly created god creatures. The world serpent is the first...

The Texicans ride again. Will they make it to the playoffs or will they fold their tents. High School football is king in the East Texas community of Lone Star. East Texans live and die for football. Winning teams put schools on the map and help bring...

This Is All I Got, looks back on a short period of time in a young boy's life when the world seems to be spinning out of control. The years of innocents that shape our aspirations and excite our minds with dream of something better. As we live each day...

A search for her true identity leads a young woman on an emotional journey.Cassie, the adopted daughter of Tully McMillen, decides to seek out her biological parents after years of wondering about her true identity. After finding her birth mother, only...

In the summer of 1963, Jake, Donny and Dibs are looking forward to a fun-filled summer of laughs before moving to high school in the fall. The three boys' parents, however, have different plans for their sons' vacation. The boys' plan for a do-nothing...

Tori never expected her dad to remarry. She never anticipated having to move from her childhood home into a new house with a new family. And as if that adjustment wasn’t tough enough already, Tori gained three new stepbrothers, three stepbrothers...

Le Sachet: Nouvelles (1835) est un recueil de nouvelles �����crit par Chasles, Philarete. Ce livre est compos����� de six histoires distinctes qui explorent diff�����rents th�����mes et sujets. Les nouvelles sont �����crites dans un style �����l�����gant...

Studie En Uitspanning Verzamelde Verhalen, Deel 1 (1852) is een verzameling van verhalen geschreven door J.I.D. Nepveu. Het boek bevat verhalen over verschillende onderwerpen, waaronder geschiedenis, filosofie, literatuur en kunst. Nepveu gebruikt zijn...

Le Petit Bonhomme Du Coin (1879) est un roman de l'auteur fran�����ais Paul De Kock. L'histoire suit la vie d'un petit homme nomm����� Jean, qui vit dans un coin recul����� de la campagne fran�����aise. Jean est un personnage simple et humble, mais il...

Lichte Kost is een roman geschreven door de Nederlandse schrijver Marcellus Emants en werd voor het eerst gepubliceerd in 1892. Het boek vertelt het verhaal van een jonge vrouw genaamd Anna, die in een ongelukkig huwelijk zit met een oudere man genaamd...

Saint Ann's is a novel written by William Edward Norris in 1894. The story is set in a small English village called Saint Ann's, where the residents lead a peaceful and uneventful life. The main character of the story is Robert Penfold, a young man who...

The book ""Works Of Fiction In The Italian Language: Together With Translations From Italian In The Public Library Of The City Of Boston"" was published in 1901 by the Boston Public Library. It is a comprehensive guide to the collection of Italian...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre ist ein Roman von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, der erstmals 1821 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es ist die Fortsetzung von Goethes fr�����herem Roman Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre und folgt dem Protagonisten Wilhelm Meister auf...

The Family Scapegrace: Or Richard Arbour (1901) is a novel written by James Payn. The story revolves around Richard Arbour, a young man who is a member of a wealthy and influential family. Despite his privileged upbringing, Richard is a reckless and...

Selections From Ovid's Metamorphoses is a book that contains a collection of stories from the famous Roman poet Ovid's epic poem, Metamorphoses. The book was originally published in 1899 and has since become a classic in literature. The stories in the...

Samuel Brohl et Cie (1880) est un roman de Victor Cherbuliez qui raconte l'histoire de Samuel Brohl, un homme d'affaires suisse qui d�����cide de se lancer dans la politique. Il cr�����e une entreprise fictive, Samuel Brohl et Cie, pour financer sa...

The Dust Of The Road is a novel written by Marjorie Patterson and published in 1913. The story is set in the early 1900s and follows the journey of a young woman named Mary as she travels across the United States in search of a new life.Mary is a...

""Hide and Seek V2"" is a novel written by W. Wilkie Collins and first published in 1854. It is the second volume in a two-part series about the lives of two young boys, Allan Armadale and Ozias Midwinter. The story begins with the death of Allan's...

Lessing's Fables is a collection of fables written by the German writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and originally published in 1882. The book contains a total of 112 fables, each one accompanied by a moral lesson or message. The fables are written in a...

Les Mille Et Un Jour V2: Contes Persans (1778) est un recueil de contes persans compil����� par Fran�����ois Petis De La Croix. Ce livre est la deuxi�����me partie de la s�����rie, qui contient des histoires fascinantes et divertissantes de la culture...

Kruunun Metsiss����� on Juhana Kokon kirjoittama romaani, joka julkaistiin vuonna 1891. Kirja kertoo tarinan kruununmets�����nvartijasta nimelt����� Antti, joka asuu perheens����� kanssa syrj�����isess����� mets�����ss�����. Antti on intohimoinen...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Hot Ashes: All New and Original is a book written by Ezra Kendall and was first published in 1908. The book is a collection of humorous stories and anecdotes that are designed to make the reader laugh out loud. The stories are set in a variety of...

Honneur D'Artiste is a novel written by Octave Feuillet and published in 1890. The story revolves around the life of a young artist named Paul Br�����tigny, who is struggling to make a name for himself in the art world. Despite his talent, he faces...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

""Franklin Winslow Kane"" is a novel written by Anne Douglas Sedgwick and published in 1910. The book tells the story of the eponymous protagonist, Franklin Kane, a wealthy and successful businessman who lives in Boston. Despite his financial success,...

""Frank Armstrong at Queens"" is a novel written by Matthew M. Colton and published in 1911. The story follows the titular character, Frank Armstrong, as he navigates his way through college life at Queens University. Along the way, he encounters a...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...