Coming of Age

The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it's not the one you're expecting. It's unconventional and messy. It's young and foolish. It's about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love.

The men in the secret society known as the Lords think they rule the world. And in a way, they do. Each has sold their soul to the devil at a young age in exchange for power and wealth. Like anything else, they have different levels of success.

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....

The second born son in a broken marriage, Joey Lynch has spent a lifetime picking up the pieces of a family unraveling. When his older brother Darren skips town on his first day of secondary school, twelve-year-old Joey finds himself thrown into the role of protector....

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.

In a small Southern town where loyalty to family and to "your people" carries the weight of a sacred oath, defying those unspoken rules can be a deadly proposition....

In fifth grade my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student Ryen....

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened....

Lei Ling Wen is lonely. Bored of her demanding after-school schedule of tuition, study and violin lessons, she struggles to see eye to eye with her strict Chinese-Malaysian mother....

Two weeks, four friends and one big bucket list of secrets to unravel....

Oliver Marks has just served 10 years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed....

Colleen Hoover held listeners spellbound with her novel Hopeless, the story of what happened when a troubled girl named Sky encountered a long-lost childhood friend, Dean. Now, in Losing Hope, we finally learn the truth about Dean Holder....

Living on her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive and precociously talented 16-year-old who loves to write stories....

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept....

"Girls like you aren't exactly welcomed at a place like this, so keep your head down and look the other way." Those were the exact words of my social worker when she dropped me in my newest hellhole, a place for "troubled teens"....

Looking back, I should have seen the signs. Perhaps I did, but I subconsciously chose to ignore them. From the time I was ten, when I first met Dylan, I knew he was my forever guy.

Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences, and the secrets that hold them together into their 30s....

I’m the second-most hated person in Amber Springs. Transferring to a new school midway through senior year is hellish for most people. For me, it’s a welcome relief—until someone discovers our secret and now everyone knows.

Great Expectations follows Pip's life from a plucky but poor and put-upon child in the Kent marshes, to a young man with "great expectations" in London and the choices he must make as a result of his winding journey....

Sonea has almost forgotten the High Lord's dark secret, but keeping the truth hidden may be a grave mistake....

Kara McIntyre is supposed to be jetting off to her destination wedding in Hawaii. However, a last-minute hitch appears to have left her without a job, home and, more importantly, a fiancé.

Tristan's Folly. An ageing fortress built over 50 years ago to repel the invading hordes of the Witch-King, Daleth, an invasion that never materialised - until now....

Everything changed the night my dad died. The night I met Saint, Galen, Caz, and Theo. Those manipulative a-holes set out to ruin me after our hot night together, but they didn’t realize you can’t destroy something that’s already broken.

Her first year away is turning out to be nearly perfect, but one weekend of giving in to heated passion will change everything....

The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is a dreamy teenager, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer....

1946: World War II is over, and Emma Clarkson is poised to take flight. With dreams of attending university, she’s ready to leave behind the wild beauty of Sable Island, the only home she’s ever known. But when a handsome British sea captain is rescued from a nearby shipwreck, her destiny is forever changed. Emma falls deeply in love with Oliver Harris, but their romance is not meant to be. Oliver returns to the sea, while Emma vows to forget him and pursue her own ambitions.

New York City, 1950. Dreams come true for radio personality Maggie Lane when she gets her big break in the exciting new world of television. The Maggie Lane Baking Show is on the air. All she has to do is act like the ideal housewife, create sumptuous desserts, charm the show’s sponsors, and sign a morality clause to ensure that her girl-next-door image remains untarnished. Although newlywed Maggie has never baked so much as a cookie, and knows even less about maintaining a home, keeping up appearances is a necessary ingredient for success. Easy.

All Lady Alice Walpole wants is to be swept off her feet, but she keeps finding herself on one bad date after another. And when she’s caught partying too hard with her latest royal beau, her father banishes her to Balmoral to clean up her act. Fraser Bell just wants to do his job as Piper to the Sovereign at Balmoral. He prefers tartan to tuxedos, and spends his days with horses rather than dealing with people, so when he’s assigned to wake Alice up to the sound of bagpipes every morning, he’s less than pleased.

Victor and Zoey are getting old, well old-er, and it’s beginning to be a real problem. Best friends for a decade, they have seen each other through bad dates and office drama, late nights and hungover brunches, during their years together in New York City. As their wild twenties come to a close, though, the dynamic between the two is shifting. Coming off a tough breakup, Victor dedicates his energies toward building a career writing celebrity profiles for one of the last glossy magazines left, while Zoey navigates the terrain at her nascent fashion startup.

Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a “far more interesting” man. Yes, he goes on a particularly awful blind date with a woman who brings her ex. And yes, he has too many glasses of Scotch one night and proceeds to pen and publish his own obituary. The newspaper wants to fire him. But now the company’s system has him listed as dead. And the company can’t fire a dead person. The ensuing fallout forces him to realize that life may be actually worth living.

