Coming Of Age

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All We Had

Annie Weatherwax

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Katie Holmes.A stirring debut novel about a mother and daughter who find an unlikely home amid the quirky residents of a small town—"The smart style, crisp narrative, sharp dialogue, a...

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Published: Aug 2015

A Ticket to Ride

Paula McLain

"It was August. For years it was August . . . . There was heat like wet gauze and a high, white sky and music coming from everywhere at once." In the long, hot Illinois summer of 1973, insecure, motherless Jamie falls under the dang...

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Published: Jan 2009

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A...

Robert Dugoni

Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni's coming-of-age story is, according to Booklist, "a novel that, if it doesn't cross entirely over into John Irving territory, certainly nestles in close to t...

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Published: Apr 2018

All About Lulu

Jonathan Evison

Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller: growing up vegetarian in a family of bodybuilders will do that to a person. But William is further weakened by the death of his mother, the arrival of a new step-mother, and his ...

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Published: Jun 2008

Gather the Daughters: A Novel

Jennie Melamed

NEVER LET ME GO meets THE GIVER in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.A Guardian Best Book of the Year A Booklist Best Book of the YearA New York Magazine best book of the monthA Real ...

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Published: Jul 2018

Girls in Trucks

Katie Crouch

Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures a...

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Published: Apr 2008

Somerset

Leila Meacham

One hundred fifty years of Roses' Tolivers, Warwicks, and DuMonts! We begin in the antebellum South on Plantation Alley in South Carolina, where Silas Toliver, deprived of his inheritance, joins up with his best friend Jeremy Warwick ...

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Published: Jul 2014

Dear Edward: A Novel

Ann Napolitano

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • A "dazzling" novel that "will break your heart and put it back together again" (J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of Sain...

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Published: Feb 2020

It's Fine By Me

Per Petterson

Fans of Per Petterson will be delighted by this opportunity to observe Arvid Jansen in his youth from a fresh perspective. In It's Fine By Me, Arvid befriends a boy named Audun. On Audun's first day of school, he refuses to talk or ta...

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Published: Oct 2012

Hot Mess

Emily Belden

“[E]very bit as juicy as the dishes it describes.”—SPLASHTwentysomething Allie Simon is used to playing by the rules—until Chicago’s most sought-after, up-and-coming culinary genius, Benji Zane, walks into her world and pull...

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Published: Mar 2018

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

The World Played Chess: A Novel

Robert Dugoni

“A fearless and sensitive coming-of-age story. I loved it.” —Mark Sullivan, bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley. Bestselling author Robert Dugoni returns with an emotionally arresti...

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Published: Sep 2021

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

Keep a Little Secret

Dorothy Garlock

Charlotte Tucker was raised in small-town Minnesota, where the only real company was the people who came to her Aunt Louise's boarding house. Several years later, Charlotte is a young woman and thirsty to get out of her hometown and s...

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Published: May 2011

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

The Rise of Light: A Novel

Olivia Hawker

A powerful novel about the expectations of family—and the risks and liberation of defying them—by the Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow. 1975. In the town of Rexburg, Idaho, asp...

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Published: Aug 2021

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 Leavers (National Book Award Fina...

Lisa Ko

FINALIST FOR THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Bustle, and Electric Literature“There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko’s novel be...

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Published: Apr 2018
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