Coming of Age

Rusty, a 16-year-old Anglo-Indian boy, is orphaned, and has to live with his English guardian in the claustrophobic European part in Dehra Dun. Unhappy with the strict ways of his guardian, Rusty runs away from home to live with his Indian friends....

With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers....

Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, is looking more like her Aunt Vittoria every day....

The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante's critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their 20s, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila....

The first time Cassio meets his fiancée, she calls him “sir.” After losing his wife, Cassio is left to take care of two small children while trying to establish his rule over Philadelphia. Now he needs a mother for his children and someone who can warm his bed at night....

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

A Hindi translation of Ruskin Bond’s A Handful of Nuts by Rachna Bhola ‘Yamini’, this novel is the story of a 21-year-old writer in a small town in India....

Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah....

Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye....

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....

A deliciously entertaining novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s—and the reunion special, thirteen years after their scandalous flameout, that will either be their last chance at redemption, or destroy them all for good....

Flo is sick of Tokyo. She is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up, and she's in a relationship that's run its course. That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a drunken passenger on the Tokyo Subway....

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....

Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them...

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....

The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War....

I kissed my father’s best friend, and it kind of didn’t go well. Not only because he’s 18 years older than me - but he also didn’t like it. Not one bit....

Yayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino....

India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actor. Armed with a stack of index cards (for research/line memorization/make-shift confetti), she goes from awkward sixteen-year-old to Broadway ingenue to TV superhero....

What is the Rachel incident? When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Byrne, her best friend James helps her devise a plan to seduce him. But as the plot becomes increasingly complicated, their friendship is tested by impossible choices....

When Olivia Tennyson was 16, she wrote a Dream List of the things she wanted for her life, including a happy marriage and a family. But at 29, Ollie is single, living at home with her over-protective and manipulative mother and is feeling like her dreams are getting further out of reach....

Lila James is my best friend’s little sister, and I’ve always looked out for her. She's five years younger than me, and when she left for college, she was just a kid. But now she’s home for the summer—and she’s definitely not a kid anymore....

It was easy to call us forbidden and harder to call us soul mates. Yet I believed we were both. Forbidden soul mates....

The Saint of War spares the life of a servant girl so she can fulfill her destiny as the kingdom’s greatest warrior in this short story of love and loyalty by New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow....

Newly broke girl Alexandria Asher just wants to live a normal life. After her parents are sent to prison on embezzlement charges, she enrolls in college under her mother's maiden name....

Max is about to finish high school. On the surface it appears he has everything, but underneath he is floundering. Grappling with questions about his birth parents and his sexuality, he feels that there is a seed of badness deep within him that will inevitably be exposed. After an incident at the end-of-year party sets Max's world to crumbling, he must finally figure out who he is and where he came from–and who he is allowed to love.

It might not be the stuff of dreams, but Padma and Wallace have spent ten years building a relationship that feels . . . fine. Until Wallace gives Padma an ultimatum about starting a family she's not sure she even wants. Padma's fifteen-year-old niece Myra is reaching her own crisis point. When she falls in with the wrong crowd and her life ends up in danger, it's the final straw for her parents. Now Padma will spend the summer with her niece - in a ramshackle, ivy-clad house on the Kent clifftops - running a DIY rehab of sorts.

Addio, amore! di Matilde Serao è un romanzo pubblicato nel 1896 che esplora le vicende sentimentali di una giovane donna, Dina. La protagonista, attraverso una serie di lettere, racconta la fine del suo amore per Alberto, un uomo che non è all'altezza dei suoi ideali romantici. Serao, con il suo stile fluido e introspezione psicologica, dipinge un quadro vivido delle emozioni e delle disillusioni amorose. Il romanzo riflette sulla fragilità dei sentimenti e sulla forza necessaria per superare la fine di un amore, offrendo uno spaccato autentico della società e delle dinamiche di genere del tempo.

Deel 1 van de Ravenhood-serie. Een liefdesverhaal vol spanning, passie en plotwendingen dat je ademloos achterlaat. De afspraak is simpel: het enige wat de negentienjarige studente Cecilia Horner hoeft te doen, is het een jaar uithouden bij haar van haar vervreemde vader in het kleine stadje Triple Falls en in zijn fabriek werken. In ruil daarvoor betaalt hij niet alleen haar collegegeld, maar ontvangt ze ook een klein fortuin waarmee Cecilia haar alleenstaande moeder kan helpen. Maar alles verandert wanneer ze Sean ontmoet op haar eerste werkdag.