Veronica Stratton, a specialty food broker with a business on the cusp of brilliant success that would change the trajectory of her life, visits her parents in idyllic Estes Park for Christmas. She's fresh from a breakup with her longtime boyfriend, so she's eager to reconnect with her beloved family in the mountains and forget about her troubles for a few days. But with the holiday comes a DNA test from her younger sister that confirms her secret suspicions: she's adopted. Having the truth out in the open leaves her feeling unmoored in ways she didn't anticipate.

Die schönste Überraschung dieser Saison – der berührende Coming-of-Age-Roman des Fußballers. Der wärmste Sommer aller Zeiten, die erste große Liebe, eine Nacht, die alles verändert. Christoph Kramers Roman ist eine so persönliche wie berührende Geschichte über das Fünfzehnsein und die Momentaufnahme einer Zeit, in der alles noch so einfach schien. Erzählt mit ganz viel Herz und einem unwahrscheinlichen Gespür für die kleinen Dinge, die im Leben einfach alles bedeuten. Es ist der Sommer 2006, ein Hitzerekord jagt den nächsten, die Fußballweltmeisterschaft verändert das Land — und für den 15-jährigen Chris verändert sich gerade das ganze Leben.

Nach einer Glaubenskrise zieht der siebzehnjährige Seminarist Noel für einen Sommer zu seinen Großeltern nach Faha, einem kleinen irischen Dorf, in dem nichts sich je ändert; auch der Regen nicht, der das Dorf seit Anbeginn begleitet. Bis er eines Tages, wir schreiben die Karwoche des Jahres 1958, plötzlich aufhört. An diesem Tag kommt auch Christy in das Örtchen, ein weitgereister Mann, der im Auftrag der Regierung durch das Land zieht und für die Elektrifizierung wirbt. Christy wird Untermieter bei Noels Großeltern und für den jungen Mann ein Freund und Mentor.

Sir Dominic De Lacy – one of the season’s most eligible gentlemen – has recently proposed marriage… to a woman he scarcely knows. But his father’s choice for him, Miss Maria Nightingale, seems amiable, and at 29, Dominic cannot live the life of a bachelor forever. He hopes he can provide a happy future for her as they learn to care for each other. Maria, however, has other ideas. Midway through their engagement celebrations, she confesses to Dominic that she is not Maria at all, but her identical twin sister, Margaret.

A Oslo, una scrittrice sessantenne assiste come tutti gli anni a un concerto di Natale; siede accanto a una coppia accompagnata dalla figlia adolescente, che si mostra palesemente infastidita e viene rimproverata di continuo dalla madre. La scena fa scattare nella donna il ricordo dei suoi sedici anni, e il lettore viene catapultato nel racconto del suo passato: un’adolescenza su cui grava una figura materna opprimente, che controlla la figlia in maniera ossessiva, terrorizzata al pensiero che possa bere, fare sesso, assumere droghe.

On the surface, Denny Voss’s life in rural Minnesota is a quiet one. At thirty years old, he lives at home with his elderly mother and his beloved blind and deaf Saint Bernard, George. He cleans up roadkill to help pay the bills. Though his prospects are limited by a developmental delay—the result of an accident at birth—Denny has always felt that he has “a good life.” So how did he wind up being charged with the murder of a mayoral candidate—after crashing a sled full of guns into a tree?

Bewegend und kraftvoll erzählt Garrett Carr die Geschichte eines Jungen, der versucht, seinen Platz in der Welt zu finden, und die einer Familie und Dorfgemeinschaft, die gemeinsam den Widrigkeiten des Lebens trotzen. Eine Lektüre, die Hoffnung macht. In einer kleinen Gemeinde an der Westküste Irlands wird 1973 ein Baby am Strand gefunden. Ambrose, der Fischer, und seine Frau Christine adoptieren den Jungen, der fortan den Namen Brendan Bonner trägt.

Walter "Boomer" Stapleton has good reason to believe that he is the ultimate stereotype: divorced, middle-aged, tired of his job, involved with a much younger woman, and soon to lose his only child to college. He is a Baby Boomer, one of an anonymous seventy-seven million Americans at or approaching midlife. With his fiftieth birthday just around the corner, Boomer is finished being a poster child for his generation and determined to forge a new path despite his progressively shrinking set of life options.

It is the late 1970s and teenagers Gaia and her brother Bron live with their parents on their isolated property on Western Australia's Coral Coast. Intensively trained for a career as a professional ballet dancer by her mother, once a principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre, Gaia also loves snorkeling over the coral reef that borders their small market garden. Then comes a day that changes her life forever: she discovers a rare pair of dramatically colored seadragons, their courtship dance over the coral spellbinding, and that night she loses her entire family and her dancing dream.

Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she’s wandered throughout the South, working in a Louisiana circus and as a hootchy kootch dancer in Texas. Now for the first time in a decade, she’s allowed her winding path to bring her to the site of her grandmother’s Arkansas farmhouse, a place hallowed in her memory. Disguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, Genevieve intends only to visit briefly and leave.

