Fourteen-year-old Tangy Mae tells of the brutal physical and mental abuse that her mother inflicts on her and her ten siblings.
Bildungsromans
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Author:Phillips, DeloresSummary: - Author:Buday, GrantSummary:
Kobzar Literary Award, Finalist. Eric Hoffer Award, Shortlist. City of Victoria Book Prize, Finalist.
Vancouver, summer 1962. Cyril Andrachuk and Connie Chow are seventeen and in love. Cyril is the only Canadian-born member of...
- Author:Griggs, TerrySummary:
Hero, the hyper-precocious and nosily omniscient narrator of Terry Griggs's riotous new book, 'The Discovery of Honey,' is not one to hide her light under a bushel, nor to conceal significant, usually scandalous, happenings in her rural...
- Author:Larue, StéphaneSummary:
It's winter in Montreal, 2002, when a graphic design student's gambling addiction starts to drag him under. In debt to the metal band that's commissioned him to draw their album cover and ensnared in lies to his friends and his cousin,...
- Author:Tuck, LilySummary:
Lily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist, story writer, essayist and biographer. She is one of our most distinguished contributors to American literature. With The Double Life of...
- Author:Sweany, BrianSummary:
Hank Fitzpatrick stumbles through and beyond adolescence in the late 1980s. Hypersexual, drunk, stoned, occasionally Catholic, accidentally well-intentioned--Hank doesn't know it yet, but his life is about to implode in spectacular...
- Author:Dugoni, RobertSummary:
Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam...
- Author:Goobie, BethSummary:
It's 1977, and Mary-Eve Hamilton (Mary for the Mother of God, Eve for the mother of mankind) is plodding through her final year at Eleusis High School. Mary-Eve's mother, famed prophetess at the Waiting for the Rapture End Times...
- Author:Bird, SarahSummary:
Rae's life falls apart when her father dies of cancer and her mother joins a religious cult. The only person who understands Rae is local bad girl Didi, who is experiencing a similar loss. Both girls fall in love with handsome flamenco...
- Author:Harmel, KristinSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of the “heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism” (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the...
- Author:Shalvis, JillSummary:
Life has changed a ragtag team of four teenagers in immeasurable ways. Maze and Cat must decide if they can rebuild their friendship, and Maze discovers her long-held attraction to Walker has only grown stronger.
- Author:Henderson, JuliettaSummary:
Twelve-year-old Norman Foreman and his best friend, Jax, are a legendary comedic duo in waiting. But when Jax dies, Norman decides the only fitting tribute is to perform by himself. The problem is, Norman's not the funny one. Jax...
- Author:Bird, SarahSummary:
A single mom and her seventeen-year-old daughter learn how to let go in that precarious moment before college empties the nest.
- Author:Sin, Kyŏng-sukSummary:
A teenage girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory by day and struggles through night school to achieve her dream of becoming a writer. This complex and nuanced coming-of-age story is set against the backdrop of Korea's industrial...
- Author:Burdick, SerenaSummary:
Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon's large family mansion looms the House of Mercy, a workhouse for wayward girls. When the sisters accidentally learn a secret about their father, the brazen older sister, Luella, becomes...
- Author:Pettersen, Geneviève, Smith, NeilSummary:
Winner, 2015 Archambault Prize The year is 1996, and small-town life for 14-year-old Catherine is made up of punk rock, skaters, shoplifting, drugs, and the ghost of Kurt Cobain. Her parents are too busy divorcing to pay her headful of...
- Author:Tartt, DonnaSummary:
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, survives an explosion that kills his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in as an orphan, he becomes entranced by the one thing that reminds him of his mother: a painting that...
- Author:Mitchard, JacquelynSummary:
Thea's son was just seventeen when he went to prison for the murder of his girlfriend, a crime he has no memory of committing. Three years later, he's released to a world that refuses to let him move on.
- Author:Joe, YolandaSummary:
Terri Mills' star is on the rise. A smart and ambitious lawyer engaged to a successful man, she has escaped her small-town roots and hopes to never look back. But then her man is unfaithful. Grandma Ollie knows something is wrong when...
- Author:McCullers, CarsonSummary:
In a small Georgia mill town during the depression, four misfits form a group that revolves around a deaf-mute whose sole companion has been sent to an insane asylum.
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