Coming of Age

From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided....

Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism....

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival.

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years....

A beautiful tale of hope, courage, and sisterhood - inspired by the real House of Mercy and the girls confined there for daring to break the rules....

As far as Jolene is concerned, her interactions with her colleagues should start and end with her official duties as an admin for Supershops, Inc. Unfortunately, her irritating, incompetent coworkers don’t seem to understand the importance of boundaries.

Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless gods in the world—but after a great war, the new king outlawed them and now pays “godkillers” to destroy any who try to rise from the shadows.

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition....

A great American classic with many invaluable teaching moments. It continues to touch hearts and minds.

Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real....

The men in the secret society known as the Lords think they rule the world.....

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives.

In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and emotional novel by the bestselling author of She’s Up to No Good....

Narrated by Tom Hanks, The Dutch House is a moving story that explores the bond between two siblings and the house of their childhood.

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl....

Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of 14. But as of this morning...they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love...every memory has vanished.

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America....

My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila, who represent the story of a nation and the nature of friendship....

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door....

A cautionary tale of human fragility, of love and loss, The Bear is a stunning tribute to the beauty of nature's dominion....

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries....

As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth....

The internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show returns with a tense and darkly comic novel that casts a caustic light on the relationship between mothers and daughters and truth and self-preservation....

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America....

For fans of Grey’s Anatomy and Seven Days in June, this dazzling debut novel by Shirlene Obuobi explores that time in your life when you must decide what you want, how to get it, & who you are, all while navigating love, friendship, and the realization....

From the author of the global breakout bestseller The Last Love Note comes the story of a young woman struggling to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragic accident, and the man who gives up everything to help her. When Evie Hudson wakes in an unfamiliar hospital room, she thinks she’s fresh out of a teenage party with her best friend, Bree. Except, Bree isn’t around anymore and high school was years ago. Evie had just survived the crash that killed her husband, Oliver—whom she can't remember either.

The London suburb of Croydon, 1964: Helen Hansford is unmarried and in her thirties. Something of a disappointment to her middle-class parents, she’s an art therapist at the Westbury Park psychiatric hospital, where she has been having a rebellious love affair with her colleague Gil, a dashing but married doctor. One spring afternoon they receive a call about a disturbance at a derelict, vine-covered Victorian house a few miles up the road. There the police find a mute, thirty-seven-year-old man called William Tapping, his hair and beard down to his waist.

Ania hears the explosion of gunshots before she sees the Nazi soldiers approach her beloved home. Her family don’t have time to run, but she does. Hiding nearby, she listens to her sister’s screams and – stroking the red ribbon she keeps tied around her wrist – she begins to plot her revenge… Taunted her whole life for being smarter than anyone else in the village, now living in war-torn Poland, being governed by Nazis who think Poles are subhuman and women only good for one thing… Ania now only has her wits to rely on, if she's going to survive.

This coming-of-age novel explores themes including religious skepticism, socialism, ennui, English society, sexual relationships, and metaphysics, as George searches for an ideal to which he can devote his life. Like all Wells’s novels, Tono-Bungay abounds with social critique.

Ein bewegender Roman über Hoffnung, Angst und die Frage, was Familie wirklich bedeutet – von Bestsellerautorin Catherine Ryan Hyde. Die Geschichte eines kleinen Jungen, der erst wieder lernen muss, was Vertrauen bedeutet. Die Welt ist voller Gefahren. Das hat sein Vater Remy erklärt, als er mit ihm in die Wildnis gezogen ist. Aber dann stirbt Remys Vater und der Achtjährige muss sich allein durchschlagen. Als er in eine Pflegefamilie kommt, fürchtet er sich vor allem und jedem, vor seinen Pflegegeschwistern nicht weniger als vor den beiden großen Hunden.

With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë's most accomplished and deeply felt work. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette.

Christmas Town is a modern story of a socially awkward and disadvantaged tween boy who is ordinary in most every way, except for one major difference. This particular boy decides to take one simple action to help somebody; and his good deed ends up changing the entire town in the most epic ways. Christmas Town is a story that can happen in any town. It is a story of what happens when the best of humanity comes out of at least one person who is willing to try. It is a story that will pull at your heartstrings, make you laugh, and make you cry.

