Showing results for "Coming of Age" in Romance

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child, and the star-crossed pair fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.

THE SERIES THAT INSPIRED HEATED RIVALRY NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOW Enter the world of Game Changers, the series behind the epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance Heated Rivalry, streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S. A friends-with-benefits arrangement between a veteran goalie...

It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.

THE NO. 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2025 The Times Popular Fiction Book of the Year ‘A heartbreaker of a book’ THE TIMES 'Alarmingly relatable' MARIAN KEYES ‘Hilarious and profound’ DOLLY ALDERTON The hottest debut novel of 2023 from...

In this sweeping sapphic sports romance, two college softball stars compete for each other’s hearts—if only they can get past their fear of striking out—from the nationally bestselling author of Play You For It. When Abby Cruz transfers to Insley University and joins the softball team, it...

Brought to you by Penguin. London, 2014. Hal Lancaster – twenty-two, gay, Catholic, chops lines of cocaine with his myWaitrose card – is the reluctant heir of his father Henry, the sixteenth Duke of Lancaster. Henry is half tyrant, half martyr, with an investment in his eldest son that has...

Worship the idol. Fall for the real girl. In a future Korea, those who can afford to have retreated from the ravaged world outside, slipping on virtual reality headsets to lose themselves in simulations of the past. But high school student Soop, unable to access VR, is bullied by her classmates...

Set in the dreamy backwoods of Oregon, Brothersong is a queer, paranormal romance of burning passion and pack loyalty, and is the fourth book in the Green Creek series. In the ruins of Caswell, Maine, Carter Bennett glimpsed the truth of what had been right in front of him the entire time. And...

'A TWISTY AND BEGUILING GOTHIC FANTASY' AVA REID 'INTRICATE, EXQUISITELY MACABRE, AND COMPLETELY UNFORGETTABLE' ALLISON SAFT 'KEPT ME GASPING FOR MORE' KALIE REID A STUNNING, TWISTING GOTHIC' ANDREW JOSEPH WHITE This is the city of miracles, but not everything miraculous is good... In a holy...

Fascinado pela figura de uma drag queen chamada Madame Xanadu, o jornalista João resolve investigar a história dela. Para isso, busca a ajuda das pessoas que conviveram com a Madame mesmo antes de ela se tornar uma das personagens mais marcantes da cidade de Natal. Enquanto acompanhamos a investigação de João, consumida por uma melancolia inexplicável, Madame segue o plano de acabar com a própria vida.

They'll tell you I seduced them. Used my looks and body to lure them into my playground. They'll tell you I'm a sinner. A demon who held them captive with temptation and lust. They'll tell you I'm evil. A monster obsessed with the both of them. They'll tell you they made a deal with the devil. What they won't tell you...is how much they liked it.

Eden Sands has been a star for twenty years, but it’s lonely at the top. Her mediocre marriage just ended, and her inner circle is smaller than ever. The stage is the only place she’s ever felt like she truly belonged, and yet, her last album flopped, and her upcoming tour hasn’t sold out. Eden’s desperate for her star to shine bright again, but when her team suggests a collaboration with an up-and-coming young star to give her a boost, she balks.

A late bloomer thought a visit to a sex club might jump start her love life, but instead makes an instant connection that turns her whole world upside down, in this adult debut from author Zakiya N. Jamal. When Stella Renee Johnson's roommate invites her to a sex club party but bails at the last...

The Lights on Knockbridge Lane Can one man’s crowded, messy life fill another man’s empty heart? Raising a family was always Adam Mills’ dream, although solo parenting and moving back to tiny Garnet Run certainly were not. After a messy breakup, Adam is doing his best to give his young...

Can a man who loves his small hometown trust it to love him back? Jared Thomas has lived in the mountain town of Coda, Colorado his whole life. He can't imagine living anywhere else. But Jared's opportunities are limited—the only other gay man in town is twice his age, and although Jared originally planned to be a teacher, the backlash that might accompany the gig keeps him working at his family's store instead. Then Matt Richards moves to town. Matt may not be into guys, but he doesn't care that Jared is.

Questa è la storia di Lucas e Cristiano, che hanno fatto di tutto per non innamorarsi. In questa storia, Roma ha fatto di tutto "pe faje di' de sì". Roma, 1967. In un caldo pomeriggio di giugno Lucas, giovane americano in cerca di un alloggio provvisorio, suona all'appartamento di via del Pellegrino trovato tramite un annuncio. Dentro sente qualcuno che canta un pezzo dei Beatles con una pronuncia terribile. Quella canzone è Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds .

Better Than People "An irresistible queer romance." —Publishers Weekly, starred review It’s not long before their pet-centric arrangement sparks a person-centric desire… Simon Burke has always preferred animals to people. When the countdown to adopting his own dog is unexpectedly put on...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE #MERKY BOOKS 2022 NEW WRITER'S PRIZE It’s summer and a young man walks through the gates of a luxurious mansion in the south of France. At the dinner table, the Blakes are waiting for him: Annie, the family matriarch and world-famous singer, her...

Mean Girls meets Northanger Abbey in this sharp and sexy Regency Romance that begs the question: what if Cady and Regina just… kissed? Featuring dual narration from Mary Jane Wells and Morag Sims! When Catherine Pine relocates to Bath in 1817, she comes face-to-face with her mother’s arch...

Irland, Anfang der 90er. Lucy fühlt sich fehl am Platz. Familie und Freunde warten nur darauf, dass sie das tut, was alle tun: ihren Freund heiraten und Mutter werden. Während eines langen heißen Sommers fühlt Lucy sich plötzlich zu ihrer Freundin Susannah hingezogen, und sie beginnt zu verstehen, warum sie anders ist. Aus der zarten Verliebtheit wird schnell eine verzweifelte Liebe, die alles infrage stellt, woran Lucy bisher glaubte.