Coming of Age

The second born son in a broken marriage, Joey Lynch has spent a lifetime picking up the pieces of a family unraveling. When his older brother Darren skips town on his first day of secondary school, twelve-year-old Joey finds himself thrown into the role of protector....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 'It's this emotional truth at the heart of Tenderfoot that sets it apart. This is a writer at the top of her game, telling a story that only she can tell' ABC Online, Best Books of 2025 'Tenderfoot is magnificent. Deeply moving. Beautiful...

Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a 1,000 years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are...

The men in the secret society known as the Lords think they rule the world. And in a way, they do. Each has sold their soul to the devil at a young age in exchange for power and wealth. Like anything else, they have different levels of success.

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction - but assassins are getting closer to her door....

A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse...

Fox, JJ, Chase, and Maverick. The four names tattooed onto my heart more permanently than any of the ink on my skin. They don’t just live in this town anymore, they rule it. And the view here may be beautiful, but the sun, sea and sand hide dark secrets....

A girl liberated from a carnival sideshow discovers her mysterious purpose in a moving novel about family, sacrifice, and transcendent love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.

In this poignant and funny novel, a man who is defined by his limitations sets out to fight a murder charge—and discovers unexpected truths about himself, his family, and the world at large.

Oliver Marks has just served 10 years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago. As one of seven young...

I'm anything but sweet, despite what people think, so when he tells me I'm too good for him and I'm better off without him, I don't listen. My life was simple before Grave stepped through that door, but who wants simple?

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. What they won't tell you...is how much they liked it....

“A timeless story for every young person who needs to understand that they are not alone.” —Judy Blume “Once in a while, a novel comes along that becomes a generational touchstone. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is one of those books.” —R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling...

Thirteen-year-old Mary Agnes Coyne, forced from her home in rural Ireland in 1886 after being accused of incest, endures a treacherous voyage across the Atlantic alone to an unknown life in America.

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

The story of an unhappy little girl, her invalid cousin, and the healing power of friendship and love. Reading level: 4.8...

Seven years have passed since Mordecai’s battle with the Shining God, Celior. Since that time, his control of his abilities has vastly improved. He has, at last, envisioned a use for the ‘God-Stone’, but the gods want vengeance and now seek to destroy everything he has built....

After ten years of loyal service, Daisy Butterworth has been made redundant. Like any clever woman, she knows the cure to redundancy is a little too much wine and her best friend. Only the next morning, Daisy has more than a hangover...she has a whole new house—in France....

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....

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Reminders of Him, It Ends with Us, and It Starts with Us held readers spellbound with her novel Hopeless, the story of what happened when a troubled girl named Sky encountered a long-lost childhood friend, Dean. Now, in Losing Hope, we finally learn the...

A female-centred collection of four dramatisations celebrating Jane Austen’s classic novels - plus bonus series When I Met Jane Austen On 16 December 1775, a literary icon was born. Jane Austen’s groundbreaking novels pioneered the romantic comedy genre and put women front and centre...

One of the most beloved novels of our time, Watership Down is an epic journey, a stirring tale of adventure, courage, and survival....

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....

In Ordinary Grace, Krueger looks back to 1961 to tell the story of Frank Drum, a boy on the cusp of manhood....

Have you ever stood next to a fire and felt the heat of it on your skin? Stared into the flames and thought how amazing it would be to be that free? It changes direction with the wind, destroying everything in its wake. That's what she felt like.

Decades after starring in the film adaptation, Wil Wheaton narrates an all-new recording of the story that shaped a generation! #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless novella “The Body”—originally published in his short story collection Different Seasons, and...

Una encantadora y cálida novela del autor del éxito de ventas del New York Times A Man Called Ove. Elsa tiene siete años y es diferente. Su abuela tiene setenta y siete años y está loca, como si estuviera loca en el balcón disparando pistolas de paintball contra extraños. También es la...

Reddix has managed to hide her new skill with shadows, but a force within is threatening to break free. Perhaps now that she has mastered Light, it has come time for her to do the same with her darkness. Meanwhile, Hamlin is growing more tired of the "hero tale" that the nitwits of the Academy...

Once upon a time, I was a typical foster kid—overlooked, bounced around, and just waiting until I was old enough to get out. Some girls in my situation might dream of being a secret fairy princess, but not me. I simply wanted a chance. It came by accident when a bird flew into my latest home. No big deal, right? Except that was all it took to get noticed. Now I'm heading to Silver Oaks Institute, an elite private college with very specific acceptance criteria. My caseworker got me an interview on a technicality, and when they say elite, they mean it.