Success by design is infinitely better than a win by chance. Vasu Bhatt is 14 years old when a mysterious old man spots him at a chess tournament and offers to coach him, on two simple but strange conditions: he would not accompany his student to tournaments, and there was to be no digging into his past. Initially resentful, Vasu begins to gradually understand his master’s mettle. Over eight years, master and student come to love and respect each other, but the two conditions remain unbroken–until Vasu confronts and provokes the old man.

What might have been a promise of paradise in the Lucky Country became a mess of red tape. Half the world and a full year away from the life she once knew, seasoned, sixteen-year-old Deirdre finds herself a fugitive from four felonies, cast into the Outback, nearly naked with no passport and all her worldly possessions guarded by two dead men. But even this dire dilemma is not insurmountable for the indefatigable heroine. With the help of fortune, fast friends, and fair winds, she seeks solace in a variety of closed societies as she strives to reestablish herself as a free person at ...

Deirdre washes ashore in an idyllic land and enthusiastically enters a discreet and discerning society. But the surrealism is more than skin-deep. Relying upon all her interpersonal skills, as well as elements of her childhood she has been eager to neglect, the indefatigable teenaged heroine must survive in the face of others prejudice, mistrust and unspoken desperation to ruin or rely upon her realising her own sinful nature as well as the very best of her own character. Deirdre, the Temptress; Part One In Books 43-45 from the complete novel, Deirdre discovers that the commune ...

1943. Alice Fafard, vingt ans, étudie à l’École normale pour devenir enseignante. Elle suit avec un mélange de résignation et de désenchantement une voie déjà toute tracée. Son Brevet obtenu, elle cherche un poste dans une école de la région, en attendant de trouver un prétendant en cette époque où les hommes de son âge se font rares. Pourtant, derrière ses airs tranquilles se cache une grande passionnée de mathématiques, un domaine dans lequel elle excelle. Plus que tout, Alice veut vivre pleinement, goûter à la liberté au-delà des limites imposées aux femmes.

After nine years of dating, Holly is sure her boyfriend Will is going to propose. But instead of popping the question, he shocks her by suggesting they open their relationship to date other people. For the last three years, Fliss and her boyfriend Ash have been in a happily open relationship. But now that they’re turning 30, he wants to close it, throwing Fliss’s whole ethos of living life on her terms rather than society’s expectations into question. When Fliss overhears Holly crying in the toilets during her first date in nine years, they decide to ditch their dates and have dinner together.

Nestled between the smoky, rolling peaks of Southern Appalachia lies the town of Brevard, North Carolina. When Chris Avery's family moves to Brevard in the early 1970s, Chris quickly becomes immersed in a world untouched by the mire of life outside the mountains.

Jim Provenzano's sixth novel, "Now I'm Here," is set in the small town of Serene, Ohio, in the 1970s and 80s. Two boys from different families Joshua, with his stable middle-class home in town, and David, raised by his alcoholic and abusive father on their isolated farm - discover, then lose, then find each other again. Thirty years later, as the town's history is slowly erased by fading memories and encroaching suburbia, their childhood friend, Eric Gottlund, tells the tale of their quiet heroism with poignancy and a sharp eye for detail.

A surfing, boy-crazy teenager comes of age in the summer of 1957 in this classic novel that inspired movies, television, and created an American pop culture icon. This is Franzie, part Holden Caulfield, part Lolita. The guys call her Gidget—short for girl midget. Based on the experiences of his daughter, Frederick Kohner's novel became an international sensation with an irrepressible heroine whose voice still echoes every thrill, every fear, and every hope that every teenager ever had about growing up.

What might have been a promise of paradise in the Lucky Country became a mess of red tape. Half the world and a full year away from the life she once knew, seasoned, sixteen-year-old Deirdre finds herself a fugitive from four felonies, cast into the Outback, nearly naked with no passport and all her worldly possessions guarded by two dead men. But even this dire dilemma is not insurmountable for the indefatigable heroine. With the help of fortune, fast friends, and fair winds, she seeks solace in a variety of closed societies as she strives to reestablish herself as a free person at ...

