Set partly in the UK and partly in the Punjab region of India, this is a fresh, bitingly perceptive and totally up-to-the-minute look at one young man's fight to free himself from family expectations and to be himself, free to...
Bildungsromans
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Author:Rai, BaliSummary: - Author:Tamaki, MarikoSummary:
Allison Lee is seventeen and off to college in the fall. So far, she's been in love once (total catastrophe) and on fire twice (also pretty bad). Both love and fire have left their scars. Looking a little more burnt chicken and a little...
- Author:Canciani, KatiaSummary:
Nicola aura bientôt 18 ans. Élevé par un père aimant et protecteur, il mène une vie paisible jusqu’à ce qu’il découvre un terrible secret derrière l’apparente banalité de son existence. Profondément troublé par le mensonge tissé autour...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world. These characters and more confront issues of...
- Author:Dash, Ava, Roy, RachelSummary:
When her beloved grandmother dies, Raya jumps at the chance to spend her last free summer before college at the ashram in India where her grandmother met and fell in love with her grandfather. Raya hopes to find her center and her true...
- Author:Green, HankSummary:
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Who has the right to change the world forever? How will we live online? How do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world? The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant....
- Author:Jocelyn, MartheSummary:
Malou has just turned sixteen, hardly old enough to be out in the world on her own, and all she knows for sure is that she's of mixed race and that she was left at an orphanage as a newborn. When the orphanage burns to the ground, she...
- Author:Namey, Laura TaylorSummary:
"A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow is an absolute delight. Cozier than a hand-knit gray cardigan and richer than Abuela's pastelito recipe, Namey takes you from Miami to Winchester, and leaves your heart belonging...
- Author:Novik, NaomiSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic. “The dark school of magic I’ve been waiting for.” Katherine...
- Author:Khadivi, LalehSummary:
Laguna Beach, California, 2010. Reza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian...
- Author:Folarin, TopeSummary:
A stunning debut novel, from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Tope Folarin about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uncomfortable assimilation to American life. Living in small-town Utah has...
- Author:Joyce, JamesSummary:
Told in Joyce’s signature free indirect style and filled with allusions to Irish history and Greek mythology, this semi-autobiographical novel traces the development of his protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, from a young boy into an...
- Author:Davis, April MichelleSummary:
On the night of her sixteenth birthday and before her father has the chance to force her to marry a complete stranger, Princess Margaret sneaks away from the riches and safety of the palace. Torn between her fate and freedom, Princess...
- Author:Austin, Lynn N.Summary:
Austin tells the uplifting story of 20-year-old Violet Hayes and her search for her elusive mother and for true love. In her quest, Violet learns much about love, faith, and life as she marches for women's rights, feeds slum dwellers,...
- Author:McLeod, Darrel J.Summary:
A subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a world that feels alien. James, a talented and conflicted Cree man from a tiny settlement...
- Author:Touchell, DianneSummary:
Rose and Michael are good students with bright futures. They are also in love. But when Rose gets pregnant, her behavior becomes increasingly strange as she pulls away from her best friend, and from Michael, while she struggles to cope...
- Author:Welch, SusanSummary:
Introspective Shannon Malone and her more popular sister Eliza are Irish twins and best friends. But when tragedy rocks the Malone family, secrets bloom and one sister leaves, possibly forever.
- Author:Venkatraman, PadmaSummary:
Veda, a classical dance prodigy in India, lives and breathes dance -- so when an accident leaves her a below-knee amputee, her dreams are shattered. For a girl who's grown used to receiving applause for her dance prowess and...
- Author:Feldman, SuzanneSummary:
Cassie, self-educated and brown skinned, works in a laundry in rural Mississippi. Judith, illiterate and white, dreams of life as a big-city radio star. These teenage girls are half sisters, and together they set out in an old junker on...
- Author:Murphy, MonicaSummary:
Eli Bennett: quarterback at our biggest rival high school and my brother's worst enemy. So why can't I stop thinking about him? The more I get to know him, the more I realize he's actually kind of, sweet. He's...
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