Rosie Ginger is the last writer anyone would expect to cause trouble: She’s modest, dutiful, and enrolled at a strict Christian college to please her religious mother. But when she secretly submits a scandalous story to a local dirty magazine, she unexpectedly becomes its newest star—an anonymous author captivating the nation with provocative, female-driven fantasies. Because obviously America’s leading expert in desire is an eighteen-year-old who’s never even been kissed.

Durch einen Arbeitsunfall gelähmt, sieht das Leben von Lox düster aus. Er kann nicht einmal die hochmoderne Hardware benutzen, die es ihm ermöglichen würde, in den beliebten Full-Immersion-Spielen zu spielen. Das ändert sich, als er von New Universal Frontiers hört, dem Unternehmen mit dem besten Spiel, das es gibt: Welt der Magie. Sie bieten ihm die Möglichkeit, ihre Hardware trotz seiner Verletzungen zu nutzen, aber zu einem Preis... er kann das Spiel nie wieder verlassen.

Violinist Victoria Pearson dreams of attending Johann Conservatory of Music in New York City for graduate school. As the oldest of five sisters, she hopes to escape her Midwestern college town and hectic family situation to fulfill her passion in life—music. But when she decides to participate in Belton University's Concerto competition to bolster her chances of acceptance, Victoria finds herself competing against her sister Adrienne and lifelong cellist friend Jerry Chang. This sets in motion a rivalry that questions the roles of sisterhood, friendship, and maybe love.

From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing road trip. Whistling past the graveyard. That’s what Daddy...

Das echte Leben ist eine herbe Enttäuschung. Leonie, genannt Leo, will sich nach der Schule kopfüber in die Freiheit stürzen und landet stattdessen auf dem Boden der Realität. Streit mit der Mutter, Strafanzeige gegen den Vater und Ferientage mit dem kleinen Bruder, statt ein Sommer mit Olli, der sie erst geküsst und dann sitzengelassen hat. Hin- und hergerissen zwischen dem Wunsch, sich ins Leben zu werfen und der Angst vor dem Absturz, beginnt für Leo ein unvergesslicher Sommer, in dem sie lernt, was es bedeutet, mutig zu sein.

Blake and Lucy were once inseparable - two girls bound by secrets, dares, and the kind of friendship that cuts deeper than blood. Until the day everything shattered. Years later, Blake's life is collapsing, and the only way to fix it is to confront the past she's tried so hard to forget. She forces herself to reach out to Lucy in a letter, a first step toward redemption. But as Blake begins to write, unsettling memories surface. Shadows she thought she'd buried twist into new shapes. And she starts to wonder: What if the strange little girl didn't stay little?

An out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong? In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a...

Germany, 1940. Roxy ducked behind the rusted train carriage in the darkness. She’d walked all night alone. She just needed to make it across the railyard and onto the final carriage of the train slowly pulling into the station ahead. Then she’d be safe. At least for a little while… Cared for by her aunt and extended family since losing her parents as a little girl, Roxy Popa has always felt like an outsider. She hates to follow the strict rules her family hold her to.

An epic small town, second chance love story, a decade in the making from New York Times bestselling author Melanie Moreland. She was the light in my dark life. The sunshine that warmed me and made me smile. We had one summer. One perfect summer, until the day it ended. Years later, she walked back into my life. Older. Sadder. More beautiful than ever. How can I prove to her that summer was real? How do I make her see the boy who loved her then, still loves her now? How do we get back to the summer when we were us?

En una Girona grisa i plena de silencis, el petit Josep Maria creix envoltat de monstres reals, pel·lícules de videoclub i dones amb poders secrets. Expulsat del paradís familiar per la violència del pare, trobarà refugi a casa dels avis, i sobretot en la figura enigmàtica i tendríssima de l'àbia Rosita, a qui la imaginació infantil —i potser alguna cosa més— converteix en una bruixa bona. Amb una veu lúcida i commovedora, Rosita reconstrueix la memòria d'una infantesa marcada pel dol, la por, la bellesa i l'amor incondicional.

Der Sommer 2003 beginnt wie immer: Freibad, Bandproben, die Leichen in Papas Keller. Dominik ist der Sohn des örtlichen Bestatters und soll den Familienbetrieb in nicht allzu ferner Zukunft von seinem alleinerziehenden Vater übernehmen. Bislang sprach nichts dagegen, denn Domi ist erstaunlich routiniert im Umgang mit Trauernden und weiß mehr über Tod und Verlust als die meisten Erwachsenen. Worüber er allerdings wenig weiß, ist das Leben selbst. Das ändert sich, als kurz vor den großen Ferien ein Neuer in seiner Klasse auftaucht: Biff ist unangepasst, lässig, impulsiv.