With typical unfettered enthusiasm Deirdre embarks on the most challenging journey so far, encountering the very worst form of danger from man and from nature. But friends matter; and she will give her all for the sake of those she has come to love like family. Even in a city of millions a cheerful fair-haired teenager with an elegant accent is not inconspicuous. So the indefatigable heroine must put to sea once more, desperate to find freedom and a fresh start in the one place in which she expects to find sanctuary for a world-weary soul… so long as the Fates do not intervene. Deirdre, ...

After her mother invites a new man to live with them, tensions quickly rise in the cramped house. Gunner is kind but strange, too—a one-eyed shoplifter with more than a few hidden secrets. But when tragedy strikes shortly after, Cora rebels against her small-town existence in search of love, acceptance, and a path to something good. If only she can learn to navigate her grief and everything she thinks she knows about who she is and what she might be capable of, she may finally find the way forward.

Flush with ill-gotten gains from the Caribbean and intent on following her heart, fifteen-year-old Deirdre arrives in the hemisphere of her ancestry. But can anyone return to the bliss of a tropical paradise? Still she gains an education both academically and practically, increases her personal wealth, and finds friends like family in three great civilisations. It might be enough for some girls; but wanderlust will drive the indefatigable heroine ever farther from Connecticut on two epic sea voyages, over ancient trade routes… and the sea shall call her towards yet another as she ...

Flush with ill-gotten gains from the Caribbean and intent on following her heart, fifteen-year-old Deirdre arrives in the hemisphere of her ancestry. But can anyone return to the bliss of a tropical paradise? Still she gains an education both academically and practically, increases her personal wealth, and finds friends like family in three great civilisations. It might be enough for some girls; but wanderlust will drive the indefatigable heroine ever farther from Connecticut on two epic sea voyages, over ancient trade routes… and the sea shall call her towards yet another as she ...

Heartsick and once again homeless, Deirdre turns her back on a Bahamian paradise and sails a thousand miles to the mystical Virgin Islands, the destination of her most cherished daydreams. But debilitated by drinking binges she is easily seduced by a sadistic drug smuggler; and shady intrigue, sensual interludes, and the perils of storm season in unprotected seas become routine. Now the indefatigable teenaged heroine must challenge the limits of her own endurance, both physically and emotionally, if she is to survive the most onerous ordeals so far. Deirdre, the Oyster's Pearl; Part Two...

Heartsick and once again homeless, Deirdre turns her back on a Bahamian paradise and sails a thousand miles to the mystical Virgin Islands, the destination of her most cherished daydreams. But debilitated by drinking binges she is easily seduced by a sadistic drug smuggler; and shady intrigue, sensual interludes, and the perils of storm season in unprotected seas become routine. Now the indefatigable teenaged heroine must challenge the limits of her own endurance, both physically and emotionally, if she is to survive the most onerous ordeals so far. Deirdre, the Oyster's Pearl; Part Two...

Heartsick and once again homeless, Deirdre turns her back on a Bahamian paradise and sails a thousand miles to the mystical Virgin Islands, the destination of her most cherished daydreams. But debilitated by drinking binges she is easily seduced by a sadistic drug smuggler; and shady intrigue, sensual interludes, and the perils of storm season in unprotected seas become routine. Now the indefatigable teenaged heroine must challenge the limits of her own endurance, both physically and emotionally, if she is to survive the most onerous ordeals so far. Deirdre, the Oyster’s Pearl; Part ...

Milena Cervi ha quindici anni quando sua madre Angelica entra nella Chiesa della Verità e ne diventa vittima incapace di riconoscerne le ambiguità. Così a vent’anni Milena decide di trasferirsi a Roma. Qui incontra Emanuele, un uomo più grande di lei nel quale crede di vedere la cifra del suo riscatto. Presto la relazione assume i contorni di un rapporto manipolatorio, di un legame tanto più doloroso quanto più difficile da spezzare. Alice Urciuolo racconta le infinite distorsioni dell’amore.

By the age of 15, Deirdre has become unhappy at home. With a teenager’s optimism she hitchhikes down to the Bahamas, hoping to bask on beaches for ever. But she finds the adult world of earning wages and paying rent includes racism, sexual harassment and abuse– with the daily fear of being found out as an underaged illegal alien and sent back to a place she no longer considers home. Was it ever supposed to be this weird? Deirdre, the Wanderer: A modern picaresque; Part One In Books 1-4 of the complete novel, Deirdre uses her nascent womanly wiles to secure a ride south from snowy ...