In the playful style of Tom Robbins, Ed Abbey, and Kurt Vonnegut, Shawn Hartje’s Pipeliner is a laugh-out-loud journey through ‘90s culture. Idaho, 1993: Seventeen-year-old Jason Krabb falls for a girl from the other side of town who’s mixed up with a ragtag crew of pipeliners bringing gas lines through the high desert. Jason’s hilariously naive struggle to distinguish himself as one of the crew while attempting to leave his mark on the ‘90s grunge scene is a stirring reflection on adolescence.

Stephanie Johnson is a young, Black, and spirited, though troubled eleven-year-old girl seeking to find her place in a world that doesn’t understand her. As she and her girlfriends navigate their experiences of friendship, family and first love together, Steph seeks a better future for herself – but will she be able to escape the hand she’s been dealt? Once Bad Intentions is a redemptive journey into womanhood; a heartfelt story that unfolds over a decade in 90s black London, where suffering and love, humour and forgiveness, triumph and loss all co-exist as part of a passage toward redemption.

Ci inseguirà per tutto il tempo del romanzo. È la voce di un poeta latino del primo secolo avanti Cristo. È la voce di un condannato all'amore di una donna che l'ha straziato e continua a straziarlo rinnovando la smagliante ossessione di un desiderio inesausto. A quella voce sembrano rispondere le vicende di un giovane professore consumato dalla vita coniugale infelice, dalla vita accademica disertata dagli studenti, ma costantemente acceso dalla passione dello studio e, un giorno, dalla lama di luce che riverbera, a sorpresa, negli occhi di una studentessa.

Seine Texte sagen mehr als tausend Worte. Als Yva von einem Tag auf den anderen eine neue Wohnung in Stockholm finden muss, kommt das Apartment neben der WG ihres besten Freundes wie gerufen. Womit sie nicht gerechnet hat, sind die sanften Gitarrenklänge, die nachts durch die Wand dringen: Fenn, ihr wortkarger Nachbar, ist leidenschaftlicher Singer-Songwriter. Tief berührt lauscht Yva seiner Musik in der Dunkelheit, bis sie ein unerwartetes Post-it von Fenn an der Tür entdeckt. Sie antwortet - und mit jeder weiteren Nachricht schreiben sie Zeile für Zeile ihren gemeinsamen Song.

1979. Jackie Chadwick is 17 and living in a supported bedsit. She’s still close to her foster parents and friends with (aka unofficial minder for) Amanda, their irresponsible daughter, but she’s enjoying her independence – until a fire leaves her temporarily homeless. Jackie’s dad, widower and recovering alcoholic Dave, has just been released from prison and sees this as his chance to make amends. He offers her his spare room – but can their relationship survive him going back on the booze, his gin – loving lady friend and her errant son?

In der Liebe und im Spiel ist alles erlaubt ... Willkommen am St. Gloria College, wo Ruhm und Reichtum auf seine angehenden Studierenden warten! Zwischen exklusiven Partys und gefährlichen Intrigen kämpfen hier die beiden Häuser Alpha und Omega um ein heiß begehrtes Stipendium, das ihnen die Tür zu einem Leben der Schönen und Reichen ermöglicht. Auch Felicia de Vries, ehrgeizig und fokussiert, hat es auf die akademische Auszeichnung abgesehen. Wenn da nur nicht Valentin Knight wäre. Der gut aussehende Bad Boy tritt für das verfeindete Haus Omega an und bricht dabei alle Spielregeln.

Jack George's life is a whirlwind of turmoil as his father's betrayal leaves his family stranded on the fringes of Sydney. Guided by the wisdom of a war-hardened veteran, Jack learns the brutal art of survival in a world where bullies reign supreme. Fuelled by a thirst for mastery, Jack delves into the realm of martial arts, honing his body and mind. Hearing whispers of an ancient martial arts temple hidden in the mountains of Japan, Jack is determined to seek it out and find one true master who can teach him all there is to learn about martial arts.

In the course of one ordinary day, Atlanta fast food worker Calvin loses his girlfriend, his band and his best friend. Suddenly, everything he had planned to spend the rest of his life doing seems to have flown away. Told with insight, sensitivity and deep respect for what it takes to make a life in music, King Cal is a coming-of-age novel about a determined young man who starts with little, aims to earn a little more and has to decide whether success, or even clinging to his dream, is worth the sacrifice.

Intrigue, espionage, and romance collide in this gripping historical mystery set during the Irish struggle for independence at the turn of the 20th century. As underground revolutionaries in Dublin fight against British rule, Geraldine Moore and her spirited friend Jill find themselves caught in a dangerous game of love and loyalty. When a mysterious French woman arrives in their circle, her presence threatens their revolutionary cell and their closest relationships.

Embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening with "BORDERLINE: Dialogue with my Double", a captivating coming-of-age novel by Carmeille St. Gérard-Lopez. Narrated by the talented Allie Jones, this evocative audiobook takes you deep into the heart of Buddhist philosophy, where a young boy’s quest for wisdom unfolds against the breathtaking backdrop of sacred mountains. Join the young protagonist as he travels with a caravan of travelers, guided by Buddhist lamas and his wise friend Gyantso.