„Nett zu sein, war mein erster Traum, lange bevor ich wusste, dass man genauso gut Rockstar sein kann." „Hummelhirn" ist die Geschichte einer Anpassung – inklusive herzzerreißender und hochkomischer Fehlversuche. Mit Zartheit und Talent fürs Tragikomische blickt Judith Holofernes auf ihre Kindheit zurück. Sie erzählt von ihrer Ausbildung zum People Pleaser, der nonkonformistischen Mutter, von Liebeswirren, ersten eigenen Songs und davon, wie es ihr gelingt, die eigene Hummeligkeit ins Erwachsenenleben hinüberzuretten.

It’s the summer of ’69. While her peers revel in free love and rock and roll, Suzannah is home from college, sequestered inside her conservative Southern home. Her domineering father has condemned rock music and driven away her best friend. She’s counting the days until fall. But everything changes when her free-spirited best friend, Livy, resurfaces, urging Suzannah, a talented singer, to join her for three days of peace and music in upstate New York. Fed up with her father’s rules and fearful for her brother’s fate in Vietnam, Suzannah agrees to the road trip.

Aryna ha quindici anni e cammina sulla linea sottile tra ciò che è stata e chi può diventare. È arrivata da due anni a Torino dalla Romania, eppure sente che niente, nel mondo che la circonda, le somiglia davvero. Il nome che porta è troppo difficile per i coetanei italiani, la sua lingua madre ha troppi spigoli, il suo corpo è troppo pieno. Ed è così che inizia a stringere, ogni giorno controlla di più: il pensiero, gli affetti, il cibo. Attorno a lei, i genitori, la sorella e gli amici le paiono distanti.

Young Betty Cantrel is just 14-years-old when she reluctantly leaves her troubled family home to take up a position as companion to Frances Crawley, the ailing daughter of Eben and Mary Crawley. As her friendship grows with Frances, Betty accompanies her to London, where she glimpses another world – a world full of art, music, and freedom, and she begins to dream of a different kind of life.

When fifteen-year-old Blake awakens with vivid memories of a life he's never lived, he discovers he possesses knowledge of future events that could change everything. Armed with these insights, Blake must navigate the treacherous waters of high school while grappling with an impossible question. How do you use knowledge of the future responsibly?

Elise thought her mother didn’t have any secrets. But when her oldest brother attempts suicide, a dark truth must come to light – a past her mother had never shared with any of her children. A passion for music. Shattered dreams. Betrayal of a sweet but tragic first love. A second chance. Such was Agnieszka's past life amidst the exciting hopeful seventies. Born to immigrant parents weighed down by their roots, Agnieszka takes solace in learning to play the piano, taught by a sympathetic grandaunt who was a concert pianist in Poland.

On New Year’s Day, 1929, Ondro Prach, the 13-year-old son of Slovak immigrants in Pennsylvania coal country, begins a new job as mule boy. He knows the danger—his father died in the mines—but he is proud of his position handling the animal that hauls cartloads of coal from shafts deep within the earth to the surface. After Ondro earns the trust of the miners and the mule in his charge, the room the men are working collapses and their fate is sealed. From that moment onward, Ondro carries the hard memory of that day, a burden that leads to addiction and imprisonment, costing him his family.

Eine Kindheit und Jugend im Ausnahmezustand und ein Mädchen, das zur Heldin der eigenen Geschichte wird. Lale wächst in den 80ern in einer Berliner Männer-Kommune auf, in der Partys gefeiert und Revolutionen geplant werden. Sie darf wach bleiben, solange sie will, Süßigkeiten essen und ewig fernsehen. Doch sie sehnt sich nach Geborgenheit und Verlässlichkeit, während ihre eigenen Grenzen immer wieder übertreten werden. Auf dem schmalen Grat zwischen Freiheit und Vernachlässigung sucht Lale ihren Weg, taumelt an den Rändern und findet Jahre später Halt im Erzählen selbst.

Ældre kvinder er en roman om kærligheds­afhængighed. Om en barndom fuld af svigt, en fandenivoldsk ungdom og en hudløs søgen efter kærlighed og omsorg. Det er en roman om begær, om sårbarhed, sejre og nederlag, og om at møde den kvinde, man ønsker at blive sammen med. Om de formative ungdomsår, en tumultarisk start på voksenlivet, og om det ansvar, man pludselig må se i øjnene i mødet med sit første barn.

1938: For Camilla Kerrigan, life at her family's Oxford manor is a delicate balancing act – between duty to her family and a yearning for something more. When her brother Anthony returns for the summer, bringing with him a new friend, Camilla recognises a kindred spirit. 1952: Haunted by war and the memory of that long-ago summer, the last thing Henry wants is to return to Montagu Manor. But when a photograph arrives, showing the painting he thought destroyed – the portrait that ruined so many lives – he is drawn back into the past.