" Toute leur enfance les a unis, l’adolescence les sépare. " Phil, 16 ans, et Vinca, 15 ans, amis de toujours, passent leurs étés en Bretagne. Tout naturellement, l’amour s’installe entre ces deux complices inséparables, un amour qui grandit plus vite qu’eux. Cet été-là, Vinca et Phil découvrent leurs différences et leurs incompréhensions. Ces amours adolescentes révèlent à Vinca et à Phil ce qu’ils sont désormais et ne seront jamais plus. Et ces vacances s’achèvent sur un adieu à l’enfance, amer et nostalgique.

“Hijo de Malinche” narra la transformación vital de Martín Cortés, un periodista de Barcelona que, obligado por su jefe, viajará por negocios a México. A punto de entrar en la cuarentena, casado con una hija pequeña, no se siente del todo feliz y, por diversas circunstancias, en el país azteca comenzará a creerse que es la reencarnación del hijo de Hernán Cortés y él mismo se sentirá a la vez conquistador y conquistado por ‘las Américas’ en pleno siglo XXI.

Anuri's stepmother, Ophelia, is the ultimate 'mumfluencer'. Throughout Anuri's childhood, she catalogued every minute, milestone and carefully curated family outing on social media, cultivating a devoted—and sizable—following. Now twenty-five years old, life looks pretty perfect on the outside. Ophelia's fans could be forgiven for wondering why Anuri spends much of her time insulting men online for money, battling the call of alcohol, running from a PhD application, and reminding herself that she is now allowed to choose her own outfits.

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian community in Baltimore. Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main Palestinian immigrants families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars. Their various fates and struggles cause their community dynamic to sizzle and sometimes explode: The wealthy Ammar family employs young Maysoon Baladi, whose family struggles financially, to clean up after their spoiled teenagers.

Growing up in 1990s China, in a village where failure to observe the rigidly enforced one-child policy is deemed tantamount to a crime, Chen Di must fight to get the education she craves in a world in which boys are prioritized. Following her mother's untimely death, 16-year-old Chen Di's thirst for vengeance against those she holds responsible brings about her transformation from a gutsy, marginalized child into an aikido-practicing young woman who braves Shanghai.

Gina Bennett has had enough after her husband of twenty-seven years lets her down one time too many. Deciding to choose herself, she embarks on a transformative solo journey to break free from the monotony of her life. She escapes to the gorgeous Greek island of Kalosiros, where she holidayed in her youth, and where she had her first romance with the handsome Nico. Encountering two kindred spirits in Rosie and Deedee, the women bond over art classes and cocktails, renewing their lust for life and a shared quest to find Gina's lost love.

Дебби Уайт, выросшая на ферме с мамой, у которой, как считают многие, "не все в порядке с головой", и дядей Билли, питающим слабость к выпивке братом мамы, поступает в учебное заведение с самой высокой в Ирландии концентрацией привилегированных снобов — Тринити-колледж Дублинского университета. Для наивной и чувствительной Дебби это совершенно другой мир. Примет ли он ее? Примет ли она его? Снежинка — очень искренний и трогательный рассказ о том, каково это — взрослеть в двадцать первом веке.

In this sassy and sweet coming-of-age story full of laughs, tears, and everyday strangeness, an unusual child finds a home—and love—with her feisty Great-great-aunt Magnolia Rose McClellan.

Magisch, romantisch, geheimnisvoll: Spiegelstadt 2. Gefangen in Purpur und Schatten ist die Fortsetzung von Spiegelstadt. Tränen aus Gold und Silber und der Abschluss der queeren Urban-Fantasy-Dilogie von Andreas Suchanek und Christian Handel. Nach seiner Flucht aus der Spiegelstadt findet sich Max in einer dritten Version von Berlin wieder: Statt Prunk und Glamour der 20er-Jahre herrschen hier Verfall und Zerstörung. Um in dieser Gefängniswelt zu überleben, muss Max mit einem neuen Feind zusammenarbeiten.

Elias is mere days away from getting everything his father ever dreamed for him – a ship of his own, a crew and a license that names him as one of the first Narrows-born traders. But when a young dredger from the Unnamed Sea with more than one secret crosses his path, Elias’s faith will be tested like never before. The greater the pull he feels toward her, the farther he drifts from the things he’s spent the last three years working for.

Auf dem eigenen Parcours über eine Leiche zu stolpern, macht sich eher ungünstig im Lebenslauf. Wenn dann der Leiche auch noch ein Pfeil aus dem Auge ragt und man selbst einen Bogenshop besitzt, sieht es erst recht schlecht aus. Ronja Bellingrodt macht sich auf die Suche nach einem Mörder, tatkräftig unterstützt von der dankbaren Dorfgemeinschaft, einem misstrauischen Kommissar und einer maulenden Katze.