In this “coming-of-old-age” tale, Jack Peckham finds himself on a journey into his distant past, helped along the way by Joe Easterday, a young man with Down syndrome, and Ida Pevely, a middle-aged waitress with her own mountain of...
Coming of age
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Auteur:Shoup, BarbaraSommaire:Everything is falling apart for high school senior Jackson Watt. His best friend Brady disappears without a word. His mom remarries, which means a new stepdad, a new house... a new life. He falls in love with the girl of his dreams, and...
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Auteur:Ozkowski, JaneSommaire:Emily has finally finished high school in the small town where she has lived her whole life. At last, she thinks, her adult life can begin.But what if you have no idea what you want your new life to look like? What then?While Lincoln...
- Auteur:Prado, ClaribelSommaire:
TRU is a story of a 41 year old Puerto Rican woman named Tru and her quest to liberate herself from the grandiose and delusional Chinese American husband, who had led their family to financial ruin. After 12 years of a destructive...
- Auteur:Hemming, DeborahSommaire:
In this coming-of-age story, sixteen-year-old Winnie and her three best friends-all boys-find themselves changing quickly and dramatically to impress Caleb, their strange and charismatic new companion. Under Caleb's influence,...
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Auteur:Bruchac, JosephSommaire:14-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in 18th-century Quebec, must set out to rescue his family from British soldiers that attacked his village and took his mother and two sisters prisoner.
- Auteur:Kinsella W.P.Sommaire:
Narrated by young Jamie O'Day, who is beginning to understand that, like his daddy says, "every story is about sex or death, or sometimes both," The Winter Helen Dropped By is a story of growing up, of loss, of laughter and of...
- Auteur:Cullen, Nancy JoSommaire:
Set in Calgary in 1982, during the recession that arrived on the heels of Canada's National Energy Program, The Western Alienation Merit Badge follows the Murray family as they struggle with grief and find themselves on the brink of...
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Auteur:Clement-Davies, DavidSommaire:Relying on true courage and true love, as well as some surprising connections to the Arthurian legends, a young Welsh teenager named Rhodri embarks on a quest to remove an ancient curse from Great Britain during the reign of Richard the...
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Auteur:Han, JennySommaire:Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
- Auteur:Shaw, K. B.Sommaire:
Is revealing the truth worth the disruption of a society? When young Fallon is torn from his sheltered life as a ward of the state, he’s drawn into a subversive group that needs his secret talents and he quickly becomes a chronicler of...
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Auteur:Dessen, SarahSommaire:During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie.
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Auteur:Scarsbrook, RichardSommaire:Philip Skyler learned early in his life that his face would get him into trouble and there was nothing he could do about it. Born with an extreme facial deformity, he became the object of attention. Though medical scientists named his...
- Auteur:Street, Emily JuneSommaire:
After being kidnapped from her stark existence on the cold island of Gante, Leila must learn to survive in a southern culture her native people disparage. She has no choice but to follow the creed of her clan, flow like water, and adapt...
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Auteur:Ardal, MajaSommaire:Elsa is a typical fifteen-year-old growing up in the early 1960s. Her world revolves around independence, boys, and being popular at school, despite growing concerns surrounding the Cuban missile crisis. In fact, this is Elsa's...
- Auteur:Doane, MichaelSommaire:
The Debut Novel From Michael Doane Written in the same tradition as On the Road and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Michael Doane’s The Crossing explores what it means to exist in 21st century America. She’s out on a pier,...
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Auteur:Stenson, BillSommaire:"Toil and Peaceful Life" is the axiom that lies at the heart of Doukobor spiritual, personal, and community values. These values have always been, and continue to be, integral to the people who belong to this historically rich...
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Auteur:Gilbert, SkySommaire:Being a teenager is hard, especially if you're questioning your sexuality and growing up in rural Ontario in the mid '90s. Add to that a temperamental, homophobic father and a tenacious love for Madonna, and it's almost unbearable....
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Auteur:Baril Guérard, Jen-Philippe, Wall, AimeeSommaire:Inspired by Erik Satie's work of the same name, Sports and Pastimes is the latest novel by acclaimed Montreal playwright and author Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard.Translated by Aimee Wall (whose translation of Vickie Gendreau's Testament...
- Auteur:TAYLOR, WilliamSommaire:
n his sixth form year, Matthew 'Spider' Trent must make decisions regarding his future with little guidance from his family, but the opportunity to enter a piano competition gives him a focus and provides the direction he...
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